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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Those black areas are the least productive 'desert' regions of the oceans. Image: NOAA It's pretty well known that ocean dead zones -- oxygen starved areas such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico -- are expanding. But new research in Geophysical Research Letters shows that ocean 'deserts' are also expanding. Discovery News has the story on these ...
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Fishing could become a pastime of the past if global temperatures continue to rise, according to a recent study. Photo courtesy of Wayne National Forest, via Flickr . We all know global warming is generally changing the planet for the worse, but the specifics aren't always on our minds. You'd have to be living under a rock not to ...
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The biggest omission by the UNFCC was not including a cost for protecting ecosystems and the services they provide, such as the barrier against storms that mangroves provide. Photo: Ken Funakoshi via flickr. We all know that adapting to climate change is going to cost us -- but that doing nothing will ultimately cost us even more -- however, ...
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I'm a sucker for interactive maps and this one's pretty cool: The Nature Conservancy has just launched the Climate Wizard , which allows you to show the impact of climate change on precipitation and temperature over the next century. Right now it seems to just be the United States at the highest ... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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A little less than an hour ago, when Agence France Presse moved a story over the wires, we got the biggest boost the 350.org campaign could ever have hoped for. ? The UN's top climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri , said exactly what we've been saying all along: 350 is the number. "As chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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photo: Phil Romans via flickr Yesterday, when I claimed the US wasn't really as much of a leader as it claims to be I got called out for always being down on the American Clean Energy & Security Act for not being a big enough step towards the emissions reductions that we need to avoid the worst of climate ...
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photo: Rafael Matsunaga via flickr It should come as no great surprise to regular TreeHugger readers that the emission reductions House's climate bill got so cut back by corporate interest that the whole thing needs radical strengthening to meet scientific muster. The Senate's ( when they get around to it ) isn't likely to be much better. One interesting ...
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New York Marathon photo: Martineric via flickr. John Kerry has said in reality merely getting the Senate's climate bill out of committee in time for the COP15 UN climate talks in December would be a good start. However, both the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce seem to think differently, telling Read the original post: US Must Have ...
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photo: Wirawan Purwanto via flickr You've undoubtedly seen forecasts about declines in crop yields due to climate change -- whether increased temperatures, increased intensity of flooding in places, or radically decreased availability of water in others, crop yields could take a pretty big hit. Usually these dire predictions are for places "over there". However, new research coming out of ...
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Photo via Kentucky Coal If a band of coal and oil execs decided to spread the message about the evils of climate bill—how it would force them to close refineries and coal plants, cause miners to lose their jobs, and "cripple our economy"—who would pay attention? If they showed up to anti-climate bill rallies--in limos, perhaps—to talk about how ...
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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
