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Green diary rescue: The redwoods, the High Plains Aquifer and fracking ourselves crazy	26.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 227 of these spotlighting more than 12,723 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 78 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Top Comments: The magic of old growth Redwood forests —by Steveningen : "It is no secret that California is a diverse and beautiful state. The scenery here is as varied as its people and everyone has their favorite place to visit. For some, it's Yosemite National Park, others are drawn to our beaches or the Sierra Nevada mountains. For me, it is California's old growth Redwood forests, particularly those in the ...
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Open Thread Plus 400 PPM Cartoon	25.5.2013	Think Progres
Open Thread Plus 400 PPM Cartoon
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Letters: Devising a Strategy for Climate Change	25.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Letters: Devising a Strategy for Climate Change
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Exclusive: New York Sandy ‘Climate Resilience’ Plan Won’t Address Climate Pollution	24.5.2013	Think Progres
Exclusive: New York Sandy ‘Climate Resilience’ Plan Won’t Address Climate Pollution
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Drumbeat: May 24, 2013	24.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Crude Landlocked as Canadians Join U.S. to Halt Pipelines British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super, Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.” That’s potentially big trouble in a nation where oil exports amount to $73 billion annually and the industry employs more than 550,000 workers. It’s also a bad omen for nations, notably China, that have invested billions in Canadian oil projects with expectations that they will one day be able to buy vast quantities of heavy Canadian crude. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the eighth time congressional Republicans have advanced a measure promoting the project. Democrats called yesterday’s vote in the Republican-controlled chamber a largely symbolic effort to score political points because the bill was unlikely to become law. The Senate, where Democrats have the majority, isn’t considering similar legislation, and President ...
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Tornado Chasers	24.5.2013	American Spectator
Republicans’ capacity for destruction seems to rank up there with Mother Nature’s in the eyes of some Senate liberals. And rarely has that been more evident than after Monday’s terrible events in Oklahoma. In the aftermath of the tornado that devastated the Oklahoma City region, some Democrats decided to criticize conservatives for indirectly causing the tragedy by refusing to aid efforts to reduce global warming. Though climate change has not held the spotlight in the last few years, politicians on the left have seized on the Oklahoma tragedy as an opportunity to bring more attention to the subject. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse led things off with a tirade on the Senate floor. “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said, addressing Republicans. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re ...
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Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt) (Cached)	24.5.2013	Informed Comment
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known [...]
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'Green News Report' - May 23, 2013	24.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: House GOP votes again to expedite Keystone XL pipeline; New Energy Secretary Moniz declares climate change science 'not debatable'; Oklahoma tornado the 2nd costliest in U.S. history; New rules for fracking on public lands; PLUS: California teen invents a battery that could charge your cell phone ...
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Climate change: Environmentalists question whether Gov. Jerry Brown's actions match his rhetoric	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: National News
California Gov. Jerry Brown helped showcase scientists' new call to urgent action on climate change, but critics say he's diverting money away from that goal for the next year.
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Cleared of charges after explosion, Florida teen gets full scholarship to space academy	23.5.2013	Daily Kos
Kiera, 16-year-old junior, was arrested after the incident, which happened outside about 15 minutes before the school day began. No one was hurt, nor did she cause any damage. The school's resource officer arrested her on two possible felony charges, possessing a weapon on campus and discharging a destructive device. Kiera was suspended for 10 days, sent to an alternative school, which she still attends, and told she faced expulsion. The explosion struck a chord with 18-year NASA veteran Homer Hickam, a former lead astronaut training manager for Spacelab, and later for the International Space Station. In the late 1950s, Hickam had a brush with law enforcement for allegedly starting a forest fire. State police came to his high school and led him and his friends away in handcuffs, but his high school physics professor and school principal came to the rescue, clearing him of wrongdoing. "I couldn't let this go without doing something," Hickam said. "I'm not a lawyer, but I could give her ...
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Why Champions Of Climate Legislation Must Also Be Champions Of Job Creation	23.5.2013	Think Progres
Why Champions Of Climate Legislation Must Also Be Champions Of Job Creation
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Terracide and the terrarists (Cached)	23.5.2013	Le Monde Diplomatique
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don't have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically speaking, late last night. A possibility might be “terracide” from the Latin word for earth. It has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist. The (...) - Open page
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How to Make Staggering Amounts of Money and Ruin the Planet	23.5.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don't have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically speaking, late last night. A possibility might be "terracide" from the Latin word for earth. It has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist. The truth is, whatever we call them, it's time to talk bluntly about the terrarists of our world. Yes, I know, 9/11 was horrific. Almost 3,000 dead, massive towers down, apocalyptic scenes . And yes, when it comes to terror attacks, the Boston Marathon bombings weren't pretty either. But in both cases, those who committed the acts paid for or will pay for their crimes. In the case of the terrarists—and here I'm referring in particular to the men who ...
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Keystone pipeline: House votes to bypass Obama	23.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Representatives approve bill declaring that controversial oil pipeline from Canada does not need president's permission Suzanne Goldenberg
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House passes GOP bill to speed approval of Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada	23.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Fox 'News' and Republicans Were For Prosecuting Journalists Before They Were Against It	23.5.2013	BradBlog
If you haven't already, you should read Glenn Greenwald's full take, published earlier this week, on the Obama DoJ's astonishing invasion of Fox "News" reporter James Rosen's work as a journalist by naming him as an unindicted co-conspirator in order to access his email, phone records and more in the ...
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House takes up GOP bill to speed pipeline approval	23.5.2013	AP Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans pushed a proposal Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the plan as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review....
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Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors (Cached)	22.5.2013	Informed Comment
The immense, mindless violence of a tornado hitting a small Oklahoma town, turning houses into splinters and crushing people under rubble, including children, has rightfully dominated the American airwaves for the past few days. Oklahoma is a great state, a state with profound history, a place of big plans where Native Americans play an outsized [...]
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May 22 News: Climate-Fueled Disasters Displaced More Than 31 Million People Last Year	22.5.2013	Think Progres
May 22 News: Climate-Fueled Disasters Displaced More Than 31 Million People Last Year
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I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Keystone	22.5.2013	American Prospect
AP Photo/Elise Amendola I t’s rare for environmental organizations to lead outside spending in an election. Even the largest don't have that much cash to burn. But in last month's Senate primary in Massachusetts, no other interest group spent more. 350.org Action Fund, the young political arm of the climate campaign group 350.org, picked this as its first race and dropped just over $50,000 during the primary. Hedge-funder Tom Steyer's NextGen Committee spent more than $500,000, according to the Federal Election C ommission—almost half of which went to the League of Conservation Voters (LCV).The LCV contributed a fair bit of its own money on the race, too, with its total spending ringing in around $850,000. All of this money went to support Representative Edward J. Markey or to oppose Representative Stephen Lynch, the two main candidates in the primary to choose which Democrat would vie for John Kerry’s old Senate seat. When climate change was on Congress’s radar, Markey ...
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