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New vehicle rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions spark debate
Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change, makes a forceful case for why we need to slash greenhouse gas emissions from cars and small trucks: It will cut America s oil consumption; foster the nation s energy independence; save consumers money at the pump; and help revive domestic auto manufacturers.
Oil Spill In Montana’s Yellowstone River Forces Evacuation
When Scientists Take to the Streets It’s Time to Listen Up
Speaking Science to Climate Policy in a World Where ‘the Melting and Breakdown of Polar Ice Sheets Seems to Be in the Vicinity of a Couple of Degrees Warming’
American climate skeptic Soon funded by oil, coal firms
GE and partners bet on Israeli wastewater-to-energy firm
Causes of melting tropical glaciers over past 10,000 years identified
The causes of melting of tropical glaciers over the past 10 000 years have at last been unveiled by a team of French researchers from CNRS, CEA, IRD and Universit Joseph Fourrier, together with a US researcher from the University at Albany (State University of New York). They have shown that the retreat of the Telata glacier in Bolivia over that period is mainly linked to a 3 C rise in air temperature and to the warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Has Wicked Weather Increased – Picture Rich Analysis
Canadian oilsands pipeline upsets Nebraskan land owners
Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community
Michele Bachmann Let’s repeal clean air and clean water for our children
Last night at the GOP debate in New Hampshire, Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said of the Environmental Protection Agency: What we need to do is pass the mother of all repeal bills, but it s the repeal bill that will get a job killing regulations. And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the job-killing organization of America.
Recent Vermont media connecting the climate dots
Chris Christie Continues Koch Binge, Slashes Renewable Targets
There is no doubt that renewable energy is the future here in New Jersey, Chris Christie said when running for the governorship in 2008, comparing himself to Barack Obama. Now, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is on a Koch binge, gutting his state s investments in clean energy to reward right-wing polluter interests like the Koch brothers.
John Lynch vetoes RGGI Repeal
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has vetoed legislation that would repeal the state s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Lynch, a longtime RGGI supporter, promised all year that he would veto any bill pulling the Granite State out of ten-state cap and trade compact, which auctions off the right to emit carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants.
The first Keystone tar sands pipeline spills again – providing twelve reasons not to fast-track the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
Climate Scientist Fears His “Wedges” Made It Too Easy
When the torrent of predictions about global warming got too depressing, there were Robert Socolow's "wedges." The Princeton physics and engineering professor, along with his colleague, ecologist Stephen Pacala, countered the gloom and doom of climate change with a theory that offered hope. If we adopted a series of environmental steps, each taking a chunk out of the anticipated growth in greenhouse gases, we could flatline our emissions, he said. That would at least limit the global temperature rise, he said in a 2004 paper in the journal Science.
Will the Vatican’s declaration on global warming have an impact on the overall climate debate
Historic climate change deal with legal powers agreed by Cabinet
Cabinet ministers have agreed a far-reaching, legally binding "green deal" that will commit the UK to two decades of drastic cuts in carbon emissions. The package will require sweeping changes to domestic life, transport and business and will place Britain at the forefront of the global battle against climate change.
TEPCO Now Confirms Nuclear Meltdown In Fukushima Reactor No. 1
TEPCO has now publicly admitted it wasn't telling the truth about the severity of the damage to Fukushima reactor No. 1. We're now being told what we've suspected all along -- that nuclear fuel rods in that reactor are totally exposed and have suffered a nuclear meltdown , releasing vast amounts of radiation comparable to Chernobyl.
The gap between CSR reports and performance
Greenwashing is everywhere, if we are to believe Terrachoice. Their Sins of Greenwashing 2010 report tells us how the number of greenwashing incidents continues to grow, mostly with companies making claims on how they have dealt with some of the less significant impacts, while omiting all sorts of other issues.
Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought
Heat Wave Warning for the Windy City
Arctic Assessment bombshell: “Global sea level is projected to rise by 0.9 – 1.6 meter by 2100”
A major new multi-country scientific assessment of the Arctic has concluded that on our current greenhouse gas emissions path, we face 3 to 5 feet of sea level rise — far greater than the 2007 IPCC warned of. This is fully consistent with several recent studies (see “Sea levels may rise 3 times faster than [...]
New York Times blows the Dust Bowl story – County Commissioner: “There’s no economic growth whatsoever. It’s going to have to be wind energy or we’ll die.”
Actual NY Times caption: "A church made an apt request." Media miscoverage of climate change comes in many forms. We still have false balance between climate science and denial, contrary to the myth of flawed analyses. And we have general under-coverage of the story of the century (Media coverage of climate change fell off the [...]
African ocean current could boost Gulf Stream
Top Climate Scientist On The Monster Tornadoes: ‘It Is Irresponsible Not To Mention Climate Change’
Tornadoes and Koch Industries An Elegant Solution
Does "global warming" cause tornadoes? No. Thunderstorms do. The harder question may be, "Will climate change influence tornado occurrence?" The best answer is: We don't know. According to the National Science and Technology Council's Scientific Assessment on Climate Change, "Trends in other extreme weather events that occur at small spatial scales--such as tornadoes, hail, lightning, and dust storms--cannot be determined at the present time due to insufficient evidence."
Chris Mooney on “False Balance in Matthew Nisbet’s Climate Shift Report”
Chris Mooney, author of the bestselling "The Republican War on Science," was one of my big inspirations to become a blogger. He also spent a lot of time giving joint talks with Matthew Nisbet, author of the anti-peer-reviewed "Climate Shift" report. Now Mooney has shown how Nisbet falls victim to the very false balance he [...]
How Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. cashes in on both sides of the climate fight
The contrast between what News Corp.’s chairman says and what its employees actually do is a stark illustration of the company’s attempt to play both sides of the climate issue. I have previously written about how Jack Bauer became first-ever carbon-neutral torturer as Rupert Murdoch says "Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threat." [...]
Ozone hole ‘changes Southern Hemisphere weather’
Why did environmentalists pursue cap-and-trade and was it a doomed strategy?
We're starting to see pieces of counterfactual history on the climate bill in The New Republic and elsewhere based in part on discredited scholarship. Since cap-and-trade has been so vilified by the entire right wing and even some on the left, I thought I would try to set the record straight on some key points. [...]
Report Glosses Over Media Failures In Climate Coverage
In a new report titled "Climate Shift: Clear Vision For The Next Decade Of Public Debate," Matthew Nisbet of American University attempts to debunk environmentalists' complaints about media coverage of climate change. However, the evidence presented in the report is far more limited than the conclusion it seeks to draw.
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate
Senator Scott Brown Votes Against Clean Air and Clean Water
Today, the U.S. Senate beat back multiple assaults on the Clean Air Act and attempts to handcuff the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect Americans from toxic pollution. Today Senator Scott Brown voted in support of the McConnell amendment, which would eliminate EPA's authority to regulate global warming pollution and weaken fuel economy standards
The Truth About Climate Change, Still Inconvenient
For years now, large numbers of prominent scientists have been warning, with increasing urgency, that if we continue with business as usual, the results will be very bad, perhaps catastrophic. They could be wrong. But if you re going to assert that they are in fact wrong, you have a moral responsibility to approach the topic with high seriousness and an open mind. After all, if the scientists are right, you ll be doing a great deal of damage.
Scientist Beloved by Climate Deniers Pulls Rug Out from Their Argument
Joe Barton Claims That ‘Texas Air Quality Is Excellent’ While Leading The Nation In Carbon Pollution
Carbon Pollution Lobby Launches Anti-EPA Blitz
This week, the U.S. Senate will debate and vote on how much to cripple the EPA s efforts to protect civilization from global warming. The Republicans have attached the Upton-Inhofe bill to deny the existence of global warming pollution as a Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) amendment (S. Amdt. 183) to Sen. Mary Landrieu s (D-LA) unrelated small-business bill (S. 493).
