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The Green Files > February 28, 2009

Massive Climate Change Action in DC Scores Early Victory ...

[AlterNet.org: PEEK] "Big Coal is on a roll in the nation's capital, winning early rounds this week in what promises to be a long fight over fossil fuels and climate change. Despite a well-funded ad campaign by environmentalists attacking the industry, and a huge coal-ash spill in Tennessee that has led to calls for more regulation, the industry has received positive assurances this week from President-elect Barack Obama's nominees that the new administration is committed to keeping coal a big part of the nation's energy source." --Stephen Power and Siobhan Hughes, The Wall Street Journal, 15 January 2009

Conscious Choice: Coming Together for Climate Change

[Conscious Choice] Last September, Mayor Daley unveiled the nation’s most aggressive, comprehensive and detailed municipal climate change plan to protect and preserve the environment. The Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) is a strategic roadmap that is grounded in research, and its goals will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and positively affect our health, our economy and our environment.

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February 28, 2009

Massive Climate Change Action in DC Scores Early Victory ...

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Conscious Choice: Coming Together for Climate Change

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February 27, 2009

First Lady Talks About Pollution and Climate Change at the E.P.A. ...

[The Caucus] , stripped the EPA of their power to enforce the laws against many of the worst polluters in the US, and exempted many of the worst polluters in our nation from ever being tried or held responsible for their crimes, but when Michelle Obama goes to the agency for a couple hours and talks about a new vision, Ann is up in arms. As usual Ann, that’s just plain shameful of you.

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China Digital Times » Climate Change: Chance for US-China Cooperation

[China Digital Times] Secretary Clinton will no doubt be welcomed back to China in the future. The question is whether or not she is willing to step away from a crumbling paradigm of U.S.-China relations and provide the reset of the relationship that both countries desperately need to move forward, both during a time of massive economic uncertainty and beyond.

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February 26, 2009

Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems

[Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com] As little as 20 meters (66 feet) below the surface of Lake Huron, the third largest of North America's Great Lakes, peculiar geological formations-sinkholes made by water dissolving parts of an ancient underlying seabed-harbor bizarre ecosystems where the fish typical of the huge freshwater lake are rarely to be seen. Instead, brilliant purple mats of cyanobacteria-cousins of microbes found at the bottoms of permanently ice-covered lakes in Antarctica-and pallid, floating pony-tails of other microbial life thrive in the dense, salty water that's hostile to most familiar, larger forms of life because it lacks oxygen.

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Great Lakes Sinkholes Harbour Exotic Ecosystems : EcoWorldly

[EcoWorldly] In Lake Huron, one of North America’s Great Lakes, sinkholes formed by water erosion host exotic organisms in what looks like an alien world.

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February 25, 2009

Some Plants Will (Maybe) Benefit from Global Warming, But ...

[TreeHugger] Scientists are studying the effects of a higher variability in temperatures and more frequent thawing/refreezing of the soil on certain plants and found that some might benefit. Well, you can't say we only report the bad things about global warming, though in this case, it's not yet clear if this the news for these specific plants is all good...

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Environment » Blog Archive » Ice Age or global warming? | Blogs |

[Environment] [...] Carl Henrik GrÃ¸ndahl NÃ¥ vet hele verden hvordan vi har det med snÃ¸en i Oslo, for pressebyrÃ¥et Reuters har sendt ut en melding fra Aftenposten Aften gjengitt mange steder. Drudge report: “Oslo [...]

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February 24, 2009

President Obama’s Climate Change Challenge | Britannica Blog

[Britannica Blog] Britannica science editor John Rafferty recently asked Professor Selin to comment on the climate change challenge facing the new Obama administration, and his post follows.

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E.U. Official: Organic Farming Fights Climate Change - Green Inc ...

[Green Inc.] Nonetheless, one European official was quite sanguine late last week, stating that organic produce can be less energy intensive than other kinds of agriculture, and so growing and eating organic may also have significant benefits for the climate.

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February 23, 2009

UnderwaterTimes | Antibiotic Resistance: A Rising Concern In ...

[UnderwaterTimes.com] -- A team of scientists, speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called for new awareness of the potential for antibiotic-resistant illnesses from the marine environment, and pointed to the marine realm as a source for possible cures of those threats.

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Antibiotic Resistance: A Rising Concern In Marine Ecosystems ...

[DPG News] Underwater Photography and Videography - Articles, Daily News, Reviews, Photo Galleries, Photo Contests and more.

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February 21, 2009

How your TV could end up in Nigeria to be illegally dumped ...

[Greenpeace UK - Toxics] By the way, I rather find it ludicrous on the path of GreenPeace, that there is not a single GreenPeace contact to the continent of Africa.

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Greenpeace - Making Waves: WTF=What The Finance Minister of Japan ...

[The Greenpeace weblog] Remember Me? Yes No. Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style). Burn our feed! Greenpeace: Making Waves Feedburner: Grab the Making Waves newsfeed! » ... RSS - full feed. Greenpeace International homepage. best counter.

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February 19, 2009

Biodiversity and ecosystem services_Health Food_health Advice at ...

[health Advice at oxadox.com] health, mens health, Womens Health, Healthy Eating, Health Food, Mental Health, Healthy habits Advice at oxadox.com.

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Can Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources Adversely Affect ...

[TreeHugger] Dear Pablo: As we get more and more energy from the wind and tides, won’t we start interfering with those fundamental forces? Or are our efforts so puny that they won’t matter?

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February 18, 2009

Peak oil - Feb 18 | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin -] The speed of the slump is dramatic indeed and without precedent since the Great Depression. A few highlights: Chinese exports decreased by 17,5% in December year on year.

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Peak oil - Feb 17 | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin -] This conference, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness, will address the linkages between peak oil, climate change, our built environment, and the public’s health. Special focus will be paid to identifying the consequences as well as envisioning solutions and building resistance to what will be a great threat to public health.

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February 17, 2009

PoliPundit.com » Former Astronaut Says NO To Global Warming

[PoliPundit.com] - Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn’t believe that humans are causing global warming. “I don’t think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect,”

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The Reality-Based Community: Global-warming denialism as a ...

[The RBC] One possible reason that global-warming denialism is more prevalent in the U.S. than elsewhere is that more Americans than Europeans are Biblical literalists. That involves believing that all biologists and paleontologists are either massively incompetent or deliberately trying to mislead the public about the central facts of their disciplines.

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 16, 2009

Eco Gadgets: Riflessi - Solar-powered Lighting Concept Tests Your ...

[Ecofriend] The lighting system is more of a toy and has very little practical value. It’s good for anyone who has ample of time to keep shifting the patterns but is simply too boring otherwise.

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Eco Delight: 15 Unconventional Wind Turbine Designs - Ecofriend

[Ecofriend] The Magnetic Levitation wind-turbine is designed by a new Arizona-based company that aims to produce a gigawatt of clean energy (enough to power 750,000 homes), at a cost of about one cent per kilowatt an hour estimate, in comparison to the present day large wind turbines that produce 5 megawatts of power. It is an amazingly huge structure with a roughly estimated footprint of 100 acres, while several hundred meters in height.

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February 14, 2009

Peak Oil News >> Production; Extraction; Exploration >> 'Peak-Oil ...

[Peak Oil News] Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics.

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Peak oil - Feb 13 | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin - Oil] The stage is being set for a fuel supply crunch in the United States once the economy rebounds now that refiners have pushed back more than $10 billion worth of upgrades they had on the drawing board.

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February 13, 2009

t r u t h o u t | Global Warming Changing Birds' Habits

[Truthout - All Articles] Other species, such as the purple finch and boreal chickadee, spend their summers in the forests of Canada and fly south into the U.S. for the winter. Climate change could be playing a role in why they are not flying as far south as they used to, and are no longer as common as they were in states like Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin.

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Global Warming Hucksters Strike Again (Wizbang)

[Wizbang] Maybe the nations of the world should do likewise and spend resources on dealing with climate change (warming or cooling). That way we will have spent our money wisely even if it turns out CO2 is not the cause of global warming.

