Ice Continues Dramatic Melt In Arctic And Below

The Green Man 3/11/2012
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Ice cover on large bodies of water continues to decline across the north, in the Arctic, but also in the Great Lakes, according to a new report.

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You Islamic Radical – Oops – I Mean Environmentalist!

Peregrin Wood 2/21/2012
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After people heard her accuse President Obama of being a secret Muslim extremist, Alice Stewart came back to MSNBC and said that her use of the phrase “radical Islamic” was just a slip of the tongue. We all can understand that, right? Why, just the other day, I was at the grocery store, and I asked the man at the deli counter for some “thinly sliced radical Islamic”.

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Rick Santorum Imagines Greens With Guillotines

The Green Man 2/19/2012
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Rick Santorum is suggesting that an environmental regulation to prevent toxic pollution is equivalent to a guillotine. That’s just silly. Environmental protections don’t chop anybody’s head off.

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Global Warming To Be Fought With 10 Million Dollars!

The Green Man 2/16/2012
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If the entire surface area of planet Earth represented the size of the American military budget for blowing things up and shooting holes in things, the size of the budget for the recently-announced climate change initiative would be slightly smaller than the state of Montana.

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NASA: January 2012 may have been quite warm in the U.S., but globally it was coolish

Jim Cook 2/15/2012
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One of the standards of citizenship in the reality-based community is that we must follow and note actual observations of empirical reality, even when they don’t accord with our favorite hypotheses or local observations. And so I’ll note that while …

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Congress Voting To Blast US Environment With H.R. 7

The Green Man 2/13/2012
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If H.R. 7 goes into effect, it will create a negative feedback loop in communities across America, with crumbling resources and a growing economic burden for families who already can’t make ends meet. Oil and gas corporations will benefit if H.R. 7 becomes law, but those corporations already are bringing in record profits. They don’t need our help.

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Earth To Minnesota GOP: Will You Accept Global Warming Reality Now?

The Green Man 2/7/2012
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Somewhere in Minnesota, one decent Republican voter can propose today that the GOP in Minnesota stop its opposition to solutions to the immense and growing problem of climate change.

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Take Groundhog Day Seriously, As A Day Of Renewed Activism

jclifford 2/2/2012
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Punxsatawney Phil is a gimmick who stands at the mouth of a burrow that runs deep. The groundhog represents a re-emergence of life into a world that had been in darkness and death, a symbol of rebirth out of the womb of the Earth quite similar to, if more hairy than, Persephone.

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Winter Ice Cover On Arctic Ocean At Record Low

The Green Man 2/2/2012
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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