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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT
nd 'The world starves for actionable info, leadership, and Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Gaius Publious pander.  Auth-whores.  Only Jim Hansen speaks what's needed.'  Loving
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:56 AM PDT
The Guardian levels to reach record low within days The Guardian - ‎4 hours ago‎ Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in "dramatic changes" signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region. With the melt happening at an unprecedented rate of ...
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:58 AM PDT
Coal-Plant CO2 Captured, Stored Underground In US First EarthTechling - ‎3 hours ago‎ It ain't all solar panels, wind turbines and algae oil, people. Among the clean-energy developments the Obama administration is encouraging - part of the $90 billion that Mitt Romney says the president has “invested in so-called green energy companies ...
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT
The Atlantic Better Batteries: Charged Up Over Energy Storage The Atlantic - ‎1 hour ago‎ Because of the high costs that go along with managing peak power demands, the investments needed to keep the grid reliable, and the integration of renewable energy sources, better batteries are seen as an important solution. General Electric, which has ... Momentum Building for
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:49 AM PDT
MIT Creates Superbug that Squirts out Biofuel CleanTechnica - ‎5 hours ago‎ A team of scientists at MIT has tweaked a common bacteria into producing biofuel the way a cow produces milk: without having to be squished.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Providence Business News Ethanol Stays in Gasoline Even If Mandate Ends Bloomberg - ‎7 hours ago‎ Still, the biofuel is 15 percent cheaper than gasoline with which it's mixed, known as RBOB, or reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:42 AM PDT
Scientific American (blog) US Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles Written by Mark Fischetti Scientific American (blog) - ‎20 hours ago‎ But a recent deal between a Boston-based battery maker and a major Chinese auto company shows that a strong movement is underway that could soon make China the center of the electric vehicle world.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:37 AM PDT
Scientific American (blog) US Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles Written by Mark Fischetti Scientific American (blog) - ‎20 hours ago‎ But a recent deal between a Boston-based battery maker and a major Chinese auto company shows that a strong movement is underway that could soon make China the center of the electric vehicle world.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT
BBC News Science advisor warns climate target 'out the window' BBC News - ‎8 hours ago‎ Professor Watson added the Chancellor, George Osborne, should back efforts to cut the UK's CO2 emissions. He said: "I have to look back (on the outcome of sucessive climate change summits) Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban and say that I can't be overly ...
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:56 AM PDT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17847196
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT
After a Wildfire, the Erosion Problem Begins EarthFix - ‎13 hours ago‎ Extreme heat from wildfires destroys trees and groundcover. That means plants no longer keep soil from sliding down hillsides and into streams.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:54 AM PDT
GE and Houweling's Tomatoes Unveil the First Greenhouse Combined Heat and ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - ‎20 hours ago‎ GE (NYSE: GE) and its customer Houweling's Tomatoes, a leading North American greenhouse grower, today unveiled the first combined heat and power (CHP) greenhouse project in America that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) for use in plant fertilization.
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:52 AM PDT
Carbon dioxide could be turned into fuel, say scientists The Earth Times - ‎1 hour ago‎ The microbe has a tendency to stop growing and to use its energy to make complex carbon compounds, so scientists are attempting to get it to use carbon dioxide as its source, so it can be make fuel from emissions. Research scientist Christopher Brigham ... MIT Tweaks Microbe To Make Gasoline
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT
Michael Vickerman: Debunking the myth of almost unlimited natural gas Capital Times (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎ With the development of shale gas wells, many consumers got the impression that our nation's supply of natural gas is almost unlimited. Shale gas failure offers rescue for EU green energy driveChicago Tribune See realtime coverage »
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT
Romney Supportive of Coal Industry He Said 'Kills People' Businessweek - ‎5 hours ago‎ Romney, who as Massachusetts governor vowed to close an aging coal-fired power plant because it “kills people,” has embraced the coal industry in his presidential bid, with Murray proving a key ally. He touts coal development as central to his aim of ...
Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT
First Solar to Build India Farms as Outages Propel Sun Power Bloomberg - ‎5 hours ago‎ First Solar Inc. (FSLR), the only profitable panel-maker among the 10 biggest in the world, plans to develop solar farms in India as chronic outages drive demand for electricity derived from sun power. The target is to take at least a 20 percent share ...
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:31 PM PDT
Storms page 114    ***** Jim Hansen: 'Cut coal emissions 50% by 2020, 100% by 2030, means peak ppm 400-425 by 2050.' .'
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Storms of my Grandchildren P106
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:04 PM PDT
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TargetCO2_20080407.pdf
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:40 PM PDT
Page 94 Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:52 AM PDT
Laboratory Equipment Common Metals Can Make Cheap, Sustainable Solar Panels Laboratory Equipment - ‎5 hours ago‎ New solar panels made with more common metals could be cheaper and more sustainable. Image With enough sunlight falling on home roofs to supply at least half of America's electricity, scientists described advances toward the less-expensive solar energy ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:48 AM PDT
ThinkProgress Creating A Truly Level Playing Field: Putting Renewables Subsidies In Context ThinkProgress - ‎3 hours ago‎ In a 2011 study of historical US energy subsidies published by DBL Investors, Nancy Pfund and Ben Healy analyse US federal government support for various energy industries during their formative years.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:43 AM PDT
West Nile outbreak largest ever in US CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎ (CNN) -- The recent West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States, according to new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC says US deaths from West Nile virus jump to 41USA TODAY CDC: West Nile outbreak 'one of largest' in USHouston Chronicle Your preferred source:
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:48 AM PDT
Triple Pundit See realtime coverage You Can't Fly an Airplane with an Algae Pond on It…Or Can You? Triple Pundit - ‎7 hours ago‎ United's growing confidence in biofuels calls to mind presidential candidate Mitt Romney's now-infamous statement that “you can't drive a care with a windmill on it. United Joins Airline Biofuels GroupEnvironmental Leader United States :
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT
Future State Of Charge: How Clean Will Electric Vehicles Get?ThinkProgress
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT
ThinkProgress See realtime coverage Report: electric vehicle sales to top 130 million by 2025 Written by David Worthington SmartPlanet.com (blog) - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎ Global Information Inc. yesterday announced a report that forecasts the electric vehicle market's outlook over the next ten years. Future State Of Charge: How Clean Will Electric Vehicles Get?
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Urine could be used to absorb CO2 emissions and produce NPK fertilizer Biobased Digest - ‎3 hours ago‎ In Spain, Manuel JimĂ©nez Aguilar of the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training of the Regional Government of Andalusia has authored a paper explaining on urine could be used to both fertilize and fix CO2 in the soil. To avoid the ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Triple Pundit From a Mammoth Energy Efficiency Project, New Products Grow Triple Pundit - ‎Aug 20, 2012‎ One of the most significant energy efficiency projects in recent years is underway in the State of Washington, and it could set the stage for new growth in the U.S. NORPAC, BPA partner on northwest energy-efficiency projectHome Channel News
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:17 AM PDT
Greentech Media Building Energy Efficiency at Six Times the Speed Greentech Media - ‎3 minutes ago‎ Energy efficiency may be the cheapest way for utilities to reduce power demand, and thus avoid building expensive and polluting new power plants.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT
My Moinfo See realtime coverage China to spend $372 billion on cutting energy use, pollution Reuters - ‎53 minutes ago‎ However, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and according to a recent report, China's carbon output grew by 800 million tonnes to 9.7 billion last year, or 29 percent of the world's totalCO2 emissions. Government officials said they expect ...
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:23 AM PDT
Britain's insect population decimated by wet weather as experts warn many ... Daily Mail - ‎5 hours ago‎ The Buglife conservation charity says that bees, wasps, moths and butterflies have all seen their populations drop in 2012 - and rare species may be at risk of extinction due to the elements. Bees and wasps have struggled to find enough nectar and ... UK insect numbers 'very low
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:05 AM PDT
Study finds cattle feed supplements can reduce methane emissions ABC Online - ‎14 hours ago‎ A study has shown that adding certain oil-rich by-products to feed can reduce methane emissions in cattle by 15-20 percent.
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:18 AM PDT
Vestas wind turbine firm to cut another 1400 jobs BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎ Danish wind turbine firm Vestas has announced plans to cut another 1400 jobs as it prepares for a drop in business next year as demand slows. Wind layoffs spread: About 30 jobs cut in BrightonPueblo Chieftain Danish wind turbine maker Vestas to lay off 1400 workersWashington Post See realtime coverage »
Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:53 AM PDT
Solar Panels Can Save You Both Energy and Money PlanetSave.com - ‎3 hours ago‎ Today, more and more home owners are becoming increasingly energy conscious. Stories about climate change have been over the news for the past decades, and there are many changes from large to small that you, as a home owner, would be able to ... Report: Consumers switch to solar thanks to rising energy
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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 ...
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.
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.
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
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
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 ...
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
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
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.
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,
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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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8/21 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

