Photo via NY Mag Earlier in the week, I looked at a hypothetical scenario laid out by columnist David Brooks in which he imagined Obama and the Democrats had gone forward with an energy bill instead of doing health care reform. Joe Romm of Climate Progress had looked at the same scenario, and commented in the end that “”Future ge… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Was Obama’s Choice to Pass on Climate a "Blunder of Historic Proportions"?
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Photo via MSNBC’s Cosmic Blog It’s an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform? Would we now be looking at a freshly passed law designed to map out the future of the American energy economy and to stimulate job growth in sustainable sectors — while curbing greenhouse gas pollution and ramping up renewables? Would Democrats have benefited from focusing on the economy i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If Obama Had Chosen Energy Over Health Care …
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This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru’s Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys. And the images may help pave the way for a new United Nations monitoring system to curb deforestation and forest degradation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru’s Amazon
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Arctic sea ice extent image for August 24, 2010, as compiled by The University of Illinois Cryosphere For the fourth year in a row, and for the fourth time in recorded history, the Northwest passage is completely open. For only the third time, both the Northwest and Northeast passage (north of Russia) are open. If you had a fast enough boat you could race right around the North Pole and Greenland. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Northwest And Northeast Passages Are Open
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In case you haven’t seen it yet, world renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has an excellent new piece in The Guardian wherein he talks at length about his journey from straight science to self-imposed media silence to seemingly reluctant and outspoken (not to mention arrested) climate activist. There’s lots of good stuff in in so I highly enco… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Only Public Grassroots Activism Will Force Governments to Act on Climate: Dr James Hansen
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Image: Toyota WHIIIRRRRRR Toyota will be offering its Japanese customers an optional (for now) $150 device that makes its 3rd generation Prius hybrid easier to hear at low speeds. They call it the “Approaching Vehicle Audible System”, and it basically makes whirring sounds that vary in pitch with the speed of the car up to 25 kph (check out the video below)…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Toyota to Offer External Speaker Option to Make Prius Noisier in Japan
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photo: Samenwerkende Hulpoganisaties via flickr Though it’s de rigueur to say that any single weather event can’t be directly linked to climate change, and it’s true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave were caused by human-caused warming? Could the victims hold anyone responsible and sue for damages? That’s the question asked in a recent
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If We Can Attribute Natural Disasters to Climate Change, Who Could Victims Sue for Damages?
Simulating a colossal volcanic eruption every 18 months would just delay sea level rise. Space Shuttle (Mission STS 43) photograph of the Earth over South America taken on August 8, 1991, showing double layer of Pinatubo aerosol cloud (dark streaks) above high cumulonimbus top. Photo via: Wikipedia . Another nail in the coffin of the geoengineering as silver bullet to stop climate change noti… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Geoengineering Unable to Fully Stop 21st Century Sea Level Rise: Report
Photo via Weather.com After weeks of persistent flooding, the UN now estimates that at least a full one-fifth of Pakistan — a nation of 170 million people — is underwater. And the New York Times reports that estimate is probably lowballing the full extent of the damage. 1,600 people are believed to have been killed, and 14 million have been either forced out of their homes or been impacted in some way. The tragedy has gotten so out of h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via NASA Okay, you get it. It’s hot. Perhaps I’ve been ticked off by one too many ‘global cooling’ myth purveyors, but here it is — another story about how hot it is this summer, and this year in general. NASA has released another report showing that from Jan. to July, 2010 is still the hottest year ever recorded. Last July was in a three-way tie for the hottest of that month ever recorded. And yes, while it’s still a bit uncertain, all signs seem to point to 2010 being the ho… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA: Jan-July Hottest on Record, 2010 Shaping Up to be Warmest Year Yet
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