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The Copenhagen climate summit is only about 10 days away. Here is some of the latest news about climate change and the U.S. and Australian probable actions on climate change.
Climate Change Speeds Up and Seas Feared up 2 Meters — OSLO (Reuters)
Global warming is happening faster than ...
Environment
Climate Change
Greenland
Antarctica
Barack Obama
Global Warming
Australia
Tree cutting due to natural gas pipeline. Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune
“Losing Trees but Saving ‘Hoot’ Habitat” – a cutesey title implying the story is about something not terribly serious. When wildlife loses habitat it’s a very serious matter ...
Environment
Methane Gas
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Competing cable TV media are beginning to roll out some good series on the environment, highlighting the issues of climate change, deforestation, and those who are causing the extinction of some of man’s closest relatives like orangutans, (which are considered 97% human) and other amazing ...
Environment
Eco Goats
Indonesia
Climate Change
Oil Drilling
Today started out with my happy dog getting several vaccinations and later, a very sad and sick dog having nasty reactions to those vaccinations. Hives, swelling, vomiting, wobbling, and then a quick rush to the vet, some steroids and medication and now worry for another 12 hours. It was not ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
The video above is from September 22, 2009. According to today’s Guardian and Observer, President Obama is considering a “provisional target” offering in Copenhagen, to cut America’s massive greenhouse gas emissions that are leading to increased global warming and ...
Environment
Barack Obama
Climate Change
Sarah Palin
Homeland Security
Energy Crisis
What's this odd language, Watts-on? Could it be science-talk or Vegan Overlords?
A crime has been committed by climate deniers. A real crime. Some ‘denialists’, (a group whose beliefs have turned into a cult) have hacked a raw climate data site. Now they are trying to use it to ...
Environment
Climate Change
Sarah Palin
Water Conservation
Global Warming affecting the weather? Absolutely. The weather in Minnesota (where I live) is bizarrely warm. In fact, we are experiencing the warmest November on record. I have heard other people in the northern U.S. talk about how strangely warm it is where they live, too. You would think ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Minnesota
Australia
From NBC News, which has begun to cover climate change more frequently in the last months.
Green Ice Core: An international team of scientists are drilling deep into the past to learn what our future may hold. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports. (Nightly News)
Visit msnbc.com for ...
Environment
Climate Change
CO2
Ice Age
Greenland
News that won’t depress you.
There is a new Futurism Now podcast here: Cap and Raid. Don’t let the title fool you — it’s actually quite optimistic and politically refreshing.
The Enertia: The best motorcycle ever made (except for the as-yet-not-invented electric ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
North Carolina
It’s never a bad idea to remind people of the basics of global warming.
more about "Global Warming 101 from National Geog…", posted with vodpod
Environment
Global Warming
Climate Change
Will there be any jobs at all in the near future unless we fix our energy and climate problems? What the CBO Isn’t Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
written by Joe Uehlein
People wait in line to enter a job fair on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in New York.
While ...
Environment
Climate Change
Green Grid
Barack Obama
Global Warming
George Will
There is a strong possibility that any climate legislation, now put off until next spring for a possible vote, will take out the EPA’s clean air act authority. It is very very important that this authority remain in the legislation. If the legislation isn’t strong enough to fight ...
Other
Clean Calgary Association
Coal Mining
Harry Reid
Aspen Colorado may have to be renamed Deadwood, like the city in South Dakota.
Golden Aspens in Raggeds Wilderness Area, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, photo taken October, 2004. Corbis.
The Aspen trees which gave the city its name, which were already under stress from lack of water, are now ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Deforestation
Everyone collectively let out a big frustrated sigh. Get it out, even if it contains CO2. President Obama, as you know, is traveling around Asia, and climate-wise, things are not going well. But later today, things might have taken a turn for the ‘better’. In addition, we have ...
Environment
Climate Change
Barack Obama
Global Warming
Cartoon of the week from http://tinyurl.com/161
A true story:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands Friday.
Manure from cows at a nearby dairy farm will be fermented along with grass and food industry residues, and the ...
Energy/Transportation
Denmark
Netherlands
My new attitude about climate change deniers is: god bless ‘em. After seeing the movie 2012 last night, I think the more deniers, the better. It will help leave more resources for the rest of us to survive. If the deniers and their right-wing posse don’t survive climate change, who ...
Energy/Transportation
Greenland ice loss accelerating according to another NEW study
By Alister Doyle – Source
Greenland’s ice losses are accelerating and nudging up sea levels, according to a study showing that icebergs breaking away and meltwater runoff are equally to blame for the shrinking ice ...
Environment
Ice Age
Greenland
Climate Change
The following is from Friends of the Earth. This is a completely unacceptable situation and now it’s obvious Chrysler should never have been bailed out with our money. Chrysler should return the taxpayer money it took for it’s supposed plan to develop electric cars.
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Energy/Transportation
Chrysler
Climate Change
Let this story be a lesson to politicians in the U.S. who claim that pipelines are safe, don’t spill fossil fuels, and can easily blend in with land and wildlife: It’s not true, and the oil companies can be sued for damage. Pipeline dangers and damage exist from the building of ...
Environment
Oil Drilling
Energy Efficiency
During Senate Finance Committee hearings on Tuesday, November 10th, Senator Kerry was confronted by a brand of evidence-less “denialism” from an “expert” presented by right-wing AEI, the American Enterprise Institute. They are a well-known group that is ideologically in ...
