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Tell the EPA to Regulate CO2 as a Pollutant (Comment Deadline is Friday)
I received the following email from the We Campaign today and thought that I would repost it here in the hopes that some of my fellow Kossacks would take the time to sign Repower America's petition to...
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Climaticide Update: Final Wilkins Ice-Sheet Breakup Looms
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that new Envisat Asar photos show new rifts have formed in Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf. Theice shelf, which is connected to two islands, Charcot and...
View ArticleClimaticide Update: A Message from Africa
For those of us of living in the developed world in temperate climes, global warming can still seem abstract and far off both spatially and temporally, but there are places on the planet (and if you're...
View ArticleClimaticide Update: Take Action Now, Public Tells Governments and Business
From the Climate Confidence Monitor 2008 (PDF): Three things that people want from their governments:1. Greater leadership Worldwide, 48% of people believe governments should be playing a leading role...
View ArticleObama NSA Appointee has Ties to Chevron and Denialist/Delayer U.S. Chamber of...
Climaticide is a national security issue, potentially the biggest national security problem we face. Consequently, anyone concerned about global warming also needs to be concerned about the...
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China and India Say Obama Climate Plan Not Ambitious Enough
Reuters reported today from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland that China and India have expressed concern that President-elect Obama's proposal to restore US greenhouse gas...
View ArticleRemarkable Change in Arctic Atmospheric Circulation: Have We Passed a Tipping...
Anybody who is paying the slightest bit of attention knows that Arctic summer sea ice is melting at a record pacebecause of warming of the atmosphere and the ocean. If you understand the idea of...
View ArticleU.K. Energy Secretary Calls for 60's Style "Popular Mobilization" to Fight...
U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband issued a call yesterday for a mass movement to fight Climaticide.Energy Secretary Ed Miliband called for "popular mobilisation" along the lines of Make Poverty History...
View ArticleU.K. Scientist Reiterates: Climate Targets Are Too Low
A post on Nature's blog In the Field, reports that Martin Parry, who co-chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment, has again...
View ArticleVideo of Obama's Meeting With Gore: "It's Not Only a Problem, it's an...
Here is the latest video, courtesy of Repower America, of President-elect Obama's statement to the press after he and Vice-President-elect Joe Biden met with Vice President Al Gore to discuss global...
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"Webcam" from Space/Arctic Sea Ice Soon Gone: News From Both Poles
Today we have polar news from North and South. Starting in the South:The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that in light of the precarious state of the Wilkins Ice Shelf it is taking...
View ArticleDid He Leave a Lump of Silver Coal?
"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, ‘thus far and no...
View ArticleSumming Up Poznan: "Vision Gap" or "Waiting for Obama"?.
So, what happened in Poznan last week?Was the New York Times right when it wrote?Amid a Hopeful Mood, U.N. Talks Set Countries on Path Toward a Global Climate TreatyThe United Nations climate talks...
View ArticleWest Virginia Continues its Suicide by Coal at Taxpayer Expense
Not so long ago, you could justify coal's dark side with a single word: jobs. In the 1920's when more than 700,000 workers worked in the mines, it was plausible to argue that miners were the backbone...
View ArticleDr. James Hansen: "How do we make them understand how serious this is?"
Science writer, Jeff Goodell has been reporting on events at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting in San Francisco for Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog. Yesterday he reported on the...
View ArticleCoal IS the Enemy, But There May Be a Lot Less of It Than We Think
James Hansen has been saying for a while that we will inevitably use up all our oil, and that what we really need to be worried about is our coal use, which he says must cease by 2030 if we are to...
View ArticleE.P.A. Administrator Johnson's Latest Act of Climaticide
The New York Times reported today that EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson has responded to the decision by the Environmental Appeals Board last month that EPA could but did not have to consider CO2...
View ArticleSwiss Glaciers Going the Way of their Himalayan and Andean Counterparts (with...
More news from the American Geophysical Union meeting. Two new studies show that Swiss glaciers are 1) shrinking and 2) shrinking at an increasingly rapid rate. This means that researchers are...
View ArticleBad News and Good News About Coal
Let's start with the Bad News so that we can end up with the Good News.Knoxville.biz is reporting the collapse of a retaining wall at a TVA slurry and fly ash storage pond. Dramatic video of the...
View ArticleHayduke Lives: Tim DeChristopher's Heroic Act of Creative Civil Disobedience...
I know that several diaries have been written on this topic, but as it is an ongoing story, I did not think it improper to return to it. The story certainly didn't get the attention it deserved the...
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