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Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts "Lamestream Media" for Climate Leak
• By Kate SheppardIt's been an interesting few days in the climate denial world. On Tuesday, DeSmogBlog and Think Progress posted what they described as internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a fossil-fuel funded right-wing think-tank that spends much of its
Why California Almonds Need North Dakota Flowers (And A Few Billion Bees)
• by Dan CharlesHere's the web of connections: a threat to California's booming almond business; hard times for honeybees in North Dakota; and high corn prices.
EPA Sued for Failure to Issue Air Pollution Standards
• EarthJustice News RoomDangerous levels of soot particles cause thousands of deaths each year
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Can America survive the Cassandra Syndrome?
Frosty WooldridgeThe Cassandra Syndrome is a term applied to predictions of doom about the future that are not believed, but upon later reflection turn out to be correct. This denotes a tendency to disbelieve inescapably bad news, often through denial.
The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows
• The GuardianThe world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that
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Two compelling videos on population debate in Australia, America, Canada and Europe
Frosty Wooldridge“The world has set in motion environmental trends that are threatening civilization itself. We are crossing environmental thresholds and violating deadlines set by nature.
Moringa Tree Protein Identified For Water Cleansing
• arcleinPast research showed that a protein in Moringa seeds can clean water, but using the approach was too expensive and complicated. So Velegol's team sought to develop a simpler and less expensive way to utilize the seeds' power. T
Warmer summers cause colder winters, scientists say
• TheRawStory.comWarmer summers in the far Northern Hemisphere are disrupting weather patterns and triggering more severe winter weather in the United States and Europe, a team of scientists say, in a finding that could improve long-range weather forecasts.
Newly discovered molecules in atmosphere may offset global warming
• Muriel Kane via The RawStory.comA newly discovered form of chemical intermediary in the atmosphere has the ability to remove pollutants in a way that leads to cloud-formation and could potentially help offset global warming.
Sea Cucumber and Reef Repair
• arcleind determined that their dietary process of dissolving calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from the surrounding reef accounts for about half of at the total nighttime dissolution for the reef. The work is published December 23 by the Journal of Geophysical Rese
Ben Stein Sues: Ad Agency Replaced Me Over My Global-Warming Position
• www.reuters.comBen Stein claims he's a victim of political discrimination.
Caving on Keystone
• arcleinA couple things. I don't think there's anything wrong with Obama's advisers concerning themselves with his reelection. Of all the things Obama can realistically hope to do to reduce America's addiction to oil and the rest of it, the biggest and m
Harp Seal Population Loses 2011 Pups
• arcleinDavid Johnston, research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab, said: "The kind of mortality we're seeing in eastern Canada is dramatic. Entire year classes may be disappearing from the population in low ice years. Essentially all of the pups
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Man Swarm: West becoming the sacrifice zone
Frosty Wooldridge"Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption that could push half of the Earth’s species to extinction in this century.” Dr. E.O. Wilson, Harvard
Shark Fin Hunt Empties West Africa
• arcleinThis is the great shark cemetery," he says waving his hand dramatically across the beach where dried hunks of shark meat are piled up, filling the air with a musty, acrid odour as suffocating as the heat.
Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comIf their islands are deluged by rising seawater, the people of the Maldives would have to evacuate, becoming the first refugees driven from their homes by global warming.
Human CO2 Emissions Could Avert the Next Ice Age
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comEarth could be entering a new Ice Age within the next millennium, but it might not, the deep freeze averted by warming from increased carbon dioxide emissions. Humans could be thwarting the next glacial inception, a new study says.
Empire of the Beetle
• arcleinbad public policy, out-of-control logging, and the bad or misguided science that led a hundred years’ worth of forest managers to the mistaken conclusion that a key factor in habitat management is fire suppression, rather than the recognition that fi
Weather Deserves Medal for Clean Air During 2008 Olympics
• ScienceDaily.comNew research suggests that China's impressive feat of cutting Beijing's pollution up to 50 percent for the 2008 Summer Olympics had some help from Mother Nature.
Court delays strict new federal pollution rule at last minute
• The RawStory.comThe U.S. District Court of Appeals granted a request to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) pending further court review.
Anti-whaling activists’ drone tracks Japan fleet
• The RawStory.comAnti-whaling activists intercepted Japan’s harpoon fleet far north of Antarctic waters on Sunday, they said, with the help of a military-style drone.
Highest Court In Europe Rules ALL Airlines Flying Into Europe Must Pay For Their Carbon Emissions
• www.prisonplanet.comCosts that will inevitably be passed on to customers in the form of a carbon tax.
Military Bases Provide Refugia
• arcleinFrom Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine has seen its historical habitat reduced to a mere 3 percent of its original 92 million-acre range. Centuries of logging and farming have exacted a heavy toll on these ecosystems, and in recent decades the Sou
Desalting the Oceans?
• arcleinActually the density of halite (rock salt) is around 1.5 so that mass of salt would be a third less volume --say 390 km diameter--but that is just the salt in the ocean neglecting massive deposits in the continents.
Ron Paul and the Environment
• lewrockwell.com/Walter BlockA strong advocate of private property rights, Dr. Paul correctly sees this as the cornerstone of a sound libertarian-based environmental policy.
Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
• www.popsci.comNow China plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes — namely making it rain, for the purpose of growing crops.
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Part 1 of 3: Responding to critics’ attacks about human overpopulation in America
Frosty WooldridgeNature doesn’t care whether you believe in God, are an atheist, agnostic, Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. You can cry a river of righteousness, but Darwin and Malthus will prove smarter and more brutal than the Bible or Koran.
Petroleum-Eating Mushrooms
• arcleinIn the spring, we plant willow cuttings at 25-centimeter intervals so the roots dive into the ground and soak up the degrading contaminants in the timber along with the bacteria. At the end of the season, we burn the stems and leaves and we are left
BP: Halliburton Destroyed Key Oil Spill Evidence
• NY TimesBP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
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