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GOP Kills the House Climate Change Committee

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on GOP Kills the House Climate Change Committee

Photo: laszlo-photo , Flickr, CC Given the ideologically polarized state of US politics, it should come as no surprise that in the wake of the party’s major victory in the midterm elections, the GOP is closing down the committee designed to address climate change. It’s not surprising, no — remember, 50% of the new Congress doesn’t believe climate change is real. But it’s still distressing. The symbolic implications of the move are hard to ignore: Our federal government is … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Family Planning As Important For Fighting Climate Change As Clean Technology: Worldwatch

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Family Planning As Important For Fighting Climate Change As Clean Technology: Worldwatch

photo: Paul Keller / Creative Commons Population growth is one of the touchiest issues out there. It’s really easy for people to leap to paranoia about government control of who can and cannot have children and no amount of qualification about how that’s not being advocated seems to stop it. Nevertheless population growth and its flip side, resource consumption is a critica… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Some U.S. Utilities Starting to Replace Coal with Natural Gas

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Some U.S. Utilities Starting to Replace Coal with Natural Gas

Photo: Wikipedia , CC A Lesser Evil? It’s time for a round of “good news, bad news”. The good news is that some U.S. utilities with aging coal plants are looking at the costs of installing anti-pollution equipment on them and at the future cost of carbon regulations (the details are uncertain right now, but at some point it’s going to happen), and they’re deciding it makes sense to them shut down instead of sinking more cash into this dirty source of power. The bad news is that they aren’t exactly replacing them with wind, solar, geother… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Future at Risk on a Hotter Planet

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Future at Risk on a Hotter Planet

Photo credit: giumaiolini / Creative Commons We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change. The 25 warmest years on record have come since 1980. And the 10 warmest years since global recordkeeping began in 1880 have come since 1998…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of

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Wikileaks Cables Show US Pressured Saudi Arabia to Back Copenhagen Accord, and More

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Wikileaks Cables Show US Pressured Saudi Arabia to Back Copenhagen Accord, and More

photo: Al Jazeera English / Creative Commons So far the classified US cables released by Wikileaks have mostly dealt with issues of only tangental environmental concern, but now the New York Times (which, along with The Guardian is the only news outlet to already have th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Canadian Government Partnered With Polluting Industry to Fight US Climate Action

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Canadian Government Partnered With Polluting Industry to Fight US Climate Action

photo: Diane Worth / Creative Commons Considering the considerable official enthusiasm for the highly polluting and carbon intensive Alberta tar sands, this really isn’t so surprising: According to correspondence obtained by the Pembina Institute , the Canadian Government is “pursuing an orchestrated strategy to undermine US effort to combat climate change” and partnered with polluters to fight US effort to reduce emissions from high-carb… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chemical Companies Spied on Greenpeace, Lawsuit Claims (Video)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Chemical Companies Spied on Greenpeace, Lawsuit Claims (Video)

Today, the world-famous environmental organization Greenpeace filed lawsuits against two chemical companies, Dow Chemical and Sasol. The suit alleges that both companies engaged in

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Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Royal Society Paints Grim Picture of 4°C Temperature Rise

Drought and desertification could be widespread within 50 years. Photo: John Brawley / Creative Commons . With no doubt intentional perfect timing as the COP16 climate talks open in Mexico, the Royal Society has released a special issue on the future impacts of climate change and, as you might imagine if you’ve been following the climate research to date, the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GOP Congressman Calls for Climate Action (Video)

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on GOP Congressman Calls for Climate Action (Video)

We’ve entered a political era in the United States that’s distinctly hostile to climate science — a pretty stunning number of the new Congressmen coming to the Hill next year claim that climate change isn’t real , or that it isn’t caused by man. Meanwhile, the scien… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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