Mary Ellen Harte2013-05-22T19:58:53-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=mary-ellen-harteCopyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc.HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Mary Ellen HarteGood old fashioned elbow grease.Climate Change This Week: SheerWind, Damation, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.33081282013-05-20T15:36:20-04:002013-05-20T15:36:23-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/We're At 400 PPM - Last Time THAT Happened, the Arctic was 14oF Warmer, says a new study, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, indicating the planet is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide levels than once thought - and that it might be far warmer for our descendents than we thought. Sounds like we will be leaving them a hell on earth...
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"Allowing decisions to be based on the needs and desires of one industry are likely to be disastrous for the country at large."
Mariann Spontak, NRDC Switchboard comment, May 17, 2013
We don't have to go far for examples of this in the US...
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OO SheerWind Promises Wind Energy as Cheap as Gas, says the company about its radical new wind turbine that will deliver energy far more efficiently and cheaply... stay tuned...
A radical new wind turbine, Credit Sheerwind.com
OO 2014 To Be A 7,000 Megawatt Year For US Wind Power while Warren Buffett vastly expands his Iowa wind turbines this year...
OO Streamlining Local Solar Permitting Means Far Cheaper US Solar Power
OO Over 100 'Clean Air Ambassadors' Tell Congress: Clean Up Your Act - doctors, clergy et al say finalize carbon limits, & create stronger regulations... will Congress listen?
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OO Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature But you can always find hold out deniers on TV and in the newspapers, if you miss them...
Consensus Gap: Scientists Agree Far More on Climate Change Than Much of the Public Thinks
OO Zombie Climate Sceptic Theories Survive Only In Newspapers And On TV impervious to the education accessible in 97% of the scientific literature
OO Solar Power Costs Closing In On Wind As One Subs For The Other
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OO Airlines Fined Millions For Carbon Emissions Says Euro Commission - If you fly dirty, you pay for it
OO A Rare Bipartisan Clean Energy Bill Is Ready for Passage - tweaking the tax code to extend the same fossil fuel investment tax breaks to clean energy --- yesssssss!!!!
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Bye-bye Butterfly: Global Warming To Halve Habitat For Over 10,000 Common Species, says a new study, reports Jeremy Hance at Mongabay. Actually, it'll probably be worse, say study authors, since they didn't take into account other factors - like increasing extreme weather, diseases and pests... although humans are probably the biggest pests to life (including human life) on Earth right now...
Scarlet Macaw, Credit Rhett Butler at Mongabay.com
Climate Change, Population and Bad Policy = Social Chaos, notes Thomas Friedman at the New York Times, in Syria and elsewhere. The current Syrian revolution was partly fueled by governmental failure to aid a rapidly increasing population, suffering from the current extreme drought - the sort of thing we can expect more of, under climate change, throughout the world... as it is, Iraq might be next...
Amazonian Water Cycle Has Become More Extreme over the past two decades says a new study, reports Rhett Butler at Mongabay, with increasingly severe storms, occasionally punctuated by drought, across the basin, as its south gets drier.... Hmmm, storms and droughts... Sound familiar?
Rainforest Dams Need Rainforests to Supply Water says a new study, reports Rhett Butler at Mongabay. As both climate change and human exploitation deforest the Amazon, the results could decrease the project power output of the new oncoming dam by 75%. That's a lot of lost energy, water, and trees....
Newly deforested land for farming, surrounded by Brazilian rainforest, Credit Rhett Butler at Mongabay.com
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OO Fish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters For Polar Waters -- Yes, you're right, there's definitely something fishy here...
OO Eat Insects To Mitigate Deforestation And Climate Change, Says UN - uh, gulp, alright... hey, that's MY cockroach!
OO Climate Change A Major Threat to Biodiversity, others being habitat destruction, overharvesting and poaching, pollution, and introduction of invasive species.
OO Arctic Is Melting Faster, But Melting Glaciers Contribute Significantly to Sea-level Rise - up to a third of annual rise, says a new study.
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OOMajor Media Often Fail to Note the Fossil Fuel Funding Behind Thinktanks when quoting them...
OO Taxpayers Get Nearly $100 Billion Bill For 2012 Extreme Weather - YeeeeeeOUCH!!
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OO EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants for those who don't know this yet, which is why... OO Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2
OO USGS Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains
OO Worsening A Warming-Fueled Wildfire Season, Sequestration Threatens Firefighting Efforts - droughts and wildfires dramatically affect wildlife, wildflowers, butterflies...oh, and people, too...
Credit NOAA, via Climate Progress
OO Dramatic Erosion, Floods Now Threaten Nearly All Native Alaskan Villages
OO Giant ,Growing Tar Mound Owned By Koch Engulfing Detroit - and the big D doesn't know what to do with this ever growing mountain of black waste...
OO Drought Dividing US into Midwestern 'haves' and Western 'have-nots' My crystal ball sees lots of water lawyers becoming very busy and happy...
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OO 30 Million+ People Displaced By Climate, Weather-Related Events Last Year
OO Insurance Industry Depends On Scientific Thought, Sees Rising Climate Costs
OO Study Finds Warming In Central China Far Greater Than Most Thought
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OO Flooding Now Threatens One In Four London Properties
OO World Set To Blow Carbon Budget Needed To Avoid Catastrophic Climate
OO Rainforest Tribe Urges Norwegian King To Recall Energy Executive
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OO Mount Everest Glaciers Have Shrunk 13% In 50 Years Global ice update : it's melting everywhere, but far faster at the poles, and slower at glaciers
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OO @@ WEEKLY CLIMATE CHANGE VIDEO SERIES!! @@ Entitled "In Case You Missed It" via the good folks at Climate Nexus on Vimeo - select headlines delivered in less than 90 seconds with good graphics. Cool watching -- spread the word!!
OO BOOK: CASSE, the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy, is proud to feature a new book, Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution. Finally some economic common sense!
OO FILM:Damocracy: explores the shortcomings of dams - check it out! Methane emissions from dams are only of concern in areas where there is enough drowned biomass for microbes to create methane. On the other hand, the sheer weight of dammed water can encourage earthquakes - not good news for the dams of earthquake-prone Turkey.
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by these wonderful mushrooms David Work so generously shared with me. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Acid Arctic, Hot Mama Nature, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.32668322013-05-13T11:45:54-04:002013-05-17T19:53:18-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/By 2050, California & Southwest Could Have 100% Dry Years NASA Says, reportsClimate Progress, according to a NASA analysis, which basically lays out the scenario of wet places getting wetter, and dry places drier. Imagine, no rain for an entire year or more, in California...gotta change this bad dream, folks!
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OO Drought Stalks Australia Again Only 3 Years After The Last Long One - nah, this isn't just bad luck.
OO Climate Changes Could Bring Malaria Soon To The UK say leading health experts - quinine bitters, anyone?
OO Big Brother Arrives in Canada: Govt Muzzles Scientists - a sinister, Orwellian development.
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OO Encroaching Sea Already A Threat In Caribbean from destructive practices and ferocious storm surges made worse by climate change say researchers
OO Cost of Carribean Inaction Will Be Huge - $10+ billion yearly by 2025
OO Greenland's Ice Loss May Slow, But Coasts Still At Risk
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OO England's Coastline And Biodiversity Under Threat From Climate Change. Birds, bugs, butterflies, plants and some mammals are in free fall decline, say researchers
OO Amazon On Path To Lose 65% Of Biomass By 2060 - Study read: massive extinction of important species
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Credit Mike Keefe, via Forecast The Facts
Arctic Is Getting Darker, Hotter and Acidic Fast say Arctic researchers, reports Julia Whitty at Mother Jones. The freshwater from melting ice helps the acidification as water takes up more carbon dioxide - expect big changes in the simple food chains of that oceans. Bye-bye Baby Beluga?
