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Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial | DeSmog UK
Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial | DeSmog UK. John Blundell is welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He soon gains insight into an empire run by obsession and apparent deception. This is part two of […]
Closing the gate after the horse left the barn: TransCanada fires Edelman | – Environmental Defence
Closing the gate after the horse left the barn: TransCanada fires Edelman | – Environmental Defence. Yesterday, TransCanada fired its PR firm – Edelman, two weeks after Edelman’s strategy document for TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline was leaked to the public. That document revealed TransCanada’s plan to play dirty to quash opposition to its risky pipeline plan. The […]
WHO reports sharp rise in Ebola deaths – Africa – Al Jazeera English
WHO reports sharp rise in Ebola deaths – Africa – Al Jazeera English. The death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak on record has reached nearly 7,000 in West Africa, according to the World Health Organisation. The toll of 6,928 dead showed a leap of just over 1,200 since the WHO released its previous report […]
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit — Global Issues
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit — Global Issues. Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of fresh water, which is expected to be aggravated over the next decades. It also causes drought, torrential rainfall, flooding and a rise in the sea […]
Unsafe Levels of Formaldehyde in Air Around Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale | DeSmogBlog
Unsafe Levels of Formaldehyde in Air Around Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale | DeSmogBlog. Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects — but citizens still have little faith U.S. regulators will step in to prevent further threats […]
Uranium Mine Sludge Discharge Permit Threatens Lake Malawi | Environment News Service
Uranium Mine Sludge Discharge Permit Threatens Lake Malawi | Environment News Service. KARONGA, Malawi, November 25, 2014 (ENS) – Paladin Africa Ltd, which mines uranium ore in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga, has come under fire from a coalition of Malawian civil society groups and chiefs over its proposal to discharge mining sludge into the […]
Bill Passed: EPA Must Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent Scientists |
Bill Passed: EPA Must Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent Scientists |. The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment. Established under Nixon in 1970, the EPA is another one of those agencies that sounds […]
Brisbane stunned by severe storm: ‘no time to evacuate, no warning’ | Australia news | theguardian.com
Brisbane stunned by severe storm: ‘no time to evacuate, no warning’ | Australia news | theguardian.com. The worst hail storm to hit Brisbane in a generation has been declared a catastrophe by insurers and prompted the Queensland government to call in the military to help clean up the damage. Residents left counting the costs had […]
Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone – NYTimes.com
Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone – NYTimes.com. KISSI TOWN, Sierra Leone — Military choppers thunder over the slums. Nearly a thousand British soldiers are on the scene, ferrying supplies and hammering together new Ebola clinics. Crates of food and medicine are flowing into the port, and planeloads of experts seem to arrive every […]
Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms – Truthdig
Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms – Truthdig. As the planet continues to warm, heat waves and other weather extremes that happen perhaps once in hundreds of years—if ever—would become the “new climate normal”, a World Bank report says. The consequences for development would be severe: failing harvests, shifting water resources, rising […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: A Corollary to Godwin’s law: the law of reductio ad exterminium
RESOURCE CRISIS: A Corollary to Godwin’s law: the law of reductio ad exterminium. In March of this year, Lawrence Torcello published a post where he argued that the spreading of false information about climate change by people who have a financial or political interest in inaction is a crime that should be punished. As you may imagine, […]
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden. Tax time is never pretty, and for me last year was uglier than usual. By the measures of economics and Revenue Canada, I didn’t have a great 2013. But by the measures of sustainability and fulfillment, I had an awesome 2013. How could that be? […]
Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question – Transition Milwaukee
Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question – Transition Milwaukee. Myth #1: Liberals Are Not In Denial “We will not apologize for our way of life” –Barack Obama The conservative denial of the very fact of climate change looms large in the minds of many liberals. How, we ask, could people ignore so […]
47 already dead in Madagascar plague outbreak — RT News
47 already dead in Madagascar plague outbreak — RT News. Over 40 people have already died in a plague outbreak on Madagascar and the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a “rapid” spread of the bacterial disease carried by rats in the capital Antananarivo. The death toll of the bubonic plague outbreak in […]
