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May, 16, 2013 Guardian Environment - Nafeez Ahmed: US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else.. At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to make the most of the emerging economic opportunities in the region" due to the rapid loss of Arctic summer sea ice, and recognising "the need to protect and conserve this unique, valuable, and changing environment."... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/17/obama-arctic-energy-security-climate June 5, 2013 Grist
BP TO PUMP $1 BILLION INTO IT'S ALASKA DRILLING EFFORTS - AFTER TAXES REDUCED ON OIL COMPANIES AS INCENTIVE http://grist.org/news/bp-to-pump-1-billion-into-its-alaska-drilling-efforts/ May 15, 2013 Bloomberg CHINA GRANTED ACCESS TO ARCTIC CLUB AS RESOURCE RACE HEATS UP http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-15/world/39264945_1_arctic-council-arctic-circle-observer-status June 5, 2013 Global Possibilities
CHINA'S NEW ARCTIC PREENCE SIGNALS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT http://www.globalpossibilities.org/chinas-new-arctic-presence-signals-future-development/ May 15, 2013- Washington Post SUPERPOWERS CHINA, INDIA AND KOREA, RUSSIA AND EUROPEAN UNION SEEK TO MINE ARCTIC REGION OF ITS UNTAPPED ENERGY http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-15/world/39264945_1_arctic-council-arctic-circle-observer-status DEEP SEA MINING 'GOLD RUSH' MOVES CLOSER, DEVASTATING OCEAN SEABEDS, DESTROYING UNKNOWN ECOSYTEMS http://sco.lt/5tF4s5 September 18, 2012 New York Times
ARCTIC RESOURCES, EXPOSED BY WARMING, SET OFF COMPETITION http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/science/earth/arctic-resources-exposed-by-warming-set-off-competition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY'. HIGHEST LEVES IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC COULD BE ICE FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6KTOpl WILL WE LEARN FROM THE PAST, OR CONTINUE RAVAGING OUR PLANET IN THE NAME OF PROFITS AND POWER? http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us?page=2 July 21, 1012 Guardian Environment
HISTORY REPEATS AS GREENLAND'S NATURAL RESOURCES PROMISE UNTOLD RICHES http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/31/history-repeats-greenland-natural-resources?INTCMP=SRCH July 5, 2011
THE 'COLD RUSH': INDUSTRIALISATION IN THE ARCTIC - INTERACTIVE http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/jul/05/arctic-oil-exploitation-map-interactive?INTCMP=SRCH July 3, 2011
Q&A: NATURAL REOURCES EXPLORATION IN THE ARCTIC
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THE RACE FOR THE ARCTIC;S NATURAL RESOURCES http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/apr/05/poles.endangeredhabitats?INTCMP=SRCH November 20, 1010
EUROPE JOINS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR ARCTIC'S RESOURCES http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/arctic-energy-eu?INTCMP=SRCH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE? NEW SECRETIVE TRADE PACTS NEGOTIATE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS http://sco.lt/8FToVl
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March 15, 2013 - Moyers and Company Why climate change gets the silent treatment, and what we should do about it. This week, in an encore broadcast, scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to galvanize communities over what’s arguably the greatest single threat facing humanity. Leiserowitz, who specializes in the psychology of risk perception, knows better than anyone if people are willing to change their behavior to make a difference... http://billmoyers.com/episode/encore-ending-the-silence-on-climate-change/ 27 March, 2013 Washington Post
IMF: WNT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE? GET RID OF #1.9 TRILLION IN ENERGY SUBSIDIES http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/27/imf-want-to-fight-climate-change-get-rid-of-1-9-trillion-in-energy-subsidies/ OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY LAUNCH "BLACKMAIL" AD CAMPAIGN http://sco.lt/5xnPyT March 13, 2013 - EcoWatch
KOCH BROTHERS CONTINUE STATE-BY-STATE ATTEMPTS TO STIFLE GROWTH OF RENEWABLE ENERGY – EcoWatch http://ecowatch.com/2013/koch-brothers-srenewable-energy/ 16 March, 2013 - Grist
NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS WOULD REPEAL EXEMPTIONS FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY AND CRACK DOWN ON FRACKING INDUSTRY http://grist.org/climate-energy/congress-makes-moves-to-close-loopholes-for-fossil-fuels/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed TIME TO END PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND SUBIDIE FOR FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS http://sco.lt/5iNZyL
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JHIRPU PHULPINGKATT, Nepal , Jun 2 2013 (IPS) Residents of Jhirpu Phulpingkatt, a village nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, about 110 km from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, are on red alert. ...experts warn that the lakes are filling up faster than ever before and new lakes are being created at an alarming rate. “If climate warming continues, as is predicted, accelerated glacial thinning and retreat are likely,” Pradeep Mool, programme coordinator at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, told IPS, warning that “the danger posed by glacial lake outburst floods will increase.”... http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/the-himalayas-are-changing-for-the-worse/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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May 20, 2013 Democracy Now EXCELLENT VIDEO; As the carbon dioxide in the air hits 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, some are arguing that the best way address climate change is to use the controversial practice of geoengineering — the deliberate altering of the Earth’s ecological and climate systems to counter the effects of global warming. ... The arguments for and against climate engineering revealing the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists and corporations with Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, He’s the author of Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Ag, e of Climate Engineering. There’s virtually no regulation of geoengineering. And when it comes to sulfate aerosol spraying, there’s nothing to prevent a government, any government, or even a corporation or a billionaire with a messiah complex, from launching a program of taking control of the Earth’s weather by installing this kind of solar shield. So the absence of governance, the absence of regulation and the exclusion, particularly of people from poor and vulnerable countries, is a very serious concern…. http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/raining-chemicals-from-the-skies-geoengineering/ ORIGINAL SOURCE: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/20/geoengineering_can_we_save_the_planet June 4, 2013 EcoWatch
THE WAR ON NATURE: GEOENGINEERING AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS http://ecowatch.com/2013/the-war-on-nature-geoengineering-and-the-climate-crisis/ GEOENGINEERING: AN EXTREME ARTIFICIAL ENGINEERING http://sco.lt/7dxoCf TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - THE DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH WATCH: "THE DIRTY TRUTH" http://sco.lt/6OpdeT US CLIMATE BOMB IS TICKING: WHAT THE GAS INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW http://sco.lt/5BIftR FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP May 20, 2013 Guardian Environment
MULTINATIONAL OIL CORPORATIONS BUYING OFF GOVERNMENTS: TAR SANDS EXPLOITATION WOULD MEAN GAME OVER FOR CLIMATE, WARNS LEADING SCIENTIST: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/tar-sands-exploitation-climate-scientist May 20, 2013 Guardian Environment
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE WASTES REAL SCIENTIST' TIME = YET AGAIN WITH ANTI CLIMATE CHANGE PROPOGANDA http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/20/heartland-institute-scientists
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May 10, 2013 Common Dreams IN 'MARCH TOWARD DISASTER' WORLD HITS DAILY 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE Levels of atmospheric CO2 have never been this high in human history; will 'rise in carbon be matched by rise in climate activism'?... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/10-5 May 15, 2013 EurActive
EX-NASA SCIENTIST SAYS REINDUSTRIALIZING WITH FOSSIL FUELS MAKES NO SENSE http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/james-hansen-reindustrialising-f-news-519728 May 16, 2013 Common Ground
'CANARY IN THE OCEAN' - MASSIVE FISH FLIGHT SHOWS CLIMATE CHANGE IS HERE http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/16-2 VIDEO REPORT Democracy Now May 13, 2013