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February 11, 2009

The Sietch Blog » New Insight Into How Iron Effects Marine Ecosystems

[The Sietch Blog] The bacteria involved do not grow well in culture, so the researchers are using a range of molecular techniques to search for genes related to iron oxidation. The samples were collected continuously using a remote sampling device deployed and retrieved from the research vessel Atlantis between May 16 and June 27, 2006.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Antarctica's ecosystems need to be preserved | Ecological problems

[Ecological problems] What researchers fear the most are predatory crabs that are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt balance in marine ecosystems. As long as water remains too cold for them they do not have chance for survival but Antarctica's "cold safety" is starting to fall apart as for instance temperatures at the sea surface off the western Antarctic Peninsula went up 1°C in the last 50 years.

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 10, 2009

Northern Ireland Environment Minister Doubts This Nutty Global ...

[Green Daily] Sammy Wilson, the Environment Minister of Northern Ireland, pulled a TV ad about saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide because the ad said that climate change was a man-made problem. You know, like all those egg head .

Posted at 02:35 PM

The environment minister who is anything but green - Short Sharp ...

[Environment - Short Sharp Science] But I don't think Wilson's views are going to go very far.According to the BBC "Northern Ireland's first minister and partycolleague, Peter Robinson,told the Assembly that Mr Wilson was entitled to his opinions, althoughthey did not reflect those of the DUP as a whole."

Posted at 02:33 PM

February 09, 2009

Clinton to Address Climate Change, Energy in China : Sustainablog

[Sustainablog] Since July 2003, sustainablog has been providing information on environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics. The blog regularly features environmental leaders, experts in alternative energy and green technology, and real people trying to lighten their environmental footprints.

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Australian Heatwave: “Climate Change Link is Very Likely” : TreeHugger

[TreeHugger] Photo Credit: Andrew Brownbill, AAP via ABC Australia is in shock. It’s currently in the grip of the worst bushfires since white settlement, 220 years ago.

Posted at 12:32 PM

February 07, 2009

Environmentalism? - Marijuana.com

[Marijuana.com] Are any of you environmentalists? Are you ecologically conscious, interested in sustainable living, or do you think the whole "green movement"

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Och! Environmentalism”¦ « In One Ear”¦ Out the Other

[In One Ear... Out the Other] As an environmentalist, I’m often forced to stare at my feet and shake my head at some of the antics and enthusiasms of my compatriots. It’s not that they are bad or necessarily stupid people, but they often rev up uncontrollable enthusiam over a “green”

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February 06, 2009

BlueOregon: Solving Global Warming Requires Putting a Cap and a ...

[BlueOregon] Oregon, along with other western states, is working to create an economy-wide cap and trade system as the regulatory basis for addressing climate change. A well designed cap and trade - or better yet - a cap and invest system is a critical element of the overall climate regulatory framework because it guarantees declining emissions - the only way to reduce the threat of global warming.

Posted at 03:06 PM

Sound Politics: About that Global Warming Bill

[Sound Politics] This Con is supported by various Government Entities along with the Junk Scientists who are on the Public payroll. It is a Giant money making game-play that is designed not only to steal money from the peoples of the World but also, as a Tool to enslave them as well.

Posted at 03:04 PM

February 05, 2009

GayandRight: Thousands protest global warming in Ottawa

[GayandRight] Jewish Bloggers · Join >>. Blogroll Me! Thursday, February 05, 2009. Thousands protest global warming in Ottawa. Thanks to Jeremy for sending this... posted by GayandRight @ 2:27 AM. 0 Comments:. Post a Comment ...

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PharmaGossip: I blame global warming

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February 04, 2009

Just a Cool Cat: The Stewards of Environmentalism?

[Just a Cool Cat] Allow me to inform you of the biggest Superbowl Sunday scandal and to my knowledge it hasn't been mentioned by any media.

Posted at 02:35 PM

Atomic Lemur » The Next Reason for Global Environmentalism

[Atomic Lemur] This entry was written by jon, posted on February 2, 2009 at 8:31 pm , filed under random and tagged big trouble, birth defects, china, environmentalism. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. ...

