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The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit”
The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit” Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the “historic” signing of a climate ‘deal’ with no enforcement mechanism, few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who as The Guardian […]
COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change
COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change The Paris Climate Change Conference might be the turning point in addressing climate change at the international level. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) is the annual meeting of the 195 nations that make up the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. The […]
Con 21
Con 21 Nickolay Lamm Jefferson Memorial under 25 feet of water French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius just announced, in Paris, a “legally binding agreement” that no-one has agreed the financing for. We can hear a couple thousand lawyers across the globe snicker. But it’s all the COP21 ‘oh-so-important’ climate conference managed to come up with. No surprises […]
World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language
World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language Great news! The “greatest threat to future generations of the world” has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. […]
Melting glaciers, rising sea level slow down Earth’s rotation
Melting glaciers, rising sea level slow down Earth’s rotation Ancient eclipse records used to calculate changes in speed of Earth’s spin The new study shows that the Earth’s rotation is slowing down as a result of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. (NASA) With human-caused climate change, we puny creatures are having some powerful effects […]
U.S. Not Prepared for Tar Sands Oil Spills, National Study Finds
U.S. Not Prepared for Tar Sands Oil Spills, National Study Finds Report urges new regulations, research, and technology to respond to spills of diluted bitumen. Photo courtesy Sam LaSusa Oil gathers in a sheen near the banks of the Kalamazoo River more than a week after a spill of crude oil, including tar sands oil, […]
Agreement in Paris Paves Road For The End of Fossil Fuels
Agreement in Paris Paves Road For The End of Fossil Fuels History was made today in Paris as the leaders of 195 nations agreed to an ambitious, science-based pact to move the world away from the fossil fuels that are to blame for the rapid increase in global temperatures. After two weeks of negotiations here in the airport hangars […]
COP21: Canada’s new goal for limiting global warming ‘perhaps a dream’
COP21: Canada’s new goal for limiting global warming ‘perhaps a dream’ Target ambitious but not impossible, scientists say Canada is currently committed to reducing emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, which is ‘nowhere near strong enough’ to stay below the country’s new stated target, an environmental scientist says. (CBC) This story is part […]
Climate Activists Announce Global Campaign of Civil Disobedience to “Break Free From Fossil Fuels”
Climate Activists Announce Global Campaign of Civil Disobedience to “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Climate justice and environmental campaigners announced plans today at COP21 in Paris to escalate the number of non-violent civil disobedience actions against fossil fuel projects over the next year. The groups are planning a concentrated week of global actions in May of 2016. […]
In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure
In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure “How much have you taken from Peabody Coal?” That was the question Greenpeace researcher Jesse Coleman asked prominent climate change skeptic and Princeton physicist William Happer in a Senate hearing room Tuesday afternoon, just as Happer was preparing to testify before Sen. Ted […]
Declassified U.S. Government Report Prepared a Week After Fukushima Accident: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4”
Declassified U.S. Government Report Prepared a Week After Fukushima Accident: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4” We reported in 2011 that the International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks that Fukushima had melted down … but failed and refused to tell the public. The same year, we reported in […]
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Leaks Have Spiked Sharply
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Leaks Have Spiked Sharply Just weeks after the completion (and failure) of one supposed ‘containment’ wall (and as the construction of the “ice wall” begins), TEPCO, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, has admitted that the levels of radioactivity in underground tunnels has risen sharply (4000x last year’s levels). As NHKWorld reports, TEPCO officials […]
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn Paris. The Paris agreement, according to Pablo Solón, a veteran of climate negotiations, “will be an agreement that will burn up the planet.” The result of the COP21 (Twenty-first United Nations Climate Change Conference), which began on Monday, Nov. 30 and will end on Dec. […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than the last, and each governmental COP meeting organized […]
