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militart awarness blanche style

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:33:31 GMT

clipped by: censusguyZ

U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln has expressed concern about the military's use of burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan to dispose of medical and hazardous wastes.

KTHV Little Rock - Nov 07 9:19 AM

Sen. Blanche Lincoln held a conference call with reporters late this morning. Most questions revolved around health care reform although the senator did spend a good deal of time talking about climate change. More about that on the jump. On health care, Lincoln stressed the importance of being more efficient with health care spending. She said [...]

Tags: cap n trade and waste pits too

The "Thug"

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:30:29 GMT

clipped by: mklosinski

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous, decrying “those who . . . make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”

Then, the president talked tough, saying, “We’ll just have to deal with those people,” language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics.

Tags: obama, climate change

Scientists warn caribou collapse not unlike disappearance of cod stocks

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:31:51 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.google.com

Once a gigantic bloom of life that sustained entire societies, the cod fishery was closed in 1992 after a near-total collapse of fish stocks. The subsequent bust of Newfoundland's outport culture was nearly as complete.

Recent surveys on two major caribou herds in Canada's North suggest the same thing may be happening there. And as scientists begin to unlock the secrets of that decline, aboriginals who still depend on the great herds to feed both body and soul are rethinking old assumptions.

"The elders are saying that there is a cycle, that caribou go away somewhere but they come back," Nitsiza said. "This time, the caribou may not come back."

Climate change has long been suspected as being behind the recent widespread declines.

The Bluenose West herd

was under 20,000 animals in 2006 - a quarter its size at the turn of the millennium

Concern has been building for years. But this summer, survey results carried a distinct whiff of impending catastrophe.

Tags: 1-collapse, 1-ecocide, 1-extinction, 1-population, 2-increase, 2-risks, 3-reported, 4-canada

Feeling Cooler Already

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:49:53 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: I thought a climate change bill was dead in the US water even before the New Jersey and Virginia results.

Clip Source: justoneminute.typepad.com

A Senate climate change panel gives a feel-good nod to the collapsing Copenhagen process:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen.

...But Democrats are likely to fall far short of their goal of passing legislation in the full Senate before Copenhagen as Boxer's bill lacks enough support for full approval.

Meanwhile, as we brace for Copenhagen:

BARCELONA/WASHINGTON, Nov 5, Reuters - A U.N. climate treaty may need an extra year beyond a December deadline to agree details, delegates at U.N. talks said on Thursday even as a U.S. Senate committee approved a carbon-capping bill.

The Nov. 2-6 meeting of 175 nations in Spain, the last session before a U.N. accord is due in Copenhagen next month, turned gloomy about salvaging a strong deal after two years of negotiations.

Posted by Tom Maguire on November 05

Tags: boxer lacks enough support, climate bill panel, collapsing copenhagen process

Care2 - Fossil-Funded Group Succeeds in Spreading Lies About How Much Water Desert Solar Uses Fossi

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:26:21 GMT

clipped by: heartlandinstitute
clipper's remarks: Internet/Mention

Clip Source: www.care2.com

Fossil-Funded Group Succeeds in Spreading Lies About How Much Water Desert Solar Uses

The Heartland Institute, the infamous fossil-industry-funded climate denier group that faked 500 scientists to deny climate change, is now creating a new fake narrative about water use in utility scale solar. They did a very thorough job of disseminating

Tags: heartland institute, environment

CleanTechnica.com - Ex-United Technologies Rocket Scientists To Build 150 MW Solar Heliostat in Sono

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:17 GMT

clipped by: heartlandinstitute
clipper's remarks: Blog/Mention

Clip Source: cleantechnica.com

Ex-United Technologies Rocket Scientists To Build 150 MW Solar Heliostat in Sonoran Desert

Any utility-scale solar plant needs to bypass NIMBY opposition, whether that is genuinely heartfelt or merely the fossil-funded kind of “environmentalist” opposition. Unfortunately the Heartland Institute (of “500 scientists who deny climate change” fame) is preying on the uninformed with complete falsehoods about how much water solar power uses.

Tags: heartland institute, environment

Daily Press - Ignoring the Source

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:22 GMT

clipped by: heartlandinstitute
clipper's remarks: Newspaper/LTE/Mention

Clip Source: www.vvdailypress.com

Ignoring the source

Re: “Cap and trade ignores nature” (Letters, John Helphrey, Oct. 19).

