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Malcolm Bull reviews ‘A Perfect Moral Storm’ by Stephen Gardiner · LRB 24 May 2012

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The London Review of Books - By Malcolm Bull - May. 24 (Review) - For the benefit of anyone who has spent the past decade or so on a different planet, the most frequently asked questions about climate change on this one are as follows. Is it getting warmer? Yes, surface temperatures have risen by 0.8°C from pre-industrial levels. Are humans causing it? Almost certainly.

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End Polluter Welfare Act

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Bernie Sanders - May. 11 (Opinion) - 'Our federal government will give away over $110 billion in taxpayer dollars to oil, gas, and coal industries in the next 10 years. Totally absurd.' Bernie Sanders,

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Power and Money in America (Noam Chomsky)

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Noam Chomsky, posted by Juan - May. 09 (Opinion) - The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained [...]

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The Heartland Billboard Embarrassment and the Dangers of Ideological Ignorance - Huffington Post

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:44:18 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 08 - Mongabay.comThe Heartland Billboard Embarrassment and the Dangers of Ideological IgnoranceHuffington PostThe Heartland Institute, a fiercely conservative/libertarian think tank that champions denial of climate change, briefly ran a billboard in Chicago last week featuring a photo of notorious criminal Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) next to the message ...Insurers Pull Support For Heartland Institute After Campaign Likens Climate ...Hartford CourantHeartland Institute losing major corporate sponsors after comparing climate ...Mongabay.comABIR, State Farm Pull Heartland Support After Climate Change AdPropertyCasualty360The New American -Examiner.comall 226 news articles »

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Dino Farts Warmed The Earth

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Travis Korte - May. 07 - By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/07/2012 12:02 PM EDT on LiveScience We might want to rename the Brachiosaurus with the moniker Gassiosaurus, new...

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Carl Pope: Suppose You Could Actually See Climate Change?

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Carl Pope - May. 03 - This is an image that shows the cumulative increase or decrease in the amount of water on each part of the earth's surface from 2003-2009.

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Rising tide: Norfolk, Va., struggles on the front lines of sea-level rise [VIDEO]

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:54:07 -0700

Grist - Apr. 29 - A city on the front lines of sea-level rise wonders how long it can keep the Atlantic Ocean at bay.

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Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Heidi Cullen, Dominique Browning - Apr. 22 (Interview) - Record-breaking heat. Floods. Droughts. Tornadoes. Don’t believe the skeptics—the evidence of climate change is all around us. An interview with climatologist Heidi Cullen. When I reached Heidi Cullen, chief climatologist for Climate Central, she remarked on the glorious weather we were enjoying. But underneath our pleasure at the sunshine and blossoms, we were both feeling uneasy about the warmth. So far all 11 years of the 21st century have been among the 13 warmest years on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Republicans Have Interesting Ideas About Climate Change

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Katy Hall - Apr. 22 - Sunday is Earth Day, and some Republicans who aren't convinced of climate change may not be celebrating. Mitt Romney's views on the matter have evolved...

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HuffPo science editor asks readers: Is climate science true?

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:56:00 -0700

Grist - Apr. 11 - Hey, Huffington Post: I’m not one to tell you how to do your business — your budget for the time it takes me to write this sentence is bigger than Grist’s budget for the year, so you must be doing something right — but maybe it would be a good idea to hi

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Olga Bonfiglio: Presidential Candidates And The Sociology Of 'Climate Change Denial'

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:55:55 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 05 - Presidential Candidates And The Sociology Of 'Climate Change Denial'Huffington PostPromises by both major political parties three years ago to do something about climate change have gone by the wayside. Today's Republican presidential candidates have, in fact, gone further in the opposite direction, rejecting evidence that humans are ...

