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Photo credit: Maassive via Flickr/CC BY With the GOP primary race in full swing, climate change has again taken center stage in the American political discourse — just not in a way that any serious climate scientist would have hoped. Despite the prominence of an increasingly robust body of evidence that human activity is warming the planet, Republican presidential contenders like Texas governor Rick Perry and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann are flat-out denying that such a body...
Entire Island Nation Ru...
Water-strapped Tuvalu. Photo credit: mrlns via Flickr/CC BY Climate change largely to blame It’s a particularly bad time to live in a low-lying island nation. With global warming continuing unmitigated, rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms aren’t just dangerous. They’re existential threats. Island nations like Tuvalu and Maldives have become famous in recent years for their impassioned pleas for action on climate change. And the mental image these...
Texas Censors Scientist...
Photo credit: eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr/CC BY John Anderson, a oceanographer from Texas, worked with a group of researchers on an in-depth study on Galveston Bay for 10 years. He then authored the report on the study, which he submitted to Texas’s environmental agency. But when he was shown the version that was readied for official publication, he noticed it was missing some key information — namely, anything having to do with the fact that climate change was...
World’s Highest W...
Screenshot via evk2cnr.org Scaling the world’s highest peak normally required months of training and heaps of determination — but now, thanks to a new webcam installed on Mount Everest, anyone with an internet connection can get a taste of life in the clouds without leaving home. Recently, Italian researchers studying global warming in the Himalayas installed a heavy-duty, solar-powered camera at 18 thousand feet as a way of monitoring how climate change is impacting the...
Europeans Fear Climate ...
Photo: out of ideas via Flickr/CC BY Europeans seem to understand the severity of the threat posed by climate change a bit better than we Americans do. A new poll shows that the majority of Europeans consider it the second gravest problem facing the world, right after poverty. Those crazy Euro folk evidently think global warming is even more of a threat than the current economic crisis — and remember, Europe is in the throes of what could potentially be a much more calamitous...
Hanging Mini-Greenhouse...
Photos: Jaroslav Kvíz Short on space for growing herbs? Well, this graceful pendant lamp — which doubles as a mini-greenhouse — could be one way to add more luscious greenery to one’s space and diet. Created by Czech designer Krstyna Pojerova , the ‘Glasshouse’ is a bulbous glass form that features an opening at the bottom, which allows you to harvest the greens growing along the lamp’s inverted rim…. Read the full story on TreeHugger See...
Here’s Why Coal&#...
photo: Jim Brickett / CC BY ND Skeptical Science previous examined the fact that the market price of coal power is artificially low because we do not directly pay for all of its impacts, particularly on air quality and climate change. People who feel these effects do pay them indirectly (i.e. through increased health care costs), but since their costs are not reflected in the market price of coal power, ec… Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post...Bill McKibben Links Cli...
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the Go here to see the original: Bill McKibben Links Climate, Corruption, Corps in Stirring Occupy Wall Street Speech...
Dissent Rocks Final Key...
Photo: Jungbim via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 3.0 Today saw the US State Department’s final public hearing before the Obama administration reaches a decision on whether or not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline . The 1,700 mile pipeline would, as you likely know, carry exceptionally … Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Dissent Rocks Final Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline...