Tonight, Frontline will broadcast Heat, a result of some 18 months of work …
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Tag: global warming
Oct 15 2008
The Organic Silver BB?
A few days ago, Jill Richardson brought us news to pay attention to with the question “Can Organics Save Us from Global Warming?” Jill excitedly brought news of a new study from the Rodale Institute entitled Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming. After now having taken the time to read this report, it seems worth seconded Jill’s excitement … even if perhaps seeking to dampen it a little bit.
Oct 15 2008
Global Warming denialism … from a “D” Senate candidate!
In South Carolina, the “Democratic Party” candidate is Bob Conley, who must be mentioned was recently a Republican, on a county GOP committee until winning the Democratic Party primay, and Ron Paul supporter. On the Repulbican side, Lindsey Graham. In this race, Saturday’s debate could well be a telling one for anyone who cares for science and issues of Global Warming.
Conley, in Inhofe-scale like terms, very “firmly proclaimed his denial of global warming science”. In face of a question as to whether Global Warming is real (come off, is this a real question people?), Conley’s response:
CONLEY: It really is the arrogance of man to think that we are having any effect.
These are not words of someone interested in reality-based policy making.
Oct 10 2008
The ABC’s to Blocking the Future
The various fossil fuel industries have been spending hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars to influence the national discussion this year, from campaign contributions to Santa Claus giving out ‘clean coal’ at the Metro exits closest to Congressional offices to sponsoring presidential debates throughout the election cycle. This fossil foolish promotion of a carbon-heavy, civilization-unfriendly seems to be putting money in many pockets, including public communications companies and broadcast companies.
For example, CNN has been earned much from coal industry sponsoring of debates, CBS from ExxonMobil, and ABC has aired Chevron greenwashing Human Energy ads just after debates.
One has to wonder whether this funding has affected ABC’s decision to deny the We Campaign’s Repower America advertisment that criticizes the money that big oil and lobbyists are spending to insure that Americans reman “stuck with dirty and expensive media”.
Oct 09 2008
Ingrid asks THE question
As noted in McCain DisDain for being truthful, the townhall debate actually fostered some good questions. And, for the first time in the Presidential debates and far more pointedly than has occurred in any traditional TV situation, Ingrid Jackson asked a pointed question on climate change (video):
Sen. McCain, I want to know, we saw that Congress moved pretty fast in the face of an economic crisis. I want to know what you would do within the first two years to make sure that Congress moves fast as far as environmental issues, like climate change and green jobs?
Sep 28 2008
McCain Fails Own Test
Last Thursday, both Barack Obama and campaign-suspended John McCain spoke at a session of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. Some have already called John McCain’s comments “the height of hypocrisy.” Reading McCain’s speech and considering John McCain’s spinning out of control flip-flopping on energy and global warming issues over the past year, it is hard to disagree with this evaluation.
Sep 27 2008
Global warming: new figures MUCH worse than feared
“We should be worried – really worried.”
And you thought Wall Street was underwater now . . .
Want a safe place to put your money? How ’bout, higher ground, away from the coastline?
An analysis of new figures shows that even the worst-case scenario predicted last year by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has already been exceeded.
The world pumped up emissions of the chief human-produced global warming gas last year, setting a course that . . . exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007.
Sep 24 2008
Offering hope, fighting darkness, take action
This Saturday, there is a nation-wide showdown between, quite literally, forces for light and forces for darkness.
Sep 22 2008
Wall Street Meltdown and a melting globe
Global Warming, it is said, offers perhaps both the greatest
challenge humanity has ever faced and perhaps the greatest opportunity we’ve ever had. Either we will figure out how to transform society, to a prosperous and sustainable path, or we will fail to do so with dire consequences.
When it comes to Global Warming and moving forward, one of the greatest challenges has been from those fearful, dismissive, disdainful of “large” government. Yet, to deal with Global Warming will require not just individual action, not just local communities, not just ‘business’ and market activity, but serious government engagement as well — policy, financing, research support, and otherwise.
So, a question that has to be faced: Is Wall Street’s meltdown going to worsen or improve the prospects for navigating the Perfect Storm of Peak Oil and Global Warming? And, the answer is likely: both. It is both challenge and opportunity.
Sep 17 2008
Global Warming refugees on DC streets
Every day, it seems, brings fresh news and fresh images of 
Global Warming‘s mounting impact on humanity (and human activities), local ecosystems, and the global ecosystem. Just coming across my desk are images of Global Warming refugees appearing in the nation’s capital.
These refugees provide dramatic images underlinign “how global warming is making polar bears homeless by causing the sea ice they rely on to melt, threatening many polar bear populations with extinction.”
Sep 15 2008
DRILLING, DRILLING, DRILLING!
First, I support A Siegel for his many articles on energy issues — Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! and his article Whitehouse Drills Drilling has prompted this from me. (Well, to be honest, it’s been on my mind a lot as it is, anyway!)
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THE very most important issue facing us right NOW is global warming — it concerns the survival of the universe, itself!
We need more (Sen. Sheldon) Whitehouses who would state emphatically
. . . do any of you seriously contend that drilling for more oil is the number one issue facing the American people today?
As we know, WE have the technology right now to turn our energy consumption into other alternatives, windmills, solar panels, alcohol (derived from numerous non-edible sources, such as sugar beets, hemp, cattails*, etc.) for use as fuel for our motor driven vehicles. It’s clean and efficient. *Cattails also can serve as a “filter” to prevent “dead zones” in our waters.
Sep 05 2008
Republicans steal property … And, threaten the future …
The McCain campaign and Republican Party have both been aggressive in their use of music, clips from movies, etc without, it seems, even bothering to seek copyright permission despite the promise “to protect the creative industires from privacy.” They have gotten pushback, multiple times, for their unauthorized use (read “theft”) of intellectual property. In many of these cases, the involved artists are actually quite Green and environmentalist in their donation streams and stated interests.
A Daily Kos diary highlights Heart’s (Wilson sisters) reaction to the use of Barracuda as a theme song for Sarah “Pit Bull with Lipstick” Palin. This abuse of Heart’s property rights is not, however, an isolated case.