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Monthly Archives: June 2012
High US Heat, and a Zombie Hurricane
Temperatures in the northeast US soared into the upper 90s and 100s late last week reports Associated Press at the Washington Post, sending heat stressed people into emergency rooms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s maximum daily US temperature map, … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, East coast, environment, extreme heat, extreme weather, global warming, heat waves, hurricanes
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Acidifying Coastal Waters Threaten California Fisheries – Study
Over the next few decades, coastal waters off of California, Oregon, and Washington will likely become acidic enough to harm the rich fisheries and diverse marine ecosystems there, according to a new study, reports Peter Spotts at the Christian Science … Continue reading
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Tagged California, climate change, environment, fisheries, global warming, marine, ocean acidification, Oregon
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Japan Will Subsidize Renewable Energy
Japan recently approved incentives for renewable energy that could unleash billions of dollars in clean-energy investment and help the world’s third-biggest economy shift away from a reliance on nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster, report Yuko Inoue and Leonora … Continue reading
Melting Arctic Benefits Perpetrators, the Oil Industry
As Arctic ice recedes under global warming with the promise of ice free summers appearing within decades, oil companies such as Shell, spurred by better technology and high oil prices, are pursuing oil drilling up there, reports the Economist. Oil … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, climate change, environment, fossil fuels, global warming, oil drilling, oil industry
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Pay One Dollar Per Gallon – If You Drive Electric
Americans already drive a variety of plug-in cars that take advantage of a cheaper, cleaner domestic fuel than gasoline, reports Max Baumhefner at Greentechmedia. There is no shortage of materials, such as lithium, needed to make advanced vehicle batteries. In … Continue reading
US Coal Replaced By Clean Energy and Methane
US coal use is falling fast, and predicted to go below 40 percent this year, as electric utilities switch to cheaper natural gas and clean energy, reports Jonathan Fahey at the Associated Press. New Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards mean … Continue reading
Geo-engineering Is Highly Risky, Better Solutions Exist
Geo-engineering, schemes that massively manipulate the planet’s atmosphere to cool global warming, entails great risks because some of the results could be wildly unpredictable and destructive to planetary life, reports Michael Specter at the New Yorker. British geo-engineering researcher Hugh … Continue reading
Burning Diesel, A Fossil Fuel, Causes Lung Cancer – WHO
Diesel engine fumes can cause lung cancer and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic, mustard gas, tobacco and alcohol, World Health Organisation experts said recently, reports Kate Kelland at World Environment News. The experts, who said … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, carbon emissions, climate change, diesel, environment, fossil fuels, global warming
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Pace of Global Warming Accelerating Dramatically in US
A new report published by Climate Central, The Heat is On, shows that the pace of global warming in the US has accelerated dramatically in the past 40 years. It coincided with the time when the effect of greenhouse gases … Continue reading
Climate Change Will Bring More, Bigger Wildfires Worldwide
A dry winter and warm dry spring this year left Colorado forests tinder dry, ripe for the wildfires now raging there, and we can expect more of the same everywhere under climate change, reports Nathanael Massey at ClimateWire. Although no … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, environment, extreme heat, global warming, wildfires
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