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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:45:27 +0000

An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on ...

Climate Progress found this 5 hours ago on wired.com

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The CRU hack

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:20:00 +0000

As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). As people are ...

Only In It For The Gold found this 24 hours ago on realclimate.org

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Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:21 +0000

Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and ...

DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds ... found this 22 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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Bob Ward: This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:05 +0000

Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusion Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking ...

Greenfyre's found this 2 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:00 +0000

by David Roberts From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine, available on Google Books (click for larger version): ...

Peak Energy found this 2 days ago on grist.org

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Google Books Search - Glacier Humble

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:54:06 +0000

Grist - the Latest from Grist found this 2 days ago on books.google.com

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Coal's Assault on Human Health

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:51 +0000

Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, Coal s Assault on Human Health, which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and ...

Green Options found this 27 hours ago on psr.org

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Here’s what we know so far: CRU’s emails were hacked, the 2000s will easily be the hottest decade on record, and the planet keeps warming thanks to us!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:06:18 +0000

Here’s what we know so far: CRU’s emails were hacked, the 2000s will easily be the hottest decade on record, and the planet keeps warming thanks to us!

Greenfyre's found this 23 hours ago on climateprogress.org

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“Mike’s Nature trick … to hide the decline.”

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:05 +0000

One of the supposedly most damning quotes from the CRU Hack “scandal” is “ I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. ” Phil Jones ...

greenfyre posted 2 hours ago from greenfyre.wordpress.com

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Green Buildings Do Double Duty: Reduce Energy Use, Lower Financial Risk

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000

The potential for energy use reductions in old and new buildings is significant, according to a report from KPMG. The study finds that energy consumption in buildings can be cut by 30 to 50 percent and still produce a positive return on investments. Plus, real estate groups can get a business ...

Green Building : Jetson Green found this 5 hours ago on environmentalleader.com

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ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:21 +0000

Thousands of “emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server” — a top climate research center in the United Kingdom — “were hacked recently” and dumped on a Russian web server. Global warming deniers are sifting through the illegally obtained letters ...

DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds ... found this 22 hours ago on wonkroom.thinkprogress.org

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Climate Deniers hoax themselves … again.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:04:55 +0000

BPSDB I’m going to go out on a short limb here, but frankly more and more it is sounding like the correct response to “ Have you seen the emails? ” is “ Yeah, have you? “ I refer to the uproar about the hacked CRU site which I posted about a few hours ago. ...

greenfyre posted 14 hours ago from greenfyre.wordpress.com

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This is not good, the CRU computer hack

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:06:18 +0000

This is not good BPSDB Leading British climate centre hacked “One of Britain’s leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. The cyber-attack is apparently aimed at damaging the reputations of ...

greenfyre posted 23 hours ago from greenfyre.wordpress.com

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U.S. Embassy Beijing China

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:43 +0000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2009 U.S.-China Joint Statement November 17, 2009 Beijing, China At the invitation of President Hu Jintao of the People s ...

Switchboard, from NRDC found this 4 days ago on beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn

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'Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

GMA: Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the ...

Green Daily found this 24 hours ago on gmanews.tv

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Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

by Grist For some people, climate change is a tough cause to rally ‘round—even those who understand that it’s happening and that it’s human-caused get distracted by things like eating, working, having sex, watching TV, or watching people on TV have sex. While social ...

Green Daily found this 24 hours ago on grist.org

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Paul Hawken on the State of the Markets

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:19 +0000

Sustainable Industries continues to impress me. Yesterday’s SI Economic Forum featured Paul Hawken, well-known author (Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism, Blessed Unrest) and sustainability guru (the mind behind Wiser Earth and a variety of other startups). And while Mr. Hawken is a ...

Green Options found this 26 hours ago on triplepundit.com

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Revisiting No Logo, Ten Years Later

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:37 +0000

November 16th, 2009 Posted on The Huffington Post Almost ten years ago, on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of protestors shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The activists were not against trade or globalization, despite the many misleading claims in the ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 22 hours ago on naomiklein.org

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Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:37 +0000

November 12th, 2009 Published in The Nation The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 22 hours ago on naomiklein.org

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Naomi Klein

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:37 +0000

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 22 hours ago on naomiklein.org

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