Jill Stein Pushes Hard For Strong Climate Action

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Jill Stein issued the following Green warning yesterday: As President, Barack Obama has been pandering to oil and gas interests. If environmentalists vote for Obama, they’ll be pandering to oil and gas interests too.

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Updated Carbon Dioxide Data: Rise of 24.5% from November 1958 – November 2011

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When will the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide hit 400 parts per million? Pretty soon, by the look of it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its latest update of atmospheric CO2 readings this week. These readings have been …

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Upstate New York Balmy Winter So Far

The mint in my garden is still growing. I have poppy seeds that I sowed in October that have sprouted and are now an inch high. The moss is still growing on the trees in the woods, full and lush like it usually is in springtime.

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The Definition of Environmentalism

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In response to the posturing of the public relations firms and their fat advertising budgets, I offer the following alternative definition of what it means to be an environmentalist.

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Carbon Dioxide Surging Up In Spite Of Weak Economy

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The economy may have tanked, but human population growth hasn’t, and energy consumption hasn’t dwindled either. The Global Carbon Project report is a reminder that, though things may seem bleak now, the human species still has plenty of room to crash down even further.

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… But It Will Have More Bicycles

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The Freeway Blogger doesn’t appear to have been active for a few years, but some of those signs are timeless:

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Greenhouse Gases Shatter Previous Record High

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Carbon Dioxide is now at 389 parts per million in the global atmosphere. Methane is at 1808 parts per billion. Nitrous oxide is 323.2 parts per billion. Measurements were taken by the Global Atmosphere Watch from locations around the world.

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October 2011 was the 5th Warmest on Record Around the Globe

That’s over land Over land and ocean, it was the 6th warmest on record. The NASA record goes back to 1880. It’s just the darndest thing how we haven’t had a cooler than average October for decades. It must be …

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Perverse Incentives Push Bangor into Throwing More Into the Trash

The city of Bangor, Maine currently lets people throw all they want into the trash. Other communities, like Falmouth Maine, use a system called pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) in which people pay for trash pickup of each bag of trash they produce, …

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Obama Expanding Offshore Drilling Again

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President Obama is expanding offshore drilling for oil in Alaska, and in the Gulf of Mexico, too. Apparently, the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon didn’t make as big of an impact on Obama as Tea Party protest signs reading “drill baby drill”.

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Wisconsin Democrats Voted To Let Coal Companies Play Loose With Toxic Coal Ash

Tammy Baldwin,Gwen Moore, and Ron Kind voted to block protections from unsafe coal ash disposal. Now, toxic coal ash has spilled in their own back yards. How are they going to explain that to their constituents?

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Which Democrats Support The Save Our Climate Act? Which Democrats Are Slacking Off?

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If the Save Our Climate Act was passed today, Americans would begin getting dividend payments next year. Five years from now, it’s estimated that those annual payments would be $761 per person – $3805 for a family of five. Ten years from now, the payments would increase to $1126 per person – $5630 for a family of five. Couldn’t you use that money? Couldn’t you do with a clean environment and a climate that’s no longer surging out of control?

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Bill McKibben On Barack Obama, Then And Now

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben was a big supporter of Barack Obama in 2008. Now, after years of waiting for President Obama to show any strong environmental leadership, McKibben has something else to say.

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ClimateGate Investigation Finds Shocking Result!

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The Koch Brothers and Richard Muller suspected that there had been data manipulation by the researchers at the University of East Anglia, done purposefully to create the false appearance of anthropogenic global warming. What they discovered, when they processed the raw data on their own, using their own methods for data analysis, is that…

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Roll Call: Who In Congress Voted To Let Big Coal Get Away With Big Pollution?

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A roll call of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted in favor of the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, legislation that would help coal companies dispose of coal sludge without adequate controls.

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News I Should’ve Noticed Before Now, Lightning Quick

Mitt Romney: Golly, big spending is great so long as it’s to blow shit up. Norton and Ariely’s tidy tale of wealthy inequality was unfortunately massaged to hide the result that people actually want a society even more equitable than …

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Occupy Movement Enters Small Towns In Montana and Massachusetts

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Occupation protests in small towns across America are showing that the protesters are able, in fact, to come up with very specific demands for policy change.

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Atmospheric CO2 Update: Up 24.2% from September 1958 – September 2011

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NOAA has just released its latest monthly update of atmospheric carbon dioxide readings taken by scientists at the mountaintop Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The 34-year historical dataset of these readings now includes measurements up through September of 2011. Looking …

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