Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Government impose ‘carbon capture levy’ to fund coal-fired power plants - Times Online Families will pay a new levy on electricity bills for at least the next 20 years to fund technology designed to capture the carbon from coal-fired power stations. The Government is planning to raise £9.5 billion from the levy to subsidise up to four carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
YouTube - [James Hansen disses cap and trade in front of some people camping out in support of cap and trade] [On cap and trade: "... you can prove that that is not going to work. "] Antarctica Glacier Retreat Creates New Carbon Dioxide Store; Has Beneficial Impact On Climate Change ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) — Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Indypendent » Our Choice in the Face of Climate Crisis: Al Gore at the American Museum of Natural History The book, which draws on conversations with scientists and energy experts at 30 solutions summits—unpublicized and invitation-only meetings with leading climate change experts—also focuses on how to mitigate the effects of forest fires, population increases and soil erosion...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Oxfam presents interactive documentary on impact of climate change in Bangladesh | Environment | guardian.co.uk Featuring extraordinary footage of the cyclone's trail of destruction, the e-documentary allows the audience to chose its own journey through lives of the Gabura villagers, illustrating the harsh reality of climate change on some of the world's poorest people. [But why did all of this Bad...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Coalition MPs deny man-made climate change - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The Liberal Leader in the Senate, Nick Minchin, says a majority of his colleagues do not believe humans are causing climate change. [Fraudster Al Gore heckled in his home town] | The Tennessean Radio talk show host and columnist Phil Valentine, who says global warming doesn't exist and is a critic of Gore, was...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I thought that it would be worth illustrating the sort of people that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd characterizes as climate deniers , people whose logic does not belong in any respons ible government. Category #1 "The first category of those opposed to action is the vocal group of conservatives who do not accept the scientific consensus." We can illustrate this first category of skeptic...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Onwards and Upwards « The Leadership Campaign I will not lie to you. This week has been extremely difficult. We started out this campaign with full force and optimism. It was our assumption everyone had a forest fire under their asses ready to take on global climate disruption at whatever cost. It seems, and correct me if I’m wrong, but most people aren’t there yet. We have so many...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Bo Webb Bo Webb (right) with James Hansen (left) at a Coal River protest last summerPhoto: Antrim CaskeyDear Mr. President: I write to you in a moment of urgency. In your address at MIT last week, you told students that the “Pentagon has declared our dependence on fossil fuels to be a security threat.” Here in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, our mountain communities face a security...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Ian Plimer Audio (1 hour) 10.24.2009 Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
UK congratulates RP on climate change act but... British Embassy Charge d'Affaires Colin Crorkin noted the challenges posed by climate change can be seen in an online map the UK launched. "(Cyclones) Ondoy (Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma) gave us a glimpse of what's in store for us if we neglect climate change," he said. Sanders leads climate change [hoax] meeting U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,...
Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Legendary author of the Whole Earth Catalog has a new book A radio jingle asks the rhetorical question, “If you remember the 60s, you weren’t there,” which is an inside out joke on the reality altering nature of the decade. Stewart Brand became one of the icons of the era with his ground breaking book ‘The Whole Earth Catalog” which helped readers cope with the ordinary...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Climate Change: The Resilience Option (far better than climate stasis) — MasterResource This focus on creating climate stasis has led to policy proposals that would have been laughed at or dismissed as wacky conspiracy theories in the 1980s. But mainstream anti-climate-change activists are proposing nothing less than the establishment of global weather control through energy rationing, regulations,...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
by Russ Walker Tim Flannery says the U.S. Senate absolutely must pass some form of carbon cap before the Copenhagen talks in December.Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science JournalistsDon’t let the perfect be the enemy of the absolutely essential. That’s the message author and climate campaigner Tim Flannery brought to Grist’s Seattle office today. By that, he means: The U.S....
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
EU plays climate-change [fraud] poker “When the Americans discuss their agreement on Copenhagen or (emissions trading), one big argument is that if they don’t do it fast enough, the EU will continue to have the advantage because we had the prudence to move in this direction,” Dimas said. The Reference Frame: NASA GISS at Tom's diner ...James Hansen's and Gavin Schmidt's offices are...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy 350reasons.org350.org is taking a big-tent approach to activism on its International Day of Climate Action this Saturday, inviting anyone who wants to help to join a climate-change demonstration, or create one of their own. That open invitation means not everyone will be pushing the same message. In fact, a trio of groups will use the day, and the number 350, to highlight...
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