"The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars", Prof. Michael Mann CLIMATE TIPPING POINT? CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TOPS 400 PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/climate_tipping_point_concentration_of_carbon May 15, 2013 Yale Environment 360
GLACIERS ON EVEREST DISAPPEARING AS TEMPERATURES RISE, SNOWFALL DECLINES http://e360.yale.edu/digest/glaciers_on_everest_disappearing_as_temperatures_rise_snowfall_declines/3844/ May 10, 2013 AL GORE : 400 PPM
Yesterday, for the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, hit 400 parts per million in our planet's atmosphere. This number is a reminder that for the last 150 years -- and especially over the last several decades -- we have been recklessly polluting the protective sheath of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth and protects the conditions that have fostered the flourishing of our civilization http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/carbon-dioxide-400-parts-per-million_b_3253361.html?ref=topbar May 17, 2013 Common Dreams
BURNING TAR SANDS - 'UNSOLVABLE' CLIMATE CRISIS - NASA's Jim Hansen says http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/17-1 May 10, 2013 New York Times
CARBON DIOXIDE LEVEL PASSES LONG-FEARED MILESTONE. NOW AT 400ppm C02 Daily http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 April 3, 2013 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
WHAT DOES 400 ppm LOOK LIKE? THE KEELING CURVE http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/what-does-this-number-mean/ May 11, 2013 Guardian Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE 'WILL MAKE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS HOMELESS' http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/12/climate-change-expert-stern-displacement May 11, 2013 George Monbiot, Guardian Environment
CLIMATE MILESTONE IS A MOMENT OF SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE ON ROAD OF IDIOCY http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-milestone-climate-change CLIMATE CHANGE, LACK OF POLITICAL WILL LEADING TO 'GLOBAL PERFECT STORM': REPORT http://sco.lt/8RDNj7 WORLD FACES DECADES OF CLIMATE CHAOS, OUTGOING UK CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISER WARNS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9951872/World-faces-decades-of-climate-chaos-outgoing-chief-scientific-adviser-warns.html April 4, 2013 New York Times
ICE THAT TOOK 1,600 YEARS TO FORM IN PERU'S ANDES MELTED IN ONLY 25, SCIENTIST SAY http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/world/americas/1600-years-of-ice-in-perus-andes-melted-in-25-years-scientists-say.html?_r=0 May 12, 2013 Mongabay
LAST TIME CO2 HIT 400 PPM, TEMPERATURE WAS 8C WARMER, SEAS 40m HIGHER THAN TODAY http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0512-gen-lake-el-gygytgyn.html May 12, 2013 The Independent 400 ppm C02 Levels...and Rising
LIFE ON EARTH UNDER THREAT FROM CO2 LEVELS, SAY SCIENTISTS http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/life-on-earth-under-threat-from-co2-levels-say-scientists-8612900.html April 17, 2013 Reuters
CLEAN ENERGY PROGRESS TOO SLOW TO LIMIT GLOBAL WARMING: REPORT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/us-carbon-energy-warming-idUSBRE93G05A20130417?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews May 7, 2013 New Scientist:
AS CLIMATE ROCKETS TO 400 PPM BIG OIL PUSHES FOR MORE TAR SANDS http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23494-keystones-pipeline-cousins-come-under-scrutiny.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|environment April 1, 2013 Huffington Post
NASA's DR. JAMES HANSEN: DOUBLING DOWN ON OUR FAUSTIAN BARGAIN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - THE DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH +++WATCH: "THE DIRTY TRUTH" http://sco.lt/6OpdeT US CLIMATE BOMB IS TICKING: WHAT THE GAS INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW http://sco.lt/5BIftR FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP May 10, 2013 Huffington Post Green ATMOSPHERIC CO2 DAILY CONCENTRATIONS SURPASS 400PPM MILESTONA - NASA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/atmospheric-co2-concentrations_n_3253757.html?utm_hp_ref=green April 29, 2013 Huffington Post Green ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TO PASS MAJOR MILESTONE Scientists monitoring global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations report that, for the first time in human history, CO2 levels could soon rise above 400 parts per million for a sustained period of time in much of the Northern Hemisphere.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/400-ppm-atmospheric-co2_n_3179617.html May 9, 2013 Guardian Environment