Arctic scape credit USGS at flickr via Mother Jones
A Buck in Time Saves 10 as EPA Regs Payoff Big Time says an OMB study, reports Jeff Spross at Climate Progress. How? By creating regulatory (ie, more) jobs that help prevent very costly pollution-related health problems. Talk about a win-win -- gimme those ole' time regulations!!
Credit Dennis Schroeder/NREL
Oregon Solar Power Now As Cheap As Dirty Power, says a new peer-reviewed study, reports author Chris Robertson at Climate Progress. About 20% of Oregon's power could come from 0.25% of Oregon's agricultural land, which could still be used for agricultural purposes, too. Let the sun shine on...
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OO US Solar Loans Create 20,000 Jobs Ever More Cheaply
OO Tesla Motors Profits, Sells More Chargeable Vehicles In Q1 Than Any Other Automaker
OO Carbon Tax Has Very Broad, Bipartisan Support among US voters, oil companies, conservatives - just not Congress...
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OO VP Biden Says 'You Should Be Attacking The Carbon Emissions, Period' - you tell 'em, Joe, including Big O!
OO Why Passing Rep. Peters' Bill Is A SUPER Strategy to Fight Climate Change
OO Even A Moderate Price For Carbon Pollution Has a Big Impact On U.S. Emissions as the US Energy Information Administration is happy to show you...
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OO US Cities Begin Dirty Energy Divestment - first Seattle, now San Francisco and others are waking up...
OO Fight Over Fracking Continues As US Counties Begin To Ban Practice with one New Mexican county starting it off...
OO GE Sees US Wind-Turbine Installs Doubling Next Year After Lull
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OO Cleaner, Cheaper Way To Make Steel Uses Electricity, Not Fossil Fueled Fire
OO With Tax Credit Secured For Now, Wind Industry Focuses On Long-Term Growth
OO First Chinese Automaker In US To Open California Plants and build up to 1,000 plug-in electric buses
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OO Buffett's Midwest Utility Places Major New Bet On Wind Power
OO Australia: Carbon Price Working? Coal Slumps, Clean Energy Soars
OO Goodbye Nuclear Power: Germany's Renewable Energy Revolution
OO Indonesia To Keep Alive Forest Ban Resisted By Industry preserving an important global carbon storage system
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OO Solar Power Taking Off In A Big Way Across Japan with a third of all prefectural governments planning or building mega-solar power plants
OO Brazil's Indigenous Harness The Wind without government help
OO China 'Moving To Lead On Climate Change' but much more is still needed says a report
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Mother Nature Dries, Then Lights Up California, explains a CA climatologist, reports Katie Valentine at Climate Progress. Unusually dry conditions have led to an unusually early start of big wildfires in southern CA. This is the stuff of climate change, and expect more of it... but when shall we stop feeding it?
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OO Texas Groundwater Levels Suffer Sharp Drop, study finds.
OO In Parts of Plains, the Drought Goes Into Third Year. One more panorama brought to you by Climate Change...
OO Valley Fever Hits Thousands in Parched US West, Including Baseball Players as warming climates and drought help spread this debilitating, sometimes lethal disease.
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OO California Governor Blames Climate Change For State's Early Fire Season; expect more, he says, with climate change
OO Weather Whiplash Strikes Again: Extreme Drought To Flood In Georgia
OO In Parched Southwest, Anxious Wait for Summer Rains as reservoirs hit record lows
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OO Jet Stream Eases Drought In Midwest, But Continues It In West - read: it's still there, whether there's rain or not.
OO Superstorm Sandy Set Off Seismometers - the power of climate change...
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OO NEW WEEKLY CLIMATE CHANGE VIDEO SERIES!! Entitled "In Case You Missed It" via the good folks at Climate Nexus on Vimeo - select headlines delivered in less than 90 seconds with good graphics. Cool watching -- spread the word!! Besides the current issue, check out the prototype test, and the first issue - all informative.
OO Will the Wet Get Wetter and the Dry Drier? watch NOAA explain it...
OO How the Wet Will Get Wetter and the Dry Drier watch NASA explain it...
OO BILL MAHER on Climate Change Denial an oldie but goldie - check out his other gems along the same line...
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OO How Climate Change Is Messing With The Jetstream, creating a more meandering, slower-moving flow
OO 99 One-Liners Rebutting Denier Talking Points -- With Links To The Full Climate Science - okay, maybe not a cribsheet for the bar, but great for web threads...
OO Ancient Arctic Was Warm, Wet, And Green - What That Says About The Future and what it does not, since the planet warmed far more slowly, allowing life to adapt. That's not the trip we're taking now....
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OO The Last Time C02 Was This High, Humans Didn't Exist Yeah, imagine 7 billion people coping with 100 foot higher sea levels and far warmer (think tropical diseases) weather. No wonder climate scientists worry about where we're headed now.
OO Painted Turtles Set To Become All-Female with 1 °C in temperature, and, slated for extinction
OO Warmer Climate 'Threatens Cassava Crop a staple food crop for many tropical countries
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this yellow mariposa lily I photographed a few weeks ago. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Whiplash Weather, Clean Energy Tax Breaks, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.32203712013-05-05T20:01:36-04:002013-05-05T20:01:40-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/US Gets Weather Whiplash With Climate Change notes Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. Warming air and oceans mean more moisture in the air, and the jet stream, altered by a warming Arctic, now ensures it goes away and comes down far more intensely -- and disastrously. Don't forget to order plenty of sun block when reserving your spot on the Ark.
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OO US Must Match Climate Goals With Clean Energy Goals, says Congressman Rush Holt, if we are to address climate change effectively. OO Record US Drought Insurance Payout to Farmers by our government -- your tax payer dollars at work, folks, paying for climate change... OO Climate Change Is Increasing US Disaster Relief Costs Oh, that's right - more climate change means more extreme weather destruction -- and the more we taxpayers pay for it... I wonder if prevention would be cheaper?
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OO 2012 Northeast US Waters Hottest in 150 Years - NOAA Hotter waters help create stronger hurricanes; think Sandy... OO Northeast Precipitation Rose Sharply Over Past 60 Years Why, shucks, it's just basic physics: as air heats up, it holds more water, which means more eventually comes down... OO New Research Finds Humans Causing More Strong Hurricanes That is, as we heat up the air, we're getting more and stronger hurricanes...
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OO Drought, Heat Fuel Early Fire Season in West as the current CA wildfires demonstrate... OO Rising Sea Draws Ever Closer - An up-front and personal collision with climate change... OO Climate Change Making US Beach Living Unsustainable ... is it really surprising, given what is happening with climate change?
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OO Many Americans Grow Climate Change Via Lawns which emit surprising amounts of greenhouse gases. OO US Conservatives Tend to Diss Energy Efficiency People who are more politically conservative are less in favor of investing in energy-efficiency technology.
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Coming Soon to a Park Near You: Oil/Gas Drilling Threatens National Parks, says a new National Parks Conservation Association report, notes Jessica Goad at Climate Progress. Drilling occurs in 12 so far, with plans for 30 others. Impacts include air, water, chemical and noise pollution, and light-polluted night skies... you know, all the things you try to escape, when going there...
Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Passing 400ppm milestone, reports John Vidal at the UK Guardian, well beyond the 350 ppm level that many experts consider to have a reasonable chance of keeping planetary warming and climate change at a safe level, while nations are years away from cooperating on reducing emissions. And away we go, with MORE climate change!
The Keeling Curve: 50+ years of data show rising carbon dioxide levels
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OO Harness New Carbon Markets, Says World Bank OO Most Firms Mis-Report Their Carbon Emissions OO New fossil fuel frontiers pose 'catastrophic' threat to global recovery
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OO The Trouble With Truffles Might Be Climate Change OO Last 12 Years Were Among 13 Warmest On Record World Meteorological Organisation Says -- surprise, surprise, surprise... OO Climate Change Affecting Amazon, Say Amazonians - river levels, weather, crops, and more... OO Fast-moving Climate Zones Speed Extinction - not just the speed of change, but move to what? Often a species needs part or all of its habitat, including things like special soil, to survive...
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Give Fossil Fuel Tax Breaks to Clean Energy say bipartisan senators, reports Lydia Beyoud at Bloomberg News. The bill proposes extending current fossil fuel tax breaks to clean energy industries, to level the playing field. This is one ball game I could really get into...
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OO Two-For-One: A New Solar Dish Delivers Low-Cost Electricity Along With Fresh Water OO Solar Jobs Beat Out Ranchers In Texas, Actors In California, And Coal Miners Nationally OO Religious Adopt Solar As Ethical Commitment
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OO Growing US Voting Majority Recognize Weather Worsening, Global Warming Affecting It -it is the dawning of the age of enlightenment... go on, sing the rest of Aquarius... OO Consortium Sells Power From Electric Cars To Grid And Turns Profit OO Average Fuel Efficiency Of New Cars Hits Record High
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White House 2B Told: Earth's Heat Shield Going Bye-Byereports Nafeez Ahmed at the UK Guardian. The summer Arctic ice cap is an important heat shield for Earth, reflecting back the substantial amount of 24 hour sunlight that falls on the planet, just like the heat shield tiles of NASA space shuttles. Without this fast disappearing shield, our planet will be absorbing far more heat, creating far more extreme climate change. And you thought it was hot and wild now... just wait!
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OO Media Miscovers Climate: It's Dumb Journalism, Stupid argues Todd Gitlin, a reputable investigative reporter and author.
OO Bloomberg Lobotomy: Believes in Climate Change AND Fossil Fuels, Bloomberg News editors illustrated recently, favoring the Keystone XL Pipeline, which will promote further burning of fossil fuels, the main cause behind climate change...
OO NY Times Admits Folly In Saying Climate Catastrophe Can't Be Avoided
These wheels (credit M.I.T., via climate progress) represent humanity's choice: the warming consequences of inaction (left) or action (right) on climate change... it's your choice, voters, especially in 2014! Personally, with this heat, I SO prefer the blue one...
OO Video: Nightline Does The Climate Math With Bill McKibben scroll down... BM always gives a passionate performance
OO Film: A Fierce Green Fire: Movie On History Of Environmental Activism Premiers and check out the powerful trailer here
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by these mating butterflies I photographed a few days ago. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Solar Shines in 2012, Wrong Clean Energy, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.31790642013-04-29T13:04:01-04:002013-04-29T15:42:45-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Solar Grew 5x Faster Than Rest of US Economy in 2012, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, adding 14,000 new jobs in California, Arizona, New Jersey and elsewhere, totalling over 100,000 US jobs now. Imagine how many more jobs could be created if Congress increased support for solar!
Credit: The Solar Foundation
Wrong Clean Energy Will Further Destabilize Iraq, as a regional Iraqi leader says that the oncoming Turkish Ilisu hydroelectric dam, which will further cut water to that already politically fragile country, will dry up the livelihoods of nearly 30% of Iraq's people, reports Julia Harte (FD: my daughter) at National Geographic Newswatch. To understand the impact, imagine 30% of Americans' livelihoods drying up - and we're considered a tad more stable than Iraq...
Up to 30 percent of Iraqi people, including marsh people, will lose their livelihoods from an upcoming Turkish hydroelectric dam. Originally posted at National Geographic Newswatch, credit Julia Harte
It's Getting Hotter, Faster says a large, international study, wiping out a global cooling trend that had occurred over the past 2,000 years, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress. During this time, the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were just regional blips. How hot, how fast? Dramatically. Time for dramatic action....
See how fast we're heating up? via Climate Progress
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OO Video: Flying Towards a Clean Future - watch this man fly!!! This video of a basejumper, one who literally jumps off a mountaintop in a wingsuit to fly several miles at 100+ mph, is a great metaphor for humanity's transition to clean energy: the planning, preparation, visualization and ultimately the exhilarating success that humanity can experience doing so... a great high!
OO WATCH 62 YEARS OF GLOBAL WARMING IN 13 SECONDS, read: This is your planet on global warming - truly bone-chilling... courtesy of NOAA, via Climate Central
OO New book: America's Climate Century, by Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg, is a "concise, accurate, and above all practical guide to the great problem of our time; it gets beyond idology to concentrate on what needs doing now," says 35.org founder Bill McKibben. It truly is impressive. Check it out here!
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Carbon Emissions Rob Our Kids Blind $3 Trillion Yearly says a new report that estimates how much lost value in resources accrue yearly, reports Jeff Spross at Climate Progress. Think about it, the next time you go vote - because electing intelligent leaders to act on clean energy is the best thing you can do, short of not creating additional consumers.
Take the Clinton Climate Quiz: A tree will be planted in Haiti for every person who does, so take it and pass it on! You can also win a chance to go help install solar panels there...
Renewables To Be 70 Percent of New Power by 2030, says Bloomberg Finance, reports Tim McDonnell at the Climate Desk, but it will represent only 50% of the world's total power - good, but still not good enough to avert ominous climate change.
The chart shows annual installations of new power sources, in gigawatts. Courtesy, BNEF
Drop Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worldwide, IMF Urges, reports Paul Brown at Climate Central. Doing so, says this financially conservative organization, will help encourage clean energy adoption, and free resources to spend on more essential things like the education and welfare of their citizens. It can't happen soon enough...
☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
Over one million Americans submitted comments to the State Department, opposing the Keystone pipeline.
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☼☼ InsideClimate News ☼☼ Climate News Network ☼☼ Climate Desk ☼☼ Climate Central ☼☼ RTCC, Responding to climate change
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this saw whet owl Jen Joynt so generously shared with me. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: The $6 Trillion Mistake, Cut The Soot, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.31330562013-04-22T13:38:45-04:002013-04-22T13:38:48-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Fossil Fuels Investments A $6 Trillion Mistake, if the world addresses climate change, says a London School of Economics study, reports Sally Bakewell at Bloomberg News, since most of the fossil fuel reserves would have to remain unburned, if humanity is to limit global warming to the UN target of 4 degrees Fahrenheit. Not doing so would cost many more trillions. Are you listening, Wall Street?
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OOWaste heat can fire the next energy revolution with urban waste heat pumps to recapture energy in urban underground systems, like sewers or subways; London, Oslo and other cities are jumping in.
OO Where's the latest corporate clean energy push? Walmart!
OOClean Powered Living Possible? Portugal just did it for 3 months!
OOAfrica's growing a green belt below the Sahara to confront climate change...
OOChina and US have forged a working committee to confront climate change! Finally!!!
OOHow much solar has your utility taken on? Find our here...
