Tag Archives: climate change

Assault On The Arctic: President Obama’s Mortal Sin

Posted on September 17, 2015 by markt

Approval of Shell’s Arctic oil drilling has tarnished his environmental legacy and sinned against our children. By Bianca Jagger The Huffington Post (9/15/15) Introduction  President Obama is the first incumbent US President to cross the Arctic Circle. The purpose of … Continue reading →

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Ocean Fish Populations Cut In Half Since The 1970s: Report

Posted on September 17, 2015 by markt

By Andy Campbell The Huffington Post (9/16/15) A disturbing new report published by the World Wildlife Fund found that the world marine vertebrate population declined by 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. The Living Blue Planet Report — analyzed by the … Continue reading →

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Is Your Retirement Invested In Fossil Fuels? Time To Get Out Of Big Oil & Dirty Coal

Posted on September 16, 2015 by markt

By Stefanie Spear EcoWatch (9/15/15) With more than 91 million Americans having $5.6 trillion invested in the five major fund families that control recordkeeping at 75 percent of all employer-sponsored retirement plans, you’ve got to figure that many people are investing in … Continue reading →

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Stop Deadly Corporate Sacrifice Zones From Destroying Everything

Posted on September 15, 2015 by markt

By Lee Camp www.rt.com/redacted-tonight/ (8/25/15) In his new book, Erik Loomis explains how corporations create “sacrifice zones” in which they often decimate the land and people. They do this in areas with poor minority populations because those are the people least … Continue reading →

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The Next Genocide Will Be Worldwide

Posted on September 13, 2015 by markt

By Timothy Snyder The New York Times (9/13/15) New Haven — BEFORE he fired the shot, the Einsatzgruppe commander lifted the Jewish child in the air and said, “You must die so that we can live.” As the killing proceeded, … Continue reading →

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If You Think European Refugee Crisis Is Bad: The Climate Crisis Will Be Much Worse.

Posted on September 6, 2015 by markt

www.theguardian.com Hundreds of thousands seek refuge now, but hundreds of millions will be displaced as the climate warms. By Peter Mellgard World Post (9/5/15) The hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving in Europe or dying on the way to its … Continue reading →

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Obama Is Running A Dirty Petrostate

Posted on September 6, 2015 by dennis

Climate Obama is perfectly happy making grand speeches while Oil Baron Obama gleefully counts the money flowing in from industry. By Eric Holthaus Slate (9/1/15) After seven years of failing to match his action to his rhetoric, Obama seems to … Continue reading →

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What Obama Just Doesn’t Get On Climate Change: Physics Doesn’t Negotiate

Posted on September 3, 2015 by markt

kuow.org Climate change is not like most of the issues politicians deal with, the ones where compromise makes complete sense. By Bill McKibben Medium (9/1/15) President Obama is visiting Alaska this week — a territory changing as rapidly as any on earth … Continue reading →

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Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Is Covertly Funded By Coal Industry

Posted on August 27, 2015 by markt

www.youtube.com By Lee Fang The Intercept (8/25/15) Christopher Horner, an attorney who claims that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as “communists” and … Continue reading →

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New Project From Google Will Help Households To Go Off-Grid

Posted on August 24, 2015 by markt

TrueActivist.com (8/18/15) A new project from Google is aimed at helping households to go off-grid. It is called Project Sunroof, and it is powered by Google Maps.  It can calculate how much sun your roof gets and how much you will … Continue reading →

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California First: As Both Climate Victim & Responder, The National Style-Setter Leads The Way

Posted on August 19, 2015 by markt

www.thefederalistpapers.org Maybe we can imagine in an intellectual way what it might be like to lose the forests across half of the continent, but can any of us conjure the feeling of how that would be? By William deBuys The Huffington … Continue reading →

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‘Future generations’ Sue Obama Administration Over Climate Change

Posted on August 14, 2015 by markt

By Tony Dokoupil MSNBC (8/12/15) One kid says that his family’s farm has been damaged by drought and wildfire. Another says that his childhood home has been devalued by rising sea levels. A third alleges an assault on his whole culture … Continue reading →

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The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here … And Growing

Posted on August 11, 2015 by markt

www.photosof.org “I used to think it was kind of hard to make things in the ocean go extinct, but this change we’re seeing is happening so fast it’s almost instantaneous.” By Eric Holthaus Rolling Stone (8/9/15) Historians may look to … Continue reading →

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The President’s Hard Carbon Emissions Push: Does The US Have The Stuff To Compete?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by markt

    boyle.house.gov   By John Donvan On Point Radio (8/4/15) Tough new carbon restrictions. What the president is proposing, Germany’s already doing. Will the American people buy in? He says he wants America in the lead on fighting climate change, … Continue reading →

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World’s Glaciers Melting At Fastest Rate Since Record-Keeping Began

Posted on August 4, 2015 by markt

“Globally, we lose about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year.”   By Nick Visser The Huffington Post (8/3/15) The world’s glaciers have melted to the lowest levels since record-keeping began more … Continue reading →

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