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Opponents Of Quebec’s Arnaud Open-Pit Mine Face Threats, Hack Attacks
Opponents Of Quebec’s Arnaud Open-Pit Mine Face Threats, Hack Attacks Tensions are running high in la Belle Province as people wait for the government’s decision on opening a controversial new mine in northeastern Quebec. Opponents of the Arnaud mining project, a proposed open-pit mine inside Sept-Îles’ town limits, say they have been the targets of […]
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD?
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD? This is the year the “dam of denial” will break and the momentum for climate action will become an unstoppable flood. It will be messy, confusing and endlessly debated but with historical hindsight, 2015 will be the year. The year the world turned, primarily […]
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit? Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods. The state experienced its warmest winter on record last year, and according to current reports, this year could shape up to be another record breaker, compounded […]
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering With record heat (and drought) in the west and record cold (wet and snow) in the east, the global warming game-playing continues every day but the climate-gate rhetoric has increased vociferously since we first noted three weeks ago, the data that has been so relied upon to ‘prove’ global […]
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it. But the primary way we will experience climate change is through the water cycle – through droughts, floods, depleted rivers, shrinking reservoirs, dried-out soils, melting glaciers, loss of snowpack […]
Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists
Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists Perhaps you heard the good news – the world’s largest public relations firm, Edelman, justspun off an advertising subsidiary so that it could show a commitment to not aiding the denial of climate change science. The Guardian explains how API’s contracts with Edelman were so massive–tens of millions […]
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really does have the situation in Fukushima under control…“TEPCO’s own engineers are clueless… nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean.” …click on the above link to view the video… […]
USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking
USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking The debate about the cause of the exponential rise in the frequency of earthquakes in Oklahoma has really heated up in the last year, but as KFOR4 reports, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) appears to have put any doubt firmly to rest. In a strongly-worded press release, the […]
The Degrowth Alternative
The Degrowth Alternative Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. […]
How Can Cameron Stop Fracking Causing Earthquakes? Easy. Change the Definition of Fracking.
How Can Cameron Stop Fracking Causing Earthquakes? Easy. Change the Definition of Fracking. David Cameron’s government has snuck a new definition of fracking onto the statute books – allowing hydraulic fracturing for shale gas to take place outside the new regulatory regime. Cuadrilla’s exploratory fracking, which caused two earthquakes in 2011 at Preese Hall in Lancashire, would not be classified […]
Geoengineering Is Being Pushed By Politicians and Scientists … But It May Do MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Geoengineering Is Being Pushed By Politicians and Scientists … But It May Do MORE HARM THAN GOOD Scientists Suggested Melting the Arctic Ice Cap to Stop a New Ice Age Proposals to use geoengineering to fight global warming are in the news. Indeed, humans have been intentionally modifying weather for climate control for decades. But geoengineering […]
Exploding Trains, No New Regulations, Record Industry Profits: The Oil-by-Rail Story
Exploding Trains, No New Regulations, Record Industry Profits: The Oil-by-Rail Story A month ago there was a close call for the oil-by-rail industry. As part of the Cromnibus bill that President Obama signed in December, new oil-by-rail regulations were supposed to be finalized and implemented by regulators by January 15th. Two days before that deadline, the Pipeline and […]
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus There is growing concern over future food production and increasing competition for resources in the food, energy and water nexus are reflected in a new interest for investment in land and water. “I cannot farm myself out of this water problem,” says Mark Shannon, a farmer […]
What On Earth Are We Doing Looking For Oil In The Arctic?
What On Earth Are We Doing Looking For Oil In The Arctic? Shell is back in; Statoil is pensive, but eager; and Russia is pushing ahead. Low prices have stunted exploration, but the Arctic is still a hotbed (read: marginally warm-bed) of activity. With so much to lose in the fragile and costly environment, why are we there? […]
CIA Looking Into Weather Modification As A Form of Warfare
CIA Looking Into Weather Modification As A Form of Warfare The U.S. – and Presumably Russia – Have Researched Weather Modification As Warfare For Many Decades This week, a top American climate researcher – Professor Alan Robock from Rutgers – says that the CIA is looking into weather modification as a form of warfare. The Independent reports: A […]
