Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Solar Stunner: America is a $1.9 Billion emExporter/em of Solar Products
Solar Stunner: America is a $1.9 Billion emExporter/em of Solar Products: pWith all the stories about China dominating the solar photovoltaics (PV) manufacturing sector, you might not think that America is a net exporter of solar products. But it is — to the tune of $1.8 billion. That’s a $1 billion increase over net exports documented in the solar sector last year. In fact, a report [...]/p
Green Jobs Reality Check: Clean Energy Still Means More and Better Jobs for American Workers
Green Jobs Reality Check: Clean Energy Still Means More and Better Jobs for American Workers: pby Adam James, Jorge Madrid, and Bracken Hendricks A lot of bogus numbers are flying around about green jobs these days. It’s time to set the record straight: Clean energy is a bright spot in the economic recovery, already creating large numbers of high quality U.S. jobs in emerging industries. Cleantech (primarily clean energy) has [...]/p
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
McKibben and 100 Others Arrested at White House, Many Held Until Monday, “Lighting a Fire” Among Demonstrators
McKibben and 100 Others Arrested at White House, Many Held Until Monday, “Lighting a Fire” Among Demonstrators: pBill McKibben sends this message from jail: The only thing we need in here is more company. We don’t need your sympathy, we need your company. The U.S. Park Police have decided to take a get tough attitude with those protesting the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: On a phone call late this afternoon, U.S. [...]/p
Rick Perry Is Trying To Make Climate Denial A Faith-Based Issue
Rick Perry Is Trying To Make Climate Denial A Faith-Based Issue: pClimate science denial is one of the strongest anti-scientific currents running through today’s Republican Party. American conservatives, who tend to be most skeptical of the scientific consensus on greenhouse pollution, generally hold other politically relevant anti-science views, such as support for creationism and opposition to stem-cell research. As global warming touches all of our lives, [...]/p
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Graphic: How We Know We’re Causing Global Warming
Graphic: How We Know We’re Causing Global Warming: "pby John Cook, in a Skeptical Science cross-post In 1859, physicist John Tyndall ran an experiment demonstrating the greenhouse effect. Visible sunlight easily passes through our atmosphere to warm the Earth. However, invisible heat rays rising from the Earth’s surface, otherwise known as infrared radiation, don’t easily escape back to space. What Tyndall showed by [...]/p"
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Arctic Death Spiral: Sea Ice Passes De Facto Tipping Point Thanks to Deniers, Media Blow The Story, Again
Arctic Death Spiral: Sea Ice Passes De Facto Tipping Point Thanks to Deniers, Media Blow The Story, Again: "pArctic sea ice volume by month in cubic kilometers. The bottom (black) line is September volume. The plot makes projections with simple quadratic trend lines (details here), which likely oversimplify matters as we approach zero volume (especially for non-summer months). But reversal of the overall death spiral is highly implausible absent an even more implausible [...]/p"
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies
Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies: "pBy Christine Shearer In 2008, I took a tiny cargo plane to the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, in the northwest of Alaska above the Arctic Circle. I had heard the village would be lost to climate change from erosion, which I imagined to be a slow, gradual, and predictable process. Touring the island and speaking [...]/p"
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Climate Zombie Riders Pollute House Appropriations Bills
Climate Zombie Riders Pollute House Appropriations Bills: "pThe Tea Party-dominated House of Representatives is attaching a raft of provisions to its spending bills designed to block action to address greenhouse pollution and its deadly impacts. In addition to drastic cuts to clean energy investment and increases in subsidies for fossil energy, riders that kill off climate action are being added to the [...]/p"
Health for Sale: House EPA Bill Allows Pollution and Supporters Get Big Oil Donations
Health for Sale: House EPA Bill Allows Pollution and Supporters Get Big Oil Donations: "pRep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) added a provision in the EPA appropriations bill that would allow power plants to continue spewing mercury, arsenic, acid gases, and other hazardous pollutants. The representatives who voted for the provision received more than twice as many campaign contributions from mining and utility companies combined compared to those who opposed it. [...]/p"
The Toxic 20: Which State Do You Live In?
