Tag Archives: climate-change

Copenhagen breaking news: UN threatens to kick civil society groups out of climate negotiations over live webstream

This piece was originally titled: Protesters experience violence outside; Youth stage sit-in http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/12/16/breaking-youth-stage-sit-inside-the-be… Protesters inside the Bella center are staging a sit in and live-blogging at It’s Getting Hot in Here.

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Copenhagen breaking news: UN threatens to kick civil society groups out of climate negotiations over live webstream

Breaking: Youth stage sit-in inside Bella Center; Protesters outside experience violent interaction

This is breaking news~ protesters inside the Bella center are staging a sit in and live-blogging at It’s Getting Hot in Here. There latest entry read: Young people from all over the world are staging a sit-in at Bella Center until we get a Fair, Ambitious, and Binding climate treaty and reading the names of all 11 million signers of the TckTckTck petition

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Climategate: Gates that are not gates (Commentary)

FROM THE NEWS BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/12/09/climategate-gates-that-are-not-gates-a-… (Image: http://gawker.com/5422290/sarah-palins-washington-post-op+ed-debunked ) There are few things that make me more catatonically depressed than the partisan shouting match we call news today.

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Climategate: Gates that are not gates (Commentary)

The Women of Tiger Woods 2010 Calendar Girls

The list of alleged mistresses of Tiger Woods grows by the day, and what better way to remember these trysts is with a calendar?

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The Women of Tiger Woods 2010 Calendar Girls

The Stolen Global Warming E-Mail Saga

Link: http://www.time.com/time/health/artic…

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E.P.A. sets carbon crackdown

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will finalize its determination that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories refineries and other major sources. The move gives President Obama a significant tool to combat the gases blamed for the heating of the planet even while Congress remains stalled on economy-wide global warming legislation.

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Obama will go to Copenhagen: Pledge firm emissions cuts

WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Copenhagen at the start of the United Nations conference on climate change on Dec. 9 just before flying to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, White House officials said Wednesday.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s SNL Monologue

Up front: if you're not into charming actors or performance-enhanced show tunes, this is probably not the video for you.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s SNL Monologue

Polar Bears Falling From The Sky Advert

This is a terrifying new commercial for climate change that uses bloodied polar bears falling from the sky to their deaths. It's just too much. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

The Yes Men Fix an Interview

What do you get when you cross Borat with Michael Moore? You get The Yes Men, a team of prankster-activists who have become infamous for “stealing” the identity of corporations and using the media to make ironic and outrageous announcements in the companies' names.

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The Yes Men Fix an Interview