Posted by in Environment, Green on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Don’t Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming
Don’t Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming
photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum –like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse...
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Posted by in Eco, Environment on 03 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples - Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds
Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples - Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds
photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just passed the half million mark in terms of seed varieties...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
How Best to Debate Climate Deniers on TV? Simple: Don’t.
Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that the science supporting climate change is being...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon…. Read the full story on TreeHugger View post:  A Good Climate Bill...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List
Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it “warrants” protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said, the greater sage-grouse will...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Let’s Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty
Let’s Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty
“Orthographic aerial photograph of Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the event.” Photo: Public domain CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing David Roberts over at Grist has a great rebuttal of Thom Friedman’s latest column...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Today on Planet 100: Fallujah Birth Defects (Video)
Continued here: Today on Planet 100: Fallujah Birth Defects (Video)
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Posted by in Environment on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
India Backs Copenhagen Accord - Last Major Emitter To Do So
India Backs Copenhagen Accord - Last Major Emitter To Do So
photo: Kartikeya Kaul via flickr. India the world’s last major emitter to formally back the Copenhagen Accord has done so. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the decision reflected India’s contributions in shaping the Accord. Ramesh went on to list the three conditions under which India...
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Posted by in Environment, Green on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Did ACES Ever Stand a Chance?
Did ACES Ever Stand a Chance?
Image credit: Grist After months of debate, Lindsey Graham is reportedly set to unveil a climate bill to the Senate. That bill, he has said, will be a moderate one. But what ever happened to the American Clean Energy & Security Act (ACES), better known as the Waxman-Markey bill ?… Read the...
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Posted by in Environment, Green on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments
How Much Carbon Do Different Forests Store & What Size Offsets Your Driving For a Year?
How Much Carbon Do Different Forests Store & What Size Offsets Your Driving For a Year?
photo: Chor Ip via flickr. As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change –deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire transportation sector. But over the past year…...
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