METEORITE CRATER REVEALS FUTURE OF A GLOBALLY WARMED WORLD http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/09/meteorite-crater-global-warming ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING' RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC TO BE -ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h April 2, 2013 Science Heathen
MASSIVE ARCTIC GREENING WITHIN ONLY A FEW DECADES? TRANSFORMATION COULD MAKE ARCTIC THE CENTER OF HUMAN ACTIVITY http://scienceheathen.com/2013/04/02/massive-arctic-greening-within-only-a-few-decades-transformation-will-accelerate-global-climate-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter April 24, 2013 USA TODAY
CARBON DIOXIDE NOW AT HIGHEST LEVEL IN FIVE MILLION YEARS http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/04/24/carbon-dioxide-keeling-curve-global-warming/2110445/ April 8, 2013
CARBON-DIOXIDE LEVELS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST POINT IN AT LEAST 800, 000 YEARS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/carbon-dioxide-levels-are-at-their-highest-point-in-at-least-800000-years/ April 22, 2013 Climate Space
TO RECLAIM OUR FUTURE, WE MUST CHANGE THE PRESENT. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CHANGING THE SYSTEM AND NOT THE CLIMATE http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/to-reclaim-our-future-we-must-change-the-present-our-proposal-for-changing-the-system-and-not-the-climate/ RICH COUNTRIES DRAG FEET AT CLIMATE TALKS - REMAIN LOYAL TO FOSSIL FUELS http://sco.lt/4oU3iT May 9, 2013 Reuters
WOMEN ARE 'KEY DRIVERS' IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION http://www.trust.org/item/20130509115923-g3z4e/?source=shtw April 2013 ELDIS PROTECTING CARBON TO DESTROY FORESTS??!! : LAND ENCLOSURES AND REDD+ http://sco.lt/7DYN17 February 21, 2013 - Redd Monitor
REDD Plus or REDD “Light”? BIODIVERSITY, COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CARBON CERTIFICATION http://www.redd-monitor.org/2013/02/21/redd-plus-or-redd-light-biodiversity-communities-and-forest-carbon-certification/ THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE PLATE http://sco.lt/7ExcmX TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - THE DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH WATCH: "THE DIRTY TRUTH" http://sco.lt/6OpdeT FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP THE CURSE OF INDUSTRIAL, CHEMICAL-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/7oRwsT
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A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on Earth.... http://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_Study_Projects_Warming_Driven_Changes_in_Global_Rainfall_999.html March 13, 2013 PLANET PASSES DAILY 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE - MARCH TOWARD DISASTER http://sco.lt/8pMIe9 May 8, 2014 PACIFIC'S MARSHALL ISLANDS FACING DROUGHT EMERGENCY http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Pacifics_Marshall_Islands_facing_drought_emergency_999.html April 16, 2013 Guardian Environment
KIRIBATI ENTERS THE END GAME AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE - IN PICTURES http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2013/apr/16/kiribati-end-game-climate-change-in-pictures April 24, 2013 Yale Environment 360
FIRES BURN MORE FIERCELY AS NORTHERN FORESTS WARM http://e360.yale.edu/feature/fires_burn_more_fiercely_as_northern_forests_warm/2643/ May 7, 2013 AS CLIMATE CHANGES, BOREAL FORESTS TO SHIFT NORTH AND RELINQUISH MORE CARBON THAN EXPECTED http://www.terradaily.com/reports/As_climate_changes_boreal_forests_to_shift_north_and_relinquish_more_carbon_than_expected_999.html THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt April 22, 2013 MSN News
KEYSTONE SPECIES' LOSS COULD CAUSE ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE http://news.msn.com/science-technology/keystone-species-loss-could-cause-ecosystem-to-collapse April 1, 2013 Huffington Post
