15000 Records Smashed By Unprecedented March Heat

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Last month, 15,000 new record high temperatures were set in the lower 48 states. It was the hottest March ever recorded in the continental United States.

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Most House Democrats Won’t Support Strong Climate Action

In October, Representative Peter Stark introduced the Save Our Climate Act, H.R. 3242, which would create a carbon tax. Only a handful of Democrats are supporting the legislation.

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Obama Approves Offshore Drilling With Untested Technology

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The Obama Administration has just agreed to expand offshore drilling along the shore of Virginia, and to allow Shell Oil to conduct offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea’s icy Arctic waters, using untested technology. Barack Obama has been an anti-environment President, in the pocket of corporations that profit from selling fossil fuel. He is not a decent choice for serious environmentalist voters in 2012.

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Four Senate Democrats Defend Subsidies For Big Oil

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The next time the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee calls you up asking for money, ask them what they’re doing about these Democratic Senators who are sitting in Big Oil’s pocket: Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Jim Webb.

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National Occupation of Washington DC Set to Begin Today — Watch for What Happens Next

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NOW DC, a national occupation bringing together representatives from various area occupations, is scheduled to begin today, March 30 2012. What goes down will be an indication of the strength of the Occupy movement.

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Climate Change Raises Stakes Of Economic Inequality

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The report notes that one of the major impacts of climate change has been and will continue to be extreme weather events. The report also points out that over 95% of deaths from natural disasters have taken place in “developing countries” – the poorer nations of the earth.

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Pipelines Preserved But Glaciers Going In Glacier National Park

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Communities near Glacier National Park need the natural gas that comes through that pipeline, but they also need the water that comes from the glaciers on the nearby mountains. When those glaciers are gone, where are they going to get their drinking water?

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Obama Administration Chooses To Ignore Science In Acid Rain Decision

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The Obama Administration’s decision to block acid rain protections came decision came in spite of the acknowledgement by the EPA’s own scientists that the proposed pollution protections are necessary to prevent further ecological degradation of the waterways in the northeastern United States.

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While Obama Promotes Oil Pipelines Jill Stein Stands With Occupy Protesters

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While Barack Obama is visiting oil rigs and fossil fuel pipelines, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has been standing with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City, promoting the creation of a more efficient and sustainable energy infrastructure.

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Promoting More Offshore Oil Rigs Isn’t What We Elected Obama To Do

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Back in 2008, Barack Obama promised us comprehensive climate legislation. He never delivered on that promise, though, and in this year’s State of the Union Address, Obama announced that he won’t even try to deal with global warming. Given the current conditions, and what we know about the climate trends to come, this environmental neglect from Obama is unacceptable.

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Sea Level Rise Of About 50 Feet Predicted

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Already, we have ignored global warming for too long to save Washington D.C. from sea level rise. How much more of the United States are we willing to sacrifice to the ocean waves, just because we’re too lazy to change our dependence on machines to replace every bit of human work?

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Northern Gardeners Worried About Radical Warming

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All across the north, gardeners are observing bizarre warmth and plant growth, and are wondering what the heck to do about it.

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Papaver Somniferum Awakes

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Whether these poppies germinated at the beginning of winter, when temperatures remained unusually warm, or had rapid growth triggered by the unusually hot weather we’ve been having over the last week and a half, I can’t be sure of. What I can say is that I have never before seen a March of such unseasonal and robust plant growth in my garden.

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Earth’s Oceans Are Acidifying At A Previously Unknown Rate

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The authors of the journal article discuss “the possibility that we are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change.” I’d say that’s a big deal.

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Get Bottled Water Pollution Out Of America’s National Parks!

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55 National Parks in the United States are actually encouraging people to litter with water bottles. National Parks are not just allowing people to bring disposable plastic bottles of water into the parks, the National Parks are themselves selling bottled water to hikers.

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Are Americans Really Fuming About Gasoline Prices?

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Consumption of gasoline increased by 200,000 barrels per day in just one week, during the same time journalists began to describe Americans as fuming about the cost of gasoline. If Americans are really fuming about gas prices, how come they’re buying more of it?

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Is Summer Beginning Already?

The average high temperature for March 14 in Green Bay, Wisconsin is 38 degrees. Yesterday in Green Bay, the high temperature was 75 degrees, breaking the previous record by 9 degrees. New York City has already seen temperatures above 80 …

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Rick Santorum Talks To Plants About Science

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Rick Santorum seems not to understand that plants are not experts on climatology. Plants don’t understand science. Plants don’t have brains.

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