Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Climatologist James Hansen on “Cowards in Our Democracies”

Climatologist James Hansen on “Cowards in Our Democracies”: pJR: “Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson.”  As the UK Guardian reported earlier this week, “James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute [...]/p

GOP’s Pro-Python Policy Devastates Florida’s Everglades

GOP’s Pro-Python Policy Devastates Florida’s Everglades: pFlorida, the location of today’s presidential primary, is dealing with a host of problems, including a moribund housing market and long-term unemployment that is the worst in the nation. As if that wasn’t bad enough, according to a new study out today, Florida’s Everglades ecosystem is being devastated by Burmese pythons: In areas where the [...]/p

More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths | Common Dreams

More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths | Common Dreams

Thursday, January 26, 2012

BREAKING: TransCanada’s Dirty Keystone XL Jobs Claims Draw Complaint To SEC

BREAKING: TransCanada’s Dirty Keystone XL Jobs Claims Draw Complaint To SEC: pThinkProgress Green has learned that TransCanada, the foreign tar sands company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is facing a potential inquiry into whether it deliberately deceived investors by inflating the job-creation potential of the project. Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over TransCanada’s “false or misleading statements about [...]/p

Sen. Vitter's $1 Million Hold On Science

Sen. Vitter's $1 Million Hold On Science

Renewable Energy Standards: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Renewable Energy Standards: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: pby Peter Fox Penner When your local utility buys more renewable energy to power your lights and computers, what more do you get besides the power?  You get cleaner air, fewer respiratory health problems, and lower health-care costs. You get local jobs building and maintaining green power plants and a better foothold in the fast-growing, [...]/p

Monday, January 23, 2012

Youth Climate Activists Mic Check The Oil Lobby, Promise ‘This Will Not Be The Last Big Oil Hears From Us’

Youth Climate Activists Mic Check The Oil Lobby, Promise ‘This Will Not Be The Last Big Oil Hears From Us’: pYouth activists interrupted the State of the Energy Industry earlier this week to deliver the 99 percent’s message to polluters’ biggest lobbies, who were all gathered for a conference. The annual event included addresses by American Petroleum Institute, American Gas Association, and the National Mining Association. During API President Jack Gerard’s speech, the activists yelled [...]/p

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Forecast The Facts Exposes America’s Climate-Denier TV Weathermen

Forecast The Facts Exposes America’s Climate-Denier TV Weathermen: pAmerica’s television meteorologists are the primary source of climate information for most Americans, and are second only to scientists — who have much less access to the general public — in the level of trust they are given. Yet more than half of TV weather reporters don’t believe in human-induced climate change, even as our [...]/p

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Chamber's Thomas Donohue warns Obama not to reject Keystone. Eco-activists push back

Chamber's Thomas Donohue warns Obama not to reject Keystone. Eco-activists push back

The dishonest Chamber of Commerce back at it again. The 1% lobby group likes to make threats.

What’s The Difference Between Climate And Weather?

What’s The Difference Between Climate And Weather?: pMany people, when trying to grapple with global warming are confused by the distinction between climate and weather. A great cartoon by Ole Christoffer Haga shows in simple terms how measurements of global temperatures record natural variability about a long-term trend. A dog meanders on a leash, held by his owner who is walking on [...]/p

EPA Unveils Interactive Map Of America’s Carbon Polluters

EPA Unveils Interactive Map Of America’s Carbon Polluters: pIn a major advance for concerned citizens, the Obama administration has unveiled an interactive website that displays the thousands of major greenhouse gas polluters across the United States. The new site, at ghgdata.epa.gov, features a Google map and charts driven by the greenhouse gas reporting database of facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more [...]/p

Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity Reports

Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity Reports: pFive senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers’ Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers’ right-wing petrochemical empire on such issues as the repeal of President Obama’s new health care law, [...]/p

Compost Cuisine: Amazing Ways to Make Delicious Food Out of Garbage | Food | AlterNet

Compost Cuisine: Amazing Ways to Make Delicious Food Out of Garbage | Food | AlterNet

Friday, January 6, 2012

German Solar Output Increases by 60% in 2011

German Solar Output Increases by 60% in 2011: pJust weeks after the solar industry installed the one millionth system in Germany, the country’s solar trade association announced that the technology accounted for 3% of total energy generation in 2011 — increasing 60% over 2010 to 18.6 terawatt-hours (18.6 billion kilowatt-hours.) Even with changes to the feed-in tariff that have reduced solar photovoltaic installations [...]/p