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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change
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19.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| 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 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 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.]
Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ... |
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Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder
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18.5.2013 |
NY Times: Editorials |
| Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder |
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Hot and getting hotter
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18.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Mark Reynolds
Published May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT
In the rarefied air of Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, 11,141 feet above sea level, scientists have charted the passing of a milestone that, if ignored, heralds a future for civilization both tragic and chaotic. I’m referring to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which Charles David Keeling began monitoring in 1958. At that time, CO2 concentration was 313 parts per million. We are now at 400 ppm and that is not good news. Why is this number so important? For hundreds of thou... ... |
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May 18 Readers' letters: Governor's fixation on four-year graduation rates and California's overcrowded prisons
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18.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Letters |
| Letters from Mercury News readers. |
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb | Nafeez Ahmed
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17.5.2013 |
Guardian: Science |
| US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else
One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years. The release of the strategy came about a week after the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House Complex hosted a briefing with international Arctic scientists .
Despite giving lip service to the values of environmental conservation, the new document focuses on how the US can manage the exploitation of the region's vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources in cooperation with other Arctic powers.
US hinges success of Arctic strategy on diminishing sea ice
At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to ... |
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5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About
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17.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| 5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About |
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Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist
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17.5.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Prof James Hansen warns public not to be fooled by 'diversionary tactic' from deniers
Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two decades."
Since 1998, when the Niño climate phenomenon caused global temperatures to soar, the rate of increase in warming has slowed, causing some sceptics to suggest climate change has stopped or that the effect of rising carbon dioxide levels on climate is not as great as previously thought.
Prof Hansen, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, rejected both arguments. "In the last decade it has warmed only a tenth of a degree compared to two-tenths of a degree in the preceeding decade, but that's just natural variability. There is no reason to be ... |
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Drumbeat: May 17, 2013
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17.5.2013 |
The Oil Drum |
| Avoiding the 'Energy Abyss'
John Hofmeister doesn’t call it ‘peak oil,’ instead he calls it the ‘energy abyss,’ the point at which the global economy ceases to grow because the oil industry can no longer meet demand.
Hofmeister is the former president of Shell Oil, the same Shell Oil that is preparing to drill the deepest hole yet drilled to reach oil and gas 200 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico in 9,500 feet (2,900m) of water, surpassing the working depth of Shell’s Perdido rig, also located out in the Gulf and producing around 100,000 barrels a day. The cost of that rig: $3 billion.
In his 2010 book, Why We Hate The Oil Companies, Straight talk from an energy insider , he wrote the following:
“It’s inevitable. The industry that produces oil can’t produce enough, unless the world doesn’t grow. It’s possible that we will have such expensive oil that we will stymie growth. How many people will suffer? How many poor will become poorer, while rich become richer because we have failed rational ... |
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Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling – video
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17.5.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Han Rosling demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions
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Tipton high on Keystone Pipeline
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17.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| Witnesses at a House hearing Thursday on the Keystone XL Pipeline emphasized the pipelinex2019s safety compared with other methods of transporting fossil fuels.U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, led the House Committee on Small Business hearing, asking Congress to support the pipelinex2019s construction before other countries step... |
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'Green News Report' - May 16, 2013
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17.5.2013 |
BradBlog |
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hysterical Fox 'News' flip-floppery on Tesla; Consensus strikes again: 97% of climate scientists say global warming is man-made, but the public thinks it's evenly split; CO2 levels pass 400ppm; You're already paying a 'disaster tax'; PLUS: Thanks to renewable energy, one town now has too much ... |
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U.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains
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17.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| U.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains |
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Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2
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17.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2 |
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Because It's There, Just Less Of It Than There Was
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16.5.2013 |
Esquire |
| Because It's There, Just Less Of It Than There Was |
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Obama must Make Fighting Climate Change National Project, or Die the death of a thousand Scandals
(Cached)
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16.5.2013 |
Informed Comment |
| President Obama, like George H. W. Bush, has a problem with the ‘vision thing.’ And that is the reason for which he is being dogged by critics and ‘scandals.’ He presides over a huge bureaucracy and things will go wrong in it, for which he will be blamed if he allows others to control the [...] |
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Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
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16.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature |
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Study Finds Warming In Central China Far Greater Than Most Climate Models Indicated
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15.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| Study Finds Warming In Central China Far Greater Than Most Climate Models Indicated |
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Drumbeat: May 15, 2013
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15.5.2013 |
The Oil Drum |
| Oil Shockwaves From U.S. Shale Boom Seen by IEA Ousting OPEC
The U.S. shale boom will send “shockwaves” through the global oil trade over the next five years, benefiting the nation’s refiners and displacing OPEC as the driver of supply growth, the IEA said.
North America will provide 40 percent of new supplies to 2018 through the development of light, tight oil and oil sands, while the contribution from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will slip to 30 percent, according to the International Energy Agency. The IEA trimmed global fuel demand estimates for the next four years, and predicted that consumption in emerging economies may overtake developed nations this year.
“The supply shock created by a surge in North American oil production will be as transformative to the market over the next five years as was the rise of Chinese demand over the last 15,” the Paris-based adviser to 28 oil-consuming nations said in its medium-term market report today.
No one—aside maybe from ... |
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Green Column: Clean Energy Learns to Compete
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15.5.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| Green Column: Clean Energy Learns to Compete |
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More global warming could be ahead than seen in millions of years
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15.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Via Climate Progress: NOAA reported Friday that the daily mean concentration of CO2 in the air around Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million this week
This period of Arctic warmth “coincides, in part with a long interval of 1.2 million years when the West Antarctic Ice sheet did not exist.” Indeed, sea levels during the mid-Pliocine were about 25 m [82 feet] higher than today!
It is worth noting that a 2009 analysis in Science found that when CO2 levels were this high 15 to 20 million years ago, it was 5° to 10°F warmer globally and seas were also 75 to 120 feet higher.
The new data and recent work solidly linking past CO2 levels to much warmer temperatures lends further credence to the views expressed by climate scientists like NASA's James Hansen. That even maintaining CO2 at current levels, let alone raising them further through ongoing carbon emissions, could lead to dangerous, irreversible changes in the climate. ... |
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