Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Global Warming Is Eliminating Joshua Trees From Joshua Tree National Park
Global Warming Is Eliminating Joshua Trees From Joshua Tree National Park: "pAs our polluted world warms, glaciers are disappearing from Glacier National Park. Now ecologists have found that “it has already gotten too warm and dry” for the unique Joshua Trees “to prosper at Joshua Tree National Park,” and expect that “there is likely going to be an 80 to 90 percent reduction of Joshua trees” [...]/p"
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Masters: Driven by Global Warming, “It Is Quite Possible That 2010 Was The Most Extreme Weather Year Globally Since 1816″
Masters: Driven by Global Warming, “It Is Quite Possible That 2010 Was The Most Extreme Weather Year Globally Since 1816″: "pWhere will Earth’s climate go from here? The pace of extreme weather events has remained remarkably high during 2011, giving rise to the question–is the “Global Weirding” of 2010 and 2011 the new normal? Has human-caused climate change destabilized the climate, bringing these extreme, unprecedented weather events? Any one of the extreme weather events of [...]/p"
Where Renewables Stack Up: Comparitive Chart on Levelized Cost of Energy and the “Value” of Clean Energy
Where Renewables Stack Up: Comparitive Chart on Levelized Cost of Energy and the “Value” of Clean Energy: "pA number of readers asked us for a chart on the levelized cost of electricity of renewables versus fossil resources. Here’s a good one just released by the Institute for Local Self Reliance with data from Lazard, a Wall Street advisory firm that tracks energy data. The chart includes the cost of renewables with and [...]/p"
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
NSF Study: Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures
NSF Study: Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures: "pNew research “points toward projected sea level rise lying at or near the upper range of current projections, more than a meter [100 cm, 39 inches] by the end of this century under business-as-usual carbon emissions,” says co-author Michael Mann. The National Science Foundation news release for the study, “Climate related sea-level variations over the [...]/p"
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Factchecking The Claims By Coal-Powered Polluters About EPA Mercury And Air Toxic Rules
Factchecking The Claims By Coal-Powered Polluters About EPA Mercury And Air Toxic Rules: "pOur guest bloggers are Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy Daniel J. Weiss, Special Assistant Valeri Vasquez, and intern Stewart Boss, with the Energy team at the Center for American Progress. Coal-fired power plants shoot 772 million pounds of airborne toxic chemicals into the sky every year – more than 2.5 pounds for [...]/p"
Monday, June 20, 2011
NSF Study: Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures
NSF Study: Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures: "pNew research “points toward projected sea level rise lying at or near the upper range of current projections, more than a meter [100 cm, 39 inches] by the end of this century under business-as-usual carbon emissions,” says co-author Michael Mann. The National Science Foundation news release for the study, “Climate related sea-level variations over the [...]/p"
Saturday, June 18, 2011
VIDEO: At Republican Leadership Conference, Obama Impersonator Tells Racist Jokes; Audience Laughs
VIDEO: At Republican Leadership Conference, Obama Impersonator Tells Racist Jokes; Audience Laughs: "pThe nation’s GOP elite gathered in New Orleans this weekend for the Republican Leadership Conference. In attendance were presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and potential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Prior to a speech by RNC Chair Reince Preibus, an Obama impersonator took the stage and told a series of racist jokes. [...]/p"
Fake Science Advocate Has Fake Degree
Fake Science Advocate Has Fake Degree: "pThe self-proclaimed “No. 1 global climate change denier in Minnesota,” state senator Michael Jungbauer, is championing more misinformation than false climate science. His bachelor’s degree from the Moody Bible Institute with a “background in biochemistry”? More like a ministerial ordainment from the Christian Motorsports International, “a family of ministries conducts non-denominational chapel services at local [...]/p"
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Mother Nature is Just Getting Warmed Up: June 2011 Heat Records Crushing Cold Records by 13 to 1
Mother Nature is Just Getting Warmed Up: June 2011 Heat Records Crushing Cold Records by 13 to 1: "pStanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according to a new climate study by Stanford University scientists…. “According to our projections, large [...]/p"
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tea Party Governor LePage Is Killing Maine’s Clean Energy Economy
Tea Party Governor LePage Is Killing Maine’s Clean Energy Economy: "pOur guest blogger is Kiley Kroh, Associate Director for Ocean Communications at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Thanks to Gov. Paul LePage’s (R-ME) recent assault on jobs and innovation, investors at this week’s EnergyOcean International Conference in Portland, Maine are wondering if their money would be better spent elsewhere. Portland was chosen for [...]/p"
North Carolina Looks to Discard State Regulations on Air Pollutants
North Carolina Looks to Discard State Regulations on Air Pollutants: "pFollowing efforts by North Carolina’s five largest emitters of toxic air pollutants, a bill proposing to discard the state’s clean air program will reach the House floor before the end of the week. Such a move, if approved by the Republican-controlled House and Senate, would eliminate the state’s own air pollutants standards and require instead [...]/p"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Green Jobs Are Real: German and American Solar Industry Both Employ More People Than U.S. Steel Production
Green Jobs Are Real: German and American Solar Industry Both Employ More People Than U.S. Steel Production: "pPeople want to know: Are green jobs real? The answer is resoundingly “yes.” With roughly 93,500 direct and indirect jobs, the American solar industry now employs about 20,000 more workers than the U.S. steel production sector. The American steel industry has historically been a symbol of the country’s industrial might and economic prosperity. But today, [...]/p"