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February 03, 2009

Obama policies trigger climate change consulting gold rush ...

[ClimateChangeCorp - Main] Obama’s policy team, including Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, is deeply committed to putting the US in a leadership position on climate change as fast as possible. Building energy efficiency, renewable power generation, greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and carbon management plans will become core business issues.

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Google Oceans Could Unveil Climate Change Data « Earth2Tech

[Earth2Tech] Gore used the time slider feature to show the disappearance of the glaciers over time and said his hope is that people will use Google Earth to see the reality of what is happening with climate change. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence, showed the audience the imagery of diving under water and seeing the ocean floor, which drew cheers from the crowd.

Posted at 02:32 PM

The Green Files > February 28, 2009

Massive Climate Change Action in DC Scores Early Victory ...

Conscious Choice: Coming Together for Climate Change

February 28, 2009

Massive Climate Change Action in DC Scores Early Victory ...

Conscious Choice: Coming Together for Climate Change

February 27, 2009

First Lady Talks About Pollution and Climate Change at the E.P.A. ...

China Digital Times » Climate Change: Chance for US-China Cooperation

February 26, 2009

Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems

Great Lakes Sinkholes Harbour Exotic Ecosystems : EcoWorldly

February 25, 2009

Some Plants Will (Maybe) Benefit from Global Warming, But ...

Environment » Blog Archive » Ice Age or global warming? | Blogs |

February 24, 2009

President Obama’s Climate Change Challenge | Britannica Blog

E.U. Official: Organic Farming Fights Climate Change - Green Inc ...

February 23, 2009

UnderwaterTimes | Antibiotic Resistance: A Rising Concern In ...

Antibiotic Resistance: A Rising Concern In Marine Ecosystems ...

February 21, 2009

How your TV could end up in Nigeria to be illegally dumped ...

Greenpeace - Making Waves: WTF=What The Finance Minister of Japan ...

February 19, 2009

Biodiversity and ecosystem services_Health Food_health Advice at ...

Can Harnessing Renewable Energy Sources Adversely Affect ...

February 18, 2009

Peak oil - Feb 18 | Energy Bulletin

Peak oil - Feb 17 | Energy Bulletin

February 17, 2009

PoliPundit.com » Former Astronaut Says NO To Global Warming

The Reality-Based Community: Global-warming denialism as a ...

February 16, 2009

Eco Gadgets: Riflessi - Solar-powered Lighting Concept Tests Your ...

Eco Delight: 15 Unconventional Wind Turbine Designs - Ecofriend

February 14, 2009

Peak Oil News >> Production; Extraction; Exploration >> 'Peak-Oil ...

Peak oil - Feb 13 | Energy Bulletin

February 13, 2009

t r u t h o u t | Global Warming Changing Birds' Habits

Global Warming Hucksters Strike Again (Wizbang)

February 11, 2009

The Sietch Blog » New Insight Into How Iron Effects Marine Ecosystems

Antarctica's ecosystems need to be preserved | Ecological problems

February 10, 2009

Northern Ireland Environment Minister Doubts This Nutty Global ...

The environment minister who is anything but green - Short Sharp ...

February 09, 2009

Clinton to Address Climate Change, Energy in China : Sustainablog

Australian Heatwave: “Climate Change Link is Very Likely” : TreeHugger

February 07, 2009

Environmentalism? - Marijuana.com

Och! Environmentalism”¦ « In One Ear”¦ Out the Other

February 06, 2009

BlueOregon: Solving Global Warming Requires Putting a Cap and a ...

Sound Politics: About that Global Warming Bill

February 05, 2009

GayandRight: Thousands protest global warming in Ottawa

PharmaGossip: I blame global warming

February 04, 2009

Just a Cool Cat: The Stewards of Environmentalism?

Atomic Lemur » The Next Reason for Global Environmentalism

February 03, 2009

Obama policies trigger climate change consulting gold rush ...

Google Oceans Could Unveil Climate Change Data « Earth2Tech

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