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Is Your State In Climate Change Denial?

Posted by wally on Tuesday, 01 April 2014 in Earth Violators

No This is not an April fools joke but we wish it was. By Tim Radford While Washington is doing more to address climate change, individual American states are scaling back their policies - apparently to public approval. LONDON, 1 April - In the last five years – five years marked by heat waves th...

The Frozen Truth about Glaciers

Posted by Calle on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 in Climate Change

Lewis Owen has been scraping out icy fragments of history's truth from one of the most glaciated regions on Earth for the past 25 years. His frequent excursions to Tibet and the Himalayas have led the University of Cincinnati professor of geology to some cold, hard facts. Owen knows climate ...

Poll Shows Americans not "really worried about climate change"

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 15 March 2014 in Climate Change

The Democrats did their best to shove climate change back into the national conversation earlier this week when 28 Senators pulled an all-nighter at the Capitol building during which they delivered hours and hours of floor speeches about the need for legislative action. But other than some night-of...

What Is "Normal" Climate Change?

Posted by bjb41 on Friday, 21 February 2014 in Climate Change

What is the scientific, measurable definition of a “normal” climate change and what is the measuring stick used to determine acceptable variability? What are the parameters of deciding “normal” and what makes the global warming crowd the soothsayers of climate, especially since they’ve been wrong in...

Mass Governor dedicated 50 Million To Fight Climate Change

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 11 February 2014 in Climate Change

Gov. Deval Patrick took the wraps off a $50 million plan Tuesday that he says will help prepare Massachusetts for the challenges posed by climate change on public health, energy, transportation and basic infrastructure.The initiatives, unveiled by the governor at the New England Aquarium, include a ...

California Water Crisis In State of Emergency

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 in Water Conservation

SACRAMENTO — In what could become one of California's biggest crises in years, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a statewide drought emergency Friday, an action that sets the stage for new state and federal efforts. The governor also wants to focus Californians on the possibility of water shortag...

The Terminator Fights Global Warming

Posted by greenmonkey on Thursday, 16 January 2014 in Climate Change

How do you fight global warming? Call in the Terminator. Action-film star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of several A-list celebrities who will serve as roving "correspondents" in "Years of Living Dangerously," a forthcoming Showtime documentary series about climate cha...

UN Reports 2013 Warmest Year on Record

Posted by voice on Saturday, 16 November 2013 in Climate Change

The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, adding that melting ice caps and glaciers have contributed to a record high in global sea levels. “Temperatures so fa...

Republicans describe Obamas energy plan as "Un-American"

Posted by Jentyl on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 in General Environment

Leading Republicans were using phrases like “anti-American” and “war on American energy” to describe President Obama’s new plan to combat climate change, escalating the rhetoric even before the President’s Georgetown University speech outlining his program. “President Obama’s anti-American energy p...

Prince Charles condemns ‘corporate lobbyists’

Posted by thatsenough on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 in Earth Violators

Prince Charles issued a scathing denouncement of corporations and of climate change skeptics for failing to take environmental actions to save the “dying patient,” planet Earth. The Prince of Wales specifically faulted “corporate lobbyists” and then said the planet should be cared for much as a doc...

Climate Warnings...Again

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 in Climate Change

Sir John Beddington, the government's retiring Chief Scientist has been doing the media rounds today, telling anyone who'll listen how "Climate Change" is still a serious problem about which we should all worry greatly. Has he looked out of the window recently? Looking out of my windo...

Is Denial the Biggest Barrier to Sustainable Change?

Posted by mak on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Climate Change

There's the old joke that denial is not a river in Egypt. However, it is the most pernicious barrier to dealing with the sustainability challenges of our age. Now that we should be surprised, because as humans, we are particularly capable of blocking out all sorts of trauma in the hope we can hold ...

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Are you Hot? 2012 was According to NOAA

Posted by acox on Thursday, 31 January 2013 in Climate Change

The globally-averaged temperature for 2012 marked the 10th warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. It also marked the 36th consecutive year with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average annual temperature was 1976. Including 2012, all 12 yea...

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Obama's Climate Change Promises

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

As President Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office for the second time, he has promised that climate change will be a priority in his second term. The chances that significant climate action will actually happen, however, remain slim, policy experts say. "I always have hope, but it is so...

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Mexico Passes Climate Change Law

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 in Climate Change

A law recently passed by the Mexican legislature will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 30 percent below business-as-usual levels by 2020, and by 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, reported Nature. By 2024, Mexico will also derive 35 percent of its electricity from renewable resources, accord...