Showing posts with label Economic WMD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic WMD. Show all posts

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

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 ...
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Smithsonian (blog)

Coal's high public health cost: Canadian study. Seattle Post Intelligencer


Coal's high public health cost: Canadian study
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
A new study of Canada's most coal-dependent province, released Tuesday, estimates that coal-fired power plants impose a $300 million a year (Canadian) price tag on Alberta's health care system, cause 4,000 asthma episodes and lead to nearly 100 ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report. The Guardian


Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report
The Guardian
The extreme heatwaves, flooding and bush fires striking Australia have already been intensified by climate change and are set to get even worse in future, according to a new report. Only fast and deep cuts to carbon emissions can start to reverse the ...
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Americans believe in climate change risks but won't pay to fix them – survey. The Guardian


Americans believe in climate change risks but won't pay to fix them – survey
The Guardian
Americans are fatalistic when it comes to climate change, recognising the dangers but unwilling to pay for sea walls or relocate coastal communities, new research released on Thursday found. The survey, commissioned by two departments at Stanford ...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

vid MADDOW Exxon Canada TarSands Pipeline Oil Spill in Ark

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/04/vid-maddow-exxon-pipeline-spill-in-ark.html

World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest. Washington Post

World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest

Washington Post - ‎15 hours ago‎
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.

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!!!)?

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change. CleanTechnica

UN Report: Human 'Progress' May Be Reversed By Climate Change

CleanTechnica - ‎3 hours ago‎
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 - ‎1 hour ago‎
"Environmental inaction, especially regarding climate change, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development progress.
Pope and change: Will new pontiff take up the cause of global warming? 

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Phoenix may not survive climate change. Salon

Phoenix may not survive climate change

Salon - ‎30 minutes ago‎
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 ...
Phoenix's too hot future

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11000 Years. Slate Magazine

The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11000 Years

Slate Magazine (blog) - ‎2 hours ago‎
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 5, 2013

US utilities seen burning more coal as prices decline. Reuters

US utilities seen burning more coal as prices decline

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
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 ...

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Global warming could corrode shallow reefs sooner than forecast. Phys.Org

Global warming could corrode shallow reefs sooner than forecast

Phys.Org - ‎13 minutes ago‎
(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.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves and sharks ....

Wiping out top predators messes up the climate. Wiping out top predators like lions, wolves and sharks is tragic, bad for ecosystems – and can make climate change worse. Mass extinctions of the big beasts of the jungles, grasslands and oceans could already be adding to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. New Scientist

***** Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:28 PM PST
The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched by a harder-to-see, but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combined result has been a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of its level in 1980.
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson)
Back in September, Climate Progress reported that the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 probe appeared to support the key conclusion of the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the University of Washington’s Polar Science Center: Arctic sea ice volume has been collapsing much faster than sea ice area (or extent) because the ice has been getting thinner and thinner.

Spring fire season in Minnesota 'potentially explosive.'

Spring fire season in Minnesota 'potentially explosive.' Minnesota is facing a "potentially explosive" spring fire season because of lingering dry surface conditions, according to Olin Phillips, manager of the forest protection division of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Minneapolis Star Tribune