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Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:09 PM PDT
The Climate Change Limits of US Natural Gas Council on Foreign Relations (blog) - ‎11 hours ago‎ The Associated Press reported last week that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped to a twenty-year low on the back of abundant natural gas. In Era of Climate Change, A Divided Path for Energy and Environmental Policy ...Circle of Blue WaterNews (blog) Can natural gas solve
Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:58 PM PDT
Methane's Contribution to Global Warming is Worse than You Thought Earth Island Journal - ‎4 hours ago‎ When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to come up with a way for comparing different greenhouse gases, it decided to use a century baseline to calculate a molecule's “global warming potential.” See this graph here: Table: Global ...
Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT
Can natural gas really help tackle global warming? A primer. Washington Post (blog) - ‎22 minutes ago‎ A recent PNAS study found that if the leakage rate from natural-gas production is roughly 6 percent, then a natural gas plant would contribute more to global warming than a coal plant would over the first 25 years of its lifespan. After that, the ...
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8/20 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

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Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:57 AM PDT
Tropical Diseases: The New Plague of Poverty New York Times - ‎22 hours ago‎ An additional 20 million Americans live in extreme poverty. In the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, poverty rates are near 20 percent. In some of the poorer counties of Texas, where I live, rates often approach 30 percent. In ...
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8/18 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

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Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:12 PM PDT
Mother Nature Network New York Ranks Third In Green Jobs The Ithaca Independent - ‎21 hours ago‎ New York announced three projects with 1408 potential jobs, according to the latest quarterly Clean Energy Roundable released Thursday by Environmental Entrepreneurs. California announced 16 projects worth 20879 potential jobs, while Florida unveiled ...
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:56 PM PDT
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How important is the two degree target? Energy Collective - ‎10 hours ago‎ But the 2°C objective is just the beginning of a long chain which must ultimately stretch down to the allowable emissions of a given power plant or the need to store a tonne of CO2 in a subsurface reservoir. This chain is riddled with uncertainty which ...
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:40 PM PDT
Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy Wired News (blog) - ‎12 hours ago‎ Sometimes the hydrocarbons take the form of oil, but mostly they exist as natural gas. Over the past 30 years, the technology needed to break up those rocks and get at this gas has steadily advanced. What's Reducing Carbon Emissions? Natural Gas.Daily Beast AP IMPACT: CO2
Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:24 AM PDT
Conservative Energy Agency (IEA) Warning That 'Lock in' to Irreversible Climate Change Only 5 Years Away Far Too Optimistic; Reality Even More Dire
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