October 2011
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Awesome of the day: Hung out with Philippe... →
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Environmental Activist Shot in Brazil, Eighth... →
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“The new pipeline, the first major one to be built in New York City in decades,...”
– Gas Pipeline to Manhattan Stirs Debate in 2 States - NYTimes.com (via rubenfeld)
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Volunteers needed for Obama's GreenGov Conference
Hi all,
As you probably know, I’m helping organize Obama’s climate change conference, to be held this weekend. If you’re in the DC area, we’re in need of a few volunteers. It’s competitive, and screening is tough. You have to be polished. If you make it in, you’ll make incredible connections. Here’s the application: GreenGov Volunteers Application.
Good...
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“The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public...”
– Reuters
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Barack Obama's New Tumblr: →
barackobama:
Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
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“OK, OK! I get it, frozen levitating magnets going in circles. I THINK WE ALL GOT...”
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Rick Perry's goons busted for editing climate...
Rick Perry seems to copy Bush on everything, including editing style on climate reports. Perry’s censorship. Bush’s.
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What if population grows faster than the experts... →
Growth seems to be a theme today. We commonly read and hear that population will top out at 9 billion mid-century. Oddly, we somehow find comfort in this. But, what if this number is wrong? What if the Earth hits 12 billion people?
What if population continues to soar, as it has in recent decades, and the world becomes home to 12 billion or even 16 billion people by 2100, as a high-end U.N....
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Pollution is Not the Secret to Job Creation →
The below post summarizes an economic argument for regulation pollution. It’s a good argument, one many of us have seen before in the great halls of academia. The purpose of the post is to mainstream this argument - that regulating pollution has more (far far more) economic benefits than does deregulation.
Buutttt (it seems lately I have a lot of “buts.” Anyway…) I have to...
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Pollution related costs impede productivity and... →
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“Thank you.”
– me
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Climate change reveals disease as national... →
“U.S. intelligence officials list the spread of disease as one of their top four climate change-related security concerns, along with food and water scarcity and the impact of extreme weather on transportation and communications systems. Outbreaks of disease can destabilize foreign countries, especially developing nations, overtax the U.S. military and undermine social cohesion and the...
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Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate →
“Last summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan, a veteran intelligence analyst watched closely from his desk at CIA headquarters just outside the capital.
For the analyst, who heads the CIA’s year-old Center on Climate Change and National Security, the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history was a warning.
“It has the exact same symptoms you would see for...
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EPA Plans to Issue Rules Covering Fracking... →
“When drillers frack a gas well, they inject thousands of gallons of chemicals, some of which are highly toxic even at low concentrations. When the fluid comes back up, it carries extremely salty water that can contain heavy metals and radioactive elements” .- ProPublica
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10 of the world's most polluted cities. You'll be... →
Horrifying and eye opening. Five of the 10 are in the Middle East. The number one most polluted country? You’ll never guess. Hint: it’s not China, India, or in Africa.
Via: CNBC
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Sneaky Obama: Late Friday, Approves BP to drill in... →
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NY TIMES: The hydrofracking-loving natural gas... →
It’s more fun to watch two evils go head-to-head than having to choose the lesser between them.
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Dimock, Pennsylvania Residents Will Stop Receiving... →
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Pennsylvania environmental regulators said Wednesday they have given permission to a natural-gas driller to stop delivering replacement water to residents whose drinking water wells were tainted with methane.
Residents expressed outrage and threatened to take the matter to court.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been delivering water to homes in the northeast village of Dimock...
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Making Adaptation Count: How to monitor and...
Now reading: WRI’s new report, Making Adaptation Count, proposes a framework for monitoring and evaluating adaptation. What does this mean?
Countries around the world are bracing themselves for the impacts of climate change, and already learning to manage changing rainfall patterns, droughts, floods, and sea level rise. Adapting to these conditions will require countries to implement a range of...
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EU proposes labeling tar sands oil as "dirty" to... →
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Medical and military experts issue joint climate... →
The following statement was issued at the ‘Health and Security Perspectives of Climate Change‘ conference London, October 17, 2011 Statement: Climate change poses an immediate, growing and grave threat to the health and security of people in both developed and developing countries around the globe.
Climate change leads to more frequent and extreme weather events and to conditions that...
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Debate Club: Is 'Occupy Wall Street' the Next Tea... →
US News answers: “No.”
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