The Heartland Institute is a notorious right-wing organization that, along with its leader S. Fred Singer, is known for taking positions on issues that match those of the people giving them money. Among their big contributors are Exxon Mobil and the American Petroleum Institute and they list Walter Buchholtz, an Exxon Mobil executive, as their “Government Relations Advisor.” As for the “nongovernmental, international, panel on climate change,” Scientific American says that the NIPCC consists of 23 people led by Singer.

Tags: heartland institute, environment

Scientific American - Ex-United Technologies Rocket Scientists To Build 150 MW Solar Heliostat in So

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:17:01 GMT

clipped by: heartlandinstitute
clipper's remarks: Magazine/Mention

Clip Source: www.scientificamerican.com

Ex-United Technologies Rocket Scientists To Build 150 MW Solar Heliostat in Sonoran Desert

Any utility-scale solar plant needs to bypass NIMBY opposition, whether that is genuinely heartfelt or merely the fossil-funded kind of “environmentalist” opposition. Unfortunately the Heartland Institute (of “500 scientists who deny climate change” fame)� is preying on the uninformed with complete falsehoods about how much water solar power uses.

Tags: heartland institute, environment

OrlVegetarian Restaurants Examiner - A Vegetarian Diet: Could it be the Answer to our Environmental

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:33 GMT

clipped by: heartlandinstitute
clipper's remarks: Examiner.com/Internet/Mention

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

A Vegetarian Diet: Could it be the Answer to our Environmental Problems

Opposition is abundant when it comes to the subject of vegetarianism as a way to fight global warming. There are those organizations which primarily oppose the notion of global warming, calling it climate alarmism and claiming that the earth’s climate is in constant fluctuation. Organizations such as the Heartland Institute support what they call a common-sense approach towards environmental issues. Furthermore, they state that the issue of global warming is not urgent and that climate change reports are being sensationalized by the media. They state that the report issued by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 contains “absurd claims” about the role that livestock has on global warming.

Tags: heartland institute, environment

Leaders from nine major faiths meet at Windsor Castle to fight climate change

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:21:48 GMT

clipped by: nuttyriv3r
clipper's remarks: It is quite amazing to see so much staging for prophecy fulfillment being prepared so rapidly. There is no finer time to fight the good fight, and remember: we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Nov 2

Leaders from nine major faiths meet at Windsor Castle on Tuesday in an exceptional initiative that supporters predict will harness the power of religion in the fight against climate change.

The oecumenical gathering at the home of Queen Elizabeth II, 35 kilometres (22 miles) west of London, is being co-staged by the United Nations and Prince Philip's Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC).

Representatives from Baha'ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism and Taoism will unveil programmes that "could motivate the largest civil society movement the world has ever seen," said UN Assistant Secretary General Olav Kjorven.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon will launch the event under the banner "Faith Commitments for a Living Planet."

"But the problem is deeper than economics and money, it's much more about the moral idea [of] 'Nature is God's Nature, so we have to be kind to it'," said Victoria Finlay, ARC's director of communication.

Tags: agenda 21, apostasy, baha'ism, buddhism, christianity, climate change, club of rome, hinduism, judaism, new age

kerry,s a fairy

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:12:45 GMT

clipped by: tinknocker6
clipper's remarks: god help us

Clip Source: mail.google.com

The Cap and Trade Threat to Our National Security

In poll, after poll, after poll, the American people have clearly expressed their preference for prioritizing economic growth over global warming. This is a major problem for those on the left who want to reorganize our entire economy under the guise of cap and trade climate change legislation. Tacitly admitting they have lost this argument, the left has shifted gears and is trying a new tack: global warming is a threat to national security. So Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) recently blogged at the Center for American Progress:

Kerry is 100% wrong. Heritage fellow Lieutenant Colonel James Jay Carafano (Ret.) explained why in his testimony before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday:

Cap and Trade Would Do Nothing to Stop Climate Change

Should We Trust The Experts?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:45:01 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "None of this suggests the public should abandon a healthy skepticism toward even well-credentialed authorities. Pharmaceutical companies, with colossal missteps like the dangerous medication Vioxx, have earned suspicions about their motivations.
Vaccinations foregone put not only those individual children at risk but clear the path for infectious disease to spread more easily. That's not a great outcome, whether we're collectively battling the measles or this season's H1N1 flu.

