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Keystone Pipeline Facts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - 'Joe Nocera's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday deserves a response and a reiteration of the facts surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...Let's put the rhetoric aside, and simply focus on the facts. Nocera wants us to believe that approving this pipeline is a matter of national security. ... The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not make the United States of America safer. Why? It would not make us safer, because the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

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

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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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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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Peter Gleick - Feb. 06 - The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem

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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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Reef Fish at Risk as Carbon Dioxide Levels Build

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - Jan. 21 (Special Report) - Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions threaten the survival of some fish species by sending their central nervous systems haywire.' Australian Associated Press

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Project to pour water into volcano to make power

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By editor@mercurynews.com (

By Jeff Barnard

Associated Press

) - Jan. 15 - Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.

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Climate change and bark beetles equal billions of dead trees - San Jose Mercury News

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:07:50 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - Jan. 07 - Climate change and bark beetles equal billions of dead treesSan Jose Mercury NewsBy reese halter Recently, one of my colleagues sent me a story that sums up the media's apathetic appetite for covering the environment. It is perplexing and disturbing. The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, despite the rhetoric ...

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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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Even the Warmists Don't Believe In Global Warming

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Louis Woodhill - Dec. 29 - It is obvious that even if "climate change" is happening, and even if it is a bad thing, it is not going to be reversed by reducing CO2 emissions.

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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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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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Can Fact Checking be Politically “Neutral,” When Facts Are Not Equally Distributed Across the Political Spectrum?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Chris Mooney - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - Recently, I sat in on an off-the-record meeting about political fact-checking. I can’t report or quote from the event, but it spurred along some general thoughts that had already arisen in the context of writing The Republican Brain, which focuses a great deal on fact-checking—and thus, helped propel this post. Fact checking is a phenomenon that has really taken off over the last half decade or so as, more and more, media outlets as well as independent and/or partisan voices are busily pronouncing on the “truth” of political statements. The reason? Well, there are many, but I would place the growing divide over reality and what is factually true, between the left and the right, as perhaps the leading one.

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Our leadership is dire, but we mustn't despise government | Jeffrey Sachs

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Jeffrey Sachs, The Guardian - Dec. 17 - Our leaderships, in thrall to big business, are failing in so many places all at the same time. But we can't give up on them The year 2011 will be remembered as the year of failed summits. Governments proved themselves time and again to be failures at addressing the growing crises engulfing the world, whether the eurozone debacle, climate change, or budget politics in the US and Europe. Next year is likely to be worse, as electoral politics will further impede decision-making in the US, France and several other countries. Why should governance be so poor in so many places at the same time? There are several factors at play. Globalisation has undermined the manufacturing base of most of the high-income economies, costing millions of jobs and leading to stagnant or falling living standards for a large part of the workforce, especially those with basic skills and modest education attainment. The US has lost around 8-9 million manufacturing jobs since the peak in that sector in 1979, just as ...

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Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Justin Gillis - Dec. 16 (Research) - .. the gases from permafrost could eventually equal 35 percent of today's annual human emissions.

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Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

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Durban: Saving the Planet or Saving Face?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Tom Zeller Jr. - Dec. 12 (News Report) - Some environmental groups saw the agreement as being far less ambitious than what is needed to curb rising temperatures and prevent the potentially devastating impacts of a substantially warmer planet. "While governments avoided disaster in Durban, they by no means responded adequately to the mounting threat of climate change,"

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U.N. Climate Talks End With Deal for New Emissions Treaty

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Dec. 11 (News Report) - More than 190 nations agreed to work toward a treaty that would require all countries to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.

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U.S. Publicly Shifts Climate Stance in Face of Widespread Criticism -- Then Quietly Backtracks

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - Talks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban have entered their last official day, with focus now on a European Union-sponsored road map calling for a new climate treaty to be negotiated by 2015. The treaty would impose binding cuts on the world's biggest emitters of the heat-trapping gases, but would not likely go into effect until 2020. After being publicly heckled by a U.S. college student on Thursday and facing widespread accusations of obstructing the Durban talks, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said the Obama administration supports the E.U. road map. The U.S. State Department later backtracked on Stern's comments by taking the unusual step of issuing a clarification to its position, saying it does not yet support a legally binding deal to cut emissions. When Amy Goodman then tried to question Stern and fellow lead U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing about the apparent retraction, they refused to answer. [includes rush transcript]

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"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage -- a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done," Appadurai said. "So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep [emissions] cuts now. Get it done." [includes rush transcript]

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Obama Admin Denounced for "Startling Level of Obstructionism and Defeatism" on U.N. Climate Deal

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (Interview) - For analysis on where the U.N. climate change talks stand, we are joined by two guests who have been closely tracking the role of the U.S. negotiating team over the past two weeks. Kate Horner is a policy analyst at Friends of the Earth, and Michael Dorsey is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College. "In those briefings, we've seen, I think, a startling lack of vision, a startling level of obstructionism, of defeatism," Dorsey says. "And I think one way we could summarize those briefings is that the U.S. State Department diplomacy is about delay... What we've seen the U.S. try to force the world to do here is to sort of throw out the baby that's called Kyoto, which is an agreement that's legally binding, and get the world to drink the dirty water, the bath water that's left behind." [includes rush transcript]

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