The Green Files: June 2008 Archives

The Green Files > June 30, 2008

Floods, Droughts On The Rise In Face Of Climate Change

[EcoTech Daily] The answer, according to a study commissioned by the Climate Change Science Program (We know, it sounds slanted just a little–but NOAA did the research), is that if you live in most of North America, buy an umbrella. As the temperature of the planet rises–and it’s risen enough that this summer will be the first with no ice at the North Pole–the air is able to hold more water vapor, which raises the chance of a rainstorm at any given point, as well as flooding in extreme circumstances.

NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget 1.0.1 - Displays ...

[macupdate - Mac OS X] NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget updates users with NASA information on the latest vital signs of global climate change.

Posted at 12:33 PM

June 30, 2008

Floods, Droughts On The Rise In Face Of Climate Change

Posted at 12:34 PM

NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget 1.0.1 - Displays ...

[macupdate - Mac OS X] NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget updates users with NASA information on the latest vital signs of global climate change.

Posted at 12:33 PM

June 28, 2008

Hubbert’s Peak

[Servias Ministries Blog] Conventional world oil production peaked in May of 2005. The producing nations have been unable to sustain production of existing fields as well as replace depleting wells with new discoveries.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Global Oil-Supply Worries Fuel Debate in Saudi Arabia

[Peak Oil News] Sadad al-Husseini and Nansen Saleri raced up the ranks at Saudi Aramco, the world's most powerful oil company, working together for years to squeeze more crude from Saudi Arabia's massive fields. Today, the two men have staked out opposite sides of a momentous industry debate.

Posted at 03:02 PM

June 27, 2008

Architecture of Change - Sustainability and Humanity in the Built ...

[Untitled] Sustainability in a general sense means to keep something the way it is. That makes a conscious contradiction in the title —

Posted at 03:05 PM

Global TV Campaign on Public Transport and Climate Change Awarded ...

[United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] The TV advertising campaign conducted by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) won a prestigious award from the European Association of Communications Agencies(EACA). The award was handed out yesterday evening at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Posted at 03:03 PM

June 26, 2008

Peak Oil arrives in Greensboro

[Guilford Solar] She is extremely knowledgeable about the topic, and I am expecting this to be an excellent series. The first installment is to be published on Sunday, June 29, the second on Wednesday, July 2, and the third installment is to appear on Saturday, July 5.

Posted at 03:03 PM

"Peak oil" in the N&R

[GREENING GUILFORD] Starting this Sunday, the News & Record will feature a three-part series I worked on this year about peak oil. I'm encouraging you all to take a look because you will likely hear more about it in the news from now on.

Posted at 03:02 PM

June 25, 2008

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Blamed On More Than Climate Change

[World NeedS Us] Professor Glasser acknowledges that global warming had a major part to play in the collapse, but emphasises that it is only one in a number of contributory factors, and despite the dramatic nature of the break-up in 2002, both observations by glaciologists and numerical modeling by other scientists at NASA and CPOM (Centre of Polar Observation and Modeling) had pointed to an ice shelf in distress for decades previously. “It’s likely that melting from higher ocean temperatures, or even a gradual decline in the ice mass of the Peninsula over the centuries, was pushing the Larsen to the brink”, said co-author Ted Scambos of University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Intel report warns of climate threats to US

[EarthNews] Butts said members of Congress specifically asked him to speak to security implications with China. He said he plans to tell the panels that climate change will lead to the United States and China competing for the same resources, particularly in Africa, a major source of oil for both countries.

Posted at 02:32 PM

June 24, 2008

How green is enough?

[Eco Women: Protectors of the Planet!] When two products work equally well and there’s a clear reason why the eco one is better for the environment and/or human health, Recycla is going to choose the greener item every time. However, what if the greener option is just so much more expensive that you cannot justify the cost?

Posted at 02:31 PM

Sculpture Prize Winner is Eco-friendly

[TreeHugger] The latest competition featured an eco-option: an illuminated peace sign: 'Faites L'Art, pas La Guerre (Make Art, Not War)' powered by sun and wind. But the winner is Anthony Gormley's "The One and the Other".

Posted at 02:31 PM

June 23, 2008

Extreme weather consistent with global warming, say gov't scientists

[Green Daily] As global temperatures have risen, sea surface temperatures have risen. Warmer oceans lead to more water vapor in the atmosphere, and hence, more rainstorms, in a cycle that is the opposite of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Posted at 12:33 PM

Blame Everything on Global Warming

["E pur si muove!"] Global warming is indeed a magical thing. Not only does it predict both droughts and flooding (so that it is confirmed almost whatever happens -- goodbye Karl Popper!)

