Photo via Reuters The Kerry-Lieberman clean energy and jobs bill was handicapped from the day it was introduced — co-drafter Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had inexplicably jumped ship , and expanded offshore drilling allowances were included in the bill, despite the ongoing BP oil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill to be Transformed Into "BP Spill Bill"
Credit: YouTube screen capture. Don’t polar bears have it hard enough, with the impacts of climate change on their Arctic homes? If the thought of a polar bear stranded on a patch of melting sea ice doesn’t depress you enough, try this video on for size. It shows American hunters shooting and killing a beautiful white polar bear, then cheering the kill and holding up the bloody carcass as a trophy. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Polar Bear Shot and Killed as American Hunters Cheer (Video)
Photo: Chad King, via sanctuarysimon.org On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences kicked off its Oceans Conference with a recently released report on the impacts of climate change on the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. The impacts report is a first step towards a climate change action plan fo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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San Francisco Bay Area Marine Sanctuaries Project Localized Climate Change Impacts
Photo:Meaghan O’Neill. Think about everything you love about nature, and why you believe its worth preserving. Maybe the smell of the ocean breeze, say, or the beauty of your favorite flower in bloom reminds you of your mom. Maybe you love bird watching or camping with your family. Perhaps the extinction of a even single animal makes your heart despair. Whatever it is, it probably has some emotion attached to it. Well, it’s time to drop the nostalgia. Because if their was one message from the United Nation World Environment Day conference in Kigali, Rwanda, it was that ecosystems have financial value. We … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dispatch from World Environment Day in Rwanda: Looking at the Biodiversity Balance Sheet
Photo via Wired California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina is currently the front runner for securing the GOP nomination in the state primary. The former head of Hewlett-Packard is hoping to bolster her conservative cred by attacking longtime incumbent and Democrat Barbara Boxer — for acknowledging that climate change is a national security threat. According to Fiorina’s latest ad, recognizing that global warming is a security issue somehow means that Boxer is soft on terrorism. The ad also displays how poorly Fiorina understands climate change. Watch: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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California Senate Hopeful Mocks Climate Change Threat (Video)
‘Cool Water, Hot Island’ rendering by Molly Dilworth This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) . Her project ” Cool Water, Hot Island ” will refresh and revive the streetscape designs currently at the Times Square pedestrian a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo via Sulekha Temperatures Could Rise to 122 F India is currently facing the hottest season ever recorded in the nation — the hottest since record keeping began in the late 1800s. And the heat has been disastrous: Hundreds of people have died already, and many more are seriously ill. Hospitals in one region in the north have been receiving 300 people a day. And it looks like it’s going to get worse…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hundreds Die in Heatwave as India has Hottest Summer on Record
This is too awesome and frankly admirably obsessive: John Abraham , a professor of mechanical engineering specializing in in heat transfer and fluid mechanics at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, has taken the time to do a point-by-point analysis of a presentation that prominent climate change skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton –who likened youth climate activists at COP15 to Hitler Youth–made back in Octob… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lord ‘Climate Activists Are Hitler Youth’ Monckton’s Skeptic Claims Point-by-Point Debunked
Image: cortomaltese, Flickr Scientists are reporting that Greenland is rising as the large weight of ice pressing down on land is melting. And the country’s elevation gains are speeding up. Glacial melt on Greenland is being watched very carefully because ice that is piled up on land flows into the oceans when it melts, raising sea levels. Floating ice, on the other hand, already displaces a lot of water and has less impact of sea levels when it melts. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Greenland Rising as Ice Melts
Image credit: World Development Movement /Flickr The guest post was written by Richard Greene, host of the radio talk-show Hollywood CLOUT! Senators Bill Nelson, Menendez and Lautenberg may have introduced the most important environmental legislative ever on Thursday. A great reason, of course, for Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski to object to its passage by consent. “The Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act” is the beginning of the end for dirty energy and the beginning of the beginning of economic viability for clean energy…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Most Important Environmental Legislation Ever