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Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels
Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels “It is time we wake up the world to stop abusing and destroying a gift of life – before it is too late,” Chief Arvil Looking Horse from South Dakota said to a group of environmentalists from across […]
Monsanto Losing Its Grip?
Monsanto Losing Its Grip? The earnings warning was just a precursor. Monsanto, the world’s largest seed manufacturer, is not having a good year. The company recently slashed its 2016 earnings forecast from the $5.10-$5.60 per share it had forecast in December to $4.40-$5.10, claiming that about 25-30 cents of the reduction was due to the […]
Five Years After Fukushima, 16 U.S. Cleanup Ships Are Still Contaminated With Radiation
Five Years After Fukushima, 16 U.S. Cleanup Ships Are Still Contaminated With Radiation The Fukushima disaster was over five years ago, and may have been largely forgotten by the general public and the media (perhaps because the Japanese olympics are just four years from now), but its effects still linger. Perhaps nowhere more so than […]
This Is What’s Happening to People Who Live near the Worst Gas Leak in US History
This Is What’s Happening to People Who Live near the Worst Gas Leak in US History (ANTIMEDIA) Porter Ranch, CA — On February 18, SoCalGas and the national media declared the “worst methane gas leak in U.S. history” permanently sealed, but just over a month later, hundreds of Porter Ranch residents who evacuated — and are now […]
Why did the environmental movement drop the issue of overpopulation?
Why did the environmental movement drop the issue of overpopulation? Roy Beck & Leon Kolankiewicz. The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U. S. Population Stabilization (1970-1998): A First Draft of History [This is most of the 27 page report. Beck and Kolankiewicz have written this excellent paper explaining why the environmental movement abandoned the goal […]
Factual Science and Maybe Science
Factual Science and Maybe Science I am not against genetic modification but only against the way that herbicide manufacturers are using it to justify patenting any plant in nature that interests them and then, in my opinion, trying to use the patents to gain unfair monopolies in the food and farm economy. So whenever I […]
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms Incident highlights fragility of high-cost energy extraction. Large fractures in earth seeped bitumen at one of four well sites operated by CNRL near Cold Lake, Alberta. Photo: CNRL, September 2013. Three years after an eruption of 10,000 barrels of melted bitumen contaminated the boreal forest […]
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call
February’s global temperature spike is a wake-up call Global temperatures for February showed a disturbing and unprecedented upward spike. It was 1.35℃ warmer than the average February during the usual baseline period of 1951-1980, according to NASA data. This is the largest warm anomaly of any month since records began in 1880. It far exceeds the records set […]
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate? On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the […]
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes Reduced coal use in China will have a positive impact on poor air quality. Image: V.T. Polywoda via Flickr The link between global economic growth and emissions growth has been further weakened as greenhouse gas levels show no increase for the second year in succession. LONDON, 18 March, 2016 – The world continued […]
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid! I believe Rod MacRae (shown here) is one of a handful of experts to develop a critique of today’s food system based on its bad business case and its failure to do proper scenario planning. If you don’t like reading arithmetic, you will find his writings tough going, but as soon […]
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life Subsistence hunters in the Arctic have long taken to the sea ice to hunt seals, whales, and polar bears. But now, as the ice disappears and soaring temperatures alter the life cycles and abundance of their prey, a growing number of indigenous communities are facing food shortages. An […]
Meltdown Earth: the shocking reality of climate change kicks in – but who is listening?
Meltdown Earth: the shocking reality of climate change kicks in – but who is listening? Parts of the Arctic were 16℃ warmer than normal in February. Bernhard Staehli / shutterstock And another one bites the dust. The year 2014 was the warmest everrecorded by humans. Then 2015 was warmer still. January 2016 broke the record for the largest monthly temperature anomaly. […]
Monsanto threatens to quit Indian GM-cotton market if govt cuts its royalties
Monsanto threatens to quit Indian GM-cotton market if govt cuts its royalties Farmers plough and sow cotton seeds in a field in Shahpur village, India © Amit Dave / Reuters American agrochemical giant Monsanto has threatened to pull out of India and hold back new genetically modified cotton technologies if the government continues its “arbitrary […]
