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Here's an interesting climate change observation reported by the BBC —over the last 800,000 years, up until industrial revolution times, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere never rose above 300 ppm. Since then, and particulary from the 20th century on, CO2 concentration ...
Environment
CO2
Global Warming
Climate Change
Antarctica
Greenland
The Bush years—a seemingly endless era in which those concerned about the planet's fate found themselves arguing with a table, to appropriate the words of a silver-tongued Massachusetts congressman —aren't typically remembered for good efforts to combat global warming.
But a new ...
Environment
George Bush
Massachusetts
Climate Change
California
Hawaii
Some top stories from the last two weeks at Earthjustice...
The Copenhagen Climate Conference begins next week. President Obama will lead the U.S. delegation , and in anticipation of the conference, the Dalai Lama spoke about the need for governments to put global ...
Environment
Coal Mining
Climate Change
Dalai Lama
Polar Bears
Recently, some global warming skeptics have used a series of hacked emails to cast aspersions on the scientific consensus on man-made global warming. The hope, perhaps, is to gain support for a delusion that thrives in their fertile ...
Environment
California
Climate Change
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oakland, CA and Washington, DC at one long table
As the first day of Earthjustice's annual meeting on global warming came to a close, it struck me how seriously the organization now takes the goal of reducing our own carbon footprint.
How can we ...
Environment
Washington
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
The Bush Years: Sounds like an afternoon special, right? Unfortunately it was a reality we remember all too well.
As President Bush prepared to leave office, his cronies at EPA pushed for a slew of bad rulemakings that favored polluters at the cost of public health and the environment. This ...
Environment
George Bush
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Calgary Association
Barack Obama
Almost one year ago, a dyke holding back the 40-acre coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant broke, releasing more than 500 million gallons of toxic coal ash. The sludge (six feet deep in some places) spread out over 400 acres, damaged 12 homes, and wrecked a ...
Energy/Transportation
Coal Mining
Tennessee
Kingston
United States
Climate Change
Environmental Protection Agency
I just received two copies of a newsletter called Cool Foods: Countdown to Copenhagen & Beyond from the Center for Food Safety . The purpose of the effort is to remind negotiators and the public that industrial agriculture accounts for between 13.5 percent and as much as 32 ...
Environment
Climate Change
Earth Policy Institute
Tamagotchi. Photo: imeleven.
As the Copenhagen conference approaches, our instinct may be to let politicians resolve the planet’s fate. But we’re also realizing more and more that we can’t just rely on politicians. Each of us needs ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
A host of wildlife, plants and fish in America may not survive the current debates over global warming in Congress and among the world's nations. According to a report from the Endangered Species Coalition, the effects of global warming could be the coup-de-grace for species that ...
Environment
Climate Change
Colbert Report
Polar Bears
The thin ice polar bears have been on because of global warming is actually thinner than we thought, according to a Canadian researcher.
A ship survey debunked recent satellite data that suggested an improvement in Arctic ice conditions. Instead ...
Environment
Ice Age
Climate Change
Just one week before the Copenhagen climate change conference begins, the Dalai Lama is asking the world's governments to downplay their national economic interests and give priority to solving global climate change. At a news conference in Australia, he said:
Sometimes their number one ...
Environment
Dalai Lama
Climate Change
Australia
Sailing stones, hard at work. Photo: USGS.
If a stone sails across the desert and no one is there to see it, did it really move?
The Daily Mail revisits the phenomenon of “sailing stones”—stones that apparently move without the ...
Other
It's official -- President Obama will lead the U.S. delegation at the Copenhagen climate change conference, and he will promise the world a 17 percent decrease (from 2005 levels) in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. His pledge mirrors the levels contained in climate change ...
Environment
Climate Change
Barack Obama
China
George Will
Probably this week, President Obama will announce whether he will attend next month's international climate change conference in Copenhagen -- and what the U.S.will be offering up . The latest news scuttlebutt is that the U.S. delegation is set to propose greenhouse gas emissions limits similar ...
Environment
Climate Change
Barack Obama
What leopard seals may lurk here?
Cats have been known to bring their human companions gifts of all sorts. Curiously surprised humans have found themselves proudly offered such choice items as mice, birds, and squirrels—presents that arrive ...
Other
Antarctica
Some top stories from the week at Earthjustice…
Florida got some great news : A historic settlement on November 16 prompted the EPA to set limits for the widespread nutrient poisoning in Florida's waters, which triggers harmful algae blooms and threatens public health. This ...
Green Living
Florida
General Electric
Environmental Protection Agency
Colorado
Greed is usually the reason we see so many companies foul up our lands, air and water. But in Colorado, where a coal mining company is refusing to make money off the gas it is releasing, a little greed could actually help the environment.
For years, coal companies in Colorado's North Fork ...
Environment
Colorado
Methane Gas
Climate Change
CO2
Luis Medellin and his three little sisters - aged 5, 9 and 12 - live in the middle of an orange grove in Lindsay, CA—a small farming town in the Central Valley. During the growing season, Luis and his sisters are awakened several times a week by ...
Other
Washington
Florida
The Chukchi Sea. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
Shell Oil recently got the green light ...