Posted at 12:31 PM

June 21, 2008

Nature Study and Environmentalism

[Handbook of Nature Study] Feel free to comment as much as you wish but if you are just going to criticize and not explain your solutions, please know I will not publish your comments. The focus of this blog is to share our family's experiences in nature study using the

Posted at 03:02 PM

Incoherent Environmentalism

[Matthew Yglesias] Of course it's not that odd: The press loves John McCain! What's more, to understand the extent to which McCain has turned himself around on environmental issues, you need some kind of grasp of how the logic of his gasoline demagoguery conflicts with the logic of his cap-and-trade proposals, and that seems to be beyond the grasp of many reporters.

Posted at 03:01 PM

June 20, 2008

Lester Feder: McCain’s “Incoherent” Environmentalism

[McCombover] McCain’s “Incoherent” Environmentalism.

Posted at 03:08 PM

Extreme Environmentalism Is Stealing Our Land

[CovenantNews.com] Laurie Roth / NewsWithViews.com: The terms "environmentalism" "carbon emissions" "global warming" "heritage areas" "scenic areas" "historical areas" "water ways" are really the front words and terms for global elitists and Government .

Posted at 03:07 PM

June 19, 2008

Plan To Conserve Forests May Be Detrimental To Other Ecosystems

[Buy Cialis Online .Cheapest Prices Now.Best Customer Service.] REDD has potential to deliver benefits for biodiversity and people, as well as for the climate. These benefits will be concentrated in forests with high carbon stocks. Land use may shift to low-carbon forests and other ecosystems ...

Posted at 03:08 PM

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems 2008 (Jun 17, 2008)

[National Invasive Species Information Center - What's New] John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. The State of the Nation's Ecosystems 2008 report released by the Heinz Center provides authoritative documentation of key environmental trends.

Posted at 03:07 PM

June 18, 2008

"UN Warns of Growth in Climate Change Refugees"

[SEJ Environmental Journalism Today] "Climate change is forcing growing numbers of people in the developing world to flee their homes and seek refuge abroad, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned today. Announcing findings that the number of refugees worldwide had risen steeply for the second year running, Antnio Guterres said that environmental degradation induced by climate change was forcing greater displacement as resources became increasingly scarce.

Posted at 02:32 PM

Climate Change and Your Health

[KQED's The California Report] Climate Change and Your Health -- Climate affects the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat and our health in general. As greenhouse gases cause global temperatures to change, we will likely see more storms, heat waves, .

Posted at 02:31 PM

June 17, 2008

Ex-British Army Chief in Iraq Confirms Peak Oil as Motive fo

[Digg / upcoming] A former senior British Army official in Iraq, James Ellery, admits the link between peak oil and the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. Currently director of British security firm and US defence contractor, AEGIS, Ellery also whitewashed the massive corruption in Iraqi reconstruction projects.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Peak Oil

[Energy and Capital] We're not talking about the total amount of oil left in the world (and I can't begin to tell you how many people have said to me with a straight face, "The peak oil theory is a bunch of garbage, there's trillions of barrels of oil left underground.").

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Posted at 02:32 PM

June 16, 2008

A Climate Hero: The Early Years

[Worldwatch Institute - China Watch, Food, Renewable Energy, News, Natural Disasters & Peacemaking, e2 - Eye on Earth, News Story, Commentary] Worldwatch Institute is partnering with Grist to bring you this three-part series commemorating the 20-year anniversary of NASA scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking testimony on global climate change next week. Part 1 of 3.

Posted at 12:32 PM

LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees

[Inhabitat] The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees. The intent of the concept itself is laudable, but it is Callebaut’s .

Posted at 12:31 PM

June 14, 2008

World Watch Magazine: Jim Hansen on Climate Change

[Worldwatch Institute - China Watch, Food, Renewable Energy, News, Natural Disasters & Peacemaking, e2 - Eye on Earth, News Story, Commentary] James Hansen: This was the culmination of years of work, going back at least to three papers between 1981 and 1982, [discussing] carbon dioxide and climate change in the journal Science, other trace gases in Geophysical Research Letters, and sea level, also published in Science. What was different in 1988 was that I had a more comprehensive paper completed and in press at Journal of Geographical Research, which was the attachment to my 1988 testimony.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Why They Changed the Name to Climate Change from Global Warming

[Climate Skeptic] You are running on empty lady.You are no scientist at all since you are too stupid to notice that you were easily exposed as making up numbers and calling the writer a liar.Claiming the trend from 1998-2007 was a positive warming trend.YOU were wrong.Get over it!