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Ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed on the Coup That Ousted Him & His Climate Activism

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Mar. 29 (Interview) - Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, ousted in a coup several months ago, joins us in studio along with Jon Shenk, director of “The Island President,” a new documentary about Nasheed’s rise to power and his climate activism. The tiny Indian Ocean state of Maldives remains in a state of political turmoil seven weeks after Nasheed, the country’s first democratically elected president was ousted in what he has described as a coup at gunpoint. Nasheed had become an internationally recognized leader on climate issues as he urged the world to do more to save small island states from rising sea waters. He once held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the Maldives. He also pledged to make the Maldives the first carbon neutral country and installed solar panels on the roof of his presidential residence.

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And you thought that heat wave was bad?

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:53:25 -0700

Grist - Mar. 29 - By Michael Mechanic Scientists decided to investigate the outer limits of humans' ability to tolerate hotter temperatures. Fans won't cut it in the future.

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Paul Douglas: A Message From a Republican Meteorologist on Climate Change

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Paul Douglas - Mar. 29 - I'm going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real. But my climate epiphany wasn't overnight, and it had nothing to do with Al Gore.

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:12:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 26 - One of the primary psychic barriers to accepting the fact of climate change is the notion that human beings can reshape something as large and complex as the earth itself. On an intuitive level, it seems incredible. Presumptuous, even. Sen. James Inhofe

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The Hunger Games: The world after a climate apocalypse, teen fiction style

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:29:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 19 - The revolution will be televised. So will the post-apocalyptic fight to feed ourselves on a ruined planet. Those are two key themes of the wildly popular young adult (YA) trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games, whose movie version comes out this week.

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Inhofe: Global warming too costly to be real

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:23:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 16 - Did you see the big smackdown Thursday night between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)? The dean of disinformation mostly just repeated his well-worn falseshoods about global warming, which Maddow shot down. But there was one remarkab

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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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Antarctica’s about to lose a New York City-sized chunk

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:20:00 -0800

Grist - By Jess Zimmerman - Feb. 03 - A NASA photograph of the crack across Pine Island Glacier Normally when icebergs split off from glaciers, it’s called “calving,” but I think it would be fair to say that Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is about to have a cow. Pine Island Glacier, which

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Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Consortiumnews.com - Jan. 30 - Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

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“Winter Jam Canceled Due to Lack of Winter”

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:38:00 -0800

Grist - By Jess Zimmerman - Jan. 27 - Apparently this year isn’t among New York’s ten warmest winters on record, but it’s too warm for the scheduled activities, some of which require snow. The parks department was prepared to make the snow, rather than relying on nature to provide, but the f

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Boehner invites pipeline pals to State o’ Union

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:52:00 -0800

Grist - By Scott Rosenberg - Jan. 25 - As the camera pans around the Capitol chamber for President Obama’s State of the Union address, see if you can spot the representatives from the state of Oil: four avid supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline who will attend the speech as the guests of Ho

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Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:53:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Jan. 05 - My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve—dangerously naïve. I'm aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then c

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Mitt Romney’s climate and energy views

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Grist - By Lisa Hymas - Jan. 04 (Opinion) - Where does Mitt Romney stand on climate change and energy issues? Brace yourself: He doesn’t have that flip-flopper reputation for nothing. Then Romney used to be one of the more sane Republicans when it comes to climate change. He would play up uncertainty and use weasel words, but he still acknowledged global warming as a problem. In his 2010 book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness , Romney wrote: I believe that climate change is occurring—the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor. I am uncertain how much of the warming, however, is attributable to factors out of our control. In June of 2011, he went so far as to suggest that we should actually do something about climate change . Do what ? Well, definitely not cap-and-trade , but, you know, something: I don’t speak for the scientific community, of course, but I believe the world’s getting warmer.

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Modern-day climate change witch hunt - ABC Online

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:36:43 -0800

Australian Broadcasting - Dec. 25 - ABC OnlineModern-day climate change witch huntABC OnlineProfessor Michael Hambrey of the University of Aberystwyth said "the public must not be misled into believing that a series of cold winters are evidence that climate change is a myth". Echoing green activists, who get strangely defensive during very ...

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