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Monday, June 24, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
April 5 News: A Millennium And A Half Of Ice Melted In 25 Years.
Posted: 05 Apr 2013 07:05 AM PDT
Peru's Qori Kalis glacier, 1978
Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture.
Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture.
Pastoral Maasai have thrived for centuries in
East Africa's Savannah. But western pressures are undermining that
semi-nomadic lifestyle, and increasingly erratic weather – droughts one
year, downpours the next – threaten to erode their culture.
Daily Climate
Greenland's Glaciers Are Hemorrhaging Ice, Best Seen By Photos from Space. Smithsonian
| Greenland's Glaciers Are Hemorrhaging Ice, Best Seen By Photos from Space Smithsonian (blog) On the morning of July 16, 2010, a hunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan cracked away from the tongue of Greenland's Petermann Glacier and drifted to sea as the largest iceberg since 1962. Just two years later, another massive section of ice ... See all stories on this topic » |  Smithsonian (blog) |
Coal's high public health cost: Canadian study. Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report. The Guardian
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Americans believe in climate change risks but won't pay to fix them – survey. The Guardian
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest. Washington Post
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said climate change was a “fundamental threat” to global economic development as he called for a major new push to reduce extreme poverty over the next 17 years.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
(detail) FACT: YOUR 'NIGGER SLAVES' TODAY: YOUR KIDS, GRANDKIDS, to whom, 3X $ OUR GLOBAL ANNUAL FOSSIL FUEL BILL. EVERY YEAR. 75%. TO YOUR KIDS, AND GRANDKIDS. YOUR NIGGER SLAVES ON WHO'S BACKS YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. UOK WITH THAT (OR FOR YOU IS IT - "HOW COOL IS THAT!!!)?
Nicholas Stern, consensus voice for world economists - HERE. (<<<< CLICK FOR WORLD-LEADING ECONOMIST STERN WHO SPEAKS FOR 95% OF ALL ECONOMISTS) <<<<<
Nicholas Stern, consensus voice for world economists - HERE. (<<<< CLICK FOR WORLD-LEADING ECONOMIST STERN WHO SPEAKS FOR 95% OF ALL ECONOMISTS) <<<<<
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Nd. No new posts now. Nothing is new same 2 things over and over: 1. the news is worse than we thought yesterday , 2. No 1 cares
Nd. No new posts now. Nothing is new same 2 things over and over: 1. the news is worse than we thought yesterday , 2. No 1 cares
Sunday, March 17, 2013
STREIGHTENING TITANIC'S DECKCHAIRS: Solar Power Soars in United States; Top 10 Solar Projects Under Construction Forbes
| Forbes | - |
To put the scale of solar power's rapid and relentless expansion in perspective, the solar power capacity added in 2012 was greater than all of the solar power capacity added for the three previous years combined. If you're not impressed yet, consider ...
Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica
| CleanTechnica | - |
The report notes that while climate change
will affect the whole world, the more equatorially located developing
world will experience the worst of it, within the near future anyways.
***** Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica
The Poor and Climate Change
| Energy Collective | - |
"Environmental inaction, especially regarding climate change, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development progress.
See realtime coverage »
| CleanTechnica | - |
The report notes that while climate change
will affect the whole world, the more equatorially located developing
world will experience the worst of it, within the near future anyways.
Did Obama Just Block Keystone? National Review
| National Review Online | - |
The Bloomberg report makes it clear that Obama's
order opens the way for further litigation and substantial delays on
Keystone, whether the federal government officially blocks construction
or not.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Phoenix may not survive climate change. Salon
| Salon | - |
Phoenix's pyramid of complexities looks shakier than most because it stands squarely in the crosshairs of climate change. The area, like much of the rest of the American Southwest, is already hot and dry; it's getting ever hotter and drier, and is ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
India. What they found ... Coal's True Cost in India: 100000+ Deaths per Year. Energy Collective
| TakePart | - |
They
note that while there have been comprehensive investigations in the
United States and parts of Europe into the health impacts of particulate
air pollution attributed to coal power plants, similar data is hard to come by in India. What they found ...
Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? New York Times
| New York Times (blog) | - |
A
graph from a study concluding that New York State can shift from fossil
fuels to Karl Burkart A graph from a study concluding that New York
State can shift from fossil fuels to wind, solar and water power by 2050. A group of scientists and energy ...
For-Profit Solar Enterprises Bring Light to Millions. AllAfrica
| AllAfrica.com | - |
Once
the sun sets across large swathes of the developing world, the lack of
electric lighting can make a tough job even tougher. A midwife
scrambling to deliver a baby must rely on the small amount of light
emitted by a kerosene lamp while taking care ...
The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11000 Years. Slate Magazine
| Slate Magazine (blog) | - |
Mind you, this is the rate of warming, how quickly the global temperature is increasing. But they also showed the actual temperature of the planet is warmer now than it has been for 70-80 percent of the past over that time period. There have been times ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Coal plants kill 120000 people a year: Greenpeace
| Electric Light & Power | - |
India's
breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis
with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20 million new asthma cases a year
due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.
The first study of the health impact ...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
US utilities seen burning more coal as prices decline. Reuters
| Reuters | - |
Energy traders however noted many coal plants
remain more expensive than gas units by about 25 to 50 cents per mmBtu
because gas plants are about 25 percent more efficient than coal plants, and it costs about $1 per mmBtu to transport coal from the ...
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Danish energy gets super-sized: meet the world's largest wind turbine Wired.co.uk
| Wired.co.uk | - |
When it comes to wind turbines, size matters. Besides air density and wind speed, the most important factor affecting energy yield is the rotor's swept area, where wind flows over the rotor blades. That's why Siemens has built the B75, a record ...
Friday, March 1, 2013
Way too little... Sierra Club Says 142 U.S. Coal-Fired Plants During Drive. Bloomberg
| Bloomberg | - |
With the agreement announced by American Electric Power Co. this week that it will shut three of its coal plants, the Sierra Club said its Beyond Coal campaign is more than halfway towards its goal of retiring 30 percent of the U.S.
The Useful Part of Amtrak Makes Money. Slate Magazine
| Slate Magazine (blog) | - |
The
Brookings Institution is out with a new report about the rapid growth
of intercity passenger rail in the United States (PDF) which since 1997
has grown much more rapidly than the population, than GDP, or than air
travel.
All that's lacking - your Heart. 8,000 times our current power requirements - amount of sun reaching earth. ExtremeTech
| ExtremeTech | - |
Solar power has the potential to solve all of humankind's energy problems. The amount of solar
energy that reaches the surface of the Earth, per year, is somewhere in
the region of 8,000 times higher than our current power requirements.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Global warming could corrode shallow reefs sooner than forecast. Phys.Org
| Phys.Org | - |
(Phys.org)—Shallow
coral reefs may be even more susceptible to increasing acidity caused
by heightened levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans than
previously recognised.
Monday, February 25, 2013
YOUR Will, all we lack: MIT startup makes transparent solar panel that will allow your smartphone to ... ExtremeTech
| ExtremeTech | - |
Transparent solar panels - think about it for a moment: Sheets of transparent glass or plastic film that also generate electricity.
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world.
People in the rich world should become
"demitarians" – eating half as much meat as usual, while stopping short
of giving it up – in order to avoid severe environmental damage,
scientists have urged, in the clearest picture yet of how farming
practices are destroying the natural world.
The Guardian
Battery Storage Technology Advances. All we lack is Your will.
Lithium air battery gives IBM hope of power without fires.
International Business Machines Corp. plans to
release a prototype next year of an alternative battery technology it
calls “lithium air” that would mark a big step forward by packing in
more storage capacity.
Bloomberg News
All-time Texas snowfall record could be set in blizzard. USA TODAY
| USA TODAY | - |
Blizzard
warnings issued in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Kansas snow.
An Emporia State University student walks around campus in the midst of
the storm on Feb. 21, 2013 in Emporia, Kan.
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