NASA's DR. JAMES HANSEN: DOUBLING DOWN ON OUR FAUSTIAN BARGAIN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html VIDEO REPORT Democracy Now May 13, 2013
"The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars", Prof. Michael Mann CLIMATE TIPPING POINT? CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TOPS 400 PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/climate_tipping_point_concentration_of_carbon
THIS IS THE YEAR 2012: And when the sand is gone, when the mining activity moves out, what will be left of this place? Some big empty rail yards, a pockmarked series of “reclaimed” sites no longer suitable for farming, and a bunch of homes nobody wants to live in any more? A post-mining wasteland and an even more depressed economy? That’s what’s happened in countless other mine-riddled communities.... http://ecowatch.org/2012/mining-companies-invade-wisconsin-for-frac-sand/ May 23, 2013 Common Dreams
TERRACIDE: THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN HISTORY - Destroying Our Planet For Record Profits http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-4 The Institute for Southern Studies
UN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/05/un-human-rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-m.html >>Jan 9, 2013 THE STRUGGLE AGAINST A FRACKING WASTELAND | ecolutionist | Survival of the Greenest http://ecolutionist.com/the-struggle-against-a-fracking-wasteland/ >>>>>FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3994997249/fracking-ourselves-into-oblivion WHEN EARTH IS SCARRED FOREVER - PHOTOS, VIDEOS
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June 3, 2013 Science Daily A mismatch between the departure schedules of songbirds and higher spring temperatures at their breeding sites means they are arriving 'late' for the advanced spring and likely missing out on peak food they need to be productive breeders. Aerial insectivores, like purple martins and other swallows, are experiencing strong population declines, particularly species migrating longer distances and populations breeding further north. Scientists have shown in a European species that declines may be due to an inability to advance arrival schedules to match a warming climate. This study provides the first direct evidence of a discrepancy between higher spring temperatures at breeding sites and departure schedules of individual songbirds..... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130603135525.htm
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May 23, 2013 Tom Engelhardt - Common Dreams Terracide and the Terrarists ... Call it irony, if you will, or call it a nightmare, but Big Oil evidently has no qualms about making its next set of profits directly off melting the planet. Its top executives continue to plan their futures (and so ours), knowing that their extremely profitable acts are destroying the very habitat, the very temperature range that for so long made life comfortable for humanity. Their prior knowledge of the damage they are doing is what should make this a criminal activity. And there are corporate precedents for this, even if on a smaller scale. The lead industry, the asbestos industry, and the tobacco companies all knew the dangers of their products, made efforts to suppress the information or instill doubt about it even as they promoted the glories of what they made, and went right on producing and selling while others suffered and died.... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-4 June 17, 2013 Global Possibilities
WHEN DRONES GUARD THE PIPELINE: THE MILITARISATION OF FOSSIL FUELS http://www.globalpossibilities.org/when-drones-guard-the-pipeline/ May 30, 2013 Renewable Energy World
THE FUTURE COULD NOT BE CLEARER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/the-future-could-not-be-clearer-for-renewable-energy May 29, 2013 Global Possibilities
COAL IS REBOUNDING, NATURAL GAS PRICES ARE UP AND THE WORLD'S OIL CARTEL IS HAPPY http://www.globalpossibilities.org/coal-is-rebounding-natural-gas-prices-are-up-and-the-worlds-oil-cartel-is-quite-content/ May 23, 3013 Smart Planet
OBAMA'S COAL COMEBACK http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/coals-us-comeback/20453?tag=nl.e660&s_cid=e660&ttag=e660 OBAMA'S ARCTIC STRATEGY SETS OFF A CLIMATE TIME BOMB - THE SUICIDAL RACE FOR ARCTIC'S NATURAL RESOURCES http://sco.lt/9MK5eT VIDEO Encore: *** ENDING THE SILENCE - POLITICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE - Moyers and Company http://sco.lt/5St5Cj VIDEO REPORT Democracy Now May 13, 2013
