Tag: Global Warming Causes - Page 8
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ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop
Despite pledges from ExxonMobil that it would cease funding groups which question the scientific validity of global climate change, last year the company "handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds" to climate skeptic groups,
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Ethanol Lobby 1, Environment 0: Compromise Struck to Move Climate Bill Forward
Two months ago, the California Air Resources Board voted to include greenhouse gas emissions from indirect land use changes in calculating a biofuel was truly carbon neutral. Naturally, this sent the US ethanol industry into a fit; under many analyses
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Climatologist James Hansen Urges Obama to Ban Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
There's no getting around the fact that there is absolutely no way mountaintop removal coal mining and environmental protection can go together. Unfortunately though the Obama administration and the EPA don't
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Deconstructing Duke Energy's Clean Coal Lingo (Video)
It's been a little bit since we heard from the front lines of the clean coal wars, so this video clip seems appropriate. Produced by the folks over at CLEAN its a kind of deconstruction of the quasi-green sounding lingo used by the coal industry, in
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World Bank, Wal-Mart Take Stand Against Brazilian Deforestation Beef
Shame and blame appears to be working in the Amazon. A short while ago Greenpeace released a report on the deforestation impact that the cattle industry in Brazil was having and how several major international shoe brands may be
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Emissions From Forest Degradation Just As Bad As From Deforestation
The full impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is only now (finally) becoming more widely acknowledged (about 20% of global emissions) and strategies envisioned to stop or at least slow the destruction.
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Via Spectacular Aerial Art, 350.org Tells Climate Negotiatiors Time is Ticking
Time is ticking away for the world to agree on a climate treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol. To make sure delegates in Bonn, Germany, where climate negotiators are now gathering, get it, activists from 350.org and other groups created a spectacular
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Biofuels Produced at the Expense of Tropical Forests Are No Victory: Bill Clinton Tells Brazil
I guess when you're a former US president with a well-respected eponymous humanitarian foundation you can really lay into a touchy subject without much mincing of
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What the Heck is Radiative Forcing & Why Should My Aviation Carbon Offset Include It?
You want to be a better eco-citizen, minimize your air travel, and want to buy a carbon offset for those times when you do have to fly. But before you hit that calculate my emissions button you notice a small check
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Energy Usage Increases Despite Efficiency Efforts
Electronic equipment, including cell phones, iPods, PCs, videogames, and plasma TVs have increased demand for residential energy use annually by 3.4 percent
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WWF to Publish Palm Oil Buyer's Scorecard: Will Out Companies Not Meeting Their Sustainable Oil Commitments
Saying that only 1% of the sustainably produced palm oil supplies available on the market are actually being purchased, WWF has announced that over the next six months it
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Future Climate Changes Revealed By Staring at the Sun
Image via: Getty Images National Geographic reports that noticeable changes in climate may be explained by "staring" at the sun, as the latest lull in solar flares has some scientists worried that this might be the next "Little Ice Age." And by "little"
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LA Book Fest Turns Page on Climate Crisis
"Good to see so many people in LA love books," said a surprised indie publisher from Brooklyn at last week's 14th annual Festival of Books on UCLA's campus, teaming with
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Climate Change Deniers' Own Scientists Said Global Warming Was Real
photo: Jesse Yardly The New York Times has broken the story that even as far back as 1995, a few years after climate change denier the Global Climate Coalition began lobbying against doing anything about climate change (read: anything that might hurt
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Bill McKibben on Why Cap-and-Dividend is the Best Approach to Setting a Price on Carbon
photo: BillMcKibben.com Yale Environment 360 is running a new interview with Bill McKibben on why he's no focused full time on organizing a citizen's movement around climate change which is interesting in the whole (as McKibben's thoughts most often
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Dirty Clean Coal Lobby Gave $240,000 to Obama Presidential Campaign
Undoubtedly you've seen plenty of pro-clean coal ads running on TV in the past year. But you may not be aware of the behind the scenes lobbying activity and campaign
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George Monbiot Says "Don't Blame the Fatties"
Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a
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Rasmussen Survey: Nobody Listens to Scientists, Only 34% of US Voters Believe Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity
Glacier in Patagonia, Argentina 1928 & 2004. Photo: Greenpeace No Theory About Complex Future Events is Perfect, But We Should Use The Best We Have... It's strange how in some cases, people accept that experts probably know more than they do on their
