Cleaning the sea of oil? Yep. The Gulf of Mexico? Nope. Try the Yellow Sea, China. Following a huge explosion at an oil terminal in north … [Keep reading >>]

Update below

End of July and southern California becomes the devil’s holiday resort. Fires near Tehachipi; fires near Palmdale
“The flames spread to backyard fences at the edge of Palmdale and … [Keep reading >>]

Thought you’d like to know…. let’s see, a 1% carbon tax on this would net $540 million.  A start at least. … [Keep reading >>]

From a new (to me) climate change blog worth having at your fingertips: CapitalClimate

Then there’s this:

Scientific evidence that the world is getting warmer is “unmistakable,” according to a report by … [Keep reading >>]

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If fire seems a much better image for global warming than flooding it’s only because we lack imagination. Heating oceans and land masses exhale more moisture into the air. … [Keep reading >>]

Friday, August 13, 7:30 pm
The Hillside Club, 2886 Cedar Street, Berkeley
$10 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006
or: Pegasus Books, Pendragon, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times
($12 … [Keep reading >>]

Friday, August 13, 7:30 pm
The Hillside Club, 2886 Cedar Street, Berkeley
$10 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006
or: Pegasus Books, Pendragon, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times
($12 … [Keep reading >>]

Andrew Bacevich, working with Tom Englehardt and the American Empire Project, has an absolutely absorbing essay on the AEP website.  Worth your time.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, great powers … [Keep reading >>]

A fight that has been going on for over 100 years  — to ban the public slaughter of bulls in the name of art and sport– has finally been … [Keep reading >>]

“Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity” is NASA climate change scientist Dr. James Hansen’s first book. … [Keep reading >>]

Shirley Sherrod is the only one to come out of her firing from the Agricultural Department showing dignity, good sense and strength of character.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack  behaved like … [Keep reading >>]

Dalai Lama Renaissance Film Update – Murder, Forgiveness, Music, Facebook and Twitter

Dalai Lama Renaissance film (narrated by Harrison Ford) continues to reach across the world

Dear Friends,

Thank you very much … [Keep reading >>]