Climate Crisis

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What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Polls, Politics, Green Jobs, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Congressional Budget Office, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News

How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?

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Show us your climate leader

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: 350, Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, cop15, Copenhagen, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Home News

The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...

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Show me your climate leader

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: 350, Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, cop15, Copenhagen, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Home News

The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...

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President Obama Must Take the Lead on Climate Finance

Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Climate Finance, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Barack Obama, G-20, Climate Bill, Green News

The developed world -- responsible for both today's financial as well as climate crisis -- must help pay the costs for the developing world to do the right thing.

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In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Blood Alcohol Level, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Trace Gas, Green News

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

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Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil-Nuked?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewables, Climate Crisis, King Cong, Nuclear Power, John Kerry, Climate Change, Solartopia, Green News

If you think pushing nukes, oil wells and coal mines to "prevent global warming" is counter-intuitive, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

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From Here to a Global Climate Treaty

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Bill, Climate Crisis, Copenhagen, Global Movement, Global Warming, Home News

Right now Copenhagen is the most important city in the world. In just 2 short months, the city might witness the formation of a global climate treaty...

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World Leaders Fiddle While the World Burns: Time for a New Climate Strategy

Brendan Smith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Labor, Copenhagen 2009, Waxman-Markey, Copenhagen, Green, Environment, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Green News

We have learned a great deal more about the science of climate change. But we have barely begun to discuss what kind of political change is necessary to do what must be done.

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Green Workers Need a Voice in the Climate Change Debate

Brendan Smith | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Labor, Green Jobs, Work, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Labor Movement, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Green Politics, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Green News

What sort of future lies ahead for those of us who work in industries already being impacted by climate change?

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Sean Hannity Steals From Hollywood In His Mockumentary, "The Valley Hope Forgot"

David Fiderer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Environment, Drought, California Drought, California, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, California-Drought-Emergency, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Video, Green News

Depression-era symbolism resonates in California, a state with 12.2 percent unemployment. So Fox News fabricated a narrative taken from the plot of Chinatown to complement Dustbowl images from The Grapes of Wrath

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Just in Time: Youth Journalists Take On Climate with 'Project Survival Media'

Celia Alario | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Youth Radio, Energy-Action-Coalition, Climate Change, Energy Action Coalition, Climate Crisis, Youth Activism, Independent Media, Climate Bill, Green News

The youth reporters are focusing on the voices of those who are already being disproportionately impacted, and those who have found successful global and local solutions for a better future.

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Cash for Coal Anyone?

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Cash for Clunkers, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Green-Energy-Jobs, Global Warming, Green News

Since the "Cash for Clunkers" program was so successful in stimulating demand for new autos, why not use the same concept to stimulate the demand for new clean power plants to replace dirty coal?

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Add a Gigawatt a Day to Keep the Climate Crisis at Bay

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Integral Fast Reactor, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Lamar Alexander, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Green Energy, Global Warming, Al Gore Global Warming, Obama Global Warming, Obama Energy Bill, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Green-Energy-Jobs, Energy Bill, Green Energy Economy, Climate Bill, Green News

If we think we're going to make the goal from solar, wind, and other renewables alone, we must be smoking something. Every clean power technology, including nuclear, has to play a role.

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Climate Inaction: All in Our Heads?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Denial, Climate Change, Psychology, Ecopsychology, Climate Crisis, Ecotherapy, Green News

A national poll showed 75% to 80% of respondents said that climate change is an important issue. But respondents also ranked it last in a list of 20 compelling issues, such as the economy or terrorism.

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Climate Change Protesters Superglue Themselves Together

Telegraph | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Wind Turbine, Green Living, Reuseable Energy, Super Glue, Climate, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Environment, Green, Climate Crisis, Wind Turbines, Global Warming, Green News

A group of climate change activists were arrested after supergluing themselves together outside a Government department in support of workers staging ...

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Who Lost the Earth?

John Kerry | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Foreign Affairs, China, John Kerry, Copenhagen 2009, Climate, Climate Crisis, Copenhagen, Green News

192 nations will gather this December to hammer out a new global climate treaty. Two will set the tone. Can America and China forge a partnership that will prevent a climate catastrophe?

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Like a Diamond in the Sky

David Horton | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Degradation, Mountaintop Removal, Climate Crisis, Deforestation, Green News

Those who deny climate change believe that no environmental issue, no conservation cause, no piece of the natural world, must ever be allowed to get in the way of big profits for big business.

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Earth to G8: Limit Global Warming Emissions!

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: G8, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Climate, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Politics News

At the outset of WWII, we didn't set a goal of keeping German occupied territory to some "upper limit"; we set the goal of making as many airplanes and artillery as possible, and mobilizing troops.

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Why We Can't Wait for the Perfect Climate Bill

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Carbon Emissions, Climate Crisis, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Global Warming, Green News

We have passed the point of waiting to tackle global warming until some indefinite, ideal time in the future. And we have passed the point of speculating about other mechanisms, such as a carbon tax.

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British PM Calls For $100 Billion Global Green Fund

AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Developing World, Gordon Brown, Global, Climate Crisis, Climate Change, Alternative Energy Resources, Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy Supplies, Green Energy, Alternative and Renewable, Renewable Resources, Alternate Energy Sources, Clean Renewable Energy, Evolving Energy Tech, Alternative Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy Resource, Alternative Energy Sources, Alternative Energy Efficiency, Alternative Energy Demand, Renewable and Alternative, Renewable Energy Supplies, Green News

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...

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Stripping in Rome

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, Flash Mob, G8, Global Warming, Italy, Strip Mob, Video, Rome-Italy, Italy, Home News

On July 8th Italian Avaaz volunteers and members of the Avaaz European climate action factory -- a rapid response group of youth climate activists su...

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The Power to Mislead

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Al Gore, Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Green News

In the last decade, we have realized that we have a very difficult problem to solve. It requires an unprecedented amount of global cooperation. It goes by the name of climate change.

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The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Natural Gas, Climate Crisis, Coal, Global Warming, China, Climate Bill, Green News

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

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Lessons Learned and Leading Change

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Human Rights, Environmental Issues, Climate Crisis, Industry, Green News

What if we were to apply the same organic formula that worked to address human rights issues to environmental issues? Could we imagine the same progress?

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