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Environment / Fossil fuel / Unnatural Disaster

May 25, 2010

BP Fails Booming School 101 Gulf Oil Spill

May 24, 2010

MV Change YCBI

John Maas posted this image (in a better resolution, so check it out there) this morning on his DoomsDiary site: & now check out the following article in the NYT: WASHINGTON — In the...

Environment / Fossil fuel / Unnatural Disaster

May 4, 2010

Dull Gray Oil Slick

NASA’s Terra satellite flew over the Deepwater Horizon rig’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, May 1 and captured a natural-color image of the slick from space. The oil slick resulted...

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Cultural Studies / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

April 26, 2010

Energy to Melt Glaciers

Via friend John Maas, who saw it on the Grist site, this add from 1962 for the Oil company that would soon merge with Standard to create Exxon:

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Uncategorized

April 22, 2010

Earth Day — Green Brain?

Check out this piece in the New York Times (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010): Why Isn’t the Brain Green? By JON GERTNER Two days after Barack...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

December 12, 2009

How Stable is the Contemporary Environment?

Via the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping Elements in the Earth System: How Stable is the Contemporary Environment? 12/08/2009 – A Special Feature of the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

December 8, 2009

Juan Cole's Top Ten Questions for Copenhagen

Via Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog: Top Ten Questions about Climate Change on the Eve of Copenhagen Is the earth’s climate warming? Indisputably. Has the pumping of vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Conference / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Human rights

December 7, 2009

Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation

Copenhagen climate change conference: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’ This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in...

Air pollution / Climate Change / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

November 18, 2009

Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming

via the BBC — check full story here: Average global temperatures are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, the lead author of a new analysis...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

November 10, 2009

Copenhagen must be a Turning Point towards Global Sustainability

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 60 Nobel Laureates: Copenhagen must be a Turning Point towards Global Sustainability 60 Nobel Laureates are calling on world leaders for a global...