The Toxic 20: Which State Do You Live In?: "pIn 2009, coal and oil-fired power plants emitted 49% of industrial air pollution in the U.S. — representing the dominant source of air toxics in 28 states around the U.S. The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a report today on the top 20 states with toxic emissions coming from the electricity sector. The top five [...]/p"
Car Makers Oppose Fuel Standards that Would Save Consumers $150 Billion
Car Makers Oppose Fuel Standards that Would Save Consumers $150 Billion: "pThe auto industry is starting a media blitz this week designed to fight new fuel economy standards that research groups say will create over a half million jobs, save consumers $150 billion and are supported by three quarters of Americans. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is running radio ads in 6 states and the District [...]/p"
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
More Americans have Green Jobs Than Oil or Gas Jobs; Lighting Standards the GOP Wants to Kill Created 12,500 Jobs
More Americans have Green Jobs Than Oil or Gas Jobs; Lighting Standards the GOP Wants to Kill Created 12,500 Jobs: "pClimate Progress previously reported on a Brookings Institution study, “Sizing the Clean Economy.” It demonstrated the “Clean Economy” has started delivering on its promise of high-wage jobs. The Christian Science Monitor just did a nice article on the study, “Report: More Americans have green jobs than oil or gas jobs.” They did a nice graphic [...]/p"
Monday, July 18, 2011
BP Spills 2,100 to 4,200 Gallons of Oil in Arctic Tundra
BP Spills 2,100 to 4,200 Gallons of Oil in Arctic Tundra: "pThis Saturday, BP put another notch in its prodigious polluter belt: A toxic brew of methanol and crude oil spilling across Alaska’s North Slope tundra. Reuters reports: BP said on Monday that a pipeline at its 30,000 barrel per day Lisburne field, which is currently closed for maintenance, ruptured during testing and spilled a mixture [...]/p"
Thursday, July 14, 2011
House GOP Passes Dirty-Water Bill
House GOP Passes Dirty-Water Bill
The GOP continues to attack the EPA.
The GOP continues to attack the EPA.
Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets
Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets: "pClimate activists are comparing the right-wing, corporate agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the villains that bedevil Harry Potter in a new website. Chamber President Tom Donohue looms as a Lord Voldemort figure on the site. This mini-campaign was launched in conjunction with the final installment of the Harry Potter movies, like climate [...]/p"
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Climate Change Reducing Ocean’s Carbon Dioxide Uptake
Climate Change Reducing Ocean’s Carbon Dioxide Uptake: "p“The ocean is taking up less carbon because of the warming caused by the carbon in the atmosphere,” says [Galen] McKinley, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a member of the Center for Climatic Research…. McKinley is the lead author of a new analysis in the journal Nature Geoscience (subs. req’d) that [...]/p"
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Climate Disasters Batter Districts Of Climate-Denying GOP Appropriators
Climate Disasters Batter Districts Of Climate-Denying GOP Appropriators: "pOn Thursday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the Interior and Environment approved a slash-and-burn budget for land and environmental agencies. The FY 2012 budget bill includes several riders to prevent the federal government from protecting Americans from global warming pollution. The agencies whose budgets were cut, including the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau [...]/p"
Fracking Fatally Destroys Forests In As Little As Two Days
Fracking Fatally Destroys Forests In As Little As Two Days: "pA new study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service concluded that fracking causes alarming damage to the enviornment in as little as two days. The findings, which looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Monongahela National Forest, found that within two days, all ground plants were [...]/p"
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Heartland Institute's Climate Contrarians Enjoy Media Platform
Heartland Institute's Climate Contrarians Enjoy Media Platform
Nothing but a who's who of dishonest and bought off hacks.
Nothing but a who's who of dishonest and bought off hacks.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Republicans Introduce Budget Rider That Would Allow Destructive Mining Around The Grand Canyon To Continue
Republicans Introduce Budget Rider That Would Allow Destructive Mining Around The Grand Canyon To Continue: "pOur guest blogger is Jessica Goad, manager of research and outreach, Public Lands Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund. Republicans on the House Interior and Environment Appropriations subcommittee just released a spending bill they will debate tomorrow and next Tuesday. Along with a handful of nasty riders that ThinkProgress has explained in more detail, [...]/p"
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
How climate science deniers spread doubt for political ends
How climate science deniers spread doubt for political ends: "pThe Galileo Movement co-opts the father of science’s name to pursue an anti-science agenda. Ian Enting, Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, looks at the front groups and writings of Australia’s deniers . This is an extended excerpt from The Conversation series on climate. Many of us, including most of the authors of this series, have [...]/p"
How the Media Gets It Wrong on Climate Change: The False, the Confused and the Mendacious
How the Media Gets It Wrong on Climate Change: The False, the Confused and the Mendacious: "pThe debate may be fiery, but it’s also phony. AAP The Conversation wraps up its climate series with a statement from leading Australian acientists: The debate is over. Let’s get on with it. Over the past two weeks The Conversation has highlighted the consensus of experts that climate change caused by humans is both real [...]/p"
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Google: Delaying Clean Energy Transition “Only 5 Years Could Leave Trillions on the Table”
Google: Delaying Clean Energy Transition “Only 5 Years Could Leave Trillions on the Table”: "pGoogle, a leader of innovation in the digital economy, says that without a private and public focus on innovation in renewables, storage and electric vehicles, the cost of delaying the clean energy economy could be in the trillions of dollars to the U.S. Google released an analysis of the economic impact of clean energy innovation [...]/p"
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)