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Saturday, Jan 30
Bin Laden joins the Climate Debate, Deniers Rejoice
Bin Laden has attacked the US and industrialized nations for their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and calls for the wheels of the American economy to be brought to a halt to stop global warming. bin Laden Hates Global Warming, Global Warming Hates Him
Friday, Jan 29
bin Laden Hates Global Warming, Global Warming Hates Him
The man has said that he wants to destroy the America’s global economic dominance. As Casper wrote, today he took aim at the United States’ failure to curb carbon emissions. To stop global warming, he called for the “wheels of the American economy” to be brought to a halt. “This is possible … i...
Friday, Jan 15
Sens Murkowski and Inhofe Launch Attack on Clean Air Act: Time to Pick Up the Phone
Though ostensibly sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, it appears that the real behind the Senate effort to disable the Clean Air Act may be none other than climate enemy number one, Oklahoma’s James Inhofe. We can’t let the Senate’s foremost global warming denier convinc...
Thursday, Dec 17
Climate Talks Held Hostage
Greenpeace Rescue Unit on Scene! December 17, 2009 Washington, D.C., United States — Greenpeace activists and emergency vehicles descend on the Chamber of Commerce in response to a climate emergency. Follow the action on Twitter at Twitter.com/greenpeaceusa Greenpeace Rescue Unit on S...
Tuesday, Dec 15
Corruption: Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethiopia's Zenawi to Betray Africa's Future at Copenhagen Climate Talks
By calling for an upper limit of temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius, the Zenawi and Sarkozy proposal ignores the threat that this level represents to Africa: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report says that should the average temperature of t...
Tuesday, Oct 20
Alternet: Will you join the largest day of climate action ever?
Of “Step It Up’s” success, McKibben said, “We felt … smug until a few weeks later, when in the summer of 2007, the Arctic began to melt so rapidly.” Shortly afterwards, McKibben recounted, James Hansen head of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies released a climate-change broadside.
Sunday, Oct 11
China's Climate Future
There’s always a lot of debate about how much China (and other developing countries) should be putting into carbon mitigation efforts. The traditional arguments, briefly: So let’s just look at China for a second: It’s in China’s best interest to act on climate change now.
Monday, Sep 28
National Campus Call-In Day Update
INPIRG lobbies Bayh for real-life changes, Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University) Volunteers dress as Santa, push global warming solutions, Daily Targum (Rutgers University) As the Senate gears up to tackle global warming, the Student PIRGs are working with more than 150 st
Thursday, May 21
Climate Bill's "Cap" on Emissions May Let U.S. Emissions Rise for Next Twenty Years
However, a provision in the bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454 or “ACES”), allows polluting firms in the U.S. to finance emissions reductions overseas in lieu of reducing their own global warming pollution and may allow American emissions to continue to ris...
Monday, May 4
Hansen hopes lawmakers' cap-and-trade approach to climate will fail
James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a vocal advocate for action on global warming, told an audience at a conference hosted by Columbia University climate policy students that cap and trade is a scheme devised by Wall Street that will do nothing to al...
Monday, Apr 20
Fourty-Four Activists Arrested in Charlotte, N.C., for Protesting Against Cliffside Coal plant
“Stopping Cliffside is the best thing North Carolina can do to help stop global warming,” said Dr. James Hansen, one of the country’s leading climate scientists. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger public health and we...
Sunday, Apr 19
The Invisibility of Climate Change
Many of the impacts of climate change are close to invisible to the (American) public. Sure we can see the effects of coal and oil and vehicles, but because we can’t attribute specifics weather events to climate change, it’s hard to say for sure which impacts are from global warming. Howev...
Thursday, Apr 16
Focus the Nation comes to Climate Change's Ground Zero: New Orleans
The highlight of the event came when Congressman Cao was asked if he would support critical climate legislation that is sure to pass through congress soon. He spoke of the “balancing act” he would have to walk when deciding to support or oppose legislation. The panel and the audience move...
Wednesday, Apr 1
Podcast: Toronto activists award RBC "fossil fool of the year" for Tar Sands financing
Extraction of oil from the Alberta tar sands is also a major threat to climate change, resulting in three times more global warming-causing greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil. Tar sands development is turning once pristine stretches of forest into desolate, post-apocaly...
Sunday, Mar 15
Opinion: How We Win
Let’s take a step back: in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming, emissions will need to be cut massively. Exactly how massively is the subject of debate, but the real target should be zero emissions by as soon as f’ing possible. At the recent Copenhagen Climate Congress this w...