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From NPR today: all of March 2013's new US power came from Solar -- way to go, USA! via solar.calfinder.com
Asia's Soaring Fossil Fuel Burning Will Create Huge Problems, says an Asian Development Bank study, reports Coco Liu at ClimateWire... like foreign fuel dependency, worsening air pollution killing nearly 4 million yearly, and zooming greenhouse gases reaping much more catastrophic climate change. Can this dragon change course in time? Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, check out this little dragon that hid on my steps - Happy Earth Day, little feller! Credit Mary Ellen Harte
Cut the Soot, too, to Slow Sea Level Rise, says a new study, reports Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. Reducing emissions of soot, methane and other short-lived greenhouse pollutants, AND reducing long-lived greenhouse biggies like carbon dioxide, could ultimately halve the rate of sea level rise by 2100, affecting millions of future Americans.
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OO Extreme weather whiplash, from droughts to floods, now hits Midwest US, another sign of climate change
OO Climate Change Will Keep Driving More Intense Precipitation - NOAA Study ... read: more flooding and storm damage
OODesertification crisis affecting 168 countries worldwide, with climate change responsible for much of it, UN study shows -- World losing an area 3x Switzerland yearly in cropland!
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New York, and World, Can Be Fossil Fuel Free Today with existing technology, says a report by several noted energy experts, reports Stephen Leahy at Inter Press Service. Mix dollops of wind and solar powers, add dashes of other clean energies, generously sprinkle with heat pumps and other techs, and voila! A cheaper, cleaner New York, and world. What do we need? Leadership!! When do we want it? NOW!!
One of these in New York? Sure, I'll take two, with the mountains to go! Credit Dennis Schroeder/NREL
Humanity Has Significantly Changed Global Vegetation over the past 3 decades, two studies show, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network. Human-driven climate change is responsible for over half of those changes (much becoming desert), while another third is due directly from human activities. During that time, humanity swelled from roughly 4 billion to 6 billion, an unsustainable level, say many experts. What a great time to plan your future family....
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OO"How Hot Will It Get?" an event to be live streamed starting April 22, 7 PM PST. National Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory scientists will reveal how their new findings could upend current thinking about the pace and scope of climate change - check it out!!
OO Free viewing of Mother: Caring for 7 Billion starting April 19, through May
an award winning film discusses the human overpopulation problem....
OOHow climate change affects jetstream -- thus, US weather ... great rainbow colored graphics!!
OO Interactive: Short-Lived Pollutants and Sea Level Rise How will your state benefit?
OO Just how wet will You get? This maps your US flooding probabilites under climate change.
OO Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Flight Behavior, shows climate change in real time.
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
And those are just a FEW of the headlines. For more, check out:
☼☼ The Daily Climate ☼☼Climate Progress ☼☼ Marcacci Communications Energy and Environment News Roundup; for a more detailed daily roundup, substitute the desired date into the link here.
☼☼ InsideClimate News ☼☼ Climate News Network ☼☼ Climate Desk ☼☼ Climate Central ☼☼ RTCC, Responding to climate change
To help you understand just what science does and does NOT do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this wine cup clarkia I photographed on the trail two days ago. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Making Solar Sustainable: Inside a Solar Gianttag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.31111282013-04-18T14:20:08-04:002013-04-18T18:36:40-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/
Credit Dennis Schroeder/NREL
Solar, in particular has had a sprawling, complex international life. Off to a slow start initially, she's now zooming globally. Some pretty impressive utility scale solar installations are already up and running, with more on the way, from the Sahara to Arizona. Meanwhile, China's massive investment in photovoltaic panel manufacturing has sent solar panel prices plummeting, allowing the spread of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels throughout developing and developed nations alike. Developing nations are using cheap, off-the-grid Solar PV to leapfrog over the hurdle of nonexistent national grids, lighting remote bazaars, villages, jungle shacks and clinics, and fueling their cellphone banks, innovatively.
Via Greenbiosolar.com
In developed nations, rooftop solar panels are spreading over everything, from parking lots and malls to sunny bungalows. The evolution of companies leasing solar panels in the US is accelerating this spread, from residential to commercial scales. Solar powered community programs are starting up in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Florida. Meanwhile, crowd-funding via Mosaic is giving Solar the needed upfront funding (low interest loans) so glaringly absent elsewhere.
PV applications are evolving in fascinating ways. Flexible thin film solar panels now offer the potential of solar windows, and of individuals powering pcs and other devices from their backpacks, for example. The prototypic spinning solar cell offers the dream of cities crowned with thousands of glittering, spinning sapphire blue cones, channeling ever more solar power. And this spring, a Swiss solar plane will fly across the US. Simultaneously, photovoltaic cells are diversifying and continuing to break new energy conversion efficiency records.
Courtesy of Solar Impulse
But neighbors do gossip about the Kids, furtively whispering "Solyndra" and other fears. Mostly, they wonder about the expense of bringing up Solar and Wind and, and whether these Kids will ever become self-sustaining. Wind is so flighty, and Solar does have her dark moods.
Like any concerned mother, I went to have a more intimate look at the big solar sustainability picture - specifically, in nearby Belmont, CA, where SunEdison, a solar giant, has its main ROC (Renewable Operations Center). Acquired in 2009 by MEMC, a semiconductor and solar materials conglomerate, SunEdison is devoted to "simplifying solar" by "developing, financing, operating and monitoring solar plants for commercial, industrial and utility customers with no capital outlay," says the MEMC website. SunEdison is the largest North American provider of solar energy services.
The ROC recently celebrated management of now over 1 Gigawatt (GW) of solar power in global assets worldwide - over 600 installations in 9 countries. (The US currently uses over 1,000 GWs of electricity from all sources. ) Most of the managed power is derived from commercial scale utility installations, Vice President Mark McLanahan told me.
Inside the a la Star Trek control room, a team faced a wall of giant screens monitoring energy generation, worldwide installations, and supporting infrastructures (bridges, roads) in real time 24/7. One screen showed solar panels in Ottawa, covered with melting snow. Basically, the ROC keeps that 1+ GW of solar power sustainable worldwide. When problems arise, the team issues marching orders to field teams that correct the problems. Hurricane Sandy? They were out there prepping before the storm and restoring power after. And should a supplier go bankrupt, the company would simply modify its supply chains.
SunEdison control room, Courtesy of SunEdison
SunEdison is also innovating overseas. In a demonstration of how solar panels can generate electricity while conserving scarce drinking water supplies, SunEdison has covered part of the Narmada Canal in Gujarat, India, with solar panels that act as shades and wind breaks, reducing evaporation and algal growth. Although only one kilometer in length, the installation saves 50 million gallons of precious drinking water yearly, a company representative informed me. Elsewhere, SunEdison has created a solar plant and microgrid that powers the remote Indian farming village of Meerwada, which would otherwise have no access to electricity. It's a demonstration of just how economically viable such an enterprise can be, paving the way for its viral spread thoughout the developing world.
MEMC Senior Vice President Steve O'Rourke sees SunEdison ultimately striving to create solar minigrids, intact solar "ecosystems", by supplying the entire infrastructure needed: the solar installation, the smart grid setup, and supporting infrastructures. The vision is decentralized solar grids that can eventually connect to each other in far more efficient smart grids over the next century.
SunEdison is just one example of the huge economic and energy vision that solar power offers us and is starting to happen globally. The policy-driven adoption of Solar PV in developed countries has already resulted in solar derived electricity as cheap as standard electricity in some areas of the world, including inside the US, and that parity is expected to spread widely and rapidly , even within the US within the decade. Even more recently, Germany has announced the achievement of reliable solar and wind derived power, by skillfully weaving them into a unified grid to smooth out the intermittency problems.
