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Saturday, Jan 30
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama Enters Lions' Den, Bells Cat
But before we do, we must mention first that this week was a sad one for New England trivia buffs. Mount Washington, the highest point in New Hampshire, lost its decades-long perch atop the wind speed record list. Since 1934, Mount Washington has been proud that it held the world record for re...
Friday, Jan 29
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Did Al Qaeda Trigger the Wall Street Panic? Bin Laden's Latest Threat Makes It Possible
Bin Laden's guise of protecting the environment through jihad on the U.S. economy could indicate what's coming next. Under our current unregulated system, all he has to do is make a threat for the house of cards to tumble. So now Osama Bin Laden is threatening to crash the U.S. economy to prevent g...
Thursday, Jan 28
Johann Hari: This Corruption in Washington is Smothering America's Future
To understand the impact this will have, you need to grasp how smaller sums of corporate money have already hijacked American democracy. Let's look at a case that is simple and immediate and every American can see in front of them: healthcare. The United States is the only major industriali...
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D.: Natural Disasters and Solar Storms: Why Space Weather Matters
In its 2008 evaluation of potential cascading impacts of space weather events the National Academy of Sciences concluded that the disruption of electric power could lead to disruptions in transportation, communication, banking, finance systems, government services, potable wat...
Saturday, Jan 23
Mitchell Bard: Citizens United Reveals the Danger of Our Right Wing Supreme Court
I could probably write multiple pieces on different ways in which Citizens United is an abomination to anyone who respects the American political and judicial systems, but I will restrict myself here to brief discussions of two of the biggest threats posed by this repugnant ruling.
Friday, Jan 22
Lawrence Lessig: Institutional Integrity: Citizens United and the Path to a Better Democracy
But fear of failure is no reason not to act, quickly and forcefully, to restore the integrity that this central institution of American democracy has lost. For whatever else the Framers were trying to do, they were not trying to establish a comedy at the core of their democracy. Nor the trage...
Friday, Jan 15
Jeremy Rifkin: The Earthquake That Triggered A Global Empathic Response: What The Haitian Crisis Tells Us About Human Nature
For example, recall when oil hit a record $147/barrel on world markets in July, 2008. Prices soared and basic necessities from food to heating oil became prohibitively expensive, imperiling the lives of hundreds of millions of human beings. Food riots broke out in more than 30 countries. Y...
Tuesday, Jan 12
Michael Kieschnick: Will the Senate Castrate the Clean Air Act Next Week?
Any senator who wishes to maintain the slightest modicum of environmental credibility should vote against Sen. Murkowski's cynical attempt to shut down the only serious law that might actually force progress on industry's global warming pollution. This should be all hands on deck for t...
Thursday, Jan 7
Wil Hylton: Why Obama Should Rethink the Closure of Yucca Mountain
Starting this month, GQ Correspondent Wil S. Hylton will be writing occasionally on the intersection of science and politics at The Wire, GQ.com's news and politics blog. He last covered the nuclear power industry in a 2008 feature entitled "Meltdown."
Friday, Jan 1
Stephen Gyllenhaal: Peace On Earth
It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime, or in many lifetimes. It's not going to happen here in the United States -- peace -- not in this coming year, not in my lifetime. I have to face the fact that no matter how many well-meaning car...
Wednesday, Dec 30
Jonathan M. Winer: Water Power
Solomon suggests that the world should ultimately recognize access to clean, safe, fresh water as a basic human right, noting that its absence tends to produce famines, genocides, wars, disease, mass migrations, and ecological disasters. In the past, social and political tools to res...
Monday, Dec 28
Mitchell Bard: The Republicans' Disdain for the American People Should Be the Story of 2009
Sen. James Inhofe traveling to Copenhagen to undermine President Obama at the Copenhagen climate change summit. (Can you imagine the charges Republicans would have thrown at a Democrat who traveled to a conference Bush was attending to undermine his position? I promise you the words "pa...
Robert Creamer: Democrats Do Not Need to Become More "Moderate" to Win in 2010 - Four Rules for Victory in November
That last point requires two things. On the one hand, we have to turn the economy around in the short term and start creating measurable increases in jobs. By next November, the economic future must look brighter for most everyday Americans or we will suffer significant political losses. By...
Sunday, Dec 27
Endangered Species: Nine Animals That May Not Survive The Next Decade (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post
blog) Endangered Species: Nine Animals That May Not Survive The Next Decade (PHOTOS) blog) Ecological imbalance leads to what we experience right now, extinction of the species, floods, and global warming. Climate change deniers had to explain all ...
Wednesday, Dec 16
Steven Solomon: Obama, Palin, Copenhagen: The End Of Drinkable Water?
It is what President Obama decides to do when all the world's eyes are upon him at Copenhagen, of course, that matters for the long-term well-being of the planet. Sarah and the climate deniers can ignore the science of global warming if they want to, but hopefully a wiser Obama knows that the...