"You can't minimize your individual risk," Wallace writes, "unless your herd, your friends and neighbors, also buy in."

Our children most certainly deserve safe vaccines; that's a given. I don't blame people for not trusting special interest groups. I just thought this article brought out some interesting points regarding social media.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Two weeks after the story hit the Internet, the e-mail keeps flowing. A majority voice support for “An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.” But at least one in five disagrees. Many seethe with indignation. A few sling vile names and veiled threats.

Wallace has run smack into an abiding, perhaps growing, phenomenon of the Internet Age: Citizens armed with information are sure they know better.

Unhappy with the scientific consensus that man's activities have exacerbated global warming? Then just find and promote the academic naysayers. Or merely post your personal musings: "Climate change, bah, there's a foot of snow on my lawn."

The rise of computer literacy, high-speed Internet connections, blogging and social networks has emboldened the common man to tell his own story and, sometimes, to disdain trappings like a university degree, professional training or corporate affiliation.

Britain should become a 'hire society' rather than a 'throw away' society says WRAP

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:52:55 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: Good idea! Now if deconsumption became a coherent government policy aimed at orderly economic contraction, rather than growth, people in their masses would be able to engage. An added benefit of deconsumption would be shorter working weeks and more freedom time.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The first ever study on how cutting waste can help the UK meet ambitious climate change targets, found ordinary people could save a huge amount of carbon dioxide simply by consuming less.

The biggest change is through eating less meat and making things last longer through "make do and mend".

However, thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide could also be saved by hiring goods rather than buying things brand new. This will not only stop old ski equiment and ball gowns clogging up cupbaords but change Britain from a "throw away society" to a "hire society".

The report by the Government agency in charge of cutting waste, WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), pointed out that around a third of all products that are thrown away are still working. By hiring things instead, it will ensure less goods are manufactured and thrown in landfill, therefore cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

£148 billion of the £732 billion spent every year by households could be spent on services rather than goods.

Tags: 1-climate change, 1-policy, 1-re-use, 1-thrift, 2-change, 2-opportunities, 3-advocated, 4-uk

It’s a dirty business — the new gold rush that is blackening Canada’s name

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:01:26 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: A picture of man-made hell where pristine carbon reducing forest thrived only a few years ago. People choose both to create and to live in it. And Canadian governments subsidise the process.

Clip Source: business.timesonline.co.uk

BP and Shell are among dozens of oil companies preparing to raise production from 1.3 million barrels a day at present to 2.5 million by 2015 and 6 million by 2030.

The sands contain 174 billion barrels of proven reserves, the world’s second-largest reserves after Saudi Arabia. With improved techniques, Canada hopes to extract between 315 billion and 1.7 trillion barrels.

A Co-operative Bank study calculated that, even if all other carbon dioxide emissions stopped, fully exploiting the tar sands would still tip the world into catastrophic climate change by raising global temperatures more than 2C above pre-industrial levels. Extracting each barrel of crude from the sticky mass of sand, clay and bitumen produces two to three times as much CO2 as drilling for a barrel of conventional oil.

Alberta’s latest proposal to rid tar sands of their dirty image is a C$2 billion subsidy for carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities.

Tags: 1-climate change, 1-ecocide, 1-policy, 1-profits, 2-increase, 2-risks, 3-forecast, 3-reported, 4-canada

John Kerry's Coed Sandwich

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:41 GMT

clipped by: infidel70

Clip Source: bostonherald.com

By Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Updated 7h ago

You would think by now, Sen. John Kerry would have learned to avoid co-eds packing Instamatics!

Clip Source: news.bostonherald.com

Clip Source: bostonherald.com

But nooooo. Our senior senator was captured in yet another embarrassing Kodak moment with a couple of Emerson College students, who popped by his posh Louisburg Square digs to trick or treat on Halloween night.

Call us crazy, but does it look like Kerry may have ingested a bad ice cube or two before this photo op??? Where was the maid who usually has candy duty at Chez Heinz on Halloween???

“I think the caption should read: The senator is pictured discussing climate change legislation with two constituents. He was flattered until they told him he looked just like their grandfather,” joked Kerry spokesgal Jodi Seth .

Now if this Halloween faux pas were a one-time occurrence, we could let it pass with minimal ridicule

Apparently, they don’t call him Liveshot for nothing!