Climate Change

Jackson School of Geoscience News | University of Texas, Austin | – Excerpt: Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) in the Jackson School of Geosciences have discovered two seafloor gateways that could allow warm ocean water to reach the base of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica’s largest and most rapidly […]

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Shale Oil is no Savior- its rail cars keep exploding in our home towns

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By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, a train composed of tank cars filled with shale oil sat on the railroad tracks above the town of Lac Megantic, Quebec. The train’s brakes were not secure, the crew was absent, the train began to move, and it rolled into Lac Megantic at a […]

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Cyclone Pam & Vanuatu’s Global Warming future: Fewer but Worse Storms

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BBC News | – “A huge tropical cyclone with winds up to 270km/h (170mph) has devastated parts of the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Cyclone Pam is being described as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the region with unconfirmed reports that 44 people have been killed.” Vanuatu: Dozens […]

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As state Sinks, GOP forbids Fla. State Enviro workers from saying “Climate Change”

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RT America| – “The agency responsible for setting and enforcing conservation guidelines for the state of Florida, the Department of Environmental Protection, reportedly issued directives banning other state workers from using terms related to climate change or global warming in reports. RT’s Nicholas O’Donovan has more from the RT studio in Miami.” RT America: “State […]

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Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?

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By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a year ago): slowing demand due to global economic stagnation; overproduction at shale fields in the United States; the decision of the Saudis and […]

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The “Hindenburg Trap”: Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – What is the actual value of the oil, gas and coal fields owned by big energy corporations, which gives them their stock price and allows them to be counted as assets for borrowing purposes? The real value of those hydrocarbon resources is zero. Or actually it is much […]

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ISIS Vs Climate Change – Which Kills More? Russell Brand The Trews

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Russell Brand | (The Trewes) – “Reaction to the news that President Obama has said the media “absolutely” overstates the threat of terrorism in comparison to the threat of climate change. Head to London this Saturday to Time To Act: National Climate March and let’s unite against climate change.” ISIS Vs Climate Change – Which […]

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Keystone XL Opponents Interrogated by FBI

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TheLipTV | – “Keystone XL pipeline opponents are being interrogated by the FBI who are using what one lawyer called “intimidation” and “force,” according to recent reports. This comes after President Barack Obama vetoed legislation that would have authorized the building of the pipeline last week. Accounts suggest that the FBI had been inquiring about […]

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Climate Change helped Provoke Syrian Conflict & it won’t be the Last

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By Thalif Deen | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change? A new study by Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says “a record drought that ravaged Syria in 2006-2010 was likely […]