December 14, 2011
Deal Reached in Durban But Scientists Say it Won’t Avert Catastrophic Climate Change Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said: “This empty shell of a plan leaves the planet hurtling towards catastrophic climate change.” December 11, 2011 | link http://www.alternet.org/story/153398/deal_reached_in_durban_but_scientists_say_it_won%27t_avert_catastrophic_climate_change?page=entire Scientists and environmental groups warned that urgent action was still needed to rescue [...]
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November 10, 2011
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them The government is expected to give the go-ahead to the coal-burning Kingsnorth power plant. Here, one of the world’s foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain’s long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all reddit this Comments (622) James Hansen The [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Climate change, Earth, environment, Fossil fuel, Fossil fuel power station, Friends of the Earth Scotland, James Hansen, Kevin Rudd, Kingsnorth, Parts-per notation, Polar ice packs
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September 8, 2011
Al Gore accuses Barack Obama of bowing ‘to pressure from polluters’ Former US vice-president Al Gore accused Barack Obama of bowing to pressure from polluters. Photograph: Paul Miller/EPA Al Gore makes a blunt public attack on the Obama administration for its failure to enforce stricter pollution standards reddit this Comments (57) If Barack Obama didn’t have [...]
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August 29, 2011
Australia has unveiled one of the world’s most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia’s biggest polluting companies will pay $25 a tonne for their carbon emissions, increasing 2.5 per cent a year until moving to a market-set price in 2015. The plan will create the largest emissions trading scheme after the [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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June 29, 2011
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman http://warisacrime.org/node/58321 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about [...]
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June 28, 2011
Steel producer ArcelorMittal tops the list of firms with surplus of emissions trading permits, according to thinktank Sandbag. Photograph AP Some of Europe‘s largest industrial companies gained billions of euros from the carbon emission rules they lobbied fiercely against, new analysis reveals today. Ten steel and cement companies have amassed 240m carbon pollutionpermits from generous allocations, according [...]
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June 27, 2011
2010 Sydney Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Environmental Campaigner The distinguished Indian physicist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. The citation for Dr. Shiva’s selection reads, “For courageous leadership of movements for social justice – the empowerment of women in developing countries, advocacy [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
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June 26, 2011
An injured protester and his family at a hospital after clashing with police during protests in Juliaca [Reuters] Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over a commercial airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said [...]
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June 26, 2011
We Need to Change Course: Ocean Life Is at Risk of Unprecedented Extinction Destructive fishing practices, pollution, biodiversity loss, spreading low-oxygen “dead zones” and ocean acidification are having synergistic effects across the board. June 23, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest [...]
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
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June 24, 2011
Among all the issues being ventilated at the moment the difficulties of Peak Oil are resurfacing. All these grandiose plans of everlasting growth are so dependant on the black stuff being 1. available and 2. cheap. Sonia Shah wrote a very good book called “Crude” and much of what she said there including the timing of important events is becoming [...]
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June 22, 2011
A steward for our oceans If we are to save the seas, we must first reform 17th century ideas of marine exploitation A pair-trawled catch of cod and haddock being lowered into the hold of a Scottish ship. Photograph: Maurice Mcdonald/PA When you stand on a beach looking out across an ocean, the effect can [...]
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June 22, 2011
Are Londoners ready to die for their air quality? Poor air quality causes more than 4,000 deaths in London each year. Join our ‘die-in’ and get Boris Johnson‘s attention London roads could be responsible for up to 30% of all new cases of asthma in children. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the [...]
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June 17, 2011
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]
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June 8, 2011
Barack Obama suffers shock poll slump as Mitt Romney draws level US president in dead heat with rival as ABC-Washington Post poll shows public unhappiness with state of economy Share Comments (136) Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 June 2011 19.34 BST Article history Barack Obama, appearing at the White House with Angela Merkel, [...]
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June 6, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. Yes, author and independent journalist Naomi Klein joins us from Toronto, Canada, to talk about the latest shocks to the economy and, with the climate summit in Copenhagen just two weeks away, the coming together of a global movement for climate justice. She [...]
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June 6, 2011
Tomgram: Michael Klare, How to Wreck a Planet 101 Posted by Michael Klare at 4:04pm, June 5, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Here’s a first for this site: Adam Hochschild’s new book,To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, now a New York Times bestseller, is also hitting other bestseller lists and getting fabulous [...]
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June 2, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Extreme weather across the United States has been dominating the news for weeks, from tornadoes to floods to drought. This is just a sampling of some recent news reports. PETER MANSBRIDGE, CBC: Now more than 1,500 people are still unaccounted for following Sunday evening’s tornado in Joplin, Missouri. The storm killed at least [...]
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June 1, 2011
Carbon levels hit new peak, research shows Preliminary data from the US government shows that carbon dioxide levels peaked last week at the highest levels on record John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 May 2011 16.10 BST Article history Carbon dioxide levels have reached a new peak. Photograph: John Giles/PA Carbon dioxide levels [...]
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May 30, 2011
Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink Exclusive: Record rise, despite recession, means 2C target almost out of reach Share1394 Fiona Harvey, Environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 May 2011 22.00 BST Article history Economic recession has failed to curb rising emissions, undermining hope of keeping global warming to safe levels Photograph: Dave Reede/All [...]
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May 25, 2011
The Fight over Coal Mining is a “Fight About Democracy”: New Documentary with Robert Kennedy, Jr. Chronicles Campaign to Halt Mountaintop Removal Share16 ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.: An explosive power the size of a Hiroshima bomb once a week. MARIA GUNNOE: They just keep this process up until they literally reduce the mountain to rubble. [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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