Environment

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The extent of ice now on the Arctic Ocean has been, for many days now, below even the levels from the 2007 to 2008 winter season, the year when remarkably low levels of Arctic ice grabbed international attention. Human beings have never recorded an Arctic Ocean with so little winter ice.

Posted in Environment, Science | Tagged arctic, arctic ocean, climate change, global warming, sea ice | 4 Comments

Winter Canceled in Council Bluffs, Iowa

The Green Man 2/1/2012

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This afternoon in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the temperature almost reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Tomorrow, the weather will be the same. This may be the new normal, but it’s mighty unnatural. It’s time for us to start speaking out against global warming.

Posted in Bumper Stickers, Environment, State and Local | Tagged cold, council bluffs, ice fishing, iowa, weather, winter | 2 Comments

Broken Solar Panel Promise By Obama Shamed by Abu Dhabi

The Green Man 2/1/2012

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While Barack Obama has stonewalled against solar power on the White House, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, a country that makes most of its money from oil, has installed solar panels on the roof of his court.

Posted in Barack Obama, Environment | Tagged abu dhabi, Barack Obama, energy, promise, solar panels, solar power, white house | Leave a comment

Research Confirms Sun Changes Aren’t To Blame For Global Warming

The Green Man 2/1/2012

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There is no peer-reviewed scientific study that indicates that, as our reader claimed, all the planets in the Solar System are warming. Assertions of such interplanetary warming trends are completely without foundation in fact. The idea of Solar System warming is, to use a word that Cold Earthers like to use, a hoax.

Posted in Environment, Science | Tagged climate change, global warming, james hansen, Science, sun | Leave a comment

Save The Snowmen Of Upstate New York

jclifford 1/31/2012

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Today, it felt like a nice afternoon for April. This afternoon, the temperatures are in the 60s, Fahrenheit. We haven’t yet received even a foot of snow yet – total. Most of our precipitation this winter has been rain.

Posted in Environment | Tagged climate change, global warming, snowman, upstate new york, weather, winter | 1 Comment

Obama Won’t Even Try Climate Action. Jill Stein Will.

The Green Man 1/30/2012

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Stein warned that delay in confronting the root causes of global warming creates a national security risk. “This delay will allow critical climate tipping points to be passed that will accelerate warming to the point it cannot be controlled. As renown NASA scientist James Hanson puts it, delaying action to aggressively lower carbon would mean game over for the climate and therefore for civilization as we know it.”

Posted in Alternative Parties, Buttons, Election 2012, Environment, Greens | Tagged Barack Obama, climate change, global warming, Jill Stein, state of the union | 2 Comments

Bizarre Unwinterlike Weather Not Signs Of A Cooling Earth

The Green Man 1/30/2012

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Whether these particular incidents are due to global warming is impossible to say. What they do show, however, is that, despite what the Wall Street Journal editorial board would like us to believe, the consequences of global warming are serious – both in terms of the normal rhythm of life in local communities and in terms of human lives.

Posted in Environment, State and Local | Tagged accidents, climate change, fire, florida, global warming, ice, lake george, swamps, winter | Leave a comment

Will You Believe Scientific Journals Or A Wall Street Opinion Page?

The Green Man 1/30/2012

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The Wall Street Journal opinion piece was designed to gain attention because it was designed by “16 scientists”. Once a person starts to look into the qualifications of these sixteen signers, the article begins to look less impressive.

Posted in Environment, Science | Tagged Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, climate change, global warming, Harrison Schmitt, heartland institute, wall street journal | 24 Comments

For Arctic Ice Volume, 2007 is so Passe

Jim Cook 1/28/2012

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Do you remember the year 2007, when everybody noticed how much less ice there was in the Arctic than usual? Don’t worry, skeptics proclaimed. 2007 was just a fluke. Arctic Sea Ice Volume for 2010 and 2011: The fluke, surpassed.

Posted in Environment, Science | Tagged 2007, 2011, arctic, arctic ocean, fluke, ice, piomas, sea ice, volume | Leave a comment

Obama Opens Up More Drilling With No New Safety

The Green Man 1/25/2012

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Barack Obama knows that the Republican House of Representatives has been passing legislation to loosen, rather than strengthen, offshore drilling regulations. He knows that he’s not going to get any new protections created, that the same conditions in the oil industry that caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago exist today. Still, he’s giving oil companies the gift of setting up even more platforms like the Deepwater Horizon, up and down America’s shores.

Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2012, Environment | Tagged Barack Obama, deepwater horizon, energy, offshore drilling, oil, pollution, sotu, state of the union | 7 Comments

2011 the 9th Hottest Year on Record Globally; 9 of 10 hottest years were in the last 10 Years

Jim Cook 1/21/2012

Yesterday, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies released its findings regarding global temperature readings over land and sea, readings that date back to 1880. 2011 was the 9th hottest year on record out of the 132 years. Nine out of …

Posted in Environment, Science | Tagged 2011, giss, global warming, nasa, rankings, temperature | 2 Comments

Baby Christmas Island Crabs About To Be Wiped Out By Oil Spill

The Green Man 1/11/2012

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On oil spill on Kiritimati is set to wipe out a generation of the island’s red crabs. Large numbers of whale sharks, the largest fish in the world, now gathering in the waters around Kiritimati to eat the larval crabs, will also be affected.

Posted in Environment, Outside the USA | Tagged crabs, kiribati, kiritimati, marine biology, oceans, oil spill, pacific ocean, pollution | 4 Comments

Unusually Warm Weather Makes Non-Winter Across The North

The Green Man 1/7/2012

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From New England to Michigan, normal winter weather is absent from our nation’s north. We’re not hearing many jokes about the absurdity of the idea of global warming this winter.

Posted in Environment, Video | Tagged michigan, new hampshire, weather, winter | 10 Comments

Ron Paul Faced Down By Occupy The Caucuses

The Green Man 12/30/2011

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Yesterday in Iowa, people protested Ron Paul’s opposition to environmental protections. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, and destroy laws the prevent massive pollution in American communities. “We need clean air and water, don’t dismantle the EPA,” said the protesters.

Posted in Activism, Election 2012, Environment, Republicans | Tagged caucuses, epa, iowa, occupation movement, protest, Ron Paul | 4 Comments

XL Pipeline Push For 2 Months Unemployment A Terrible Exchange

The Green Man 12/18/2011

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Just two months of unemployment benefits and a temporary lifeline for payroll tax cuts in exchange for a political time bomb planted in the middle of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign is a terrible deal. It’s not a fair exchange in the first place, but more importantly, this temporary deal allows Republicans to practice yet more political extortion in January and February, when payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits will be up for debate once again.

Posted in Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2012, Environment, Legislation, Republicans | Tagged Barack Obama, congress, energy, fossil fuels, negotiation, oil, pipeline, senate, unemployment, xl pipeline | 2 Comments

Gigantic Methane Plumes Found In Melting Arctic

The Green Man 12/15/2011