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Sierra Club Pulling Heads Out of the Sand in Cancun

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Photo credit: Sierra Club This week, I’m happy to introduce Justin Guay of the Sierra Club’s International Climate Program, who is in Cancun at the international climate negotiations. He helped write this post to explain more of the important work happening over the past two weeks. The Sierra Club has been busy building the momentum, and pressure needed to ensure that our politicians and leaders live up to international responsibilities and infuse positive momentum into the climate change negotiations in Canc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Image courtesy of Practical Action Ninety years from now, your London-going grandchildren may be jealous that you didn’t have to strap on a snorkel to visit Big Ben, Parliament, London Bridge, and Canary Wharf. That’s the forecast from Practical Action , the development charity behind the London Underground Map 2100 . Any area in blue is predicted to be underwater by the end of the century…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here’s the London Underground After Nine More Decades of Climate Change. Don’t Forget Your Goggles

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

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Increased Plant Growth From Higher CO2 Levels Can Slow But Not Stop Global Warming

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

photo: www.bluewaikiki.com / Creative Commons In case you were holding out hope that all that extra CO2 we’re pumping into the atmosphere would stimulate enough extra plant growth to balance out any future increases in global temperature , give it up: New computer modeling from NASA s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Scientists vs. Congress (Video)

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

At the moment, I can’t think of a profession I’m less envious of than that of the American climate scientist. Consider: The climate science community’s years of meticulous study, research, data collection and modeling — not to mention its cautious, much-deliberated-over policy guidelines — are met with what? Certainly not our thanks. Nope, instead, climate scientists… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Powerful and Deadly Hurricanes, As Seen From Outer Space (Slideshow)

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Photo credit: NASA Goddard For coastal regions around the world, the threat of hurricanes —strong storms fueled by warm air and water—is a seasonal reality. Each year, storm cells form over the ocean and begin moving towards land, sometimes growing into massive tropical cyclones—like Hurricane Gordon, seen here—capable of causing damage with heavy rain,

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China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Until this point, despite having the environmental impact and energy consumption of a wealthy nation, China has maintained that it is a developing nation and as such would not submit to any binding emission reductions. Photo: Ricky Qi / Creative Commons . Some truly interesting news coming out of the COP16 climate talks in Cancun:

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Wildlife Crossing Competition Finalists Propose Amazing Bridges

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Olin Studio ARC Competition; PDF here Designboom reminds us of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition, , to promote “innovation in feasible, buildable context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe, efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically responsive wildlife crossings.” It is proposed for Vail, Colorado,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Anti-Environmentalists Don’t All Hate the Environment

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

photo: Bernard Pollack / Creative Commons I’ve asked before why so many people hate environmentalists . But, to be fair, the hate runs both ways. There are plenty of greens who like nothing more than to point the finger at eco-villains —you know, those planet marauding evil doers who hate t… Read the full story on TreeHugger