Poll: Global warming fears cooling
Our Air Would Never be this Clean Without the Government
It'd be nice to believe in a version of America where the titans of industry are spurring such innovation that pollution is rendered obsolete, but the truth is, without government controls like the Clean Air Act, the technology would only advance towards the aim of burning more coal for cheaper. And the air would no doubt be a whole lot dirtier.
New poll: The public trusts EPA, loves the Clean Air Act, and wants Congress to butt out
As everyone knows by now, Republicans have launched a massive, coordinated assault on EPA, attempting to block its greenhouse gas regulations, its air and water regulations, and in some cases its very existence. In the surreal hothouse atmosphere of the Beltway, where anti-government radicals are ascendant and everybody's watching the same three cable news channels, this can seem reasonable -- even inevitable.
Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a ‘Liberal Hoax’
In this sixth video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns to try and convince the population that global warming is a liberal hoax.
E.P.A. Plans New Limits on Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water
climate change the next generation
Koch Industries 48 million dollars in funding of Climate Change Denial
Global Warming Dying A Horrible Death
Hear comes the boogieman, ready to sweep those who proclaimed global warming horrors and world cataclysms off into scientific obscurity. The question that remains, is who put these scientist up to this heist and who worked so frantically to extort the worlds wealthiest nations: who has yet to be revealed?
Topsy-Turvy Weather Tied to Weaker Arctic ‘Fence’
Yet while people in Atlanta learn to shovel snow, the weather 2,000 miles to the north has been freakishly warm the past two winters. Throughout northeastern Canada and Greenland, temperatures in December ran as much as 15 or 20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Bays and lakes have been slow to freeze; ice fishing, hunting and trade routes have been disrupted.
Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming
THE earth continues to get warmer, yet it s feeling a lot colder outside. Over the past few weeks, subzero temperatures in Poland claimed 66 lives; snow arrived in Seattle well before the winter solstice, and fell heavily enough in Minneapolis to make the roof of the Metrodome collapse; and last week blizzards closed Europe s busiest airports in London and Frankfurt for days, stranding holiday travelers. The snow and record cold have invaded the Eastern United States, with more bad weather predicted.
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
New Study Hints At Why Some Deny Global Warming
A recent study shows that people might deny the existence of human caused global warming, not because they are not convinced by the science, but because the idea of global warming “threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable.” Furthermore the study finds that telling people dire facts about global warming [...]
Climate Change At Glacier National Park
Bolivia Faces Catastrophic Drought Due To Global Warming
Catastrophic drought is on the near-term horizon for the capital city of Bolivia, according to new research into the historical ecology of the Andes. If temperatures rise more than 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius (3 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) above those of modern times, parts of Peru and Bolivia will become a desert-like setting. The change would [...]
UN climate body ‘needs reforms’, review recommends
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. The review commends the IPCC on the way it carried out previous assessments. But the report recommends changes to the way the body is run and the way science is presented. Critics have previously called on the UN panel's chair, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, to resign. Responding to the report at a news conference in New York, Dr Pachauri said he wanted to stay to implement changes at the organisation.
The Right and the Climate
Climate change legislation has been dying in the Senate for months now, but Harry Reid s decision to finally admit as much - in the midst of an endless East Coast heat wave, no less - has supporters of cap-and-trade casting about for somebody to blame. They ve blamed the Obama administration, for prioritizing health care reform over an energy bill. They ve blamed the American people, for being too concerned with economic issues to grapple with longer-term threats. And they ve blamed figures like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, erstwhile supporters of cap-and-trade who have steadily backpedaled away from it.
Who Cooked the Planet
So why didn t climate-change legislation get through the Senate? Let s talk first about what didn t cause the failure, because there have been many attempts to blame the wrong people. First of all, we didn t fail to act because of legitimate doubts about the science. Every piece of valid evidence long-term temperature averages that smooth out year-to-year fluctuations, Arctic sea ice volume, melting of glaciers, the ratio of record highs to record lows points to a continuing, and quite possibly accelerating, rise in global temperatures.