Sunday, Dec 13
Jurriaan Kamp: Invictus and Global Warming
That's exactly what government leaders around the world now need to do as well in response to the challenge posed by global warming: withstand vested interests and build new clean energy economies. It is hard to expect the oil industry with all its related political interests to easily an...
Tuesday, Nov 17
Kevin Grandia: Robert Redford's Sundance Channel to Air Climate Denier Propaganda
The list goes on. In spite of the tsunami evidence that the Great Global Warming Swindle is both laughably wrong and criminally irresponsible, this polemic will air tonight to a nation-wide audience on a network renown for its lefty credentials.
Monday, Nov 9
John Kerry: A New Green Youth Movement
Now is the time for young people who learned to flex their political muscle last November to shift into high-gear and get Washington to take on our historic legislation to combat global climate change. But you can't stop now. We face a threat to the very existence of our planet. Rising sea leve...
Sunday, Sep 27
Michael Shermer: Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change
If global warming continues unchecked through the end of the century there will be 400,000 more heat-related deaths annually; there will also be 1.8 million fewer cold-related deaths, for a net gain of 1.4 million lives. Are you a global warming skeptic, or are you skeptical of the global wa...
Thursday, Jul 9
Dr. James Hansen: G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is no more fit to rescue our climate than a V-2 rocket was to land a man on the moon. Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, but he writes on this policy-related topic as a private citizen.
Monday, Jun 29
Dean Baker: The Global Warming Lie Detector
The Waxman-Markey bill should be viewed as a foot in the door. It is a modest first step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions that both demonstrates a commitment and provides an opportunity to show the public that emissions can be lowered without imposing an enormous economic burden...
Sunday, Jun 28
Raymond J. Learsy: Our Lob(obotomized)bied Congress' Energy Bill Excludes Our Most Efficient, Cleanest, Newly Plentiful Energy Source: Natural Gas
On Friday the House passed legislation in the form of a 1200 page bill addressing the very real and urgent concerns of global warming. Here was an effort, difficult to navigate as it was, to deal with an the issue of profound long term consequences. It was focused on transforming the way the na...
Friday, May 8
Opinion: Joseph Romm: Must-Read Study: "The Media's Decision to Play the Stenographer Helped Opponents of Climate Action Stifle Progress"
Pooley is one of the few major journalists in the country who understands that global warming is the story of the century -- and if we don't reverse our emissions path soon, it will tragically be the story of the millennium, with irreversible impacts lasting for many, many centuries (see "...
Thursday, May 7
Sen. Jeff Merkley: Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform
Not surprisingly, since the American public is strongly in favor of fixing the broken health care system, the Luntz strategy is predicated on deception. What we are seeing, yet again, is that while Dr. Luntz and his clients may have excellent polling data, they are utterly clueless about w...
Thursday, Apr 23
Johann Hari: The Last Green Taboo: Should We Try To "Engineer" Our Climate?
Nor do any of these schemes deal with the other great problem caused by our greenhouse gas emissions. They are making the oceans more acidic, killing off shell and coral formation at the bottom of the food chain. So even if we somehow blunted the global warming effect, the increased carbon in...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Richard Ayres: A Climate Plan for the New Administration
An international agreement to cut emissions of greenhouse gases will stimulate a new industrial revolution in renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency technologies that will contribute to energy independence, provide hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the United Sta...
Wednesday, Oct 29
Opinion: Joseph Romm: Palin shocker: McCain won't regulate greenhouse gas emissions
Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin. It's time to stop trying to... Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin.
Wednesday, Jun 6
Opinion: Steve Kirsch: The Leadership Test
Ultimately, this race comes down to one word: leadership. We need leadership to get out of Iraq. We need leadership to solve global warming. We need leadership to solve our domestic issues such as health care. In February 2007, the European Union ministers pledged to cut greenhouse gas emiss...
Friday, May 11
Opinion: David Roberts: Barack Obama is not serious about global warming
If that's not enough to sour your Obamamania, get a load of this: Obama, who is sponsoring separate legislation to cap carbon dioxide emissions, said his support for coal fuel depended on finding a way to remove the greenhouse gases emitted in production.
Monday, Apr 16
Opinion: Carl Pope: Skiing an Avalanche
As the conference went on, it emerged that the problem is both worse and easier to solve than most of us think, but you have to add the numbers up. Take nuclear power. Mindy Lubber of CERES, greeted me by saying, "The next big wave to hit us is going to be this push for nuclear power." My comment, by n...
Thursday, Mar 15
Opinion: Ron Dembo: Kyoto as Cliche
The Stern Review provides some figures to fortify this argument. Sir Nicholas argues that we need to be spending 1 percent of GDP to tackle climate change. In other words, many billions. A lot of money. But here's why we need to spend it: because if we don't, global warming is going to cost us 5 per...