**** "The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars", Prof. Michael Mann http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/climate_tipping_point_concentration_of_carbon *** CLIMATE TIPPING POINT? CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TOPS 400 PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY http://sco.lt/8pMIe9 THIS IS OUR ENERGY REALITY http://sco.lt/7LUrHV ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC COULD BE ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h May 23, 2013 Fuel Fix
HIGHER EMISSIONS LINKED TO COAL-FIRED PLANTS IN TEXAS AND OTHER STATES http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/05/23/higher-emissions-linked-to-coal-fired-power-plants-in-texas-and-other-states/ March 7, 2013 - Smart Planet
MEET THE COMPANIES LOOKING TO PROFIT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/meet-the-companies-looking-to-profit-from-climate-change/14398 ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH THE UPRISING: GLOBAL BIOTECH/ GMO ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/7wlInJ ---------------------------TAR SANDS / OIL SANDS ------------------- March 7, 2013 CBC -The Nature of Things with David Suzuki - -
******TIPPING POINT: AGE OF THE OIL SANDS http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/tipping-point.html +++WATCH VIDEO: TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - "THE DIRTY TRUTH" VIDEO http://sco.lt/6OpdeT March 6, 2013 - Inside Climate News CRITICAL PART OF US STATE DEPT KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE REPORT DONE BY FIRMS WITH DEEP OIL INDUSTRY TIES http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130306/keystone-xl-eis-state-department-transcanada-oil-tar-sands-industry-ensys-energy-koch-brothers-exxonmobil-bp-obama 30 March 2013 The Tyee –
KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE COMPANY BULLIES http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/30/Pipeline-Company-Bullies/ April 1, 2013 Huffington Post
NASA's DR. JAMES HANSEN: DOUBLING DOWN ON OUR FAUSTIAN BARGAINhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html? -------------------------NATURAL GAS / FRACKING ----------------------- FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP HOW A NEW STUDY SERIOUSLY CHALLENGES NATURAL GAS AS A CLEAN FOSSIL FUEL - METHANE GREENHOUSE GAS RISES http://sco.lt/7Ftflp USA NATURAL GAS (FRACKING) IS FOR EXPORT, LEAVING A POLLUTION CESSPOOL FOR TAXPAYER CLEANUP - METHANE GLOBAL WARMING http://sco.lt/6f9msr FOOD OR FUEL: BIG OIL AND BIG AG FIGHT IT OUT OVER ETHANOL BIOFUEL http://sco.lt/4rDj1t THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt HOLDING CORPORATIONS RESPONSIBLE: Mining Companies Devastate Pristine Wisconsin for Frac-Sand - Leaving a Mining, Chemical Wasteland http://sco.lt/66Gc7N TIME TO END PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS http://sco.lt/5iNZyL New Scientist MAJOR METHANE RELEASE IS ALMOST INEVITABLE http://sco.lt/8pss0v MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS ENDANGERING ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/5M5eLp PALM OIL ECOCIDE - THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST: Fast-Tracking Our Own Extinction http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-
May 11, 2013 New York Times Scientists are working hard to understand the life that teems within our soil and that is threatened by farming and development... Forget the term “dumb as dirt.” The complex soil ecosystem is highly evolved and sophisticated. It processes organic waste into soil. It filters and cleans much of the water we drink and the air we breathe by retaining dust and pathogens. It plays a large role in how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere. Soil, with all of its organic matter, is second to the oceans as the largest carbon repository on the planet. Annual plowing, erosion and other mismanagement releases carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, and exacerbates climate change... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/the-hidden-world-of-soil-under-our-feet.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 GLOBAL SOIL BIODIVERSITY INITIATIVE http://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/ November 28, 2012 Mongabay