Posted at 03:01 PM

June 13, 2008

Eco-conscious interiors by Postfossil Design Collective

[Inhabitat] Earlier this year, at Milan’s furniture fair, they excused themselves for ”˜deviating’ from a focus on the use of sustainable materials and production methods, yet Postfossil presented an impressive eco-conscious collection at Salone .

Posted at 03:02 PM

Eco Chic: Jellybean Eco Shopper Bag

[CasaSugar -- Home sweet home.] The Jellybean Eco Shopper Bag ($30) from the MoMA store also folds into a small square, so it can be easily stored in a purse, and has an inner pocket and an outer zip pocket. Functionally, it seems to work the same way as F&T, .

Posted at 03:01 PM

June 12, 2008

Getting FSC/SFI Chain of Custody Certified - Part Two

[WhatTheyThink Environment & Sustainability Section] Note: There are a number of consultants and auditors for several certifying bodies, WhatTheyThink does not endorse or recommend service professionals. Details in these two articles are based on Vic’s experience as a consultant and auditor for FSC certification;

Posted at 03:01 PM

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Environment

$http://www.mattfraction.com/archives/002963.php$ [blog] Anybody who thinks that "it doesn't matter who's President" has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower.

Posted at 03:01 PM

June 11, 2008

Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' | Environment ...

[Fluxtumblr] Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' | Environment | guardian.co.uk: Via Balk.

Posted at 02:32 PM

Environmental Change Re-Draws Atlas of Africa

[United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] Johannesburg/Nairobi/London, 10 June 2008-Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique "fynbos" vegetation, is presented today to the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment(AMCEN).

Posted at 02:31 PM

June 10, 2008

Sea ShepSea Shepherd OffersSea Shepherd Offers the Olive Branch to ...

[Voice from the Deep!] And yes there have indeed been harsh words between Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace over the years but the word Greenpeace does include the word “peace” and therefore I am appealing to Greenpeace once again in the name of peaceful cooperation to work with Sea Shepherd to protect the whales.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Greenpeace launches Climate Defenders Camp on World Environment Day”

[voluntariat] Join Greenpeace or make a donation. Since we don't accept money from businesses, governments, political parties, or other pressure groups, we really depend on the help of people like you to keep protecting the Planet.

Posted at 02:32 PM

June 09, 2008

IDA Pro Development Environment

[RCE Messageboard's Regroupment] In IDA Pro 4.xx (I forget the exact version I have, I'm at work right now, will check when I get home) is there a way to actually alter the hex of the program...">Patching with IDA Pro

Posted at 12:38 PM

President Obama on the Environment

[Celsias] But getting something significant done about climate change under a President Obama is in reach. And it is as much about leadership as it is about policy.

Posted at 12:37 PM

June 07, 2008

US Lawmakers Block Crippling Climate Change Bill

[China Confidential] He also blasted the Senate move as a "failure of our politics and a failure of leadership -- a president who for years denied the problem, and a Republican nominee, John McCain, who claims leadership on the issue but opposes this bipartisan bill."

Posted at 03:07 PM

Lecturers’ Union UCU will press colleges and universities to do ...

[Climate Change and Trade Unions] He is currently National Secretary, Campaign against Climate Change, and was international secretary 2004-2007. He spoke on climate change at the World Social Forum, around Britain and in many countries, as part of the organision of global demonstrations against climate change - which last year happened in 75 countries.

Posted at 03:05 PM

June 06, 2008

UNEP: Environmentalism important for business

[Scoop NZ - Scoops] Environmentalism will be increasingly important for business in the future, says the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme – and New Zealand’s isolation will bring challenges as economies around the world turn to more sustainable models.

Posted at 03:05 PM

Ostrich Environmentalism

[Written on the Wind] Energy Independence is where we should put our energies. While we fiddle with things, corporate interests will continue to lead us into pointless, costly and polluting oil wars if we do not get off foreign oil. We can not merely wish ourselves off foreign oil. Too many in the green environmental movements have lulled themselves into an ennui of self righteous complacency. It is not enough to ignorantly propose that windmills and solar cells are sufficient for our current needs when rudimentary math shows by inspection they are not. A case in point is drilling off our coasts. This drilling will go one of two ways, either we get that oil now,use it in the most responsible way it can be used, and reduce our oil and gas prices, or India and China will get that oil via slant drilling from 50 miles off our coast and all bets are off on the environmental consequences of how they will use it. I urge an end to ostrich environmentalism. We need to drill our own oil and we need more nuclear power plants.

