http://firstparish.info/HelpingOut/Green_Sanctuary.html News related to global warming collected by David Landskov for Sustainable Arlington and for the Climate Change Group at First Parish UU Church of Arlington MA http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/10/deutsche-bank-climate-change-threat/ Global financial giant Deutsche Bank has crushed the climate skeptics in a new paper released today, finding that “human-made climate change is already happening and is a serious long term threat.” Deutsche Bank is shifting its $700 billion in assets to address the dangers of global warming. “Coal is basically out of the game,” says Mark C. Lewis, Deutsche Bank’s managing director of its Global Carbon Markets desk. Deutsche Bank is financing wind farms in Minnesota, but the United States is largely being left behind. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/10/deutsche-bank-climate-change-threat/ 10 Sep 2010 08:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/10/3017897/climate-change-laws-suspension.html Suspending California's landmark climate change law would result in the loss of millions of dollars in state revenue and hurt the state's growing clean-tech industry, a new report says. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/10/3017897/climate-change-laws-suspension.html 10 Sep 2010 07:30 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/business/energy-environment/10emit.html The United States has stepped up pressure to prevent Europe from charging foreign airlines for greenhouse gas emissions when they take off and land there. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/business/energy-environment/10emit.html 10 Sep 2010 07:20 EDT NYT > Business http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/u-s-improperly-banned-drilling-off-alaska-coast-state-alleges-in-lawsuit.html U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar was sued by the state of Alaska over claims he improperly banned drilling off the state’s coast after BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/u-s-improperly-banned-drilling-off-alaska-coast-state-alleges-in-lawsuit.html 10 Sep 2010 07:20 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://sundaygazettemail.com/Opinion/Editorials/201009090723 For some time, Sen. Jay Rockefeller has appeared to be in step with people who deny that climate change is a threat to anyone. But on Wednesday, Rockefeller took the stage alongside U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and warned that West Virginia must take climate change seriously. http://sundaygazettemail.com/Opinion/Editorials/201009090723 10 Sep 2010 07:10 EDT Daily Climate http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/7136218.html The impacts of climate change are most visible in the dramatic changes occurring to the planet' s fresh water resources, said a report released Thursday by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) at the ongoing World Water Week in Stockholm on Sept. 5-11. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/7136218.html 10 Sep 2010 07:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=83 09 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/kevin-knobloch-congress-energy-0440.html Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, argued in a blog post on the National Journal website that Congress has several opportunities this session to address climate change, national security and economic development. http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/kevin-knobloch-congress-energy-0440.html 09 Sep 2010 18:30 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175292/tomgram:_juan_cole,_the_media_as_a_security_threat_to_america__/ In these last weeks, the Afghan War has once again been front-page news. Yet only a single reporter -- the heroic Carlotta Gall of the New York Times -- has thought to focus on the subject of how the Biblical-style floods in Pakistan might affect the U.S. war effort and the overstretched supply lines that play a major role in supporting U.S. troops there. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175292/tomgram:_juan_cole,_the_media_as_a_security_threat_to_america__/ 09 Sep 2010 18:20 EDT TomDispatch - Blog http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/09/09greenwire-12-states-ask-supreme-court-to-review-greenhou-79298.html Challenging the appropriateness of using the courts to address climate change, Indiana and 11 other states are urging the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that would allow greenhouse gas emitters to be sued for their contribution to global warming. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/09/09greenwire-12-states-ask-supreme-court-to-review-greenhou-79298.html 09 Sep 2010 18:10 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/09/science-scorned-journal-nature-anti-science/ US citizens face economic problems that are all too real, and the country’s future crucially depends on education, science and technology as it faces increasing competition from China and other emerging science powers…. Yet the public often buys into anti-science, anti-regulation agendas that are orchestrated by business interests and their sponsored think tanks and front groups. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/09/science-scorned-journal-nature-anti-science/ 09 Sep 2010 18:10 EDT Climate Progress http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/china-clean-energy-aid-to-draw-u-s-trade-complaint-update2-.html The United Steelworkers union said it will file a trade complaint with the U.S. government against renewable-energy products from China, urging investigation of subsidies and preferences given by that nation. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/china-clean-energy-aid-to-draw-u-s-trade-complaint-update2-.html 09 Sep 2010 12:10 EDT Climate Progress http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/117599-voinovich-urges-obama-to-use-a-gas-tax-in-paying-for-new-infrastructure-proposal Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) argues that the Obama administration's $50 billion infrastructure proposal should be paid for by increasing the gas tax, which has been the same since 1993. http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/117599-voinovich-urges-obama-to-use-a-gas-tax-in-paying-for-new-infrastructure-proposal 09 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT The Hill > Blog http://e360.yale.edu/digest/are_we_nearing_peak_coal/2587/ A controversial new study suggests that the world is nearing the peak of readily exploitable reserves of high-quality coal, contradicting prevailing estimates that the globe has enough coal to help meet energy needs for at least a century. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/are_we_nearing_peak_coal/2587/ 09 Sep 2010 11:10 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908162944.htm A coastal studies expert disagrees with published estimates that more than 75 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident has disappeared. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908162944.htm 09 Sep 2010 11:05 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.environmentamerica.org/home/reports/report-archives/global-warming-solutions/global-warming-solutions/global-warming-and-extreme-weather-the-science-the-forecast-and-the-impacts-on-america A new report from Environment America details why more Snopocalypses may be on the horizon thanks to global warming. http://www.environmentamerica.org/home/reports/report-archives/global-warming-solutions/global-warming-solutions/global-warming-and-extreme-weather-the-science-the-forecast-and-the-impacts-on-america 09 Sep 2010 11:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=82 08 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/report-illustrates-regula_n_709681.html In a dramatic illustration of regulatory capture, a new report from an Interior Department review board has found that poorly trained, ill-equipped and overextended federal inspectors who were supposed to be policing the nation's offshore oil and gas drilling facilities were routinely bullied by industry representatives and were often undercut by their managers when they reported safety violations. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/report-illustrates-regula_n_709681.html 08 Sep 2010 17:10 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2269397/report-china-flirts-better China has surged ahead of the United States in the race to become the most attractive place for renewable energy investment, according to a report today from Ernst & Young. http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2269397/report-china-flirts-better 08 Sep 2010 17:00 EDT Daily Climate http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/08/digg-censorship-social-media/ A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/08/digg-censorship-social-media/ 08 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/09/07/one-stop-for-climate-change-info.html The “Climate-1 Stop” aims to be just what its name implies: a single place where people easily can find all the reliable information, resources and tools about climate change that they need. http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/09/07/one-stop-for-climate-change-info.html 08 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/6891 Would it really be a good idea to spend public money financing research on renewables? Would it produce breakthroughs, jobs and new products, or would it just create more "welfare queens in white coats?" http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/6891 08 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/department-of-energy-awar_n_708812.html The Energy Department said Tuesday it was awarding $575 million for carbon capture research-and-development projects in 15 states. The experimental technique involves storing carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants and other sources underground, in an attempt to reduce pollution blamed for contributing to global warming. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/department-of-energy-awar_n_708812.html 08 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/bp-deepwater-horizon-accident-report-disperses-blame.php BP has just released it's report on the events leading up to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent record-breaking oil spill. As was expected, BP attempts to spread blame across all the companies involved and says "a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgements, engineering design, operation implementation and team. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/bp-report-spreads-blame-a_n_708770.html 08 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2010/09/08/113069.htm Natural disasters are tending to kill fewer people but climate change may add to the toll by unleashing more extreme weather and causing after-effects such as disease and malnutrition http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2010/09/08/113069.htm 08 Sep 2010 11:55 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/07/07greenwire-once-lowly-charcoal-emerges-as-major-tool-for-c-4963.html Scientists are probing the limits of how high-grade charcoal, dubbed biochar, can be formed from plant and animal waste to squirrel away the atmosphere’s carbon for centuries, or even millennia. Inspired by ancient Amazonian soils, researchers have found that buried charcoal resists bacteria’s attempts to break it down. And thanks to its porous geometry, it has a knack for improving land in ways still being revealed. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/07/07greenwire-once-lowly-charcoal-emerges-as-major-tool-for-c-4963.html 08 Sep 2010 11:45 EDT NYT > Environment http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/a-regenerative-feat-for-solar-cells/ A discovery could help extend the life of experimental high-efficiency solar cells, which often suffer from short lifespans when tested outside the laboratory, researchers say. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/a-regenerative-feat-for-solar-cells/ 08 Sep 2010 11:30 EDT NYT > Environment http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/to-go-where-compact-fluorescents-cannot/ A profusion of light-emitting-diode lamps is about to hit the market, many of them in applications that are awkward or impossible for compact fluorescents. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/to-go-where-compact-fluorescents-cannot/ 08 Sep 2010 11:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=81 07 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/arctic-sea-ice-area-extent-volume-record-low-2/ Disinformers puzzled by reality, try to game prediction contest http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/arctic-sea-ice-area-extent-volume-record-low-2/ 07 Sep 2010 18:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/right-wing-freaks-out-over-tea-party-tracking-effort/ Tea party extremists backed by Big Oil and corporate polluters want to stop and then reverse all efforts to advance clean energy or avoid catastrophic global warming. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/right-wing-freaks-out-over-tea-party-tracking-effort/ 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/philippe-cousteau-time-is-running-out-for-ourselves-and-future-generations/ Philippe Cousteau is becoming a true champion of the ocean and the climate. He is following in the footsteps of his famous father and even more famous grandfather with his work at Earth Echo. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/philippe-cousteau-time-is-running-out-for-ourselves-and-future-generations/ 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/pbs-ombudsman-michael-getler-whitewashes-the-koch-funded-greenwashing-episode-of-nova-that-whitewashes-the-threat-of-human-caused-climate-change/ They don’t make ombudsmen like they used to. Once upon a time, when numerous viewers launched a credible complaint against even the appearance of loss of objectivity and conflict of interest, the ombudsman would seriously investigate the matter, talking to parties on both sides, and then rendering some considered independent judgment. But not PBS ombudsman Michael Getler. He seems to have no trouble whatsoever with David Koch, a leading funder of the anti-scientific climate disinformation campaign (and the anti-science Tea Party), funding an episode of the great science show Nova, which: 1) is an effort to greenwash Koch’s activities, and 2) just happens to whitewash the threat human-caused global warming http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/pbs-ombudsman-michael-getler-whitewashes-the-koch-funded-greenwashing-episode-of-nova-that-whitewashes-the-threat-of-human-caused-climate-change/ 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/what-a-waste-of-an-oil-disaster.php With media coverage of the country's worst oil spill fading away, recent decisions on how to handle tens of thousands of tons of boom and oily waste are going to affect people along the Gulf for years to come. That's because BP is relying on public complacency to get away with dumping its clean-up waste in local landfills, where hazardous oily residues and chemicals, like benzene, will either slowly slither their way into nearby water streams or evaporate and affect air quality. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/what-a-waste-of-an-oil-disaster.php 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT TreeHugger http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/07/07climatewire-chinese-offshore-development-blows-past-us-47150.html Two new illustrations about how the US has stiff competition around the world in renewable energy: New York Times reports on how China has beaten the United States in building the first major offshore wind farm outside of Europe http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/09/07/1/ 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT TreeHugger http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/investigation-bps-other-big-gulf-operation-still-not-done Even before the Deepwater Horizon exploded and dumped 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf, environmental advocates and 19 members of Congress were calling on the Department of Interior to investigate BP's other major Gulf operation, the Atlantis, an oil platform 124 miles off the Louisiana coast. In 2008, a whistle-blowing contractor claimed the platform posed a significant safety threat and should be shut down and inspected. But despite that red flag and the greater level of attention to potential disasters in the Gulf, the Atlantis is still up and running. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/investigation-bps-other-big-gulf-operation-still-not-done 07 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=80 06 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/world/europe/07nuclear.html Germany will extend the life spans of 17 plants while alternative energy sources are developed, which is likely to make money for power companies and the government. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/world/europe/07nuclear.html 06 Sep 2010 18:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/7/worldupdates/2010-09-07T015519Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-513176-1 Four associations on climate change initiatives, which represent over 100 insurers, have urged world leaders and governments to use insurance-linked products to protect developing countries against the impact of climate change. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/7/worldupdates/2010-09-07T015519Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-513176-1 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/06/national-clean-energy-summit-livestream-tuesday/ The third annual National Clean Energy Summit is being webcast tomorrow. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/06/national-clean-energy-summit-livestream-tuesday/ 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/06/labor-day-endless-summer-global-warming/ In the not-too-distant future, people are going to be amazed that anybody ever thought Labor Day signified the unofficial end of summer. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/06/labor-day-endless-summer-global-warming/ 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a68bfc80-b915-11df-99be-00144feabdc0.html There is little point trying to salvage the old Kyoto strategy. A floor price for carbon, combined with a new border tax, should be the new priority. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a68bfc80-b915-11df-99be-00144feabdc0.html 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100903210420.htm In 1998, Charlie Kerfoot discovered a "doughnut" of phytoplankton circulating in Lake Michigan, helping to feed the lake's famous fishery. Just 12 later, the doughnut is disappearing, and Kerfoot fears that the lake's ecosystem will crash, taking with it much of the fish biomass. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100903210420.htm 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231239.htm Against a backdrop of extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, a new report warns that increasingly erratic rainfall related to climate change will pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, especially in Africa and Asia, requiring increased investment in diverse forms of water storage as an effective remedy.In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor, new report says http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231239.htm 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231237.htm Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation that pollination is also likely on the decline. A recent study provides the first long-term evidence of a downward trend in pollination, while also pointing to climate change as a possible contributor. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231237.htm 06 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=79 05 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/walter-russell-mead-big-green-lie/ Walter Russell Mead has fabricated an anti-scientific revisionist history of the environmental movement, which is why the pundit king of the ultraconservative anti-science climate disinformers, George Will, loves it. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/walter-russell-mead-big-green-lie/ 05 Sep 2010 17:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/global-warming-science-is-still-evolving-but-not-in-the-direction-the-disinformers-think/ The WSJ pushed a new meme in its editorial, “Climate of Uncertainty: Global warming science is still evolving; will future IPCC reports reflect that?