Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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photo: DorkyMum / Creative Commons The UK may have just had the coldest December in a century, but here's an example of how the rest of the planet as a whole is still warming, even more so in the northern latitudes: As Climate Progress reports, the View post: Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Low December Record
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Peak oil is a perennial topic on TreeHugger, with huge implications for energy and climate policy even though it is only now ( View original post here: Get Up To Speed on Peak Oil & Our Changing Climate With The Nation's New Video Series
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Photo: A Green Living If you're not a regular reader of TreeHugger or any other environmentally-focused outlet, you'd be forgiven for thinking that global climate change really wasn't all that big of a deal anymore. Not because scientists have determined the threats to be less than they once were -- to the contrary, climate scientists have more and better ...
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image: Skeptical Science Skeptical Science has been really pulling out all the stops as 2010 comes to an end, first releasing a great PDF Guide to Global Warming Skepticism and now adding the above image summarizing all the different indicators that the world is indeed warming. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: How We Know Global Warming ...
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photo: Matt Brown / Creative Commons You can never have too many tip of the tongue answers when common questions about climate change come up, whether from outright climate deniers or from people who aren't up on the science and have genuine questions about common climate skeptic claims. NRDC recently released a FAQ on this, and now Read the ...
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photo: A Girl With Tea / Creative Commons Oh no! If you're a tea lover like this TreeHugger then some reporting from The Guardian comes as doubly dire news: Apparently climate change is both reducing crop yields of India's Assam tea and changing its much-prized characteristic flavor. Besides being a personal issue of tea preference--Assam tea ... Read the ...
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File this one in the interestingly geeky diversion category: Coming to TreeHugger via The Cost of Energy is what they are calling the "coolest looking graph in climate science"--which helps visualize... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Watch The Earth Breathe: A History of Atmospheric CO2 (Video)
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photo: Matthew McDermott I have to say that I haven't yet heard some wrong-but-glib media personality exclaim that the blizzard that just whacked the East Coast proves that global warming isn't happening, but no doubt it'll be said or has been said and I missed it. Which means it's worth saying again: Just because it's snowing out doesn't mean ...
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photo: Marcin Wichary / Creative Commons Given climate change's complexity, anything that breaks it down into more intellectually digestible bits without dumbing it down is a good thing. The latest in that category comes from Skeptical Science (via Read more: Human-Caused Climate Change Based on Consensus of Evidence, Not Just Consensus of Scientists
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Image: The Last Cookie via flickr First, the Obama administration this week upheld the much-lambasted Bush-era decision to label polar bears as threatened rather than endangered. Then, it opened up critical polar bear habitat to offshore drilling. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: No Break for Polar Bears on Christmas: Habitat Sacrificed by ...
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The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Here is the original: Super Efficient Water Heater is First New Product to Roll Off GE ...
The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Read more here: GE's New Hybrid Water Heater is Super Efficient—and Manufactured in America
