Environment

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever held. Officially known as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the […]

Climate Change

Fearing Obama Veto, TransCanada Suspends Keystone Pipeline Review, Hoping for GOP Win

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Wochit News | (Video Report) | – – TransCanada Seeks to Suspend Keystone Pipeline Review Appendix Last winter at The Conversation Peter Erickson and Michael Lazarus of the Stockholm Environment Institute took their cue from President Obama and researched how much extra C02 would be emitted if Keystone XL were built. They concluded it could […]

Climate Change

Fury as Probe Demanded into Exxon’s Historic Climate Crime

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – A broad coalition of community groups along with prominent leaders from the nation’s top civil rights, environmental, and indigeneous people’s movements on Friday sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding a federal investigation into allegations that oil giant ExxonMobil knew about […]

Climate Change

House ‘Science’ Committee Climate Witch Hunt is Worse than Benghazi!

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Michael Mann| (Thom Hartmann Video Interview) | – – “Thom Hartmann talks with Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Author-Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (2nd edition) Website: www.michaelmann.net, about how climate denier Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) uses his Congressional committee to persecute and bully scientists who […]

Climate Change

Mexico’s Patricia Megastorm so strong it broke scale used to measure hurricane intensity

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AJ+ | (Video Report | – – “Hurricane Patricia is the strongest ever recorded and headed for Mexico at Category 5 speeds. It’s so strong, it broke the scale used to measure hurricane intensity. Now Mexico is prepping for the worst.” AJ+: “Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded, Heads Straight For Mexico”

Climate Change

‘Never Seen Anything Like This Before’ as 2015 Set to Be Hottest Year on Record

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – With many eyes turning to UN talks in Paris, Earth continues to exhibit symptoms of a planet on fire How much is 2015 ahead of other recent warm years? It’s not pretty. “It’s just incredible to me. I’ve never seen anything like this before.” […]

Climate Change

Top Five Things Congress Should investigate instead of Benghazi

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – The fruitless carnival barking that was the GOP Benghazi inquisition did the nation the disservice of taking focus off the things really wrong with US policies, and places there really was wrongdoing. So here are some suggestions for real investigations: 1. We still don’t know why Bush-Cheney […]

China

The new Chinese Century? Can a Green China with no Mideast Entanglements Surpass US?

Neil Thompson

London (Informed Comment) – In the last fifteen years the United States has spent a total of between $4 trillion and $6 trillion on its twin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all the while running up its national debt, and damaging its international prestige. The root cause of these foreign entanglements, and America’s costly position […]

Climate Change

Study: Miami, New Orleans Can’t Be Saved From Rising Sea Levels

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GeoBeats News | – – “According to a recently published study, Miami, New Orleans, and a number of other US cities are already beyond the point of being saved from rising sea levels. As the world’s temperature continues to increase, the West Antarctic ice sheet is under threat, and carbon emissions are still being produced […]