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Climate Change This Week: Carbon Crash Diet, Attack of the Giant Hornets, and More!
Posted: 10/02/2013 8:14 pm
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IPCC: How much we've warmed up so far...
And where we're headed... pretend the map above looks just like the left map directly below to get the full impact. Credit IPCC AR5
Holy Hornets, Batman! Thumb-Sized Insects Getting More Aggressive And Fatal As China Warms reports Ryan Koronowski at Climate Progress. These deadly hornets have proliferated and become more aggressive in the wake of intense summer heat waves in China, sometimes chasing (at 25 mph) and attacking people; 28 people have died in the past month, and hundreds more have been injured. This is SO not how I imagined Jumanji coming true....
OO US Environmentalists Take Harder Line With Obama on Keystone Pipeline
☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
OO NY Times Criticizes Canadian Censorship of Scientists Warning of Tarsands Problems
OO US Women Leaders: Ignoring Climate Change Is Like Sending 'A Child With A 105 Fever' To School
OO Hundreds Gather In Seattle In Opposition To Coal, Oil Exports
OO Australian Government Axes Their Climate Commission -- But Australians Bring It Back
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OO Native Americans To Protest Devastating Coal Mining In British Columbia
OO UK: Major Environmental Economist Stern Berates 'Marginal' Climate Deniers
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OO IPCC Report: Financial Markets Are Only Hope In Race To Stop Global Warming
OO Debt-plagued Greece Sees Economic Gains In Adapting To Climate Change
OO Climate Change Policy Is Just Good Economics
OO Solar-Powered Desalination Will Transform Navajo Life
OO In 2013, Worldwide Solar Power Installations To Overtake Wind For First Time
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OO California: Solar Customers Who Use the Grid Less, Pay Less
OO Solar Garden: Model T Of Renewable Energy?
OO Kickstarting Your Electric Bill - New Funding Models Give Solar A Boost
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OO US: Obama Plan Hits Target to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 17% by 2020
OO India: Plans To Build The Largest Solar Plant In The World
OO China: Eases On Coal, Hikes Prices Of Clean Fuel To Urge Higher Output
OO Cutting Carbon Emissions Could Save 3 Million Lives Annually By 2100 study finds.
OO As Mayor Addresses Climate Change, New York City's Air Is Cleanest In Decades
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OO Coal Splutters As China Seeks Breath Of Fresh Air
OO China Pollution Control Plan To Slash Particulates that can penetrate deep into human lungs.
OO Cool Idea While nations concede we need to lower carbon dioxide emissions, other pollutants offer quicker paybacks.
OO How Algae Could Create Better, More Efficient Gasoline Than Corn
OO Government Shutdown to Close National Parks To Public But Not To Drilling
OO Ex-Halliburton Official Charged With Destroying Evidence In Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
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OO Boom In Unregulated US Gas Pipelines Posing New Risks
OO Environmental Inspections Of US Oil And Gas Wells Falling Short agency says.
OO Remember The Unstoppable US Tar Sands Leaks In July? They're Still Leaking
OO New EPA rules: Coal's Future Depends On Cheap Carbon Capture
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OO CDC: Valley Fever A 'Growing Problem' In California
OO Colorado: After the Flood, Devastation that state officials say will take years to wipe away, estimated at $2 billion: entire roads have vanished, nearly 18,000 homes wrecked or damaged, and at least 50 bridges are gone.
OO Texas: With Lakes Drying Up, Businesses Are Parched
OO Washington's Top Firms Silent On Climate Risks Despite SEC Rule
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OO A Slow-Motion Disaster: One Community's Fight To Save Itself From Climate Change
OO How Efficient Is Your City? America's 34 Largest Towns Get Ranked
OO Why Is This US Airline 26 Percent More Wasteful Than The Most Fuel Efficient Carrier?
OO 'Yet Another Wakeup Call': Man-Made Global Warming Is Here, We're Not Doing Enough To Stop It
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OO Climate Change: IPCC Issues Stark Warning Over Global Warming
OO Global Society Must Leave Fossil Fuels In The Ground, Unburnt, Says Top Official
OO New Map Shows Energy Sources for Every Nation - Cool!!!! Well, not, actually, in terms of global warming. The number of each country is the number of grams of carbon dioxide emitted per kilometer traveled there.
OO Why Is IPCC So Certain About The Influence Of Humans?
OO Radical Solutions Urged To Beat Growing Climate Threat
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OO Is The IPCC Right On Climate Change? Just Ask The World's Farmers
OO Ocean Warming Narrows Climate Options
OO Climate Change Devastating Fisherman: 'Sometimes We'll Catch 5,000 Pounds Of Jellyfish'
OO Everything About Climate Change Will Be Worse For Children
OO Climate Change Will Hit Poor Countries Hardest study shows.
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OO New Map Shows The World's Most Climate Vulnerable Regions - although the color code is inadequate and the map probably underestimates vulnerability...
OO Malaysia Clearcutting Carbon-Storing Forest Reserves For Timber, Palm Oil
OO Bangladesh: Environmentalists Dismayed By Destruction of Carbon-Capturing Forests
OO Climate Change Message Lost in Media's Focus on Uncertainty of Minute Details
OO "Global Warming Pause" Debate Misses Big Picture
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OO Abundance Does Not Mean Cheap, Stable Fossil Fuel Supplies
OO Financial Seer Jeremy Grantham Predicts Environmental Catastrophe, Resource Wars
OO US Coal Future Depends On Untested Carbon Capture Technology
OO Drill, Comrade, Drill: Why The Kremlin's Arctic Plan Worries Activists
OO Coal Prices To Feel Weight Of New Rules
OO World Bank Aids New Coal Project Abroad, Defying Policy environmental group says.
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OO Canada: Industry Calls To Shut Down Oilsands Environmental Agency
OO Insurance Industry Views Rate Hikes As Climate Change Hikes Hurricanes
OO France: Fracking Ban Faces Constitutional Test
OO Climate Change Hits Nepal's Upper Mustang
OO Mexico Faces Huge Rebuilding After Dozens Die In Twin Freak Storms
OO World's Biggest Businesses Understand 'Mother Of All Risks' But Fail to Address It enough.
OO Tiny Plankton May Have Big Impact as they dominate increasingly acidic oceans.
OO Faux Pause: Ocean Warming Now, But Surface Warming To Follow
OO Climate Change Could Make Mercury Pollution Worse via emissions from wildfires and thawing permafrost, among other things.
@@ Dramatic Video: Russians Confront Greenpeace Activists on Arctic Oil Rig
@@ Video: Amazon Gold Mining Devastation Goes Viral in Peru
@@ At Last, a Green Radio Show to counter the Lush Bimbaugh wasteland. Check out On the Green Front with Betsy Rosenberg at Progressive Radio Network to keep updated on climate change, and other green topics.
@@ Video: America's Dangerous Pipelines - the title says it all; compelling ....
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this spectacular photo of a bat that literally flew into the toad's mouth, reprinted from this Huffington Post blog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/toad-eats-bat-photo_n_3977363.html?utm_hp_ref=green (the bat escaped!). Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
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