Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:53 PM PDT
Power Line (blog)
A Modest Proposal to Create More “Green Jobs”
Power Line (blog) - Aug 19, 2012
Senator Barbara Boxer made much of a 2011 study by the Brookings
Institution proclaiming that it showed there are more green jobs (in the
Clean Economy) than jobs in the fossil fuel industry. Indeed, the study
states there are 2.7 million jobs in the ...
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:52 PM PDT
Carbon farming: a solution to global land degradation and poverty?
The Conversation - Aug 19, 2012
First, one should be cautious about over-selling carbon farming as a
panacea for controlling widespread land degradation and carbon
emissions.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT
Biomass Magazine
China's jet biofuels: ready for take off?
Financial Times (blog) - 19 hours ago
China consumes about 29m tonnes of cooking oil a year, and much of it,
when the frying is over, gets thrown away. Boeing believes this “gutter
oil”, as it is locally known, could turn out to be liquid gold.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:34 PM PDT
400-mile Electric Car Batteries Are Around the Corner, Or Not
PluginCars.com - 5
hours ago
People tell me things, big things, about electric car batteries. The
hard part is knowing whether to believe the claims, which suggest that
low-cost, high-density lithium-ion batteries are just around the bend.
GM's electric Spark: It's all about the batteriesPhys.Org
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:15 PM PDT
For How Long Can Society Bear the Costs of Industry's Toxic Pollution?
OilPrice.com - 22
hours ago
If wells drilled to date for hazardous waste disposal are already
poisoning drinking water, what will be the consequences of drilling
hundreds of thousands of additional oil and natural gas wells around the
world into newly accessible shale deposits--a
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT
Life in the slow lane pushes turtles towards extinction
The Conversation - 1 hour ago
Nearly half of all turtle fauna are threatened or extinct in the wild.
Australia is not immune from these global trends: six of our freshwater
turtle species are listed as nationally threatened under the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity ...
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Sea life facing major extinction 'shock'
ScienceBlog.com (blog) - 8 hours ago
Three of the five largest extinctions of the past 500 million years were
associated with global warming and acidification of the oceans - trends
which also apply today, the scientists say in a new article in the
journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Earth's Oceans 'Facing A Man-Made Major Extinction
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:40 PM PDT
Solar grows over 100% in US in 2011, more in 2012
Clean Energy Authority - 9 hours ago
Last week among other news in solar the Interstate Renewable Energy
Council (IREC) released any report showing that solar is going up across
the U.S.
Replicable Off-Grid Solar Business Models For IndiaGreener Ideal
TTU GENERATING SOLAR ENERGY FOR COOKEVILLEPower Engineering Magazine
See
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:33 PM PDT
Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought
Earth Island Journal - Aug 20, 2012
“Methane is 21 times more heat-trapping that carbon dioxide.” If you're a
frequent reader of environmental websites, no doubt you've seen some
version of that sentence many times.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:32 PM PDT
EIA: 'Natural Gas, Renewables Dominate Electric Capacity Additions In
First ...
ThinkProgress - 4 hours ago
Most of the new generators built over the past 15 years are powered by
natural gas or wind. In 2012, the addition of natural gas and renewable
generators comes at a time when natural gas and renewable generation are
contributing increasing amounts to ...
Natural gas,
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT
Independent assessment confirms drop in Amazon deforestation for 2011-2012
Mongabay.com - 12 hours ago
Independent analysis has confirmed a drop in deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon for the year ended July 31, 2012. The
assessment, released by Brazil-based Imazon, is consistent with a sharp
decline in deforestation reported by the Brazilian ...
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT
LA's Pollution from Car Exhaust is Down 98% from the 60s
Treehugger - 8 hours ago
So tax carbon
emissions. Regulate them. Price them. Whatever. We'll get more
efficient buildings, still-cleaner cars, breakthroughs in renewable
energy sources, and new pollution-scrubbing technologies. And if we do it right, the next generation could ...
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:04 AM PDT
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/08/21/gullible-warming-a-contrived-crisis-that-is-too-good-to-waste/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/18/120618fa_fact_lizza
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT
Action on climate change speeding up: Commission
ABC Online - 13 hours ago
The Climate Commission has released its third major report, saying
international efforts to tackle climate change are accelerating rapidly.
New report says efforts to fight climate change have acceleratedRadio
Australia
As a carbon heavyweight, Australia needs to lift its gameBrisbane Times
From
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Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:19 AM PDT
Obama plan for high-speed rail, after hitting a bump, chugs forward again
Christian Science Monitor - 1 hour ago
But the Obama
plan to build high-speed rail corridors, conceived in 2009 and intended
to catch America up to the sophisticated passenger rail systems in Asia
and Europe, has lately been revived by two turns of events.
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