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
published October 29, 2011 and has No Comments
The following piece, by Dana Nuccitelli, originally appeared in Skeptical Science . Now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study results are in, and have confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperature record (see here and here ), those "skeptics" who spent years disputing the accuracy of the record despite all the evidence pointing to... Read the full ...
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Read the rest here: Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
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Photo: DVIDSHUB , Flickr , CC BY-SA Get used to droughts sweeping the south in the summer and more massive floods during rainy season. More rain, more snow. This, ladies and gentleman, is the new normal, thanks to a climate that's changing on account of us humanfolk pumping excessive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. "Shut up, you crazy ...
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This post is an installment in a series about the current state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds? , so read that first. True climate skeptics rarely change their minds. If they do so publicly, it's often the cause of a minor ...
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Photo credit: Island Press Last month, TreeHugger and Island Press joined together to introduce BookHugger . Members got a discounted copy of Peter Calthorpe's Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change and the opportunity to talk with the author himself. This month, BookHugger presents Originally posted here: Join BookHugger in Reading Everyday Environmentalism and Get 30% Off Cover Price
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Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Alec Loorz first saw Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth when he was twelve years old. Inspired by the message, Alec applied to be a presenter with Gore's The Climate Project, but was turned down ...
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Image credit: NOAA Today's seminal Lester Brown post about China's escalating grain consumption and coming conflicts over trade and food prices - see Can the United States Feed China? - brought to mind related, climate-driven events in the US. Back in February I wrote : "As we all can see by the latest Federal drought t... Read the full ...
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van jones, via Ted Talks It took " An Inconvenient Truth" and then " The Age of Stupid " to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were short on presenting solutions, leaving many feeling powerless. ...
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While all the green-themed films currently up for Academy Awards are worthy contenders, and I'd really encourage you to see all of them if you get a chance, the producers of Sun Come Up --a beautifully shot documentary which follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders to neighboring islands as their ancestral home gets submerged by climate change--recently contacted me ...
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Image: Galileo Project , Wikimedia, CC There's really no rational way a human can dispute the fact that the vast majority of the world's scientists believe that greenhouse gas emissions generated by man are warming the climate. It's one of the most important findings of modern science, and it's supported by an impressively massive body of evidence. But, as ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