So, how are the older Kids doing? Just fine, thank you. They're growing, and becoming more sustainable and reliable all the time. And the sooner we vote in US lawmakers who understand this, the sooner the US stands to tap into the economic and environmental prosperity that comes with supporting renewable clean energy.
Indeed, BICEP, the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy, a coalition of major US businesses representing about a half million US jobs and a half trillion dollars in yearly revenues, recently declared that
And called on Congress to support investment in clean energy, energy efficiency and cutting carbon emissions. The United Nations just as recently declared that investing in clean energy would yield enormous health benefits worldwide.
So, as Earth Day 2013 approaches, let your Congressional senators and representatives know now that, come 2014, you'll be voting for whoever supports the Renewable Energy Kids. And then wish your kids a Happy Earth Day!]]>Climate Energy This Week: Healthy Clean Energy, Mideast Climate Change, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.30821832013-04-14T21:42:08-04:002013-04-14T21:42:12-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Invest In Clean Energy To Reap Enormous Health Benefits says the UN, reports Alister Doyle at Reuters News, and help slow climate change. Fossil fuel burning pollution kills nearly 7 million annually, more than HIV or malaria combined. Hey, I'm game - how about you, Congress?
**Toward Perpetuity: Global Solar Is Skyrocketing, Will Soon Be Net Positive Energy Sourcecredit Dennis Schroeder/NREL
** How 100 Percent Renewable Energy Could Be Cost-Effective For Australia By 2030
Dramatic Acceleration of Antarctic Melting Will Speed Sea Level Rise, says a new study, reports Paul Brown at the Climate News Network. An ice core shows the 10-fold increase in melting started 600 years ago, with the greatest acceleration happening in the past half century. Since it's melting off land into sea, it's not the time to invest in coastal properties...
Credit: Andy Lee Robinson
** Policy Is Driving California's Thriving Clean Economy
** New York moves toward adopting wind, other green energy totally by 2030
Hungry Now? Wait til 2050 when you'll REALLY feel it, says a new US government report and leading global food experts, reports John Vidal at the UK Guardian. Climate change will cause massive declines in food production as the population soars towards nine billion in 2050. What a great time to think twice about the size of your upcoming family....
** Gallup Poll: Public Understanding And Concern About Global Warming Keeps Rising
** China Says Their Warming Is Human Driven - now will it speed up their action on it?
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Mideast Climate Change and Upstream Dams Suck Biblical Paradise Dryreports Julia Harte (FD: my daughter!) at the National Geographic Exlporers Journal. Climate change enhanced droughts, and dams built to feed Turkish energy demands, will continue to dry this already arid area in southern Iraq.
** Climate Change Will Keep Driving More Intense Precipitation - Study read: more flooding and storm damage. Courtesy of the USGS
** Nearly 80 Percent Of Americans Hit By Extreme Weather Disaster Since 2007, Report Finds
Nike, Starbucks, Intel to Congress: Address Climate Change by promoting clean energy, boosting efficiency and cutting carbon emissions, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress. Yet another Irish county heard from - in this case, one responsible for about 500,000 US jobs and a half trillion dollars in yearly revenues. Yo, Congress, are you listening?
Fossil Fuel Resistance Is Growing Big - And Fast, reports Bill McKibben at RollingStone. What's fueling it? The rising success of clean energy industry and jobs, every new climate change catastrophe, and people's recognition of how we need to get dirty fossil fuels behind us as soon as possible. The real victory will be when Congress starts listening to them...
** Want to tell the feds to stop their coal leasing program? You can act here!
☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
@@@ Climate Change At the Movies!!! @@@
OO Heat and Harvest
Climate Change clobbers California agriculture in many ways, as this engrossing documentary illustrates, from cherries to potato chips...
OO Bill Maher on Climate Change Denial an oldie but goldie - check out his other gems along the same line...
OO The Beetles Are Coming.... more and more to Canada, wiping out more forests... too bad this is real, and not a 50s sci-fi flick... (and yes, more and more I feel like I'm living in one....)
And those are just a FEW of the headlines. For more, check out:
☼☼ The Daily Climate ☼☼Climate Progress ☼☼ Marcacci Communications Energy and Environment News Roundup; for a more detailed daily roundup, substitute the desired date into the link here.
☼☼ InsideClimate News ☼☼ Climate News Network ☼☼ Climate Desk ☼☼ Climate Central ☼☼ RTCC, Responding to climate change
To help you understand just what science does AND does not do, check this out!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this burrowing owl Jen Joynt so generously shared with me. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: MegaMelt, Clean Energy Rockin', and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.30393802013-04-08T15:36:19-04:002013-04-08T15:36:20-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/It's Melting, Melting: 1600 Years Worth of Andean Ice Melted in 25, says a new study, reports Justin Gillis at the New York Times. Researchers studying the largest tropical ice sheet found this out by dating ancient plants uncovered along the path of the retreating ice. And you thought dead salad had nothing to offer!
US Ranches Ride Into Climate Changing Sunset as a climate-change-enhanced drought continues to cut cattle in Texas and elsewhere in the US, reports Stephanie Strom at the New York Times... You see, honey, there used to be these things called hamburgers...
***** Climate Change Round The World *****
(For more details, google the full headline, not italics)
Security risks of climate change prompt military review by over 100 countries
No Climate Change? Don't Bet on It, say British bookies
A glorious winter, but Alps face warmer world and huge changes
South East Asia food basket facing "shocking" future Asian giants embracing more clean energy Australia has no choice but to change with the climate
US dominated global disaster losses in 2012: Swiss Re Texas is US Climate Change Poster Child
With US drought season off to a bad start, scientists forecast another bleak year
Africa: Climate challenges undermine a fragile Maasai culture
'Tsunami of rain' leaves at least 54 dead in Argentina
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Poorest Countries Lead the Charge to Cut Carbon Emissions, declaring they will not wait for the bigger emitters to act first, reports Alex Kirby for Climate News Network. This move might speed UN action, since developed nations previously insisted that poorer nations agree to carbon cuts before they would. Okay, big boys, now it's your turn...
Breakthrough: Reliable Renewable Power Achieved Via Linking Them in a unified grid in Germany, reports Paul Brown at the Climate News Network. This refutes critics who insisted renewables would require fossil fuel backups to make them viable. Renewables are becoming sustainable - hallelujah!
OOO Seeking the Science OOO
(For more details, google the full headline, not italics)
Climate change will double are burned in US wildfires by 2050
also: Feds project climate change will double wildfire risk Fungi drives carbon uptake by boreal forests
Europe to be battered by Sandy-style superstorms
Biggest rain and snowstorms likely to get bigger study finds
also: Federal study: global warming means stronger extreme rains
In wake of Sandy, NOAA alters hurricane warning policy
Global warming means seas freeze more off Antarctica OO As Arctic temps warm, Jet Stream slows, dips, creating extended extreme Weather in US Clouds Helped Enhance Greenland's Record Melting
OO Global warming predictions prove accurate over past 15 years Geoengineering schemes need global sign-off, researchers say OOPublic trusts scientists on climate change, says poll
OOStoring Renewable Energy In Hydrogen Could Help Stabilize Output, Researchers Find
Greenhouse gas emissions from farmland underestimated
Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia
Soils in newly forested areas store substantial carbon
Has the rate of sea level rise tripled since 2011?
