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CODE RED A Dark Victory: How vested interests defeated climate science

admin /5 August, 2012

climate code red Climate News Posted: 04 Aug 2012 08:09 PM PDT Week ending 5 August 2012 Arctic sea-ice volume (red line is 2012) from https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas Arctic Death Spiral Continues: Record Low Sea Ice Volume Appears Likelyhttp://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/04/634901/arctic-death-spiral-continues-new-record-low-sea-ice-volume-appears-likelyNeven, Climate Progress, 4 August 2012I think it’s pretty safe to say that we’re going to have a new record volume Continue Reading →

Drought-stricken American corn should feed people, not cars

admin /5 August, 2012

Drought-stricken American corn should feed people, not cars It is wrong to use scarce corn crops in the US for ethanol, but at least higher food and gas prices may boost sustainable farming Share157 Email Jenna Woginrich guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 August 2012 13.00 BST Jump to comments (…) Corn plants struggle to survive in Indiana Continue Reading →

We need to act urgently on global warming

admin /4 August, 2012

News 2 new results for PEAK-OIL National View: We need to act urgently on global warmingSouthCoastToday.comBarring state intervention and environmental activism, industrial civilization will not rethink its oil addiction, any more than a shark can be talked into going vegetarian. What peak oil means is that the quest for oil will become more nasty, violent …See all stories Continue Reading →

Updating the Climate Science (HANSEN)

admin /4 August, 2012

Updating the Climate Science What Path is the Real World Following? Makiko Sato & James Hansen Columbia University web page maintained by Makiko Sato (mhs119@columbia.edu) Our aim is to help people understand global climate change — and how the factors that drive climate are changing. We start with climate diagnostics — people are usually most Continue Reading →

Real battles lie within Abbott’s own camp

admin /4 August, 2012

Real battles lie within Abbott’s own camp Date August 4, 2012 20 reading now 26 Read later Michelle Grattan Political editor of The Age View more articles from Michelle Grattan Follow Michelle on Twitter inShare Email article Print TONY Abbott and his team are living in the straitjacket of ambition. Like those (mostly) disciplined Olympic Continue Reading →