ORGANIC FARMING KEEPS CARBON OUT OF THE ATMOSPHERE: HEALING OUR SOIL http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1128-isaacs-organic-carbon.html May 21, 2013 CommonDreams
SOIL AS A LIFELINE: For Climate Solution, Look to the Ground http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/21 WILL BIG AG TAKE OVER ORGANIC FROM SMALL FARMERS? HOW MONOCULTURE THREATENS THE FUTURE OF FOOD - GROWING FOOD IN DEAD SOIL http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/01/bees-dying-from-chemical-agriculture.aspx?e_cid=20130101_DNL_art_2#_edn1 BIOLOGICAL DESERTS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE GMO MONOCULTURE BIOFUEL AND PALM OIL INDUSTRY The mass clearing of trees for farmland disturbs the ecosystem of the rainforest by decimating rare and exotic flora and fauna. With the planting of a single crop plantation, the natural biodiversity of the rainforest is lost. The mono-crop culture that has long-plagued environmentalists in the west displaces or destroys most of the species in a single sitting, as they are unable to adapt to living within vast acres of a single crop. The environment, habitats and species that are destroyed have lived together since the dawn of the rainforest, and the damage caused by palm oil farming is irreversible http://sco.lt/9AeHbN GMO CROPS USE LASHINGS OF PESTICIDES TO DESTROY ECOSYSTEMS; +++++PESTICIDE/INSECTICIDE REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/8NIKcT
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May 6, 2013 Newsweek, The Daily Beast Are we in the first act of a mass extinction that will end in the death of millions of plant and animal species across the planet, including us? Proponents of the “sixth extinction” theory believe the answer is yes. Five mass extinctions have nearly wiped out life on earth. As Annalee Newitz writes in her new book, the sixth is coming... http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/06/the-sixth-mass-extinction-is-upon-us-can-humans-survive.html?source=socialflow&account=newsweek&medium=twitter GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE TO STAY, WHICHEVER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT http://sco.lt/6Na6zJ PLANET PASSES DAILY 400 PPM CO2 MILETONE - MARCH TOWARD DISASTER http://sco.lt/8pMIe9 May 13, 2013 Mongabay
CLIMATE CHANGE TO HALVE HABITAT FOR OVER 10,000 COMMON SPECIES http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0513-hance-climate-habitat.html May 23, 2013 Common Dreams
TERRACIDE: THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN HISTORY - Destroying Our Planet For Record Profits http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-4 The Ecologist THICH NHAT HANH: MAYBE IN 100 YEARS THERE WILL BE NO MORE HUMANS ON THE PLANET http://sco.lt/7fkZ3B AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/ LIVING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: TOWARD A NEW GLOBAL ETHOS http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/living-in-the-anthropocene-toward-a-new-global-ethos/ EMBRACING THE ANTHROPOCENE http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/embracing-the-anthropocene/ BUILDING THE NEW ARCHITECTURE OF THE ECOLOGICAL COMMONS http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/building-the-new-architecture-of-the-ecological-commons/ THE CURSE OF PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/4iAdaz PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5oplFx ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h WHAT MAKES AN ECOSYSTEM ENDANGERED? IUCN'S "RED LIST" CRITERIA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/iucn-red-list-criteria-endangered-ecosystem_n_3244326.html KEYSTONE SPECIES LOSS COULD CAUSE ECOSYSTEM TO COLLAPSE http://news.msn.com/science-technology/keystone-species-loss-could-cause-ecosystem-to-collapse April 1, 2013 Huffington Post
NASA's DR. JAMES HANSEN: DOUBLING DOWN ON OUR FAUSTIAN BARGAIN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html/dr-james-hansen/doubling-down-on-our-faustian-bargain_b_2989535.html WATCH: VIDEO REPORT Democracy Now May 13, 2013