Nature's thermometers say Spring is springing earlier by 3 days per decade
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World Bank Commits to Addressing Climate Change, reports John Parnell at RTCC. A major mover in financing projects in developing nations, the bank wants to promote clean cities and end subsidies to fossil fuels worldwide. Way to go, WB!
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☼☼ More than 400 microgrid projects under development worldwide also: Over 400 microgrid projects underway en route to $40 billion market
A record year for world wind power in 2012 Global solar PV installations to reach 200GW by 2015
India's off-grid renewables initiative changing lives
Countries in Asia cutting carbon faster than Europe
How Ontario is putting an end to coal-burning power plants
Colombia blazes a trail for smaller nations to fight global warming UK fuel sales plummet as motorists embrace efficiency German net power exports quadrupled in 2012
A "China Dream" - more efficient than the American one
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Why The U.S. Military Is Pursuing Energy Efficiency, Renewables
US Air Force releases strategic energy plan ☼☼ Lured by savings and cash, many American schools are going solar
America's biggest utility power provider gets into the distributed-energy game
USDA offers funding for rural energy efficiency projects
Citigroup: renewables will triumph and natural gas will help
Northeast US states fight carbon emissions with renewables
Top ten wind states all have electric rates below national average
How Proctor & Gamble created $1 billion in value with waste
The drought is drying up all our ethanol- climate change nixes a bad idea
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Texas to Double Wind Capacity, Deliver to Major Cities
New York State's competitive solar program off to a bright start
Maine Introduces Feed-in Tariff Legislation
Solar decathlon homes form microgrid village in Missouri
New bill could help Georgia reap solar energy cash crop
Nevada utility to shut out coal, embrace renewables
Lancaster, California becomes first US city to require solar
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And those are just a FEW of the headlines. For more, check out:
☼☼ The Daily Climate ☼☼Climate Progress ☼☼ Marcacci Communications Energy and Environment News Roundup; for a more detailed daily roundup, substitute the desired date into the link here.
☼☼ InsideClimate News ☼☼ Climate News Network ☼☼ Climate Desk ☼☼ Climate Central ☼☼ RTCC, Responding to climate change
Want Congress to Support Renewable Clean Energy? Tell 'em here!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this beautiful butterfly Jen Joynt so generously shared with me. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: China's Choice, Climate Punch, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.29957552013-04-01T21:39:52-04:002013-04-01T21:39:54-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/China's Choice: Cut Coal Or Dry Up says a new report highlighting how coal mining and combustion technologies there are drinking up scarcer water supplies, reports Coco Liu at ClimateWire via Scientific American. Coal burning is a vicious double whammy, spurring the climate change that is drying out China, as the process drinks ever scarcer water supplies....will China wake up in time?
Climate Change Not So Funnies: Climate Change Denying Congressman to Head US House Subcommittee on Climate Change From the good folks at Forecast the Facts, we have a petition asking him to promote climate solutions not denial - yup, despite the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rep. Chris Stewart isn't sure if the science is sound enough... want to tell him otherwise - sign here!
Don't Care A Fig About Climate Change? Well, Figs and Rainforests Do! Recent research, reports Sindya Bhanoo at the New York Times, finds that tropical fig wasps die much faster at temperatures not much hotter than already exist in the tropics. Such wasps are the sole and special pollinators of hundreds of wild figs that are an important source of food for tropical wildlife, in rainforests and elsewhere. So when the wasps fry, so will tropical ecosystems....
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*** Melting Arctic Sea Ice Drives Extreme Weather, US Military Planning
*** New York State tells investors that climate change may hurt its finances
*** Buzzkill? How climate change could eventually end coffee worldwide.
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*** How climate change threatens US and worldwide seas
*** Arctic ice hits annual maximum extent, 6th lowest on record
*** Coral reefs in southern Florida have declined by 50 percent over the last twenty years
*** Deep trouble: How sea-rise could cause havoc in South Florida
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*** Climate change rewrites world wine list
*** US Northwest governors to feds: Clear the air before exporting coal.
*** Africa: Drier Climate Will Spread Diarrhoea
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Scientist Predicted US Cold Winter from Arctic Ice Melt, reports John Vidal at the UK Guardian. Rutgers Institute scientist Jennifer Francis noted back in September (and we reported it here, BTW) that the record 2012 Arctic ice loss would ultimately allow Arctic cold air to plunge much further south, creating much colder weather in the US and Europe in the ensuing months - and it did.
Want to Fight Climate Change? Stop Paying Companies to Produce It - Duhhh!!!! This means properly pricing fossil fuels and not subsidizing their production and combustion, a recent International Monetary Fund report concludes, reports Brad Plumer at the Washington Post. That would save the world about $2 TRILLION yearly, it estimates. Could someone please smoke signal our Congress on this? Think how much clean energy that could buy, or chocolate easter bunnies ...
Ain't She a Beauty? This solar airplane will fly over the US this spring (Courtesy of Solar Impulse)
Global Warming Accelerating Towards A Climate Punch says new oceanic research, reports Dana Nuccitelli at Climate Progress via Skeptical Science. Oceanic measurements over the past 15 years show more and more global warming heat is being absorbed by the oceans, but as absorption slows in the deep, we'll be getting more climate change faster. Oh boy, are our kids in hot water now....
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here.
@@@ Climate Change at the Movies @@@
@@ Amazing video of exploding under-ice methane gas in Siberia @@ Permafrost Methane Time Bomb, NBC News @@ Permafrost: The Tipping Time Bomb @@ Arctic Amplification, Loss of Earth's Thermal Shield - This has it all, folks, -- a must see!!!
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Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this chysanthemum I photographed one spring. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Big Bad Drought, Flowing Batteries, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.29455572013-03-24T18:29:58-04:002013-03-24T18:30:00-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/You Know That Big Bad US Drought of 2012? It Will Likely Worsen in 2013, says NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as it continues through this spring, reports Suzanne Goldenber at the UK Guardian. Which means, of course, higher food prices are on the way....
Flow Batteries Will Float A Clean Energy Future, reports Martin LaMonica at Newscientist. Latest designs store huge amounts of energy safely, with the potential to smooth out the power from renewables and replace the vulnerable national grid with a giant web of self-sufficient, more resilient clean energy microgrids. Yes!! This future can't come fast enough!
*********Climate Change Round the World***********
** Himalayas: Half the World's Water Supply Is Drying Up As Glaciers Retreat
** Iceland: Natural "Geo-engineering" Iron Seeding of Ocean Fails to Cut Carbon Dioxide
** Capitals of Bangladesh, Philippines, Thailand Top Climate Change Hit-List
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** Carbon Tax: China Acts As US Sleeps altho China's C tax is so small that political instability from climatic stress will still threaten its government...
** England: Keeping Carbon in Peat bogs Vital to Checking Global Climate Change
** Climate Change Further Stresses Pakistan - And A Plan Is Born
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Let's Count The Ways Keystone Helps US -Oops, Harms US ...unless... Do 35 permanent jobs count? Act Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance - here!
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Atmospheric Warming Tied To Greenland High, Shoveling Arctic Cold into US, reports Neven Acropolis at Climate Progress, with help from Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. Strong high pressure areas, which new studies tie to climate change, act like atmospheric stop signs, allowing US storms to gather strength and Arctic cold. Snow cones, anyone?
Colorful but not pretty picture of the fractured Arctic Ice Cap, viaArctic Sea Ice Blog
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*** Why Are Energy Futures Green? Clean Energy Prices Are Diving as Fossil Fuels Trend Up, Google Says, so they're investing big time - it's the money, man....
