Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Rare January Tornadoes In Alabama

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 01/24/2012 @ 10:43:34 AM
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From Jeff Masters at Wunderground.com
The calendar says it’s the coldest month of winter, but today’s weather is more typical of March, as a vigorous spring-like storm system has spawned a … [Keep reading >>]

Bill McKibben talks about the Keystone Victory on Democracy Now

Filed under: Climate Change | Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 01/19/2012 @ 5:54:26 PM
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Over the last few days, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb took to the airwaves to spread the good news about the victory on the Keystone XL … [Keep reading >>]

New Gas Mileage Rules Widely Supported

Filed under: Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 01/18/2012 @ 12:58:59 PM
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As reported by Nick Bunkley in the NY Times business pages

New Gas Economy Rules Generate Wide Support
The proposed new standards call for automakers to increase the average, unadjusted fuel-economy rating … [Keep reading >>]

The Fierce Urgency of Now….

Filed under: Books | Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 01/16/2012 @ 4:56:40 PM
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“Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is an opportunity to learn from his strategic thinking and mastery of rhetoric.

“Consider King’s powerful words about the civil rights struggle, which echo … [Keep reading >>]

In A Year of Extremes…

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 12/25/2011 @ 12:44:50 PM
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Extreme weather, extreme views make life dangerous in dozens of ways. In the UFB column [Unfucking Believeable] comes this:
This year, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tried to push … [Keep reading >>]

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 12/10/2011 @ 2:26:49 PM
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We get word from a dear friend of a break-through agreement which he has been working on,  between central African countries and partner countries in climate change work.  Referred to … [Keep reading >>]

Wall Street Journal Whispers Climate Change

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/19/2011 @ 9:52:54 AM
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The weekend edition, November 19-20 of the Wall Strret Journal, on page A11, bottom, very bottom gives 3 short columns to the newest IPCC report:

UN Seens Links to Extreme weather
—Climate change is leading … [Keep reading >>]

The Forests, They Are a Changin’

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/16/2011 @ 7:38:03 AM
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A new study by forest researchers suggests some types of trees will lose ground to other species as climate change raises temperatures and tweaks precipitation patterns.
The study predicts “large scale disturbances” … [Keep reading >>]

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Filed under: Books | Climate Change — by Will Kirkland 10/27/2011 @ 6:42:36 PM
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Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing library of the history of climate change and human … [Keep reading >>]

High Networth Pickets of Obama in SF

Filed under: Citizen Action | Civil Liberties | Democrats — by Will Kirkland 10/26/2011 @ 1:06:25 PM
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…some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors gathered Tuesday – not inside his tony San Francisco fundraiser at the W Hotel, but outside on the sidewalks carrying signs in protest … [Keep reading >>]

Thailand’s Drowning Year

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 10/24/2011 @ 3:53:23 PM
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The news of Thailand’s incredible rain and flooding keeps being squeezed into back page columns of various newspapers, from Paris to San Francisco.  Though deaths are relatively low, and spread … [Keep reading >>]

Arctic Sea Ice Continues Record Thinness

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 10/14/2011 @ 2:15:15 AM
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Though the DSK business [below] claimed headline attention, this article grabbed my eyes, and tightened just a bit more, the bands of my worry:

 
Severe seasonal melting has reduced ice floes, … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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