NOAA: The New Normal is Hot
NOAA: The New Normal is Hot: "pNOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has just released an overview of its new “1981-2010 Climate Normals” (PDF here). Meteorologist Paul Douglas, founder and CEO of Broadcast Weather, explains what this means: NOAA just released the latest climate “normals” for the USA. When you hear the “average high” or “average low”, it’s a running, 30-year average. [...]/p"
USGS: Global Warming Drives Rockies Snowpack Loss Unrivaled in 800 Years, Threatens Western Water Supply
USGS: Global Warming Drives Rockies Snowpack Loss Unrivaled in 800 Years, Threatens Western Water Supply: "pA US Geological Survey study released today suggests that snowpack declines in the Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years are unusual compared to the past few centuries. Prior studies by the USGS and other institutions attribute the decline to unusual springtime warming, more precipitation falling now as rain rather than snow and earlier snowmelt. [...]/p"
Monday, June 13, 2011
In Koch Country, Kansas Governor Brownback Begs Federal Government For Climate Disaster Relief
In Koch Country, Kansas Governor Brownback Begs Federal Government For Climate Disaster Relief: "pLike the rest of the nation — and the entire planet — the state of Kansas is suffering in our carbon-polluted climate. Most of Kansas is in moderate to severe drought. Southwestern Kansas has Dust Bowl conditions, crippling its wheat crop. On Gov. Sam Brownback’s request, the federal government declared a drought emergency for about [...]/p"
Saturday, June 11, 2011
After David Koch Leaves NIH Board, NIH Hands Down Long-Delayed Classification Of Top Koch Pollutant As A Carcinogen
After David Koch Leaves NIH Board, NIH Hands Down Long-Delayed Classification Of Top Koch Pollutant As A Carcinogen: "pLarge manufacturers and chemical producers have lobbied ferociously to stop the National Institutes of Health from classifying formaldehyde as a carcinogen. A wide body of research has linked the chemical to cancer, but industrial polluters have stymied regulators from action. Last year, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported that billionaire David Koch, whose company Georgia [...]/p"
Mother Nature is Just Getting Warmed Up: June 2011 Heat Records Crushing Cold Records by 13 to 1
Mother Nature is Just Getting Warmed Up: June 2011 Heat Records Crushing Cold Records by 13 to 1: "pStanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according to a new climate study by Stanford University scientists…. “According to our projections, large [...]/p"
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Solar is Ready Now: ‘Ferocious Cost Reductions’ Make Solar PV Competitive
Solar is Ready Now: ‘Ferocious Cost Reductions’ Make Solar PV Competitive: "pMust-See Photovoltaic Industry Graphs on the Changing Economics of Solar There’s a joke in the solar industry about when “grid parity” – the time when solar becomes as cheap as fossil sources – will happen. Ron Kenedi, the former VP in Sharp Solar’s U.S. business liked to throw out random dates, telling me once “November [...]/p"
The complete guide to modern day climate change
The complete guide to modern day climate change: "pAll the data you need to show that the world is warming According to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (2007): Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. At [...]/p"
Yes, Climate Change Will Harm Your Health and Your Children’s: Rising Temperatures Worsen Ozone Pollution, Asthma Attacks
Yes, Climate Change Will Harm Your Health and Your Children’s: Rising Temperatures Worsen Ozone Pollution, Asthma Attacks: "pIn April the British Medical Journal warned that climate change “poses an immediate and grave threat, driving ill-health and increasing the risk of conflict, such that each feeds upon the other.” The UK’s Hadley Center notes that on our current one related impact, “By the 2090s close to one-fifth of the world’s population will be [...]/p"
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The complete guide to modern day climate change
The complete guide to modern day climate change: "pAll the data you need to show that the world is warming According to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (2007): Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. At [...]/p"
How to shape America’s clean energy future
How to shape America’s clean energy future: "pRichard W. Caperton, Kate Gordon , Bracken Hendricks, and Daniel J. Weiss in a CAP repost. The United States is at risk of being left in the dust in the clean energy race. But we can catch up. A Clean Energy Standard, or CES, which mandates that electric utilities generate a certain percentage of their [...]/p"
Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying
Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying: "pI hope readers will help draw attention to this stunning news in today’s Canberra Times: Australia’s leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into [...]/p"
Oil Companies (and Their Koch-Funded Front Groups) Run Campaign to Raise Ire at Gas Prices, Protect Profits
Oil Companies (and Their Koch-Funded Front Groups) Run Campaign to Raise Ire at Gas Prices, Protect Profits: "pU.S. oil production under Obama has soared, as have oil prices, showing that “drill baby drill” can’t solve our energy security problems. Our guest blogger is CAPAF’s Noreen Nielsen. Koch-backed, oil-company funded, Americans for Prosperity recently announced their new campaign attacking the Obama administration for the increase in gas prices. That’s right. The energy industry is [...]/p"
The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm
The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm: "pIn this post I will lay out ‘the solution’ to global warming. This post is an update of a 2008 analysis I revised in 2009. A report by the International Energy Agency came to almost exactly the same conclusion as I did, and has relatively similar wedges, so I view that as a vindication of [...]/p"
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