Reuters - 5 hours ago |
PARIS (Reuters) - Activists have gone on hunger strike
to denounce what they say is the international paralysis over Syria and
the inability of President Bashar al-Assad's opponents to unite.
Reuters - 5 hours ago |
Newsday - 1 hour ago |
The Times of Israel - 2 hours ago |
Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT
Weather holds the key to the world's food price volatility
Telegraph.co.uk -
1 hour ago
The index, which weighs the US dollar price of internationally traded
food commodities, shows that sharp price increases were felt across the
board in July. Rice, which fell 4pc, was the only major exception. The
price of maize and wheat rose by a ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 6 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 5 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:13 AM PDT
The era of cheap food may be overThe Guardian
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:12 AM PDT
Eaton, DOE upgrading and downsizing hybrid power system
Autoblog (blog) - 2 hours ago
Eaton is working on upgrading its hybrid electric vehicle power control
system by reducing the size of the battery 50 percent and improving the
total performance of the system and its charge rate while maintaining
battery life, fuel economy and overall
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:31 AM PDT
Antarctic ice may cover 4 billion tons of methane
Winnipeg Free Press - 20 hours ago
LOS ANGELES -- Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane
could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global
warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study
published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:51 AM PDT
Assateague: Climate change could threaten island's existence ...
Carroll County Times - 8 hours ago
A look at Assateague Island National Seashore,
located along Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is one of the places where
climate change could be disruptive if the Atlantic Ocean continues to
rise in the 21st century: $142 million: The amount of visitor ...
Report: Atlantic National
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The Express Tribune - 7 hours ago |
BBC News - 2 hours ago |
NPR - 16 minutes ago |
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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Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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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