Net Benefits of Biomass Power Under Scrutiny
Introduction to Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Scientists are finding that due to increased levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (GHGs) emissions, "warming of the climate system is unequivocal."1 At the same time, a full understanding of climate change and its long term impacts is still emerging.2 Scientists, however, now believe that it is "very likely" that human activities, including the combustion of fossil fuels for power generation, transportation and manufacturing, have resulted in significantly increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere
World is at its warmest since records began, NASA warns
The global temperature over the last 12 months has been the highest on record, according to the latest NASA figures. It topped the previous record, 2005, and was 0.65 degrees Celcius warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean. "Global warming on decadal time scales is continuing without letup," say NASA climate change scientist James Hansen and three co-authors who compiled the data.
Collapse in bee populations could be caused by cellphones
Researchers at the University of Punjab fitted one of two hives with two mobile phones that were powered for 15 minutes twice a day. The other contained dummy equipment. After three months, they found that the number of bees in the hive fitted with the active phones had fallen dramatically. Foraging bees behaved oddly, there were fewer eggs, and no honey.
A Proposed Bible-Science Perspective on Global Warming
What would Reagan do about climate change
"What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live," Reagan's voice intones in one of the ads, from his 1984 speech to the National Geographic Society. Republicans for Environmental Protection's website offers a transcript of the full speech, in which Reagan says, "And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we live -- our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests."
Emissions limits, greater fuel efficiency for cars, light trucks made official
Global Weirding Is Here
The fact that it has snowed like crazy in Washington while it has rained at the Winter Olympics in Canada, while Australia is having a record 13-year drought is right in line with what every major study on climate change predicts: The weather will get weird; some areas will get more precipitation than ever; others will become drier than ever.
Off to the Races
...Because once we get America racing China, China racing Europe, Europe racing Japan, Japan racing Brazil, we can quickly move down the innovation-manufacturing curve and shrink the cost of electric cars, batteries, solar and wind so these are no longer luxury products for the wealthy nations but commodity items the third world can use and even produce.
In Last Days of Climate Talks, China Says Deal Unlikely
Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds
Global warming on other planets in the solar system
"Evidence that CO2 is not the principle driver of warming on this planet is provided by the simultaneous warming of other planets and moons in our solar system, despite the fact that they obviously have no anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Mars, Triton, Pluto and Jupiter all show global warming, pointing to the Sun as the dominating influence in determining climate throughout the solar system."
Is global warming solar induced
Climate Change The Alternative View (Peter Taylor)
Peter Taylor is a renowned conservationist and research analyst. Among his many achievements, he has previously taken successful action in challenging the UN to alter it's stance and policy regarding dumping of hazardous materials into the ocean (in other words, he cares about the environment and his research is credible). In this presentation, made at the Alternative View Conference Totnes UK 2008, he explains the conclusions of his detailed studies which indicate man is not responsible for global warming/climate change, and many of the 'solutions' based on this lie are the real threat we are facing (he's not funded by oil companies).
Going Cheney on Climate
In 2006, Ron Suskind published "The One Percent Doctrine," a book about the U.S. war on terrorists after 9/11. The title was drawn from an assessment by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in the face of concerns that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear-weapons expertise to Al Qaeda, reportedly declared: If there s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping Al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. Cheney contended that the U.S. had to confront a very new type of threat: a "low-probability, high-impact event."
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
What They Really Believe
If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that the globe has been cooling lately, not warming, and the other is that America simply can t afford any kind of cap-and-trade/carbon tax.
The New Sputnik
Most people would assume that 20 years from now when historians look back at 2008-09, they will conclude that the most important thing to happen in this period was the Great Recession. I d hold off on that. If we can continue stumbling out of this economic crisis, I believe future historians may well conclude that the most important thing to happen in the last 18 months was that Red China decided to become Green China.
Climate Depot
A site by Morano be best known for compiling a report listing hundreds of scientists whose work he says undermines the consensus on global warming. Environmental advocates and bloggers say that many of those listed as scientists have no scientific credentials and that their work persuaded no one not already ideologically committed. Mr. Morano s new Web site is being financed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues.
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