“ Ironically, if the WSJ actually followed the scientific literature, rather than the disinformation campaign’s twisted version of it, they would know that global warming science is indeed evolving away from the 2007 IPCC report — but not in the direction they think. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/global-warming-science-is-still-evolving-but-not-in-the-direction-the-disinformers-think/ 05 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/must-see-bill-mckibben-on-david-letterman/ The founder of 350.org and the author most recently of the must-read book Eaarth — has a great interview with David Letterman. Dave is more knowledgeable on climate and energy issues than the vast majority of ‘real’ journalists. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/05/must-see-bill-mckibben-on-david-letterman/ 05 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/05/deepwater-horizons-blowou_n_705991.html A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/05/deepwater-horizons-blowou_n_705991.html 05 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/after-the-climate-bill-midterms The hot question in green circles these days is, "what next?" For the last decade, strategy has been built around getting a federal climate bill that would place a cap on carbon emissions. That attempt was supposed to culminate in success this year, but it didn't, so... what next? http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/after-the-climate-bill-midterms 05 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/09/05/environmentalists_face_tough_task_in_climate_debate/ Some of the country’s most respected environmental groups — in the midst of their biggest political fight in two decades — recently sent a group of activists to Milwaukee with a message: We’re losing. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/09/05/environmentalists_face_tough_task_in_climate_debate/ 05 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Saturday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=78 04 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/09/04/UN-predicts-bigger-swings-in-food-supply/UPI-91911283579925/ A U.N. agency says the 2010 global wheat harvest is one of the largest ever but experts say a less stable climate will mean bigger food supply fluctuations. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/09/04/UN-predicts-bigger-swings-in-food-supply/UPI-91911283579925/ 04 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68137420100903 Almost 50 nations made progress on Friday toward a "Green Fund" to help poor countries fight global warming but hosts Mexico and Switzerland said a full U.N. climate treaty was out of reach for 2010. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68137420100903 04 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/04/koch-industries-valero-tesoro-proposition-23/ Koch Industries joins Valero and Tesoro to stop climate action http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/04/koch-industries-valero-tesoro-proposition-23/ 04 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/global-warming-hurricanes-stronger-unclear-0439.html Global warming is making the ocean warmer, which in turn makes it more likely for hurricanes, when they do form, to become stronger and more destructive, but the link between global warming and the number of hurricanes that form each year remains unclear. http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/global-warming-hurricanes-stronger-unclear-0439.html 04 Sep 2010 11:00 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0901-burger_king_sinar_mas.html "Burger King announced it would no longer source palm oil from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, after an independent audit showed one of the company's subsidiaries had destroyed rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands." http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0901-burger_king_sinar_mas.html 04 Sep 2010 11:00 EDT Earth Equity News http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Friday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=77 03 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/09/03/storm_surge_a_growing_menace_as_sea_levels_rise_worldwide/ The large waves, storm surge, and flooding that Hurricane Earl will spawn as it strikes Massachusetts tonight comes with an added dollop of trouble: sea level rise. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/09/03/storm_surge_a_growing_menace_as_sea_levels_rise_worldwide/ 03 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-02/mariner-platform-blast-may-extend-obama-deep-water-drilling-ban.html The blaze aboard a Mariner Energy Inc. oil platform yesterday shows President Barack Obama should maintain the drilling ban imposed after the BP Plc blowout in April, lawmakers and environmentalists said. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-02/mariner-platform-blast-may-extend-obama-deep-water-drilling-ban.html 03 Sep 2010 13:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.grist.org/article/new-study-weighs-in-on-organicconventional-debate/ "Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems," a study led by Washington State University Regents professor of soil science John Reganold, is one of the most comprehensive, persuasive studies yet to show the nutritional and environmental benefits of organic farming. http://www.grist.org/article/new-study-weighs-in-on-organicconventional-debate/ 03 Sep 2010 12:00 EDT Grist - the latest from Grist http://e360.yale.edu/digest/eighty_percent_of_farmland_carved_out_of_forests_in_tropics_study_says/2579/ More than 80 percent of the agricultural land created in the developing world between 1980 and 2000 came from cutting down tropical forests, a continuing trend that has serious implications for biodiversity loss and global warming, according to a study by Stanford University researchers. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/eighty_percent_of_farmland_carved_out_of_forests_in_tropics_study_says/2579/ 03 Sep 2010 10:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/97123d42-b6a8-11df-b3dd-00144feabdc0.html Since 1996, Statoil, the Norwegian state-owned energy company, has disposed of almost 13m tonnes of CO2 by burying it under the ocean floor. Thus far, it has shown no signs of leakage. That has made Norway something of a holy site for believers in carbon capture and storage. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/97123d42-b6a8-11df-b3dd-00144feabdc0.html 03 Sep 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/record_warm_ocean_waters_aiding_atlantic_hurricanes_this_season The Atlantic Ocean is downright sizzling right now, with record-breaking water temperatures in some areas. This makes it more likely that there will be an above average number of hurricanes this season, including more major hurricanes of Category Three strength or above. And -- as Hurricane Earl has demonstrated -- it also increases the odds that major hurricanes will be able to maintain their intensity in areas they seldom frequent. http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/record_warm_ocean_waters_aiding_atlantic_hurricanes_this_season 03 Sep 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://cleantechnica.com/2010/09/02/clean-energy-aid-leadership-from-norway/ Norway has continued to live up to its clean energy reputation by publishing its first annual report on the Clean Energy for Development Initiative. This details nearly $130m worth of funds spent by the Norwegian Government on clean energy projects across the developing world in 2008-9, double the amount budgeted by USAID for a variety of issues including clean energy aid. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/09/02/clean-energy-aid-leadership-from-norway/ 03 Sep 2010 10:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/obamas-stimulus-the-most-_n_704600.html For starters, the Recovery Act is the most ambitious energy legislation in history, converting the Energy Department into the world's largest venture-capital fund. It's pouring $90 billion into clean energy, including unprecedented investments in a smart grid; energy efficiency; electric cars; renewable power from the sun, wind and earth; cleaner coal; advanced biofuels; and factories to manufacture green stuff in the U.S. The act will also triple the number of smart electric meters in our homes, quadruple the number of hybrids in the federal auto fleet and finance far-out energy research through a new government incubator modeled after the Pentagon agency that fathered the Internet. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2013683,00.html 03 Sep 2010 09:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=76 02 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/chair_of_ipcc_review_panel_backs_climate_science_assessment_process_despite_flaws The head of the review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change weighs in on the panel's leadership and flaws in its treatment of uncertainty. http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/chair_of_ipcc_review_panel_backs_climate_science_assessment_process_despite_flaws 02 Sep 2010 16:30 EDT Climate Central - Breaking News, Blogs & Features http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/bill-mckibben-on-david-le_n_703496.html Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben sat down with David Letterman on the Late Show to discuss climate change and the actions desperately needed to confront it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/bill-mckibben-on-david-le_n_703496.html 02 Sep 2010 16:30 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/oil-rig-explodes-in-the-g_n_703525.html An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in protective "Gumby suits." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/oil-rig-explodes-in-the-g_n_703525.html 02 Sep 2010 16:30 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/business/energy-environment/19fuel.html Most research on renewable energy has focused on replacing the electricity that now comes from burning coal and natural gas. But the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the reliance on Middle East imports and the threat of global warming are reminders that oil is also a pressing worry. A lot of problems could be solved with a renewable replacement for oil-based gasoline and diesel in the fuel tank — either a new liquid fuel or a much better battery. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/business/energy-environment/19fuel.html 02 Sep 2010 16:10 EDT NYT > Environment http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100831-can-nuclear-waste-spark-an-energy-solution/ A new generation of nuclear power technology seeks to transform one of the industry’s most enduring problems - its radioactive waste - into an energy solution. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100831-can-nuclear-waste-spark-an-energy-solution/ 02 Sep 2010 16:10 EDT Daily Climate http://www.rff.org/News/Features/Pages/How-Do-You-Put-a-Price-on-Ecological-Damage-from-Marine-Oil-Pollution.aspx In the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill, attempts will be made to put an economic value on the ecological damage caused. How will this be done, and can we do a better job than in the past? http://www.rff.org/News/Features/Pages/How-Do-You-Put-a-Price-on-Ecological-Damage-from-Marine-Oil-Pollution.aspx 02 Sep 2010 16:10 EDT RFF Energy and Climate http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/energy-environment/31coal.html Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative. For a growing number of banks, however, that does not seem to matter. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/energy-environment/31coal.html 02 Sep 2010 16:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/02/koch-funded-organizations-launch-new-rally-for-jobs-campaign-to-protect-big-oil-profits/ As ThinkProgress and others have reported, Koch Industries and its billionaire owners, Charles and David Koch, have played a leading role in the apparently successful effort by polluters to stymie Senate passage of comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. Not content to simply stop progress, however, the Koch brothers and various Koch-funded organizations have also been actively trying to roll back existing clean air and clean energy laws — both at the state and national levels. http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/02/koch-funded-organizations-launch-new-rally-for-jobs-campaign-to-protect-big-oil-profits/ 02 Sep 2010 09:30 EDT Climate Progress http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFP3WtrXorrVEfZRgGSU2Ojx2RBQ Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFP3WtrXorrVEfZRgGSU2Ojx2RBQ 02 Sep 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/greenpeace-facebook-data-_n_703203.html Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest online social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/greenpeace-facebook-data-_n_703203.html 02 Sep 2010 09:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=75 01 Sep 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/passing-prop-23-in-califo_n_702477.html As right-wing think tanks continue to claim that California's clean energy legislation is hampering the state's economy, federal EPA Administrator Jared Blumenfeld has come forward to dispel that myth and to protect the environmental regulatory programs the state currently his in place. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/passing-prop-23-in-califo_n_702477.html 01 Sep 2010 15:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727764.300-arctic-oil-and-gas-drilling-ready-to-take-off.html DRILLING for oil kicked off in Greenland's Arctic waters last week - just weeks after the Deepwater Horizon leak was finally plugged - angering environmental groups. Cairn Energy, based in Edinburgh, UK, is the first company to explore Greenland's waters for oil. It won't be the last. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727764.300-arctic-oil-and-gas-drilling-ready-to-take-off.html 01 Sep 2010 15:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/01/the-lomborg-deception/ If one follows Bjørn Lomborg closely — not for the feint of heart — one can argue that his position has not changed drastically, as some commenters noted http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/01/the-lomborg-deception/ 01 Sep 2010 15:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/01/joe-miller-murkowski-concedes-alaska-primary-defeat-global-warming-denier/ But no, 'dirty air' Lisa is not a "climate change victim" even though her opponent is an anti-science ideologue http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/01/joe-miller-murkowski-concedes-alaska-primary-defeat-global-warming-denier/ 01 Sep 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.kjonline.com/news/solar-power-traveling-from-maine-to-washington_2010-08-31.html A solar panel installed by then-President Jimmy Carter will return to the White House next week, traveling from Unity College. http://www.kjonline.com/news/solar-power-traveling-from-maine-to-washington_2010-08-31.html 01 Sep 2010 09:30 EDT Daily Climate http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-51193320100831 The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-51193320100831 01 Sep 2010 09:30 EDT Daily Climate http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-01/countries-that-spurn-climate-remedies-to-face-export-barriers-stern-says.html Countries that fail to adapt their economies to “cleaner” technologies are likely to lose export markets to those that do, said Nicholas Stern, former chief adviser on climate change to the U.K. government. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-01/countries-that-spurn-climate-remedies-to-face-export-barriers-stern-says.html 01 Sep 2010 09:30 EDT Daily Climate http://www.cleantechblog.com/2010/08/solar-needs-new-metric.html A very interesting article from Motley Fool on the oversupply of solar in the marketplace that is predicted in 2011. http://www.cleantechblog.com/2010/08/solar-needs-new-metric.html 01 Sep 2010 08:30 EDT Cleantech Blog http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100831/ap_on_bi_ge/us_nuclear_power_design As the nation moves closer to breaking ground on its first nuclear plant in decades, industry executives want to avoid the problems of the past by getting the government to designate a handful of reactor designs, then let companies choose from that list. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100831/ap_on_bi_ge/us_nuclear_power_design 01 Sep 2010 08:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bf24f848-b553-11df-9af8-00144feabdc0.html Exelon’s attempt to diversify underlines the lack of momentum in the US nuclear industry, despite support given by the Obama administration earlier this year. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/a-nuclear-giant-moves-into-wind/ 01 Sep 2010 08:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=74 31 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/geological-society-acid-ocean-marine-lif/ Co-author: "Unless we curb carbon emissions we risk mass extinctions, degrading coastal waters and encouraging outbreaks of toxic jellyfish and algae." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/geological-society-acid-ocean-marine-lif/ 31 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Climate Progress http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/31/boycott-of-petroleum-products-from-alberta-tar-sands-gathers-steam/ In a sign of things to come for corporate activism, The Gap, Timberland, Levi Strauss and Walgreens have just joined Whole Foods and Bed, Bath and Beyond in a boycott of petroleum products sourced from the notorious Alberta Tar Sands. As reported by Bob Weber of The Canadian Press, Federal Express has also adopted a policy that appears to lead toward joining the boycott. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/31/boycott-of-petroleum-products-from-alberta-tar-sands-gathers-steam/ 31 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20015223-54.html The proposed offshore wind farm in Massachusetts wins a legal victory that clears one of the last permitting hurdles for Cape Wind. However, another looms next week. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20015223-54.html 31 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT Green Tech http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/lomborg-new-book-smart-solutions-to-climate-change-debunk-errors-flaw/ The one-time "Skeptical Environmentalist" now says, "man-made global warming exists" and "we have long moved on from any mainstream disagreements about the science of climate change." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/lomborg-new-book-smart-solutions-to-climate-change-debunk-errors-flaw/ 31 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/poll-epa-action-on-climate/ Senator Jay Rockefeller’s (D-WV) Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act, S. 3072, or “dirty air bill,” is solidly opposed by the public, according to a brand new poll for the NRDC Action Fund by the Benenson Strategy Group. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/poll-epa-action-on-climate/ 31 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/pakistan-flooding-glacier-melt-global-warming-climate-change-usgs-report/ Rapid melting threatens water supplies to millions http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/pakistan-flooding-glacier-melt-global-warming-climate-change-usgs-report/ 31 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/31/greenpeace-activists-stall-arctic-oil-rig/ Cairn Energy has been forced to suspend its operations on one of its rigs in the Arctic after four Greenpeace campaigners scaled the rig early on Tuesday morning in a bid to stall oil drilling in the region. The UK oil and gas explorer has plans to drill four wells off Greenland's west coast, but the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has raised fears over the risks of offshore drilling. Greenpeace's interruption may only be temporary this time but expect more protests over the coming weeks. http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/31/greenpeace-activists-stall-arctic-oil-rig/ 31 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/dangerous-climate-picture_b_698895.html Ed Markey's article in The Huffington Post referenced in The Financial Times http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/dangerous-climate-picture_b_698895.html 31 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new_us_ratings_system_proposed_for_vehicle_emissions_and_efficiency/2574/ The Obama administration has proposed adding new labels to showroom vehicles that give letter grades based on their fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new_us_ratings_system_proposed_for_vehicle_emissions_and_efficiency/2574/ 31 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/good_jobs_new_markets.html Few industries have felt the economic downturn harder than the construction industry, which suffered the most from the consequences of a decade of gross mismanagement of our nation’s mortgage markets and financial services industries. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/good_jobs_new_markets.html 31 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Center for American Progress - Energy and Environment http://beta.worldbank.org/climatechange/reports/second-generation-biofuels-economics-and-policies Recent increases in production of crop-based (or first-generation) biofuels have engendered increasing concerns over potential conflicts with food supplies and land protection, as well as disputes over greenhouse gas reductions. This has heightened a sense of urgency around the development of biofuels produced from non-food biomass (second-generation biofuels). This study reviews the economic potential and environmental implications of production of second-generation biofuels from a variety of various feedstocks http://beta.worldbank.org/climatechange/reports/second-generation-biofuels-economics-and-policies 31 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT What's New at World Bank http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=73 30 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19378-climate-panel-must-fundamentally-reform-to-survive.html The IPCC must reshape how it operates if it is to regain the public's trust, according to a major review http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19378-climate-panel-must-fundamentally-reform-to-survive.html 30 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/new-findings-on-toxic-pollutants-and-oil-sands-mining/ Native Canadians living downstream from the oil sands mines in Alberta Province have long complained that their high cancer rates were related to the expanding excavation of bitumen for the production of synthetic crude. A new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is backing their position. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/new-findings-on-toxic-pollutants-and-oil-sands-mining/ 30 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/judge-dismisses-ken-cuccinelli-mann-0437.html The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) called today’s decisions by a Virginia judge to dismiss Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for documents related to research by climate scientist Michael Mann a “victory for scientific discovery.” http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/judge-dismisses-ken-cuccinelli-mann-0437.html 30 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/08/coal-ash-dump-sites/1 A new study identifies 39 additional coal-ash dump sites in 21 states that pollute drinking water with arsenic, lead and other heavy metals. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/08/coal-ash-dump-sites/1 30 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-29/biofuels-firms-buy-up-african-land-cause-deforestation-food-output-loss.html Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-29/biofuels-firms-buy-up-african-land-cause-deforestation-food-output-loss.html 30 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/08/30/low_prices_stoke_coal_sales_despite_pollution_concerns/ Coal trading is poised to rise to a record high this year as prices at less than half their 2008 peak stoke demand, defying governments’ efforts to phase out the most-polluting fossil fuel. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/08/30/low_prices_stoke_coal_sales_despite_pollution_concerns/ 30 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Boston Globe - Business http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/bp-internal-report-said-to-find-engineers-misread-gulf-well-test-results.html BP Plc’s internal investigation of the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster pins some of the blame on the company for mistakes made when finishing the oil well, including misreading pressure data that indicated a blowout was imminent, according to a person familiar with the report. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/bp-internal-report-said-to-find-engineers-misread-gulf-well-test-results.html 30 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=72 29 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/andy-revkin-climate-science-aclimate-journalism/ The former is self-correcting, the latter has become self-destructive http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/andy-revkin-climate-science-aclimate-journalism/ 29 Aug 2010 20:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/washington-post-ombudsman-errors-credibility-gap/ A single major error can damage a news organization. But incessant lesser ones can be more harmful. Like a cancer, they gradually destroy credibility and eventually sever the organization’s bond of trust with its audience. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/washington-post-ombudsman-errors-credibility-gap/ 29 Aug 2010 13:20 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/perspectives/837534-263/latest-anti-hodes-ads-are-grossly-misleading.html A pro-fossil fuel political group, the American Action Network, has spent a whopping $450,000 over the past three weeks on TV and radio ads attacking U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes for his vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act. http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/perspectives/837534-263/latest-anti-hodes-ads-are-grossly-misleading.html 29 Aug 2010 13:10 EDT Daily Climate http://hosted2.ap.org/MOSTP/6c4f1c9b30804a70bc4ae998df74d877/Article_2010-08-29-AS-Mongolia-Cabinet-in-Desert/id-ccbb1af8d6a74a6d9d3809398f2adaf2 Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change. http://hosted2.ap.org/MOSTP/6c4f1c9b30804a70bc4ae998df74d877/Article_2010-08-29-AS-Mongolia-Cabinet-in-Desert/id-ccbb1af8d6a74a6d9d3809398f2adaf2 29 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Daily Climate http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/climate-progress-why-i-blog/ I joined the new media because the old media have failed us. They have utterly failed to force us to face unpleasant facts. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/29/climate-progress-why-i-blog/ 29 Aug 2010 08:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/27/99794/spill-hearing-focuses-on-point.html Federal investigators are homing in on the role that BP's Houston operations had in possible design flaws that may have contributed to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon well blowout. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/27/99794/spill-hearing-focuses-on-point.html 28 Aug 2010 24:00 EDT mcclatchydc.com http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Saturday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=71 28 Aug 2010 23:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727751.300-arctic-ice-less-than-meets-the-eye.html The ice may not retreat as much as feared this year, but what remains may be more rotten than robust http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727751.300-arctic-ice-less-than-meets-the-eye.html 28 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/28/arctic-sea-ice-volume-northwest-passage-david-barber-antarctic-sea-ice/ "Diminishing the importance of Arctic sea ice loss by calling attention to Antarctic sea ice gain is like telling someone to ignore the fire smoldering in their attic, and instead go appreciate the coolness of the basement because there is no fire there. Planet Earth's attic is on fire." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/28/arctic-sea-ice-volume-northwest-passage-david-barber-antarctic-sea-ice/ 28 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Climate Progress http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/28/the-hot-seas-of-our-future/ In a complete reversal of the usual pattern, where water temperatures are generally cooler than land temperatures, for the second year running, the ocean was actually hotter than land in some regions, marking another ominous sign of the strange and unpredictable effects of continued global warming. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/28/the-hot-seas-of-our-future/ 28 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html In case you missed it, TIME magazine published a feature story last week about the incredible, transformative work being done by the Department of Energy through the Recovery Act. From electric vehicles to the Smart Grid to the search for game changing scientific breakthroughs, the story focuses on how the investments we are making are helping put Americans to work and lay the foundation for the clean energy economy of the future. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html 28 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT DOE Blog http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/the-earth-is-carbon-starved-crock/ Our favorite climate de-crocker, Peter Sinclair has a new video that is particularly terrifying. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/the-earth-is-carbon-starved-crock/ 28 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://fremonttribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_abbb5d2c-b262-11df-adfd-001cc4c002e0.html Our oceans are currently managed by more than 140 laws and 20 agencies, in a disjointed system with often conflicting goals. President Obama's executive order creating a National Ocean Council to coordinate activities with an eye on the bigger policy picture. http://fremonttribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_abbb5d2c-b262-11df-adfd-001cc4c002e0.html 28 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Friday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=70 27 Aug 2010 22:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/adaptation-mitigation-climate-chang/ We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/adaptation-mitigation-climate-chang/ 27 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19377-new-orleans-are-the-new-defences-tough-enough.html A $14.5 billion revamp of New Orleans's flood defences is almost finished, but some say the measures aren't tough and comprehensive enough. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19377-new-orleans-are-the-new-defences-tough-enough.html 27 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P01V20100826 Distributing new varieties of drought tolerant maize to African farmers could save more than $1.5 billion dollars, boost yields by up to a quarter and lift some of the world’s poorest out of poverty, a study found. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P01V20100826 27 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q0Y520100827 China’s $736-billion push to harness nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy hinges on making the cleaner fuels competitive with cheap and CO2-intensive coal without derailing surging industrial growth. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q0Y520100827 27 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/27/27climatewire-environmental-groups-challenge-to-reactor-pr-42112.html The debate over how best to meet the nation's "clean energy" goals moves today to an unusual venue: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/27/27climatewire-environmental-groups-challenge-to-reactor-pr-42112.html 27 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0827/Climate-change-Will-Russian-heat-wave-prompt-serious-action-from-Moscow In recent years, Russia viewed the threat of climate change in naive or cavalier terms. But this summer's devastating weather was a wake-up call. http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0827/Climate-change-Will-Russian-heat-wave-prompt-serious-action-from-Moscow 27 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Christian Science Monitor | USA http://e360.yale.edu/digest/worlds_largest_solar_plant_nears_approval_in_california_desert/2569/ U.S. officials are expected to approve by this fall what would be the world’s biggest solar power plant, a 1,000-megawatt project in the California desert that developers say could power 800,000 homes. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/worlds_largest_solar_plant_nears_approval_in_california_desert/2569/ 27 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/the-coming-food-crisis-global-warming-podest/ Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confront climate change." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/27/the-coming-food-crisis-global-warming-podest/ 27 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-adv-el-nino-20100827,0,3867832.story The study "documents the change of a major climate system, but I cannot tell you the impact." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-adv-el-nino-20100827,0,3867832.story 27 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=69 26 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/justice-department-supreme-court-to-vacate-nuisance/ Yesterday, the Solicitor General’s office filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to vacate a victory against several polluters, including a federally-owned corporation. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/justice-department-supreme-court-to-vacate-nuisance/ 26 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.good.is/post/scientists-get-serious-about-linking-specific-disasters-to-climate-change/ Can we blame the floods in Pakistan on climate change? Maybe. It's long been recognized, even (especially?) by those of us concerned about climate change, that it's hardif not downright disingenuousto blame a particular crazy weather event on gradual, global atmospheric changes. But apparently some real scientists are developing a methodology to do just that http://www.good.is/post/scientists-get-serious-about-linking-specific-disasters-to-climate-change/ 26 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/a-challenge-to-bill-gates-on-energy-research/ The potential for R&D in the future if only enough money is spent is very dangerous for people to hear, but then it encourages them to put off investment in the many good renewable technologies that we have today, in the hope that something dramatically better will come along in the future. This result will ensure that the world will never solve the climate problem in time. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/a-challenge-to-bill-gates-on-energy-research/ 26 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/first-energy-regional-innovation-cluster-announced/ The Department of Energy announced that a consortium of more than 90 public- and private-sector organizations based in the Philadelphia region will host the first Energy Regional Innovation Cluster or, E-RIC, a new interagency program to accelerate energy innovation and commercialization. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/first-energy-regional-innovation-cluster-announced/ 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/irony-alert-climate-change-is-bad-for-nuclear-power-industry-needs-a-shrinking-cap-on-carbon-to-survive/ Conservatives who oppose clean energy and real climate action typically tout uber-expensive nuclear power as the solution. CAP’s Richard W. Caperton explains how failure to pursue genuine action on climate change – a shrinking cap and rising price on carbon – actually harms the industry. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/26/irony-alert-climate-change-is-bad-for-nuclear-power-industry-needs-a-shrinking-cap-on-carbon-to-survive/ 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0826-ex-im_bank.html The United States Export-Import Bank voted on Wednesday to seek a final review of a $900m loan for a controversial 3,960 MW coal-fired power plant in India, reports Pacific Environment, a San Francisco-based environmental group. http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0826-ex-im_bank.html 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/updated-federal-trade-commission-guidline-may-nullify-hundreds-green-labels.php The US FTC is close to updating its original "green guides" which have been the sole legal basis for examining and challenging the validity of various green marketing claims or product "green marks" There is an obvious need for this update, as more green product claims and labels have popped up every year since TreeHugger.com was founded (see links below the fold), many of which are of questionable. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/updated-federal-trade-commission-guidline-may-nullify-hundreds-green-labels.php 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT TreeHugger http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/about-gas We reported last month that the natural gas that escaped from BP's well is the colorless, odorless villain in the Gulf, one that hasn't gotten the attention that all that crude has received. Now several conservation groups are asking the attorney general to include natural gas as it determines exactly how much BP has to pay up for polluting the Gulf. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/about-gas 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/about-doi-revolving-door In the nearly three months since the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, the Department of Interior has been come under fire for maintaining a too-cozy relationship with the companies it is supposed to regulate. Among the chief criticisms has been the revolving door between the department and the industries its various components are supposed to regulate. Here's yet another stellar example of what was standard operating procedure at the agency: an oil and gas industry advocacy group has just named former Bureau of Land Management field manager (and ethics probe target) Steven Henke as its new president. http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/about-doi-revolving-door 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/26/1/ Alaska's cliffhanger primary is poised to propel a climate skeptic toward the U.S. Senate, observers say, likely bolstering the number of nominations achieved by conservative candidates who challenge manmade global warming. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/26/1/ 26 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=68 25 Aug 2010 23:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/25/the-entire-american-economy-including-renewable-energy-benefited-from-the-stimulus-bill/ Vice President Biden and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday both released reports showing how much the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, also known as the “stimulus bill”) helped the U.S. economy. The reports are a stunning rebuke to all of those who say the stimulus bill has been ineffective. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/25/the-entire-american-economy-including-renewable-energy-benefited-from-the-stimulus-bill/ 25 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/pakistan-flood-pictures/all/1 A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/pakistan-flood-pictures/all/1 25 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Wired Science http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/25/1/ Lowering the energy consumption of the Empire State Building may seem bold and significant -- and it is. But the real challenge lies among the city's lesser-known buildings that extend into the horizon, to the north and south and in adjacent boroughs. Unless New York can lower its $15 billion annual energy bill and show the world that there are successful ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it could find itself teetering on the edge of disaster indefinitely. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/25/1/ 25 Aug 2010 12:10 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20014655-54.html The software tycoon cum philanthropist talks turkey on clean energy tech, arguing that much bigger public investments in R&D are needed. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20014655-54.html 25 Aug 2010 12:05 EDT Green Tech http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/25/stop-prop-23-the-fact-sheet/ The oil-funded campaign to pass Proposition 23 that would repeal AB 32 is continuing to spill misinformation with a new “Fact Sheet: Green Jobs Utopia Is A Myth.” Aside from the fact that their arguments are nonsense, the “fact sheet” does not include any facts. There is not a single source or citation on the page. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/25/stop-prop-23-the-fact-sheet/ 25 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/25/vitter-bp-oil-spill/ As it turns out, Vitter and his GOP colleagues’ rhetoric was mere hyperbole. The New York Times reports today that their dire predictions “failed to materialize” http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/25/vitter-bp-oil-spill/ 25 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825093651.htm A unique 'natural laboratory' in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the past. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825093651.htm 25 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=67 24 Aug 2010 22:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-jenkins/white-house-report-stimul_b_693107.html With global competition mounting and Recovery Act momentum poised to fade, can the Obama Administration secure a lasting clean energy legacy? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-jenkins/white-house-report-stimul_b_693107.html 24 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/24/24greenwire-undersea-oil-plume-vanishes-in-gulf-degraded-b-87391.html For nearly a month, scientists sampling the site of a deepwater plume stretching southwest from BP PLC's failed well in the Gulf have been foiled. Their sensors have gone silent. Where once a vibrant -- if diffuse -- cloud of oil stretched for miles, 3,600 feet below the surface, there is now only ocean, and what seems to be the debris of a bacterial feeding frenzy. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/24/24greenwire-undersea-oil-plume-vanishes-in-gulf-degraded-b-87391.html 24 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://e360.yale.edu/digest/americans_used_less_energy_and_more_renewables_in_2009_study_shows/2563/ U.S. energy use fell in 2009 and Americans used more wind and solar power and less electricity generated by burning coal and natural gas, according to a survey by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. http://e360.yale.edu/digest/americans_used_less_energy_and_more_renewables_in_2009_study_shows/2563/ 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/its-as-if-a-nuclear-apoca_b_692509.html First, a chemist named Bob Naman claims samples he received from Orange Beach Alabama waters tested positive for the dangerous neurotoxin pesticide 2-butoxyethanol, the main ingredient of Corexit 9527A. The government has been claiming they discontinued the use of that version of Corexit in the Gulf. Now, Naman says he's worried because BP called him and "threatened him." Next, Dr. Nyman of Louisiana State University, who began comparative tests early May to determine the impact of oil and the impact of Corexit laced oil on maritime life, says, while marine life may recover quickly from oil exposure, the same cannot be said about exposure to Corexit. Large mammals were the least affected by the presence of oil, while the small bottom creatures, worms that are the food source for bottom feeders, were affected the most. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/its-as-if-a-nuclear-apoca_b_692509.html 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/gulf-oil-spill-hits-worke_n_692504.html The oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, and that should be a relief. But with fewer cleanup jobs to be had, many of the people hit hardest by the huge spill are struggling as badly as ever. Boat captains and deckhands who managed to put food on the table over the summer because they got hired by BP to skim the oil are being dropped from the payroll while huge swaths of the Gulf remain off-limits to those who haul in shrimp, oysters and other seafood. Now, just when with the environmental and engineering crisis is easing, large charities providing food to coastal communities have run out of money, homeless shelters are filling up with men thrown out of work by the spill, and demand for drug and alcohol counseling is up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/gulf-oil-spill-hits-worke_n_692504.html 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/24/new-yorker-koch-brothers-smithsonian-tea-party/ Yesterday, the New Yorker published a devastating investigative piece by Jane Mayer that exposes the Koch family’s efforts to put together the Tea Party movement and much of the modern right-wing infrastructure. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/24/new-yorker-koch-brothers-smithsonian-tea-party/ 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/24/1/ Most Manhattan office buildings are designed for paper pushers, but there is a new factory running at the end of a long dim corridor on the fifth floor of the Empire State Building. Here machines are whirring, a furnace is roaring, and dozens of blue-collar workers are bustling about. They are setting up to dismantle the building's 6,514 double-hung window frames, to reuse the glass and make them anew. It is part of one of the nation's most ambitious and symbolic energy-efficiency programs: a $20 million effort to cut the skyscraper's overall energy use by 38 percent. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/24/1/ 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=how-will-climate-change-impact-brea-10-08-23 Climate change may have begun to hit humans where it hurts—in the stomach. Research has shown how changing temperatures have influenced wheat yields in Montana over the last 60 years. And now catastrophic fires sweeping Russia give a taste of what climate change may bring to that bread basket. http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=how-will-climate-change-impact-brea-10-08-23 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Scientific American Topic - Global Warming http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/arctic-oil-discovery-coul_n_692252.html A Scottish energy company's discovery of hydrocarbons off Greenland's coast could spark an oil rush that "would threaten the fragile environment," Greenpeace warned Tuesday. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/arctic-oil-discovery-coul_n_692252.html 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/24/rig_manager_challenged_bp_on_personnel_change/ Federal investigators seeking the cause of the rig explosion that led to BP’s massive gulf oil leak focused yesterday on communication and chain of command, wondering at times whether the key players knew enough to handle an emergency. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/24/rig_manager_challenged_bp_on_personnel_change/ 24 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=66 23 Aug 2010 22:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100823/full/news.2010.426.html Unless they involve extreme measures, geoengineering approaches to offset the effects of human-driven climate changes won't do much to combat rising sea levels, an international team of scientists reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100823/full/news.2010.426.html 23 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT NatureNews - Earth and Environment - nature.com science feeds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/drilling-moratorium-stays-interior-oil-spill-commission_n_691978.html The top federal offshore oil drilling regulator is telling the presidential oil spill commission that the temporary halt to deepwater drilling will remain in place for a few more months. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/drilling-moratorium-stays-interior-oil-spill-commission_n_691978.html 23 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/23/nrel-ikea-team-up-to-monitor-geothermal-energy-for-commercial-buidings/ If you’ve seen a big box store or an office building under construction, you’ve likely seen a deep hole in the ground, for the parking spaces that will be underground, etc. It is not unusual to dig a lot deeper than 5 feet when building office buildings: the magic spot for ground heat exchange geothermal power. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/23/nrel-ikea-team-up-to-monitor-geothermal-energy-for-commercial-buidings/ 23 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/study-finds-no-link-tying-disaster-losses-to-human-driven-warming/ A new analysis of nearly two dozen papers assessing trends in disaster losses in light of climate change finds no convincing link. The author concludes that, so far, the rise in disaster losses is mainly a function of more investments getting in harm’s way as communities in places vulnerable to natural hazards grow. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/study-finds-no-link-tying-disaster-losses-to-human-driven-warming/ 23 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/23/one-of-many-ways-climate-disinformers-mislead/ In science, the only thing better than measurements made in the real world are multiple sets of measurements – all pointing to the same answer. That’s what we find with climate change. The case for human caused global warming is based on many independent lines of evidence. Our understanding of climate comes from considering all this evidence. In contrast, global warming skepticism focuses on narrow pieces of the puzzle while neglecting the full picture. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/23/one-of-many-ways-climate-disinformers-mislead/ 23 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/climate_in_context_august_20_2010 “In higher latitudes,” Running says, “we’re still seeing lengthening of growing seasons.” Closer to the equator, though, and especially in the southern hemisphere, the warming has lead to major droughts – not exactly a recipe for healthy plants. What makes this study so compelling is that it was based on global satellite observations, not scattered local measurements. Running says it’s not clear, though, whether the declining trend in plant carbon uptake will continue. http://www.climatecentral.org//breaking/blog/climate_in_context_august_20_2010 23 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/23/23climatewire-if-a-country-sinks-beneath-the-sea-is-it-sti-70169.html Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors. Among them: If a country disappears, is it still a country? Does it keep its seat at the United Nations? Who controls its offshore mineral rights? Its shipping lanes? Its fish? http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/23/23climatewire-if-a-country-sinks-beneath-the-sea-is-it-sti-70169.html 23 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT NYT > Business http://www.pressherald.com/news/bay-state-bill-aims-to-speed-up-wind-farm-permitting-process_2010-08-23.html Opposition from residents is posing a threat to Gov. Deval Patrick's goal of generating 2,000 megawatts of wind power in Massachusetts by the year 2020. To help pick up the pace, Patrick pushed a bill he said would streamline the permitting process. http://www.pressherald.com/news/bay-state-bill-aims-to-speed-up-wind-farm-permitting-process_2010-08-23.html 23 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/aug/23/hot-river-forces-costly-cutback-tva/ The Tennessee Valley Authority has lost nearly $50 million in power generation from its biggest nuclear plant because the Tennessee River in Alabama is too hot. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/aug/23/hot-river-forces-costly-cutback-tva/ 23 Aug 2010 08:50 EDT Daily Climate http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/23/invasion-of-the-self-cleaning-solar-panels-from-mars/ Dust, dirt, and the occasional bird-bomb can chip away at the efficiency of solar panels. Hand washing is fine for home-scale installations but that can add up to a huge problem for large installations that cover multiple acres of ground or roofs. Now scientists from Boston University have come up with a solution: self-cleaning solar panels based on technology used in missions to Mars. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/23/invasion-of-the-self-cleaning-solar-panels-from-mars/ 23 Aug 2010 08:35 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=65 22 Aug 2010 23:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/can-renewables-catch-break The administration has repeatedly touted the investment in a clean energy included the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as a major success and a down-payment on a broader clean energy policy. But in addition to the $1.5 billion taken from the fund for state aid and Medicaid this month, Congress also dipped into the same renewable loan program last year to fund a $2 billion extension of Cash for Clunkers. That means what was supposed to be a $6 billion fund is now lowered to $2.5 billion. http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/can-renewables-catch-break 22 Aug 2010 20:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/22/tennessee-valley-authority-restarting-old-nuclear-to-replace-aging-coal-plants/ More than 1,000 MW of aging coal plants, grandfathered in under more lenient EPA rules in the past, are to be taken offline. To replace the energy they were belching out, President Tom Kilgore announced that the TVA will restart work on the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Alabama, that has remained unfinished since 1988. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/22/tennessee-valley-authority-restarting-old-nuclear-to-replace-aging-coal-plants/ 22 Aug 2010 20:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/22/every-gop-new-hampshire-senate-candidate-is-a-global-warming-denier/ Every single Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is a global warming denier. Wonk Room Brad Johnson has the story in this cross-post. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/22/every-gop-new-hampshire-senate-candidate-is-a-global-warming-denier/ 22 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/08/22/world/international-uk-pakistan-floods.html More than $800 million has been donated or pledged to help Pakistan's flood victims, the foreign minister said in Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of people in the south feared more destruction. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/08/22/world/international-uk-pakistan-floods.html 22 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/22/peak-oil-department-energy-climate-change Speculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted has been fueled by the revelation that they are canvassing views from industry and the scientific community about "peak oil." http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/22/peak-oil-department-energy-climate-change 22 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201008190466.html New technologies that allow buildings to "sweat" in very hot conditions may help relieve the sizzling summer heat in Japan's cities. http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201008190466.html 22 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Saturday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=64 21 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/08/146099.htm Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials are pointing to the devastating floods in Pakistan and other extreme weather events as signs that climate change is getting worse. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/21/clinton-links-pakistan-floods-climate-change/ 21 Aug 2010 20:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/21/species-extinctions-happening-before-our-eyes/ In the past, research has predicted that global warming could lead to the extinction of more than one-fifth of animal and plant species. This research has largely been based on theoretical models. However, now observations can confirm whether reality matches theory. The paper Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches (Sinervo 2010) compares global observations of lizard populations from 1975 to present day. The result? Rapidly warming temperatures are causing lizard species to go extinct before our eyes. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/21/species-extinctions-happening-before-our-eyes/ 21 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67J2N220100820 Russia's summer heat wave has dimmed prospects that northern countries will "win" from climate change thanks to factors such as longer crop-growing seasons or fewer deaths from winter cold, experts say. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67J2N220100820 21 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzMOK7aEvtFyMshOfRo-x9_4nwSQD9HNL0P80 An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually rein in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzMOK7aEvtFyMshOfRo-x9_4nwSQD9HNL0P80 21 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/21/ags_report_details_cost_of_cape_wind_power/ Consultants hired by the state attorney general made public yesterday a more revealing assessment of the price for energy from the Cape Wind project: an average of 23 cents per kilowatt hour a year for the wind farm’s first 15 years. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/21/ags_report_details_cost_of_cape_wind_power/ 21 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100820/full/news.2010.424.html Second wave of flooding overloads canals. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100820/full/news.2010.424.html 21 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT NatureNews - Earth and Environment - nature.com science feeds http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Friday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=63 20 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2010/08/20/pace-recovery-act-spending Sometimes the media is quick to criticize the pace of Recovery Act spending in the energy sector. Here’s a key fact that is often overlooked: more than 90 percent of the Department of Energy’s $32 billion in Recovery Act funds has been allocated to clean energy projects around the country, creating tens of thousands of direct jobs and even more along the supply chain – doing everything from installing wind turbines and solar panels, to manufacturing electric car batteries, to making homes more energy-efficient. http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2010/08/20/pace-recovery-act-spending 20 Aug 2010 16:00 EDT DOE Blog http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100820101400.htm Emissions of carbon dioxide are causing ocean acidification as well as global warming. Scientists have previously used computer simulations to quantify how curbing of carbon dioxide emissions would mitigate climate impacts. New computer simulations have now examined the likely effects of mitigation scenarios on ocean acidification trends. They show that both the peak year of emissions and post-peak reduction rates influence how much ocean acidity increases by 2100. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100820101400.htm 20 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/20/eri-pooley-about-the-climate-war/ Eric Pooley has written a spell-binding political thriller about who killed the climate bill and how they did it. It’s called THE CLIMATE WAR. Journalist Francesca Rheannon interviewed him for the radio show, Writers Voice. Pooley largely blames the fossil fuel lobby and its PR men for the failure to get a climate bill through the Congress. But in this excerpt from the full interview, he also points the finger at the White House. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/20/eri-pooley-about-the-climate-war/ 20 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/20/20climatewire-flood-disaster-may-require-largest-aid-effor-83947.html One of the largest humanitarian relief efforts ever attempted is now mobilizing to help Pakistan cope with what its government and U.N. agencies are calling the worst natural disaster in modern memory. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/20/20climatewire-flood-disaster-may-require-largest-aid-effor-83947.html 20 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/climate_change_business.html Look no further than today to get a glimpse of what the future holds if we continue with business as usual: record temperatures in the United States, Europe, and Canada; wildfires and hurricanes in Russia; and flooding in Pakistan and China. Climate change is here and there’s more to come. Thousands of lives have been lost, and millions of people have been displaced from these recent disasters. But the economic tolls are also hurting businesses. Economists estimate that Russia’s economy will lose $15 billion this year from the country’s recent disasters—a full percentage point of its expected GDP growth. About half of that loss will come from agriculture and the rest from “lower industrial output, lower demand and lower productivity.” Russia had been gaining ground from a 7.9 percent GDP loss last year, but shoppers are staying home to avoid the toxic smog and heat during the hottest summer on record. Offices are closing and factories are shutting down. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/climate_change_business.html 20 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Center for American Progress - Energy and Environment http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/europes-brisk-energy-transition/ Renewable energy now accounts for 18.4 percent of energy production in the European Union, just behind natural gas, which provides 19.3 percent. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/europes-brisk-energy-transition/ 10 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-lappe/3-pillars-of-a-food-revol_b_689088.html A few years ago, I stumbled on a United Nations study that transformed how I think about the climate crisis. In the report, researchers pegged greenhouse gases from the livestock sector at 18 percent of total global emissions. Combine this with other aspects of our food chain--from agricultural chemical production to agribusiness driven deforestation to food waste rotting in landfills--and food and agriculture sector is responsible for nearly one third of the planet's manmade emissions. Move over Hummer; it's time to say hello to the hamburger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-lappe/3-pillars-of-a-food-revol_b_689088.html 20 Aug 2010 13:30 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/oil-plume-dead-zones-likely-last-2-years A new simulation of oil and methane leaked into the Gulf of Mexico suggests that deep hypoxic zones, also known as dead zones, could form near the source of the pollution. The research is detailed in a scientific paper in press with Geophysical Research Letters. Dead zones occur where oxygen levels have dropped blow the threshold to support most marine life. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/oil-plume-dead-zones-likely-last-2-years 20 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/election-key-to-action-on-climate/ Environmentalists around the world will be watching Saturday's national election results in Australia, which they say could have a global impact on efforts to combat climate change. Australia's last two prime ministers have both been casualties of environmental politics. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/election-key-to-action-on-climate/ 20 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/climate-on-the-campaign-trail-5-races-to-watch/61752/ From cap-and-trade vs. "cap-and-tax" to bickering over the science behind global warming, climate and energy issues are a common theme in this year's midterm election campaigns. Many lawmakers are being forced to defend their votes for the House's cap-and-trade bill last summer. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/climate-on-the-campaign-trail-5-races-to-watch/61752/ 20 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Atlantic Politics Channel http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H44J20100819 BP Plc likely won't put the final plug in its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H44J20100819 20 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=62 19 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100819/full/news.2010.418.html Satellite data indicate that carbon storage by plants is decreasing despite climate warming. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100819/full/news.2010.418.html 19 Aug 2010 18:30 EDT NatureNews - Earth and Environment - nature.com science feeds http://www.physorg.com/news201451698.html Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought. "We see this as a bit of a surprise, and potentially significant on a policy level because previous interpretations suggested that global warming might actually help plant growth around the world." http://www.physorg.com/news201451698.html 19 Aug 2010 18:15 EDT PHYSorg.com: Earth Sciences News http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/gulf-oil-plumes-more-toxic-to-microorganisms-than-thought.php Preliminary results from experiments done by University of South Florida scientists on the toxicity of microscopic drops of oil in the undersea plumes from the BP spill show that they may be more toxic than previously believed. The researchers say the dispersed oil appears to be having a toxic effect on bacteria and phytoplankton http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/gulf-oil-plumes-more-toxic-to-microorganisms-than-thought.php 19 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT TreeHugger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/huge-oil-plume-isnt-going_n_688312.html A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/huge-oil-plume-isnt-going_n_688312.html 19 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/markey-says-report-that-m_n_687896.html Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday demanded that the Obama administration surrender the data and algorithms behind its increasingly controversial estimate that most of the oil spilled in the Gulf no longer presents a risk of harm. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/markey-says-report-that-m_n_687896.html 19 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20014140-54.html A group of scientists and engineers in Norway are testing a flotation device that could support offshore wind turbines so that they don't have to be built on shoals. StatoilHydro, a division of the oil giant Statoil, said Thursday its Hywind floating wind turbine installed about 10 kilometers off the coast of Karmoy, Norway, in June 2009 is a success. As a result, the company is planning to test an entire farm of Hywind turbines in Norway, and is looking to install more test farms in rough-water areas like Scotland and Maine. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20014140-54.html 19 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT Green Tech http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/568432/human_response_to_climate_change_is_making_matters_worse.html Our attempts to adapt to, and mitigate, the effects of climate change, such as using biofuels, could worsen the direct effects of climate change on our ecoystems. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/568432/human_response_to_climate_change_is_making_matters_worse.html 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/aug/18/extreme-weather-climate-debate Right now the energy companies are winning, and winning easily. Because they're the most profitable business the world has ever seen, they have enormous influence. And because all they need to do is delay, so far they've barely even been bothered by environmentalists. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/aug/18/extreme-weather-climate-debate 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2557 A new online database maps more than 140 dams being built or planned in the Amazon basin and documents the impacts these projects are likely to have on human communities and the environment. http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2557 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2310 Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to make their products more sustainable. http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2310 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100819121214.htm Controlling urban growth and increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a new study. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100819121214.htm 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/19/1/ A group of Democrats who defied their party to oppose a landmark climate bill last year is facing attacks by political challengers from an unexpected direction: Cap and trade is being used against them, despite the fact that they voted no. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/19/1/ 19 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/19/i-went-to-a-fight-and-a-hockey-stick-broke-out/ McShane and Wyner’s background exposition of the scientific history of the “hockey stick” relies excessively on “grey” literature and is replete with errors, some of which appear to be have been introduced through a misreading of secondary sources, without direct consultation of the cited sources. And the authors’ claims concerning the performance of “null” proxies are clearly contradicted by findings in two key studies cited at length, Mann et al 2008 and Ammann and Wahl 2007.These contradictions are not even mentioned, let alone explained, by the authors.In short, this is a deeply flawed study and if it were to be published as anything resembling the draft I have examined, that would certainly raise troubling questions about the peer review process at the Annals of Applied Statistics. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/19/i-went-to-a-fight-and-a-hockey-stick-broke-out/ 19 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/19/david-koch-proposition-23ab-32/ There is another powerful out-of-state fossil fuel interest trying to eviscerate California’s pioneering climate change law: Koch Industries. The Wonk Room has learned that Koch Industries is funding the lead “grassroots” group organizing support for Proposition 23, and is also funding the Pacific Research Institute, the main think-tank producing junk studies smearing AB 32. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/19/david-koch-proposition-23ab-32/ 19 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=61 18 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/18/massachusetts-cap-and-trade-helps-carlson-orchards-go-solar/ One of the largest orchards in Massachusetts has just cut its utility bill 80% with a $1.1 million 220 KW solar power plant. The state of Massachusetts helped Carlson Orchards with grants totaling $595,000 to help in the installation of the 1,050 solar photovoltaic panels. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/18/massachusetts-cap-and-trade-helps-carlson-orchards-go-solar/ 18 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013983-54.html Tres Amigas, which counts American Superconductor as a stakeholder, claims its super hub and storage facility would be able to move substantial amounts of power among the three systems. The facility will use Xtreme Power's grid storage and management technology in an attempt to decrease brown-outs by offering more reliability and stability across the U.S., and enable renewable-energy sources like wind and solar to be better utilized. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013983-54.html 18 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Green Tech http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/can-renewables-catch-break A few weeks ago, I reported that the Senate was planning to use $1.5 billion in funds from a renewable energy loan program designed to get new solar-panel manufactureres, geothermal generators, and other major renewable projects off the ground to pay teachers and fund Medicaid. Well, the Senate did in fact dip into the fund, as did the House, meaning Congress has now depleted more than half of the program designed to boost renewables. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/can-renewables-catch-break 18 Aug 2010 16:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/18/massachusetts_orders_nstar_to_rebid_3_wind_farm_contracts/ The state Department of Public Utilities has ordered the utility NStar to rebid three renewable energy contracts awarded to wind farms in Western Massachusetts and include out-of-state projects that could yield cheaper prices for consumers. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/18/massachusetts_orders_nstar_to_rebid_3_wind_farm_contracts/ 18 Aug 2010 16:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.grist.org/article/2010-08-17-what-climate-activists-need-to-learn-from-nra-gun-control-wars/ Supporters of climate-change legislation have much to learn from an organization that is often rated as the most powerful lobby in Washington: the National Rifle Association. http://www.grist.org/article/2010-08-17-what-climate-activists-need-to-learn-from-nra-gun-control-wars/ 18 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/18/api-chief-economist-admits-taxes-on-oil-industry-can-create-millions-of-jobs/ Contrary to API’s portrayal, “Green Recovery,” the 2008 report prepared by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, did not actually model taxes, but compared levels of investment into the oil and gas industry versus clean industry (renewables and efficiency). The analysis found that a ten-year $100 billion shift in capital from polluting energy to clean energy would create two million new jobs with a loss of only 500,000 jobs in the oil and gas sector. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/18/api-chief-economist-admits-taxes-on-oil-industry-can-create-millions-of-jobs/ 18 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-harrington/death-by-growth-what-the_b_681901.html The killer the coroners don't see because they don't want to see it, even though it's almost impossible to miss. It's the biggest force in politics. It's the top issue in almost every election, and especially this one. It's mentioned in every stump speech. Top world leaders meet several times a year to discuss how to promote it. It's the economy stupid. And, no, not the recession. Not the lack of growth, but growth itself. Or, rather, the government's unwavering devotion to advancing it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-harrington/death-by-growth-what-the_b_681901.html 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67G14O20100817 China Huaneng Group Corp and Datang Corp, the country's top power producers, plan to float shares of their renewable energy units in Hong Kong in offerings that could raise over $2 billion, sources close to the deals said on Tuesday. The deals are unfolding as China aggressively develops its renewable energy sector and the nation's biggest power firms look to boost investment in the industry to drive future growth. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67G14O20100817 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41192.html Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts over the well-established link between man-made greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41192.html 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT POLITICO.com: Congress http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727735.600-stop-wasting-food-save-the-worlds-energy.html The scandal of food waste is even worse when you consider how much energy is being thrown away. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727735.600-stop-wasting-food-save-the-worlds-energy.html 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/oil-change-senate-clean-up.php The U.S. Senate has become a place that produces imperfect policy, when it does produce policy, and the rest of the time the members of the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" are off raising money. One thing they are not doing is taking action on our dependance on dirty fossil fuels, which is why Oil Change International has launched CleanUptheSenate.com. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/oil-change-senate-clean-up.php 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT TreeHugger http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/cuccinelli-uva-court-0435.html An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge will hear arguments on Friday regarding Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s request for University of Virginia documents related to government grants climate scientist Michael Mann received when he was on its faculty. http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/cuccinelli-uva-court-0435.html 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/18/1/ Devastating flooding that has swamped one-fifth of Pakistan and left millions homeless is likely the worst natural disaster to date attributable to climate change, U.N. officials and climatologists are now openly saying. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/18/1/ 18 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=60 17 Aug 2010 23:30 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://energy.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2010/08/stretch-energy-code-coming-soon-to-a-town-or-city-near-you.html Forty-five Massachusetts cities and towns have already adopted the “stretch code,” which requires higher energy efficiency levels in new construction and additions to residential and commercial buildings, and in major home renovations. Adopting this optional code has helped 35 municipalities become “Green Communities,” making them eligible for state grant funding. http://energy.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2010/08/stretch-energy-code-coming-soon-to-a-town-or-city-near-you.htmlhttp://energy.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2010/08/stretch-energy-code-coming-soon-to-a-town-or-city-near-you.html 17 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Commonwealth Conversations: Energy Smarts http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/govt-pledges-actually-do-its-job-regulating-offshore-drilling On Monday, the federal government issued new guidance on the permitting and oversight of offshore drilling, vowing to end the rubber-stamping of new operations that had become standard for agencies. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/govt-pledges-actually-do-its-job-regulating-offshore-drilling 17 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-significance-of-the-CO2-lag.html The CO2 lag is evidence of a climate positive feedback. http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-significance-of-the-CO2-lag.html 17 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Skeptical Science http://www.telegram.com/article/20100816/NEWS/100819757/1116 Republican Charles D. Baker and independent candidate Timothy P. Cahill attacked Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s programs to promote wind and solar energy as too costly, during an energy debate tonight. Both said they favor increased use of nuclear power. http://www.telegram.com/article/20100816/NEWS/100819757/1116 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCjlywOJyCu1MSGH7FUqj7jD1c1QD9HL5RUO2 Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCjlywOJyCu1MSGH7FUqj7jD1c1QD9HL5RUO2 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/un-environment-programme-_n_684562.html UN Environment Programme: 200 Species Extinct Every Day, Unlike Anything Since Dinosaurs Disappeared 65 Million Years Ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/un-environment-programme-_n_684562.html 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727740.101-race-to-save-pakistans-agriculture.html The country must find a way to clear out its irrigation system and plant the winter wheat crop http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727740.101-race-to-save-pakistans-agriculture.html 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/weather-extremes-and-climate-change/ A recent research paper shows that the United States is setting far more record high temperatures than record lows, consistent with the evidence that the earth is slowly warming up. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/weather-extremes-and-climate-change/ 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/we-waste-how-much-water-on-coal.php We usually give coal the stink eye for the ways it harms the earth's surface when it is extracted, and the way it harms the earth's systems when it is burned. But we also need to hone in on the way coal harms our fresh water supplies. Between 800 and 3,000 gallons of water are used to extract, process and dispose each ton of coal. And with 1 billion tons of coal used per year in the US, that equates to as much as 75 trillion gallons of water wasted on dirty energy each year http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/we-waste-how-much-water-on-coal.php 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT TreeHugger http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2553 A spike in ocean temperatures has devastated coral reef populations off the Indonesian coast this summer, bleaching more than 60 percent of the coral off Aceh province, scientists say http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2553 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817090756.htm The basis for solar energy is absorbing light and then effectively disassociating electrical charges. Researchers report that conjugated polymers are excellent materials for such a system, thanks to their light absorption and conduction properties. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817090756.htm 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817103352.htm Many Americans believe they can save energy with small behavior changes that actually achieve very little, and severely underestimate the major effects of switching to efficient, currently available technologies, says a new survey of Americans in 34 states. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817103352.htm 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/17/offshore_drilling_to_undergo_tighter_review/ The Obama administration said yesterday that it would require significantly more environmental review before approving new offshore drilling permits, ending a practice in which government regulators essentially rubber-stamped potentially hazardous deepwater projects like BP’s blown-out well. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/17/offshore_drilling_to_undergo_tighter_review/ 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/17/leaked_oil_could_cause_long_term_health_woes/ Gulf Coast residents and crews cleaning up some of the 206 million gallons of oil that gushed into the gulf from a broken BP wellhead may suffer long-term health problems, including breathing difficulties, skin ailments, mental health effects, and cancer, researchers said. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/17/leaked_oil_could_cause_long_term_health_woes/ 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/17/1/ From Norway to New Delhi, leaders are struggling to define the World Bank's role in eradicating energy poverty while keeping a lid on carbon emissions. The global financial institution currently is revamping its blueprint for funding energy projects, a document it hopes to present to its board of directors by mid-2011. But in doing so, the bank finds itself confronting head-on some of the formidable policy questions that it previously had been able to resolve on a project-by-project basis. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/17/1/ 17 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=59 16 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/16/ga_scientists_gulf_oil_not_gone_80_pct_remains/ Georgia scientists say their analysis shows that most of that BP oil the government said was gone from the Gulf of Mexico is still there. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/16/ga_scientists_gulf_oil_not_gone_80_pct_remains/ 16 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/hockey-stick-paper-mcshane-and-wyner-statisticians/ Part 1: The Police Lineup - But who killed the Medieval Warm Period? http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/hockey-stick-paper-mcshane-and-wyner-statisticians/ 16 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Climate Progress http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/08/one_meteorologists_view_of_ext.html Stu Ostro, senior meteorologist for The Weather Channel, is a rare breed of meteorologist who is increasingly focused on the intersection between climate and weather. A former climate change skeptic, he has compiled a lengthy presentation showing changes in weather patterns that he believes may be related to climate change. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/08/one_meteorologists_view_of_ext.html 16 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Climate Central - Breaking News, Blogs & Features http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/levels-plummet-in-crucial-reservoir/ Water levels in Lake Mead, the Colorado River reservoir, fell sharply again this summer and are nearing an elevation that would trigger the first-ever official water shortage on the river, reports say. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/levels-plummet-in-crucial-reservoir/ 16 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.rmi.org/rmi/BrightNetsGMInvestment Last week, RMI spinoff Bright Automotive announced it netted $5 million from GM. Now the company has a new COO—former Tesla and Chrysler exec Mike Donoughe. http://www.rmi.org/rmi/BrightNetsGMInvestment 16 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT RMI.org http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19319-deep-blue-ocean-gyres-mean-fewer-tropical-storms.html Plankton have a lot to answer for. By colouring ocean waters, the microscopic plants encourage hurricanes and typhoons. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19319-deep-blue-ocean-gyres-mean-fewer-tropical-storms.html 16 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/global-brightening-global-dimming/ Physicist John Cook of Skeptical Science has two good pieces on global dimming and global brightening http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/global-brightening-global-dimming/ 16 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/for-lean-budgets-a-plug-and-play-solar-system/ For eco-conscious homeowners who have considered a solar system for their rooftops but have found the cost and complexity daunting, Clarian Power thinks it has an idea. The Seattle-based clean tech start-up is developing a “plug-and-play” solar appliance called the Sunfish that will generate clean solar electricity for the home. “You bring it home and plug it in, just like a refrigerator, and it will cost about the same,” said the company’s president, Chad Maglaque. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/for-lean-budgets-a-plug-and-play-solar-system/ 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/16/1/ Congress has "left state regulators in the lurch" by failing to set new national climate policy that could guide regulators' decisions on the fate of coal-fired electric power generators in their states, the new chairman of a task force on climate policy says. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/16/1/ 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/16/2/ "The science really hasn't caught up with the observations," Jason Box, a climate scientist at Ohio State University, said of those results, which he will present at a scientific meeting this week in Ohio. "The observations are showing really dramatic changes. There is an element of surprise. The fact that there is so much change in northern Greenland is not something the community is aware of yet." http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/16/2/ 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/wild-weather-justifies-gl_b_682209.html Dr Reese Halter is a Science Communicator: Voice for Ecology, and a conservation biologist at Cal Lutheran University http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/wild-weather-justifies-gl_b_682209.html 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/tnr-the-unnecessary-fall-of-barack-obama-progressive-messaging/ Those in power right now do messaging poorly — and that certainly extends to team Obama. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/tnr-the-unnecessary-fall-of-barack-obama-progressive-messaging/ 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/pat-michaels-global-warming-denier-cato-big-oil/ In a telling exchange with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, long-time polluter apologist Pat Michaels conceded that the real challenge of solving manmade global warming is simply the “political acceptability” of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels as climate catastrophes grow. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/16/pat-michaels-global-warming-denier-cato-big-oil/ 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/09/09climatewire-a-man-who-doesnt-want-his-work-to-go-up-in-s-91513.html "Though firefighting activities required just a 13% slice of the Forest Service's budget in 1991, they now engulf almost half of the agency's budget. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/09/09climatewire-a-man-who-doesnt-want-his-work-to-go-up-in-s-91513.html 16 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=58 15 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/15/new-york-times-front-page-story-in-weather-chaos-a-case-for-global-warming/ Trenberth: “It’s not the right question to ask if this storm or that storm is due to global warming, or is it natural variability. Nowadays, there’s always an element of both.” http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/15/new-york-times-front-page-story-in-weather-chaos-a-case-for-global-warming/ 15 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/15/stu-ostro-weather-channel-global-warming/ Former Weather Channel "adamant skeptic" says "it's a case of Weather Gone Wiggy": The "nature" of extreme weather "is changing along with changing atmospheric moisture, stability, and circulation patterns." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/15/stu-ostro-weather-channel-global-warming/ 15 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/15/james-cameron-environment_n_682586.html Earth Day Network is enlisting groups in 15 countries to plant 1 million trees this year with "Avatar" movie director James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/15/james-cameron-environment_n_682586.html 15 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/us-brazil-debt.php On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/us-brazil-debt.php 15 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT TreeHugger http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Saturday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=57 14 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5inGfVX69zbp-Gs4_y0FEdtLKMLeA A giant iceberg that snapped away from Greenland last week is a signal that global warming is causing the island's continent-sized ice cap to melt faster than expected, scientists say. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5inGfVX69zbp-Gs4_y0FEdtLKMLeA 14 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67C2JC20100813?type=GCA-GreenBusiness Companies in energy-intensive sectors such as oil production, chemicals and transport are doing too little to combat climate change, Norway's $455 billion sovereign wealth fund said on Friday. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67C2JC20100813?type=GCA-GreenBusiness 14 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/14/climate-experts-agree-global-warming-caused-russian-heat-wave/ Rob Carver, the Research and Development Scientist for Weather Underground: "Without contributions from anthropogenic climate change, I don’t think this event would have reached such extremes or even happened at all." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/14/climate-experts-agree-global-warming-caused-russian-heat-wave/ 14 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.skepticalscience.com/3-levels-of-cherry-picking-in-a-single-argument.html To properly understand what's happening to our climate, you have to consider the full body of evidence. Most arguments that support climate skepticism have one thing in common - they neglect the full body of evidence and cherry pick just the select pieces of data that support a particular point of view. http://www.skepticalscience.com/3-levels-of-cherry-picking-in-a-single-argument.html 14 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Skeptical Science http://thearcticsounder.com/article/1032borehole_network_confirms_permafrost_is An expanded network of boreholes across the northern hemisphere has confirmed that permafrost throughout polar and sub-polar regions is thawing, say scientists who studied the topic during International Polar Year. http://thearcticsounder.com/article/1032borehole_network_confirms_permafrost_is 14 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Friday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=56 13 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/13/pakistan-flood-global-warming-helicopters/ Obama admin triples number of helicopters sent for flood relief http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/13/pakistan-flood-global-warming-helicopters/ 13 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT Climate Progress http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/energy-funds-went-unspent-u-s-auditor-says/ Only about 8.4 percent of the $3.2 billion voted by Congress for energy efficiency projects has been disbursed, a report says. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/energy-funds-went-unspent-u-s-auditor-says/ 13 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/wall-street-mountaintop-removal-pnc-rainforest-action-network Over the past two years, many of the world's biggest banks have limited or severed ties with one of the world's most environmentally destructive practices, mountaintop removal mining. http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/wall-street-mountaintop-removal-pnc-rainforest-action-network 13 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/13/1/ There are a growing number of companies and investors that are betting this conventional wisdom is wrong. They are supporting technologies that will separate and then trap carbon emissions in a series of "beneficial products" that can be shipped to markets and sold at a profit. That, they assert, will avoid the need for much of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure now on energy planners' drawing boards. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/13/1/ 13 Aug 2010 15:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=55 12 Aug 2010 22:15 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/alabama-sues-bp-over-gulf-oil-spill_n_680876.html Alabama's attorney general is suing BP and others over the Gulf oil spill because he says the oil company has broken too many promises about accepting responsibility for the disaster. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/alabama-sues-bp-over-gulf-oil-spill_n_680876.html 12 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-12/climate-rules-are-needed-for-carbon-capture-scheme-to-be-viable-u-s-says.html Climate-change legislation to force reductions in greenhouse gases is a necessary ingredient to the widespread deployment of a process to store carbon pollution from coal plants, a U.S. task force said today in a report. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-12/climate-rules-are-needed-for-carbon-capture-scheme-to-be-viable-u-s-says.html 12 Aug 2010 21:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/12/nasa-hottest-year-on-record-what-global-warming-looks-like/ WMO: "Unprecedented sequence of extreme weather events ... matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming." http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/12/nasa-hottest-year-on-record-what-global-warming-looks-like/ 12 Aug 2010 21:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/12/hell-and-high-water-finally-gets-medias-attention-but-are-moscows-1000-year-heat-wave-and-pakistans-katrina-linked/ Moscow’s 1000-year heat wave and “Pakistan’s Katrina” - BBC, Reuters, USA Today, Time link warming and extreme weather; Trenberth, Stott, and Masters explain the science http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/12/hell-and-high-water-finally-gets-medias-attention-but-are-moscows-1000-year-heat-wave-and-pakistans-katrina-linked/ 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A3JK20100811 Alternative energy investment prospects have shriveled in the United States after the U.S. Senate was unable to break a deadlock over tackling global warming, a Deutsche Bank official said. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A3JK20100811 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.thenation.com/article/153908/we-have-yet-see-biggest-costs-bp-spill A great deal of organizing is demanding a zero-carbon future and reparations for environmental harm done by the rich to the poor. For these efforts to succeed, the BP spill must be a wake-up call – to re-imagine our economy, politics and energy needs, or else to calculate just how much more we are willing to lose. http://www.thenation.com/article/153908/we-have-yet-see-biggest-costs-bp-spill 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.physorg.com/news200819650.html Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. http://www.physorg.com/news200819650.html 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT PHYSorg.com: Earth Sciences News http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/epa-faces-climate-backlash-enviros The Environmental Protection Agency's plan to roll out regulations on planet-warming gases may hit a snag in the coming months—opposition from environmentalists. While industry groups are mounting major legal challenges to the agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases, the EPA's decision to scale back the number of pollution sources subject to these new rules has raised the ire of greens who worry the agency isn't being aggressive enough. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/epa-faces-climate-backlash-enviros 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/12/2/ A string of devastating natural disasters many are attributing to climate change has sent food prices on a roller coaster ride, leading to fears of a wave of climate-induced food price shocks of the sort that sparked rioting in the developing world two years ago. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/12/2/ 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/12/1/ California is not normally regarded as being in "coal country" because it gets most of its electricity from plants that burn natural gas. But coal-producing Western states, such as Wyoming, are anxious to see whether California's regulators will give power made from "decarbonized" coal or petcoke premium rates that make it competitive with electricity made from natural gas and wind power. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/12/1/ 12 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=54 11 Aug 2010 21:45 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/led-bulb-edges-below-20/ This week Home Depot fired a new marketing salvo in what is expected to be a broader national effort to get home customers to adopt LED lighting. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/led-bulb-edges-below-20/ 11 Aug 2010 18:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/11/stanford-poll-the-vast-majority-of-americans-know-global-warming-is-real/ Florida, Maine, and Massachusetts residents agree: Global warming is here and we're causing it. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/11/stanford-poll-the-vast-majority-of-americans-know-global-warming-is-real/ 11 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://theenergycollective.com/taylenpeterson/41346/free-solar-panels-25-million-uk-households HomeSun, a British solar company, has announced that it will spend £1 billion (US$1.6 billion) on a free solar panel giveaway to British households. HomeSun plans to recoup its massive investment through earnings from government feed-in tariffs to promote solar power installation. http://theenergycollective.com/taylenpeterson/41346/free-solar-panels-25-million-uk-households 11 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=16233 Preliminary data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that China has become the largest energy consumer in the world, having overtaken the United States in the top spot. An IEA chart shows China using roughly 2.25 billion tons of oil last year, while the United States used roughly 2.2 billion tons of oil in 2009. http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=16233 11 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/clean_energy_raids.html Congress Shortchanges a Key Component of Our Clean Energy Future. Taking $1.5 billion out of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program can ultimately prevent as much as $24 billion in clean energy investments. This program allows the Department of Energy to guarantee the debt of privately owned clean energy developers. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/08/clean_energy_raids.html 11 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Center for American Progress - Energy and Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/11/new-york-times-makes-excuses-while-portugal-shows-u-s-how-to-move-forward/ Yesterday’s New York Times article (“Portugal Gives Itself a Clean Energy Makeover”) on Portugal’s transition to a clean energy economy should be welcome news for renewable energy advocates. Portugal’s experience validates what we’ve all been saying for years: reliance on fossil fuels is dangerous, renewables are affordable, and extensive use of renewable electricity is technically possible. Unfortunately, the article “balances” all of these lessons with misleading comparisons to the United States and wildly overblown descriptions of the cost and difficulty of the transition. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/11/new-york-times-makes-excuses-while-portugal-shows-u-s-how-to-move-forward/ 11 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told Congress today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point 11 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10919460 Global climate change is partly to blame for the abnormally hot and dry weather in Moscow, cloaked in a haze of smoke from wildfires, say researchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10919460 11 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=53 10 Aug 2010 21:45 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/noaa-tried-hide-evidence-undersea-oil-plumes Speaking of the BP cover-up, there are two very important pieces of news today about the extent to which the real impacts of the disaster have been hidden. In the St. Petersburg Times, Craig Pittman has this scathing report on how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration attempted to silence scientists who discovered the vast undersea plumes of dispersed oil in the Gulf. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/noaa-tried-hide-evidence-undersea-oil-plumes 10 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/10/coakley_backs_cape_wind_national_grid_contract/ Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday urged state regulators to approve National Grid’s contract to purchase electricity from the offshore energy project Cape Wind, after she got the two companies to agree to a nearly 10 percent reduction in the price of the wind power. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/10/coakley_backs_cape_wind_national_grid_contract/ 10 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100810/full/466802a.html Researchers see major uncertainties in Deepwater Horizon spill assessment. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100810/full/466802a.html 10 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT NatureNews - Earth and Environment - nature.com science feeds http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82:ban-announces-high-level-panel-to-tackle-global-sustainability-issuesinability-issues&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=71 A new panel of on global sustainability was revealed on Monday by Ban Ki-moon, United Nations’ secretary-general, asked to ”think big” about ways to “lift people out of poverty while tackling climate change and ensuring that economic development is environmentally friendly”. http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82:ban-announces-high-level-panel-to-tackle-global-sustainability-issuesinability-issues&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=71 10 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/09/floods-mudslides-drought-extreme-weather How victims of extreme weather conditions and natural disaster are faring around the world http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/09/floods-mudslides-drought-extreme-weather 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2010/update89 No one knows how far grain prices will rise in the months ahead. What we do know, however, is that the prices of wheat, corn, and soybeans are actually somewhat higher in early August 2010 than they were in early August 2007, when the record-breaking 2007–08 run-up in grain prices began http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2010/update89 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT EPI Releases http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/atlantic-hotter-than-before-katrina-makes-gray-boost-hurricane-forecasts.html With two months of the hurricane season gone, the statistics of the past 15 years show now is the time when it worsens. Forecasters blame rising temperatures in the Atlantic that feed storm development, and diminishing wind shear and dust from the Sahara, obstacles to storm formation. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/atlantic-hotter-than-before-katrina-makes-gray-boost-hurricane-forecasts.html 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/bp-delaying-payment-claims-oil-spill_n_676493.html BP claims director Darryl Willis said the company isn't deliberately delaying. Rather, 26,000 pending claims are still being evaluated and thousands of others need more documentation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/bp-delaying-payment-claims-oil-spill_n_676493.html 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/bp-oil-spill-fund-deal-close-obama_n_676489.html The Obama administration and BP PLC are close to a deal to use future revenues from the oil giant's Gulf of Mexico operations to guarantee its $20 billion cleanup and compensation fund, a move that would give both sides an incentive to continue production in the Gulf, scene of the U.S.'s worst-ever offshore oil spill. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/bp-oil-spill-fund-deal-close-obama_n_676489.html 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/rising-sea-levels-threaten-drinking-water-supplies-for-15-million-east-coast-residents.php The problem of sea level rise is usually discussed in terms of the dislocation of people away from coastlines, or even whole islands. But sea level rise has another dire impact: the loss of freshwater drinking supplies. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/rising-sea-levels-threaten-drinking-water-supplies-for-15-million-east-coast-residents.php 10 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT TreeHugger http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/automobiles/08CHARGE.html For electric car naysayers and doubting consumers, range anxiety is the showstopper. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/automobiles/08CHARGE.html 10 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013151-54.html The Rocky Mountain state is in line to host the world's largest concentrated solar farm, courtesy of companies backed by Goldman Sachs. http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013151-54.html 10 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Green Tech http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19289-green-machine-dont-burn-plant-waste-bury-it.html Converting plant waste to biochar leads to bigger cuts in carbon emissions than turning it into biofuels – and brings other benefits too. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19289-green-machine-dont-burn-plant-waste-bury-it.html 10 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT New Scientist - Environment http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=52 09 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/gulfs-wildlife-casualties-rising-fast More injured and dead wildlife has been found in the 25 days since BP capped the well than when it was still spewing. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/gulfs-wildlife-casualties-rising-fast 09 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/07/chamber-commerce-climate-NRDC-CICE A new split over climate policy is brewing within the ranks of the US Chamber of Commerce as a breakaway group of local chambers is getting ready to publicly split with the business lobby's hardline stance against climate legislation. The new climate coalition, known as the Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE), will press Congress to take stronger action on climate and energy issues. It has already signed up about a dozen chambers and will officially launch later this year. http://beta.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/07/chamber-commerce-climate-NRDC-CICE 09 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/bp-spill-still-big-problem.php It irks me that I have to write a headline like that, but with so much of the media's BP spill coverage painting pictures of a harmonious, oil-free Gulf, I can't underscore enough the fact that this thing is far, far, far from over. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/bp-spill-still-big-problem.php 09 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT TreeHugger http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100809/wl_csm/318660_1 Russia's ongoing heat wave, along with its disastrous fallout, may have finally persuaded the Kremlin to combat climate change. http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100809/wl_csm/318660_1 09 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/09/russia-heat-wave-one-thousand-years-global-warming/ Masters: Over 15,000 likely dead in Russia, 17 nations comprising 19% of Earth's total land area set extreme heat records this year, July was "sixth straight record warm month in the tropical Atlantic". http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/09/russia-heat-wave-one-thousand-years-global-warming/ 09 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HFNL700.htm China's government has ordered 2,087 steel and cement mills and other factories with poor energy efficiency to close as it struggles to cut waste and improve the country's battered environment. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HFNL700.htm 09 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/strong-climateclean-energ_b_675148.html Big corporations will always oppose, and will always lie to oppose, anything that might impact their bottom line. Moreover, change is hard, it asks people to relinquish a present that they know, for a future they do not know. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/strong-climateclean-energ_b_675148.html 09 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100809/full/466806a.html Study shows that stripping mountains for coal has a much greater impact than urban growth. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100809/full/466806a.html 09 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT NatureNews - Earth and Environment - nature.com science feeds http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=51 08 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/08/brightsource-to-build-largest-concentrating-solar-power-plant/ On August 4th, 2010, Brightsource Energy Inc., an Oakland, California-based developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced that the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) siting committee recommended approval of what will be the world’s largest solar energy project. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/08/brightsource-to-build-largest-concentrating-solar-power-plant/ 08 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Climate Progress http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100808/ap_on_an/climate_change_shared_vision_analysis_2 The new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 2 1/2 years begins with a brief document called "A Shared Vision." The problem is, there isn't one. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100808/ap_on_an/climate_change_shared_vision_analysis_2 08 Aug 2010 13:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Saturday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=50 07 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/07/russian-heat-wave-drought-soil-moisture-wheat/ Masters: "The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 continues.... Thousands of deaths, severe fires, and the threat of radioactive contamination" http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/07/russian-heat-wave-drought-soil-moisture-wheat/ 07 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Climate Progress http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/new-paths-for-scrubbing-out-the-carbon/ Three technologies lead the pack for capturing the carbon dioxide in coal while also harnessing the energy. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/new-paths-for-scrubbing-out-the-carbon/ 07 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/06/06greenwire-sen-kerry-pushes-tax-extenders-as-broader-ener-16816.html Having failed to advance a sweeping climate and energy bill this year, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is pushing a narrower energy package that would extend tax incentives for renewable energy, natural gas vehicles and energy efficiency. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/06/06greenwire-sen-kerry-pushes-tax-extenders-as-broader-ener-16816.html 07 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100807205655.htm The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this is the direct result of the robust federal response efforts, according to a new report. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100807205655.htm 07 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Friday News Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=49 06 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175281/ Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming by Bill McKibben http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175281/ 06 Aug 2010 21:00 EDT TomDispatch - Blog http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/no-climate-bill-0433-1.html The Senate will adjourn for its August recess today without passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill – inaction the Union of Concerned Scientists called “infuriating, distressing and inexcusable.” In Absence of Federal Climate and Energy Bill, EPA and States Must Act to Reduce Carbon Pollution http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/no-climate-bill-0433-1.html 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/06/tesoro-prop-23-ab32/ This exclusive report by Wonk Room is part of a Progressive Media blogging series on the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California’s clean energy climate law. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/06/tesoro-prop-23-ab32/ 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/06/skeptical-sciences-android-or-iphone-app/ One of the best climate websites is SkepticalScience.com run by physicist John Cook. The goal of SkepticalScience is to “explain what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming” and answer the most common questions and objections raised both by the well-meaning doubters and the not-well-meaning disinformers. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/06/skeptical-sciences-android-or-iphone-app/ 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/business/energy-environment/06coal.html The Energy Department abruptly shifted course on Thursday on a flagship federal effort to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, saying it would not finance construction of a new plant in Mattoon, Ill. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/business/energy-environment/06coal.html 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/06/us_worried_about_climate_deal_this_year/ The chief U.S. climate negotiator says some countries are backing away from agreements they made at a summit meeting last December on a global warming deal. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/06/us_worried_about_climate_deal_this_year/ 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100806080220.htm The way that humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself unless we plan properly, an important new study by a group of leading scientists has concluded. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100806080220.htm 06 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Thursday News Posts Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=48 05 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/russia-medvedev-global-climate-change-drought-heat-wave-grain-harvest/ Russia is being devastated by extreme weather — and their leaders aren’t silent on what they think the cause is. On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country’s heatwave and drought. Everyone is talking about climate change now. Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past. This means that we need to change the way we work, change the methods that we used in the past.” http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/russia-medvedev-global-climate-change-drought-heat-wave-grain-harvest/ 05 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/forests/7929090/Climate-change-and-illegal-logging-could-wipe-out-rainforest-wildlife-by-2100.html Most of the plants and animals found in rainforests today could die out by the end of the century because of climate change and illegal logging, according to a new study http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/forests/7929090/Climate-change-and-illegal-logging-could-wipe-out-rainforest-wildlife-by-2100.html 05 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/06spill.html The cement job was completed earlier than expected, a major step in permanently bringing the well under control. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/06spill.html 05 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143051.htm It has been widely reported that the build up of carbon dioxide in the air, which is caused by human behavior, will likely lead to climate change and have major implications for life on earth. But less focus has been given to global warming's evil twin, ocean acidification, which occurs when CO2 lowers the pH of water bodies, making them more acidic. This lesser known phenomenon may have catastrophic effects on all sea life http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143051.htm 05 Aug 2010 16:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143001.htm In 2003, a massive heat wave struck and killed some 30,000 people in Europe in an area where heat was not considered a major threat. Similar mass die-offs occur in wild birds and some mammals during heat waves, but unlike humans, birds may not be able to take shelter or find fresh water in order to survive devastating heat. What is the outlook for desert bird communities in light of expected global temperature increases on Earth? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143001.htm 05 Aug 2010 16:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/a-climate-plan-b-for-team-obama/ Guest blogger Bill Becker is executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. He discusses a new PCAP report that details several ways President Obama can cut emissions using powers past Congress’s have already delegated to the Executive Branch. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/a-climate-plan-b-for-team-obama/ 05 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/un-panel-climate-change-f_n_671947.html Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/un-panel-climate-change-f_n_671947.html 05 Aug 2010 14:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/05/2/ A tiny knot of outliers -- eight Republicans -- left the House floor last summer facing threats of electoral ambush, "heartache" from constituents, and an online wanted poster declaring them turncoats. The challenges came. But the lawmakers are still around, more than a year after breaking ranks with 96 percent of their caucus to provide the deciding votes for a mega-bill that would make carbon dioxide a tradable commodity. They voted for cap and trade. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/05/2/ 05 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/energy-department-launches-blog-the-reality-of-solar-panels-at-50-cost/ The Department of Energy has launched a blog of its own. Secretary of Energy Chu explains it is “to show you who we are, what we do, and why it matters to you, while allowing you to connect with us in new and creative ways.” http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/05/energy-department-launches-blog-the-reality-of-solar-panels-at-50-cost/ 05 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Protected%20ocean%20areas%20save%20coral%20reefs%20from%20climate%20change%20research%20shows/3362085/story.html The conventional wisdom that marine reserves can save coral reefs from climate change is wishful thinking, according to Simon Fraser University researchers. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Protected%20ocean%20areas%20save%20coral%20reefs%20from%20climate%20change%20research%20shows/3362085/story.html 05 Aug 2010 10:00 EDT Daily Climate http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/04/us-economic-recovery-enangered-by-paralyzed-senate/ We Can Lead is posting a ticker on its website showing how the US is falling behind the world at the rate of $260 million per day in private investment in clean energy. This is due to the lack of climate legislation from the Senate putting a price on carbon. If there is no legislative push from behind, there is no real reason to end the procrastination against switching from dirty energy. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/04/us-economic-recovery-enangered-by-paralyzed-senate/ 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/04/news/companies/killed_oil_safety_reform.fortune/index.htm Democrats in the Senate rejected taking up a new oil spill response bill because of a dispute over who foots the costs of future spill cleanups and more importantly, how much those parties -- largely oil and exploration companies -- will pay. http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/04/news/companies/killed_oil_safety_reform.fortune/index.htm 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55232080-9fe8-11df-8cc5-00144feabdc0.html The future of carbon emissions trading in the US is in doubt because of the lack of cap-and-trade legislation, Jeff Sprecher, chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange , said on Wednesday. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55232080-9fe8-11df-8cc5-00144feabdc0.html 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/us/05transocean.html The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April had widespread safety concerns about several of its other rigs in the gulf, and a month before the disaster it commissioned a broad review of the safety culture of the company’s North American operations, according to confidential internal reports. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/us/05transocean.html 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1008/S00060/tackling-climate-change-in-pacific.htm Closer international cooperation is necessary to help Pacific island nations combat the impact of climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, pledging the United Nations commitment to mitigating the problem. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1008/S00060/tackling-climate-change-in-pacific.htm 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2301 As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2301 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/05/some_scientists_doubt_data_on_dissipation_of_oil_from_gulf/ In interviews scientists who worked on the report said the figures were based in large part on assumptions and estimates, educated guesses with a significant margin of error. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/05/some_scientists_doubt_data_on_dissipation_of_oil_from_gulf/ 05 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Wednesday News Posts Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=47 04 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/04/bp-dumping-oil-environmental-justice/ Meet a community that gets oil spilled in their front AND backyard – and find out how we can stop the damage. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/04/bp-dumping-oil-environmental-justice/ 04 Aug 2010 21:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www2.dupont.com/Media_Center/en_US/daily_news/august/article20100804.html DuPont is preparing for an early-2011 release of technology it says could dramatically increase the safety and performance of lithium-ion batteries and carve out a space for the U.S. chemical giant in the growing electric car market. http://www2.dupont.com/Media_Center/en_US/daily_news/august/article20100804.html 04 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/04/ecuador-oil-drilling-deal-un How much would you pay for the most biologically rich patch of land on Earth – some 675 sq miles of pristine Amazon, home to several barely contacted indigenous tribes, thousands of species of trees and nearly 1bn barrels of crude oil? Pioneering deal signed with UN sets up trust fund by wealthy countries worth half expected earnings from potential sale of oil http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/04/ecuador-oil-drilling-deal-un 04 Aug 2010 12:00 EDT Daily Climate http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=16212 DOE announced on August 2 that it will award $188 million—including $73 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding—to small businesses in 34 states to develop clean energy technologies with potential for commercialization. http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=16212 04 Aug 2010 11:30 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/bp-static-kill-is-working_n_669960.html Mud that was forced down a blown-out well was holding down the flow of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP said Wednesday. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/bp-static-kill-is-working_n_669960.html 04 Aug 2010 11:30 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/bp-magical-disappearing-oil-spill By now you've probably seen the headlines on a forthcoming government report that finds that three-quarters of the oil from the 4.9 million barrel Gulf spill has "evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated." The remaining oil, the government report says, is diluted and poses little threat. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/bp-magical-disappearing-oil-spill 04 Aug 2010 11:30 EDT Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/bps-next-disaster-are-you_b_670295.html As you read this, BP is already working to create their next disaster. What they are presently creating is even more dangerous and devastating than what they did in the Gulf, and even less regulated. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/bps-next-disaster-are-you_b_670295.html 04 Aug 2010 11:20 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/PFRU5Tk39pw/100803152817.htm Researchers in Israel are using naturally occurring oil-munching bacteria, grown in the lab, to clean the hard-to-reach oil pockets that occur when oil mixes with sand and organic matter on beaches and forms a thin layer on the waterway http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/PFRU5Tk39pw/100803152817.htm 04 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://earth2tech.com/2010/08/04/will-easy-recycling-be-a-selling-point-for-an-electric-car/ Last week the California Energy Commission proposed to award Green Vehicles a $2.05 million grant to help set up a pilot plant in Salinas, Calif. for building small three-wheeled electric vehicles designed for easy disassembly and recycling. The company earned the highest score among 11 companies listed for awards (another dozen didn’t make the cut). http://earth2tech.com/2010/08/04/will-easy-recycling-be-a-selling-point-for-an-electric-car/ 04 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/03/ED5Q1ELGDS.DTL Innovative technological ideas that originate from small American manufacturing companies often go unrewarded. Why? Because often those companies don’t have the ability to take their innovations to the world through an aggressive exporting program. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/03/ED5Q1ELGDS.DTL 04 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Tuesday News Posts Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=46 03 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/03/hottest-july-satellite-record-record-floods-pakistan-temperature-records-russia-heat-wav/ Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will Russia's deadly heat wave change its stance on climate change? http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/03/hottest-july-satellite-record-record-floods-pakistan-temperature-records-russia-heat-wav/ 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40597.html Reid skips vote on offshore drilling reforms after it became clear Democrats lacked the support. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40597.html 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT POLITICO.com: Congress http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/03/global-warming-to-exceed-15%C2%B0c-finds-report/ The world is likely to warm by an average of more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new report, but climate scientists regard a rise of more than 2 degrees as taking the planet beyond the limit of safety. http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/03/global-warming-to-exceed-15%C2%B0c-finds-report/ 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Financial Times (FT) Energy Source http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/03/environmental-organizations-and-appliance-manufacturers-sign-historic-efficiency-agreement/ A historic agreement has been signed by a consortium of appliance manufacturers and environmental groups that will keep 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere over 30 years by setting new Federal minimum standards that raise energy efficiency increases nationwide in a range of consumer appliances by 2014. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/03/environmental-organizations-and-appliance-manufacturers-sign-historic-efficiency-agreement/ 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weather-or-not-last-winte Just six months ago residents of the eastern U.S. were shoveling themselves out of the snowiest winter ever--weather that prompted mockery of global warming among some people . Now, scientists have a new explanation for why such anomalous snowstorms can coexist with global warming: The storms were kicked up by the convergence of two natural, large-scale weather patterns. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weather-or-not-last-winte 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Scientific American Topic - Global Warming http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/climate-policy-is-paralyzed-but-the-climate-isnt/ While American energy and climate policy remain paralyzed, physics isn’t standing still. And the science pointing to big, long-lasting consequences for the world from the buildup of greenhouse gases continues to accumulate. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/climate-policy-is-paralyzed-but-the-climate-isnt/ 03 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-29/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-12-times-support-for-renewables-study-shows.html Governments last year gave $43 billion to $46 billion of support to renewable energy through tax credits, feed-in tariffs and alternative energy credits, a London-based research group reports. That compares with the $557 billion spent to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-29/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-12-times-support-for-renewables-study-shows.html 03 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/va-attorney-general-continues-misrepresent-science-04032.html Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s July 13 court filing requesting documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann from the University of Virginia contains even more false and misleading claims than his June 11 filing, according to an analysis by UCS. http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/va-attorney-general-continues-misrepresent-science-04032.html 03 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT Union of Concerned Scientists http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Monday News Posts Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=45 02 Aug 2010 23:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/feds-dramatically-increas_n_668149.html BP's disastrous oil well explosion sent over 4 million barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard announced Monday, dramatically increasing the most recent federal estimate. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/feds-dramatically-increas_n_668149.html 02 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/08/science-war-room-needed-for-bp-oil-catastrophe/ Experienced Science Leadership Needed to Cope with Crisis http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/08/science-war-room-needed-for-bp-oil-catastrophe/ 02 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Center for American Progress - Energy and Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/enbridge-oil-company-block-media-access-michigan-oil-spill/ As Yogi Berra said, it’s déjà vu all over again. BP worked hard to keep journalists away from their disaster. Now, in the wake of its own oil spill, Enbridge is apparently learning from the best, which is to say the worst. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/enbridge-oil-company-block-media-access-michigan-oil-spill/ 02 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.cleantechblog.com/2010/08/more-charge-for-grid-storage.html Although energy storage for the power grid offers great promise to augment the smart grid, facilitate more application of intermittent solar and wind generation and improve power quality, the costs of such technologies have generally been prohibitive relative to the economic benefits that they enable. Accordingly, grid storage has been relegated to a relatively small niche in the cleantech community. That may be about to change. http://www.cleantechblog.com/2010/08/more-charge-for-grid-storage.html 02 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Cleantech Blog http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/tom-zeller-errors-heat-wave-global-warming/ As nation, Russia, and world swelter under record heat, NY Times' Tom Zeller publishes dreadful he-said/she-said, quote-mining piece http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/tom-zeller-errors-heat-wave-global-warming/ 02 Aug 2010 19:00 EDT Climate Progress http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/citing-tests-e-p-a-says-it-was-wise-to-use-oil-dispersant/ The idea of fighting one toxic chemical, oil, with another, dispersant, does not sit well with all parties. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/citing-tests-e-p-a-says-it-was-wise-to-use-oil-dispersant/ 02 Aug 2010 17:00 EDT NYT > Environment http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/washington-post-on-the-truth-about-global-warming/ IN A DEPRESSING case of irony by juxtaposition, the death of climate change legislation in the Senate has been followed by the appearance of two government reports in the past week that underscore the overwhelming scientific case for global warming — and go out of the way to repudiate skeptics. So opens “The truth about global warming,” an editorial in today’s Washington Post. Apparently lost on the editors is the other equally depressing case of irony by juxtaposition. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/02/washington-post-on-the-truth-about-global-warming/ 02 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/gulf-oil-spill-seafood-smell-test_n_667166.html Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/gulf-oil-spill-seafood-smell-test_n_667166.html 02 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Green on HuffingtonPost.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/figueres-urges-smaller-steps-on-climate-change-as-un-warming-talks-resume.html Costa Ricas Christiana Figueres took charge of United Nations climate talks, calling on nations to do the politically possible and take smaller steps rather than striving for an all-encompassing deal to halt global warming. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/figueres-urges-smaller-steps-on-climate-change-as-un-warming-talks-resume.html 02 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Yahoo! News Search Results for climate change http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2531 Restoring damaged rainforest is a more effective way of capturing carbon than cultivating industrial, single-species tree plantations, according to a new study http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2531 02 Aug 2010 11:00 EDT Yale Environment 360 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/johns-hopkins-launches-magazine-focused-on-global-water-issues.php Johns Hopkins University has taken a keen interest in global water issues and created a platform for discussion. The world-renowned university has launched a magazine centered entirely around topics like ownership and rights to water, emerging technologies for purification, and how experts will shape the future of our water supplies over the next 40 years. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/johns-hopkins-launches-magazine-focused-on-global-water-issues.php 02 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT TreeHugger http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-01/bp-will-begin-permanent-plug-of-macondo-well-in-gulf-of-mexico-this-week.html BP Plc plans this week to inject mud down its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico to begin permanently plugging the source of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-01/bp-will-begin-permanent-plug-of-macondo-well-in-gulf-of-mexico-this-week.html 02 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/02/1/ For nearly a year Christine and Tim Ruggiero have battled the powerful Texas oil and gas industry and the inertia of regulators responsible for protecting air quality and public health. http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2010/08/02/1/ 02 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT ClimateWire - The Politics and Business of Climate Change http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=26 — Sunday News Posts Below — http://sustainablearlington.org/sa15/sa-blog/global-warming-news?start=44 01 Aug 2010 24:00 EDT Sustainable Arlington http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/01/nuclear-projects-looking-for-a-savior/ This post is about two nuclear reactors that are an urgent matter to some (in the nuclear industry and politics) and also, potentially, the source of a very big bill for U.S. taxpayers. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/01/nuclear-projects-looking-for-a-savior/ 01 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/01/historic-report-solar-energy-costs-now-lower-than-nuclear-energy/ Now, a new report out of Duke University says that solar energy and nuclear energy have passed a “historic crossover,” where decreasing solar energy costs and increasing nuclear energy costs have met, and then parted. Solar energy is now cheaper than nuclear energy and is getting increasingly cheaper every day. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/01/historic-report-solar-energy-costs-now-lower-than-nuclear-energy/ 01 Aug 2010 22:00 EDT CleanTechnica http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/31/coast_guard_allows_toxic_chemical_use_on_gulf_oil/ The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said Saturday after examining BP and government documents. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/31/coast_guard_allows_toxic_chemical_use_on_gulf_oil/ 01 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Boston.com - Science news http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/01/finding-vegetables-in-unexpected-places/ “In the city of Detroit, the most accessible food-related establishments are party stores, dollar stores, fast-food restaurants, and gas stations,” states the city’s Food Security Policy, which lays out Detroit’s plan for ensuring its residents have access to healthy and affordable food. Urban agriculture is an important part of the solution. http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/01/finding-vegetables-in-unexpected-places/ 01 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Climate Progress http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/01/insects-food-emissions The raising of livestock such as cows, pigs and sheep occupies two-thirds of the world's farmland and generates 20% of the greenhouse gases driving global warming. The UN and senior figures want to reduce the amount of meat we eat and the search is on for alternatives. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/01/insects-food-emissions 01 Aug 2010 09:00 EDT Daily Climate