Posted at 03:03 PM

June 05, 2008

Science leads to adaptation with climate change

[ICRISAT Press Releases] Along with this, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), headquartered in Patancheru, Hyderabad in southern India, is intensively working with its partners to develop science-based strategies that empower vulnerable communities to cope with climate change in the dry tropics of the world.

Posted at 03:06 PM

Climate change controversy

[Open Parachute] Sometimes climate change deniers raise the issue of individual scientists whose work has been included in IPCC documents but who disagree and wish their names reviewed. This shows a misunderstanding of such reviews.

Posted at 03:04 PM

June 04, 2008

Eco friendly outdoor heater scoops top prize

[Glamorgan News] At the sixth annual Corus/Design Wales Eco Design Awards, held in Cardiff on May 13th, University of Glamorgan product design student Chris Kinder beat ten other shortlisted young designers with his eco-friendly concept for a solar-powered outdoor heater.

Posted at 02:32 PM

Making war eco-friendly

[Digg / upcoming] As predicted by 'the Onion', German scientists are busy at work making eco-friendly bombs. These bombs are nitrogen base, and kill you without harming the atmosphere.

Posted at 02:31 PM

June 03, 2008

Under court order, the US Climate Change Science Program releases ...

[Great Lakes Law] It took an extra few years and a court order, but the US Climate Change Science Program finally released its comprehensive Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the US Back in 1990, Congress recognized that access to .

Posted at 02:32 PM

Protecting Florida from the Rising Tide of Climate Change

[Switchboard, from NRDC] In reading it, I was reminded me of how we should talk about climate change as immediate, rather than distant. I work to protect the earth for future generations –

Posted at 02:31 PM

The Green Files > June 30, 2008

Floods, Droughts On The Rise In Face Of Climate Change

NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget 1.0.1 - Displays ...

June 30, 2008

Floods, Droughts On The Rise In Face Of Climate Change

NASA Global Climate Change Vital Signs Widget 1.0.1 - Displays ...

June 28, 2008

Hubbert’s Peak

Global Oil-Supply Worries Fuel Debate in Saudi Arabia

June 27, 2008

Architecture of Change - Sustainability and Humanity in the Built ...

Global TV Campaign on Public Transport and Climate Change Awarded ...

June 26, 2008

Peak Oil arrives in Greensboro

"Peak oil" in the N&R

June 25, 2008

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Blamed On More Than Climate Change

Intel report warns of climate threats to US

June 24, 2008

How green is enough?

Sculpture Prize Winner is Eco-friendly

June 23, 2008

Extreme weather consistent with global warming, say gov't scientists

Blame Everything on Global Warming

June 21, 2008

Nature Study and Environmentalism

Incoherent Environmentalism

June 20, 2008

Lester Feder: McCain’s “Incoherent” Environmentalism

Extreme Environmentalism Is Stealing Our Land

June 19, 2008

Plan To Conserve Forests May Be Detrimental To Other Ecosystems

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems 2008 (Jun 17, 2008)

June 18, 2008

"UN Warns of Growth in Climate Change Refugees"

Climate Change and Your Health

June 17, 2008

Ex-British Army Chief in Iraq Confirms Peak Oil as Motive fo

Peak Oil

June 16, 2008

A Climate Hero: The Early Years

LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees

June 14, 2008

World Watch Magazine: Jim Hansen on Climate Change

Why They Changed the Name to Climate Change from Global Warming

June 13, 2008

Eco-conscious interiors by Postfossil Design Collective

Eco Chic: Jellybean Eco Shopper Bag

June 12, 2008

Getting FSC/SFI Chain of Custody Certified - Part Two

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Environment

June 11, 2008

Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' | Environment ...

Environmental Change Re-Draws Atlas of Africa

June 10, 2008

Sea ShepSea Shepherd OffersSea Shepherd Offers the Olive Branch to ...

Greenpeace launches Climate Defenders Camp on World Environment Day”

June 09, 2008

IDA Pro Development Environment

President Obama on the Environment

June 07, 2008

US Lawmakers Block Crippling Climate Change Bill

Lecturers’ Union UCU will press colleges and universities to do ...

June 06, 2008

UNEP: Environmentalism important for business

Ostrich Environmentalism

June 05, 2008

Science leads to adaptation with climate change

Climate change controversy

June 04, 2008

Eco friendly outdoor heater scoops top prize

Making war eco-friendly

June 03, 2008

Under court order, the US Climate Change Science Program releases ...

Protecting Florida from the Rising Tide of Climate Change

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