*** Solar To Be Second Biggest Source of New US Power in 2013
*** Crowd Funding Solar Lowers Its Cost, by providing much lower interest loans than alternative financing... what are you waiting for? You can invest today through crowd-funding Mosaic here!
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*** Clean Renewable Energy Now Powers Much of Apple, the company, not the fruit...
Climate Change Makes Water A National Security Issue Worldwide, says a recent UN report, reports Alister Doyle at Reuters News. Add to that potent mix a 7 billion - and growing - human population. Something's gonna give, folks, and it's not going to be pretty...
Pay Africa to Produce Clean Energy And Watch It Develop, a new report says, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network. Guaranteeing a market for clean energy has already worked in many countries, and Africa has a large, untapped potential...
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@@Wait Until China Acts on Climate - What? They already are? @@Humans have already set in Motion 69 feet of Sea Level Rise
@@ The Price of Carbon @@Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of Pacific Islands
@@Ocean Acidification: Where will all the Seashells Go?
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Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by these Irises I photographed recently. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
Dscn4652 irises]]>Climate Change This Week: Earth Shoots UP on GHG, Biggest Security Threat, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.28984182013-03-18T00:03:02-04:002013-05-17T05:12:02-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Global Warming Gases Spike in 2012, packing in the second highest yearly amount recorded yet, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network, while fellow CNN colleague Paul Brown noted that no one seems to have noticed it, or its grave implications .... Earth year 40,009 AD: "Fascinating!" observed Gznork, one tendril caressing his data pack as a few of his eyes swivelled towards his colleague. "Do you realize this lost species created a civilization capable of creating clean energy and predicting the future, but chose to pollute themselves into extinction instead? They were highly sentient beings who chose to behave like bacteria!!" With that, they teleported off the planet.
"So, these 2 guys in a bar..." uh, okay, I'll cut to the chase - the first one has the Climate Cheat Sheet to win every climate argument, but since polls show that most US adults already understand that humans drive climate change, what the first guy really needs a Clean Energy Cheat Sheet.... Meantime, here's part of Mel's Climate Change Flow Chart:
Climate change --> heat waves --> heat strokes --> MANY PEOPLE DIE ...Other parts of the chart are equally gruesome. We'll insert a few of them after items below (Hint, hint: they all pretty much end the same way)...
Want to spread clean energy in your neighborhood? Try putting up neighborhood flyers, and get the conversation going.... Clean energy not available in your neighborhood? Get together with neighbors and see if you can change that!
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@@@Penguins in Peril As Antarctic Ice Melts *****Expect More Violence as Libya Dries From Climate Change
Climate change --> droughts --> crops fail --> violence --> MANY PEOPLE DIE ☼☼☼Trading Trash For Solar Lights in Kenya Slum
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$$$Drought Could Cost New Zealand $2 Billion *****Climate Change Drought Worsened Syrian Violence @@@Climate Change Worsened 2011 Somali Drought, Killing Many Thousands
Climate change --> droughts --> crops fail --> starvation --> MANY PEOPLE DIE
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*****Indian coal power plants 'kill 120,000 people a year,' report says $$$Climate change could ruin snorkeling and fishing economy in Florida ☼☼☼Australia Hot For Massive Solar PV Growth, which could reach 10 gigawatts by 2015
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*****Keystone Pipeline Will Diminish Energy Security, Prominent Canadian Says
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but President Obama might okay it anyway. Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance -- here.
Top US Admiral Says Climate Change Biggest Threat to US security in the Pacific, reports Bryan Bender at the Boston Globe. Climate change will drive long-term security problems the most, and global diplomacies recognize this threat, he added.... So when will our US leaders do the same?
US Military Says Full Speed Ahead on Clean Energy, reportsMother Jones Julia Whitty at the Climate Desk, and forget about Congressional naysayers: history shows they are overwhelmingly wrong when it comes to blocking military progress. As a large global consumer of energy, the US military understands it must plan for its energy future based on clean, secure sources. When are some of those military brains going to run for Congress?
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Joe, to Joe: Climate Change Can Be Slowed, But Not Reversedreports Joe Romm at Climate Progress to a clueless journalist. As NOAA pointed out, we have "bought" plenty of CC already - now we have to stop buying, and start saving some of that future for our kids by cutting emissions dramatically, as soon as possible. Clean energy canapes, anyone? Try the wind and solar ones - they're really hot!
Congress is Grinding Out Carbon Tax Bills aimed at power plants and "upstream" emitters, such as coal mines and refineries, reports Tim McDonnell at the Climate Desk. Sounds nice, except that the track record for such bills is not a good one... so far....
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by these wonderful mushrooms David Work so generously shared with me. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Frying Earth, Sustainable Solar, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.28502632013-03-10T20:28:21-04:002013-05-10T05:12:01-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Just How Fast is Earth Warming? About 50x Faster Than Before, a new study that reconstructs the fine grained climate history since the Ice Age 11,000+ years ago says, reports Tim Radford at the Climate News Network. By 2100, Earth will also be warmer than anytime since then. Fried eggs, anyone?
Credit: Andy Lee Robinson
India: Solar Now as Cheap As Fossil Fueled Power says Deutsche Bank, reports Jeff Spross at Climate Progress, and in parts of Italy as well, where rooftop solar has taken off. DB predicts the global solar industry will be able to swim on its own, unsubsidized, by 2014's end, and projects increased demands. It can't happen soon enough....
How Low Must We Go? Halve Carbon Emissions by 2020 in developed nations to have even a medium chance of limiting warming to a level that will avoid harsh climate change impacts, says a new study, reports Kelly Levin at WRI Insights. This will require dramatic, quick changes in energy and land use policies.... Helloooooh! Any US leaders listening?
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☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: The XL Keystone pipeline will make possible far more climate change, but the latest flawed State Department analysis indicates that the President will okay it in April (see last week's column). Credo, 350.org and others are asking people to stand up and be counted as nonviolent resisters or help in other ways. I did. If you ever wanted to do something big for your future, now's your chance -- here.
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Surprise, Surprise! State Department XL Keystone pipeline's analysis, dismissing the pipeline's impact on developing dirty tar sands, was created by companies tied to Big Oil ... who would have guessed?
Climate Change-Primed Weather Prevents Climate Change Deniers' Congressional Hearing - heck, come back in a century, and you can have your meeting underwater, just like they did in the Maldives!
Global Warming Heat Absorbed Mostly by Oceans Not Air, reports Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science. Although air temperature appears stable for the past decade, data indicate that 90% of the extra heat goes into the oceans covering most of the planet. Meanwhile, short-term effects that dampen air absorption can fool many into thinking no warming is occurring at all. Remember, folks, it's that extra oceanic surface heat that fuels storms like Hurricane Sandy, among other myriad effects...
Climate Change-Primed Storms Continue to Grind Away at Northeast US Coasts, reports Andrew Freedman at Climate Central, as various climate change effects create (see the item above, for example) increasingly destructive storms, like the one just experienced in New England and southward.
☼☼☼Acting Like You Care: Climate Change doesn't happen in a vacuum, folks - in the case of bees, which we need for much of our food, bad pesticides are killing them daily as they struggle with a changing climate. Want to help them? Take action here!
