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Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe
Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe NeydtStock | Shutterstock.com This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) findings so that the European Commission (under pressure from Monsanto, Glyphosate Task Force and others) can re-authorise glyphosate for another nine years. This is […]
Global Warming Accelerates
Global Warming Accelerates New climate data shows that the global warming crisis is worse – and accelerating at a faster pace – than was understood as recently as last year’s climate-change conference in Paris, writes Nicholas C. Arguimbau. The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce “an agreement hailed as ‘historic, durable […]
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants A massive wildfire raging through the northern part of Alberta has swelled in size and surged north of Fort McMurray, destroying an evacuated oil sands camp on Tuesday and it is projected to encroach on major facilities shortly. The flames consumed a 665-room oil-sands work camp north of […]
Climate change impacts on transportation 2008 U.S. Senate hearing
Climate change impacts on transportation 2008 U.S. Senate hearing Senate 110-1199. June 24, 2008. Climate change impacts on the transportation sector. U.S. Senate Hearing. Excerpts from this 135 page document follow. DANIEL K. INOUYE, U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII The transportation sector is a major indicator of the overall economic health of our Nation. Given that fact, […]
As Drought Grips South Africa, A Conflict Over Water and Coal
As Drought Grips South Africa, A Conflict Over Water and Coal Facing one of the worst droughts in memory, South Africa’s leaders have doubled down on their support of the water-intensive coal industry. But clean energy advocates say the smartest move would be to back the country’s burgeoning wind and solar power sectors. Until a ferocious […]
We are all Albertans now
We are all Albertans now It would be easy–too easy–to point to the wildfires which have devastated huge areas of northern Alberta near Fort McMurray, the hub of tar sands mining in Canada, and say that Albertans are reaping what they have sown. Yes, it’s true that climate change is coming to one of the very […]
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the […]
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice
Shock impacts hit Greenland’s ice An aerial view of icebergs floating in Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord. Image: Mark Garten/UN Photo New research indicates that melting of the Northern Hemisphere’s biggest ice sheet is being accelerated by the seismic impact of waves crashing against Greenland’s coastline. LONDON, 14 May, 2016 – Seismic waves that race through Greenland’s bedrock may […]
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year to 2 a day. Is the expansion of gas and oil exploration during that same period of time a […]
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 380, which requires rigorous testing protocols to prevent another disastrous blowout at the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon facility north of Los Angeles. And lawmakers said SB 380 will buy time to fix the larger problem […]
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down?
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down? What would America look like with absolutely no electricity? Could you survive in a world with no lights, no cell phones, no computers, no televisions, no ATMs, no cash registers and no refrigerators? Such a world is not […]
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos What’s turning northern forests into tinder? Biggest reason is climate change, but that’s not all. A police officer surveys smoldering devastation wrought by wildfire in Fort McMurray on May 5, 2016. Source: RCMP Alberta. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day […]
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed “the Beast“, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]
