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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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Drumbeat: May 25, 2013	25.5.2013	The Oil Drum
New Computer Attacks Traced to Iran, Officials Say SAN FRANCISCO — American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have refused to identify. The goal is not espionage, they say, but sabotage. Government officials describe the attacks as probes looking for ways to seize control of critical processing systems. West Texas Intermediate crude fell, capping its biggest weekly drop in more than a month, after rising U.S. durable goods orders bolstered concern that the Federal Reserve will scale back stimulus efforts. Gasoline fell as equities declined and on speculation that demand will drop after the U.S. Memorial Day Holiday. Futures headed for the biggest weekly decline since April 5 as the summer driving season began ...
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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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Global majority faces water shortages 'within two generations'	24.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Experts call on governments to start conserving water in face of climate change, pollution and over-use The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the space of two generations as climate change, pollution and over-use of resources take their toll, 500 scientists have warned. The world's water systems would soon reach a tipping point that "could trigger irreversible change with potentially catastrophic consequences", more than 500 water experts warned on Friday as they called on governments to start conserving the vital resource. They said it was wrong to see fresh water as an endlessly renewable resource because, in many cases, people are pumping out water from underground sources at such a rate that it will not be restored within several lifetimes. "These are self-inflicted wounds," said Charles Vörösmarty, a professor at the Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Centre . "We have discovered tipping points in the system. ...
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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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'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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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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Former NY Army Corps Commander On Post-Sandy Reality: ‘Climate Change Is Real,’ ‘We’ve Got To Stop Ignoring It’	23.5.2013	Think Progres
Former NY Army Corps Commander On Post-Sandy Reality: ‘Climate Change Is Real,’ ‘We’ve Got To Stop Ignoring It’
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No-Water-Gate: Scandalous NY Times Piece On Dust-Bowlification Never Mentions Climate Change	23.5.2013	Think Progres
No-Water-Gate: Scandalous NY Times Piece On Dust-Bowlification Never Mentions Climate Change
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Putting the Oklahoma tornado in perspective	23.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Science
It's not clear what relationship, if any, may exist between killer tornadoes and climate change.
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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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Drumbeat: May 22, 2013	22.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Oil-Fixing Probe Accelerates as EU Asks Traders for Help The investigation into possible oil-price fixing gathered pace as trading houses from Glencore Xstrata Plc, the $70 billion mining firm, to Gunvor Group Ltd. were asked to provide information to European regulators. Glencore Xstrata, Gunvor and Vitol Group, which aren’t under investigation, along with other firms with offices in Switzerland, are assisting the European Commission with the inquiry, said three people familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The commission announced last week that it’s probing whether oil companies colluded to distort prices. (Reuters) - Authorities have bypassed a court order and re-arrested an executive at Chevron Corp's Indonesian unit in a graft case that highlights growing tension with big oil companies in a country struggling to reverse a decline in oil production. The attorney general's office said on Wednesday it had re-arrested Bachtiar Abdul, an ...
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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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World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon	22.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Freshwater supply and water quality under pressure, warns UN secretary general on International Day of Biological Diversity Ban Ki-moon has warned the world is on course to run out of freshwater unless greater efforts are made to improve water security. Speaking on the UN's International Day of Biological Diversity , Ban said there was a "mutually reinforcing" relationship between biodiversity and water that should be harnessed. "We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality often fails to meet minimum standards. Under current trends, future demands for water will not be met," Ban said. Water , food , energy and climate are all linked. Most forms of energy generation require water, variable weather is making agriculture harder while extreme weather events are hindering natural water storage. Ban believes there is an opportunity to address these challenges as the Millennium Development Goals are replaced with a new set ...
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Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb	22.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Science
Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing. And when they did, the awesome energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
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'Green News Report' - May 21, 2013	22.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: A Green News Special Report: Devastation as another record tornado hits Moore, OK - The city wakes up to the day after, questions about resilience and the influence of climate change ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 ...
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Climate Scientist Trenberth Explains Climate Change Effect on Tornadoes Like Moore, OK's	22.5.2013	BradBlog
Yesterday's horrific, tragic and enormous tornado in Moore, OK has been described as "the biggest, most destructive tornado in the history of the world." In its wake, many are questioning the relationship between such monster storms and climate change. Here's a statement from Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center ...
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Climate Change Denier Inhofe Says Monster Tornado 'Hard to Explain'	22.5.2013	Crooks Liars
Click here to view this media Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (R), who maintains that global warming is a hoax created by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations, said on Tuesday that it was "hard to explain" why Monday's tornado was "so much worse." During an interview with John Berman on CNN, Inhofe remarked that the storm had transported a photo 80 miles from Shawnee to his neighborhood in Tulsa. "So many things happen that are so hard to explain," he told the CNN host. "This thing was huge. This is one of the largest ones that we've had." "What you're looking at now in Moore, Oklahoma is what you could have seen had you been there in 1999 or in some parts of of Shawnee. Devastation is devastation. And it's just that this is so much worse. Because you're talking about a two mile by 20 mile area. That's very unusual." In terms of disaster aid, Inhofe said Oklahoma had "everything that we need," but he recommended donating to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross. "It's ...
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RI Sen. Whitehouse Pleads for Republicans to Stop Denying Climate Change, Right Wing Goes Nuts	22.5.2013	Little Green Footballs
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made an impassioned plea yesterday for Republicans to stop denying the science of climate change -- so, like clockwork, the right wing blogs and media are attacking him in fake-outraged unison today. The Daily Caller's Jeff Poor (last seen at LGF when he was busily counting the number of times Rachel Maddow used the word "vagina") is the source for the latest right wing frenzy: Democratic Sen. Whitehouse Blames Republicans for Tornado . And of course, the headline is distorted; Whitehouse did not "blame Republicans for the tornado." Here are the quotes from Poor's absurdly biased article -- and I agree with every single word Sen. Whitehouse said. He's right. "So, you may have a question for me," Whitehouse said. "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 stuck in this together. We are stuck ...
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