Posts tagged climate change
How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation’s Biggest Climate Victory
Activists have imposed a de facto moratorium on new coal—and beat the Obama EPA to the punch.
Crazy Weather to America: Get It Yet?
After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in 10 Americans now believe that “global warming is affecting the weather.”
New data released last month by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities show that a lot of Americans are growing far more concerned about climate change, precisely because they’re drawing the links between freaky weather, a climate kicked off-kilter by a fossil-fuel guzzling civilization, and their own lives. After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans now believe that “global warming is affecting the weather.” No less striking, 35 percent of the respondents reported that extreme weather had affected them personally in 2011. As Yale’s Anthony Laiserowitz told the New York Times, “People are starting to connect the dots.”
NOAA: March 2012 the Warmest on Record
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The number of warm temperature records set in March 2012. This is a combination of 7,775 daytime records and 7,517 nighttime records. Hundreds of locations set all-time March records. There were 21 instances of nighttime temperatures being as warm or warmer than the existing record high temperature for the date. The map of red dots above shows where daily record highs were broken or tied in March 2012. (Image credit: NOAA/NCDC)
Massachusetts weather is seriously messed up.
Rachel Maddow interviews Sen James Inholfe (R-OK) about his new book The Greatest Hoax.
More Than 1,200 Record Highs Set This Week in U.S.
Have we skipped over spring and gone straight into summer?
Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,’ my point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
Sen. James Inhofe’s defense of his thesis that Climate Change is a hoax is from the bible, not science.
I mean, no disrespect. But the Bible refutes turkey sandwiches, too.
This infographic highlights the risk of climate change to cities, and the cities that are making the best efforts to address them. More on This Big City.
Environment America, “In the Path of the Storm,” finds that “federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people – or roughly four out of five Americans.” Global warming pollution has already made extreme weather like intense precipitation, heat waves, and floods more likely, with much greater changes projected in the decades to come. The analysis also reveals that Oklahoma, home of climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), is ground zero for climate disasters in the United States.
Petition of the day: TELL GENERAL MOTORS: STOP FUNDING CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL
GM donates money to the Heartland Institute, which was just caught financing climate deniers. Sign this petition to tell GM to stop funding deniers.
A real climate scandal? Deniers busted: INTERNAL DOCUMENTS: The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax
These internal documents from the climate denier machine
willmight facilitate much spilling-of-the-ink on enviro and lefty blogs, aggregators, and news outlets in the days to come. Climate advocates will be, of course, quite jubilant in their “I told you so” commentary. I suspect there will be lots of celebration that deniers are exposed for what they are - corporate funded shills.But, seriously, how will this document dump matter? What will be the effect? For example, will the Koch brothers stop funding deniers?? Will the Heartland Institute suddenly see the light and stop finding ways to impact public opinion on climate?
As a result of a leak, it seems to me these denier groups would just tighten up their internal messaging to prevent future mistakes. I don’t have faith in the enviros to capitalize on this (very interesting) leak. I’ve argued many times on this tumblr that environmentalists are (unfortunately) not very adept at messaging or staying focused on one topic. They’re fantastic reactionaries, but terrible at visioning and affecting change.
Brad Johnson of Think Progress sets the tone:
Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum” for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy.” This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.
“Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective,” Heartland’s confidential 2012 fundraising document bemoans. The group believes that Wojick’s project has “potential for great success,” because he has “contacts at virtually all the national organizations involved in producing, certifying, and promoting scientific curricula.” The document explains that Wojick will produce “modules” that promote the conspiratorial claim that climate change is “controversial”:
Read the rest of the document at Think Progress
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“River Crossing 2”
Students forge Trembley Creek in the Brooks Range during Advanced Wilderness Leadership course.
Photo by Outdoor Adventures
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@PattonOswalt and @MarcMaron are on a plane together and tweeting the hell out of it.
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Star Wars Kokeshi Dolls
Available at Kokeshi Clan.
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