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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:35 PM PDT
"The
experts, including those at many nonprofit organizations, have been in
Washington too long. They are careful to only nudge industry, asking
only for what is ―politically realistic rather than what is in the best
interests of the public. They will not state clearly what is needed.
That is why young people will need to stand up for their rights."
Jim Hansen, "Storms of my Grandchildren."
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:38 PM PDT
GOP Draft Platform Attacks Obama Admin For Saying Climate Change Is A ‘Severe’ National Security Threat
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT
A quantitative comparison of fee-and-dividend and cap-and-trade has been made by economist Charles Komanoff (www.komanoff.net/fossil/CTC_Carbon_Tax_Model.xls).
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:26 AM PDT
Carbon dioxide emissions reach record high
Boise State University The Arbiter Online - 5 hours ago
Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide reached an all-time high last
year, reducing the chances that the world could avoid a dangerous rise
in global average temperature by 2020, according to the International
Energy Agency.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:29 AM PDT
Politico
Carbon tax offers win-win-win
Politico - 12 hours ago
Though some of these difficult changes may be inevitable, what if we
could avoid some tax hikes and spending cuts? And did it while
stimulating the economy and cutting pollution and oil imports? A carbon
tax would do just that, according to our new study.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:24 PM PDT
Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?
Yale Environment 360-Jul 30, 2012
But as the battle over a major fast-breeder reactor in the UK .....
superior neutron economy of a fast neutron reactor makes it possible to
build a ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists
The Guardian - 3 hours ago
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet
about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have
to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years
to avoid catastrophic shortages ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:13 PM PDT
Abbott admits carbon tax not a catastrophe
Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 25, 2012
Tony Abbott has admitted the introduction of a price on carbon had not
immediately been ''catastrophic''. After spending months warning the
carbon tax would be a ''wrecking ball'' to the economy, the federal
Opposition Leader said the effects would ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:54 AM PDT
nd
'I assumed Joe Romm stood for something. But I can't find it, no
matter how I try. Oh, except for being adulated. True, none but Hansen
are any better.' Loving
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT
Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own
Hands
CleanTechnica - 1 hour ago
Small island countries around the world probably face the gravest threat
from global warming and climate change. Some of these countries are
also among the economically weakest in the world.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT
Recently, Micronesia proposed several strategies to counter climate change.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT
Why Climate Action Won’t Be Like Civil Rights
By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 25, 2012 at 12:25 pm
by Auden Schendler![]()
Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:05 PM PDT
Carbon Tax Silence, Overtaken by Events
New York Times - 3 hours ago
With distressing images of weather-related disasters saturating the news
media, climate change no longer seems such a distant and abstract worry
- except, perhaps, in Washington.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:03 PM PDT
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:26 PM PDT
nd GWDF D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:52 PM PDT
Final Test Before California's Cap-and-Trade Program Kicks Off
Energy Collective - 6 hours ago
All facilities regulated by California's cap-and-trade program are
eligible to participate in next week's simulation in preparation for the
first real auction in November, which precedes the official 2013 start
of the program.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 PM PDT
Water Trumping Carbon Spreads $17 Billion Market
Bloomberg - 20 hours ago
So-called RO facilities operate for about $1 per cubic meter, half the
price of 20 years ago, according to the International Desalination
Association, an industry group based near Boston.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Greenpeace activists storm oil rig in Russia's Pechora Sea in protest of ...
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
MOSCOW
- Greenpeace activists have stormed a floating oil rig in Russia's
Pechora Sea, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the nearest port, to
protest oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental organization said
Friday.
Greenpeace scales Russian oil rigUPI.com
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Will Hurricane Isaac Destroy Wind Turbines?
Clean Energy News (blog) - 4 hours ago
Wind turbines
are readily designed to withstand extreme winds - even up to Category 3
hurricanes. But last year, a study released in the Proceedings of the
National Academies of Science by some Carnegie Mellon researchers
estimated that half of ...
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:14 AM PDT
Aliens and Climate Change: Do non-human people frustrate progress?
Examiner.com - 21 hours ago
Fossil
fuel burning humans and Mother Nature are on a collision course. The
exponentially expanding population craves more and more energy to power
the things that apparently make life worth living: cars, planes, TVs,
computers, lawn mowers, washing ...
Aliens and Climate Change:
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:05 AM PDT
Bats threatened by climate change
BBC News - 6 hours ago
Mathieu
Lundy, Hayley Sherwin and Ian Montgomery of Queens University, Belfast,
UK reviewed the scientific literature for observed impacts that climate
change has had on bat species. They then looked to see how many of the
bat species living across ...
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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 11:19 AM PDT
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:56 AM PDT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17847196
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:26 PM PDT
Storms... p114
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:14 PM PDT
Storms... p107
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:11 PM PDT
Storms of my Grandchildren P106
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:04 PM PDT
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TargetCO2_20080407.pdf
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:40 PM PDT
Page 94 Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:35 PM PDT
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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 ...
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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.
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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:
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:48 AM PDT
Triple Pundit
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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 :
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT
Future State Of Charge: How Clean Will Electric Vehicles Get?ThinkProgress
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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?
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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 Jiménez 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 ...
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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
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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.
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Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT
My Moinfo
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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 ...
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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
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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.
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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
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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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