"The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars", Prof. Michael Mann CLIMATE TIPPING POINT? CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TOPS 400 PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/climate_tipping_point_concentration_of_carbon WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/8BIJP7 HOW BIODIVERSITY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE http://sco.lt/90Sr2n OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - THE DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH +++WATCH: "THE DIRTY TRUTH" http://sco.lt/6OpdeT MORE ON EXTINCTION http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=EXTINCTION 12 MOST AMAZING TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS OF STARS, LANDSCAPES AND URBAN SCENES http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/natural-sciences/12-most-amazing-time-lapse-videos-stars-landscapes-and-urban-scenes/page/2/#slide-top
May 6, 2013 BBC News Science and Environment Carbon dioxide is rapidly altering the chemistry of the Arctic, and the changes will last many thousands of years, a report says.,, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22408341 May 2, 2013 Guardian Environment
NASA VIDEO: AN ICE FREE ARCTIC IN TWO YEARS: WHITE HOUSE WARNED ON IMMINENT ARCTIC ICE DEATH SPIRAL http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/02/white-house-arctic-ice-death-spiral CHANGING OUR WORLD FOREVER: THIN ICE: THE WAY TO A NEW ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM http://sco.lt/5j55xh June 13, 2013 NASA -
WARM OCEAN CAUSING MOST ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF MASS LOSS http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20130613.html May 10, 2013 Common Dreams IN 'MARCH TOWARD DISASTER' WORLD HITS 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/10-5 15 May 2013 Guardian Environment
CLIMATE RESEARCH NEARLY UNANIMOUS ON HUMAN CAUSES, SURVEY FINDS http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes June 14, 2013 New Scientist
ACIDIFYING SEAWATER SEES OYSTERS IN RACE TO GROW SHELLS http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23707-acidifying-seawater-sees-oysters-in-race-to-grow-shells.html May 7, 2013 Mother Jones
10 KEY FINDINGS FROM A RAPIDLY ACIDIFYING ARCTIC OCEAN http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/05/arctic-ocean-rapidly-getting-more-acidic May 6, 2013
SCIENTISTS SOUND ALARM AT ARCTIC OCEAN'S RAPID ACIDIFICATION Now at highest levels in at least 55 million years http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientists_sound_alarm_at_Arctic_Oceans_rapid_acidification_999.html May 7, 2013 World Environment News -
ACIDIFICATION: THE LATEST UNKNOWN FOR STRESSED ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM http://planetark.org/wen/68601 May 12, 3013 About My Planet
ACIDIFICATION OF OCEANS RISKING ECOSYSTEMS
http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/climate-change/acidification-risking-ecosystems-of-oceans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Aboutmyplanetcom+%28aboutMyPlanet.com%29 May 2, 2013 Yale Environment 360
A KEY EXPERIMENT TO PROBE THE FUTURE OF OUR ACIDIFYING OCEANS http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_key_experiment_to_probe_the_future_of_our_acidifying_oceans/2644/ May 7, 2013 The Independent
THE ACID OCEAN: ARCTIC' SOARING CO2 LEAVES FISH AND HUNTERS GASPING FOR LIFE http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-acid-ocean-arctics-soaring-co2-leaves-fish-and-hunters-gasping-for-life-8606805.html Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION - AN INTRODUCTION - THE TWIN SISTER TO CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.awi.de/en/news/focus/2013/ocean_acidification/ WE HAVE KNOWN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE FOR 75 YEARS http://grist.org/news/we-have-known-about-climate-change-for-75-years/ April 24, 2013 Arctic News
ANIMATION: ARCTIC SEA ICE MINIMUM VOLUME http://arctic-news.blogspot.dk/2013/04/arctic-sea-ice-animation.html ATMOSPHERIC C02 TO PASS MAJOR MILESTONE http://sco.lt/7D2iGH April 3, 2013 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
WHAT DOES 400 ppm LOOK LIKE? THE KEELING CURVE http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/what-does-this-number-mean/ April 8, 2013
CARBON-DIOXIDE LEVELS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST POINT IN AT LEAST 800, 000 YEARS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/carbon-dioxide-levels-are-at-their-highest-point-in-at-least-800000-years/ April 13, 2013 Counter Currents
ARCTIC WILL BE ALMOST COMPLETELY ICE-FREE BY 2020 http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130413.htm April 2013 398.25ppm
EARTH'S CO2 HOME PAGE http://co2now.org/ FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP
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