Credit: Roots Action, Sum of US
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this wild bumble bee and snapdragons I photographed one summer. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Pipeline Lunacy, Solar Supremacy, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.28072942013-03-04T15:56:04-05:002013-05-04T05:12:01-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Yo, O, Say It Ain't So: State Department Analysis Says XL pipeline harmless since the Canadian tar sands oil would be mined and drilled anyway, reports Sierra Club President Michael Brune at the HuffingtonPost. That's just plain wrong: the oilies need the transport capacity before they extract...Hey, Mr. President, just HOW SERIOUS are you about stopping this climate change generator? Send your message to the administration today. Time is of the essence, so tweet this far and wide, folks - it's your planet, your future!
An XL Pipeline Protestor at the recent San Francisco Forward on Climate Rally (credit: Mary E Harte)
Frustrated? Time out with this real Squeaky Frog and draw your own conclusions...
First US, Then China Mentions Carbon Tax as five days after a US Senate carbon tax bill is introduced, a high Chinese government official suggests they should get one, too, reports Matthew Carr at Bloomberg News. Coincidence, or does it show how one country can spur another to act towards climate change? Stay tuned, folks.
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Droughts and floods 'will be common events in Britain,'Says British Environment Agency...
Remarkable summer in Australia is its hottest on record,notes the country's Bureau of Meteorology ....
Climate change threatens 'Arab Spring' a new report warns...
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Skiing Already Headed Downhill with Climate Changereports Rebecca Jacobson at the PBS Newshour. Last winter saw an average 15% drop in skiers due to lack of snow; such dry winters cost the US economy close to $1 billion in lost revenues, nevermind the disappointed skiers....
Climate Change Replaces Biblical Plagues even in the US. There, much is already happening, reports Wendy Koch at USA Today. Plague of: Blood - read ocean acidification; Frogs - read bark beetles; Gnats - read more malaria; Flies/wild animals - read drought-starved midwest livestock; Boils - read heat strokes; Hail - read Hurricane Sandy; Locusts - read more crop pests; Darkness - read we're headed towards a dark climate change future. Death of first borns - read "your descendents are going to die bigtime" as it gets worse. There now, you're properly updated for Passover Seder 2013. Satisfied? I hope not.
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Many Breakthroughs Place Solar Above Coal in cost if we invest in solar power, reported Kurt Krukart at Mother Nature Network back in 2011, and the breakthroughs just keep coming, with a new cheaper way to produce solar cells, and the spinning solar cell way to deploy them... the answer is literally staring us in the face on sunny days....
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Climate Change Seesaw Now Reality says a new study that reviews the past 40 years of rainfall data & concludes that global warming has made wet seasons wetter, and dry seasons drier - ie, making climate more extreme, reports Tim Radford at Climate News Network. What does this mean? Invest in more raincoats and bikinis, of course!
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Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by these flowers I photographed one spring in Istanbul. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: China Eats Amazon, Methane Bomb Set to Explode, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.27563712013-02-24T21:19:41-05:002013-04-26T05:12:01-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/U.S. Winters Warming Faster, says a new report by Climate Central, an online scientific journalism organization. Before you snow shovelers start cheering, just remember that this is a marker of human-driven climate change - you know, the process that brings more extreme weather, like mega storms, blizzards, and the ongoing US drought currently threatening our wheat crops...
Colder states are warming faster, says a new Climate Central Report. Credit: Climate Central
Humanity Close To Exploding Global Methane Bomb a new study indicates, reports Michael Marshall at the New Scientist, as Congress Continues To Do Nothing. Oxford University scientists found that much of prehistoric Siberian permafrost melted when the Earth was only one degree Fahrenheit warmer than present. Continued warming from burning fossil fuels means it will soon do so again, releasing so much methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that the added warming will fuel further melting, further warming... uncontrolled by humans. Feeling the heat, yet?
Having Eaten Asia, China Now Eats the Amazon, says a new study, reports Jan Rocha at Climate News Network. The Amazon rainforest stores vast amounts of carbon, and many scientists acknowledge it is important in stabilizing the global climate... China is planning on stopping its One Child policy by 2015. And that's how burgeoning human populations are eating up the Earth, folks, and our future.
Credits: Natural Resources Defense Council and 350.org
173 Independent Sources Confirm Global Warming is Occurring, says a new NOAA study, reports Alex Knapp at Forbes. Paleontologists use proxy sources, such as how ice crystallizes, to reconstruct ancient temperature records. NOAA used 173 proxy sources to see if they matched modern era temperature records. They did. Not that this would convince any of the die-hard warming skeptics, but there's hope for those independent thinkers who just needed a little more independent confirmation. Well, here's a LOT more...
Live in NYC, But Wonder What the Mideast is Like? Come back in 2200! says a new report at Climate News Network, which says NY climate will be much like Bahrain -- that is, if it isn't totally underwater by then!
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The League of Conservation Voters 2012 Congressional scorecard (green is good, red is bad) for those who voted for a better, safer environment paints a dangerous picture, folks. We've got to pressure Congress to do better. Credit: League of Conservation Voters
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'World Can End Poverty and Limit Global Warming' to a 4 degree Fahrenheit warming, says a new UN study, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network, by making clean energy accessible to everyone in the world. But it can do so only if carbon emissions are dramatically cut... of course, a 4 degree Fahrenheit rise won't stop the methane bomb (see above), and they also forgot to mention that we have to bring our global population down to a sustainable level via unlimited access to family planning and education to really stop poverty, but, hey, they almost got it right....
∆∆∆∆ And the Dry Goes On, as US feds predict the big drought will continue in 2013, says the LA Times...
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Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this hounds tongue wildflower I photographed on the trail today. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
]]>Climate Change This Week: Melting Tundra, Red Hot States, and More!tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.27086902013-02-17T23:53:44-05:002013-04-19T05:12:02-04:00Mary Ellen Hartehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/Stop the XL Pipeline, Mr. President! said over 40,000 people concerned about climate change at the February 17th Washington DC Forward On Climate Rally, reports Jamies Henn at 350.org. Many thousands more turned out at several other rallies across the US. If you still have your signs, plant them on your lawns, in your windows and elsewhere - and keep them there til the pipeline dies!
Public Health Announcement: Health professionals apparently feel that climate change, and the stuff that causes it, is not good for you.
Red Hot: 7 Out of 10 States Most Damaged by Drought Are Republican, if you peruse the top ten unlucky ones reported by Alyson Kenward at Climate Central, and compare them to the 2012 electoral map. Will this make more Republicans sit up and smell the coffee about climate change? Don't hold your breath. Don't worry about the farms too much, though - government "handouts" (read: insurance) bailed many out.
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Melting Arctic Tundra Releasing Greenhouse Gases says a new study, reports Tim Radford at Climate News Network. This will accelerate global warming, which will accelerate melting tundra, which... well, you get the idea... someone tell this to the uninformed in Congress.
What can we, what WILL we, say to our kids?
Climate Change Poses Big Financial Risks to US Government says the Government Accountability Office in a new report, notes Lisa Fein and Juliet Eilperin at the Washington Post, and the government is not positioned in a way to address them adequately. So, if you thought the national debt is bad now, wait til climate change accelerates further...
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Ex Head of IPCC: "We're on our way to a [6 to 10 degrees F warmer] world" says Sir Robert Watson, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network. Watson was pressured out of his former IPPC job by the US, right around the time ole Dubya had an oil magnate helping him run the US government. Sadly, nothing much has changed since then between the oil industry and addressing climate change adequately.
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Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by all these people I photographed at the San Francisco Forward on Climate Rally. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to join the increasing numbers of people who want to TELL Congress that they will vote for clean energy candidates you can do so here. It's our way of letting Congress know there's a strong clean energy voting bloc out there. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
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