By Dylan Stableford 14 October 2012 (Yahoo! News) – Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month. In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that “many […]
It’s still hot and that’s crazy, but important people aren’t talking about it. Your favourite weather presenter is back with more of the bad news you hate to love. More videos at Deep Rogue Ram. Weathergirl Goes Rogue 2: Still Hot, Still Crazy Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,coal,conflict,North America,agriculture,crop failure,famine
By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Editing by Alister Doyle and Pravin Char13 September 2012 Moscow says Kyoto extension ineffective Says developing nations must be involved in emissions deal MOSCOW, 13 September 2012 (Reuters) – Russia confirmed on Thursday it would not make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, joining Canada and […]
Futurist Daniel Rirdan’s passionate appeal to save what’s left of Earth’s biosphere: (www.getreal.info) This is the formation of an action-oriented movement with an actual plan to avert an eventual collapse of the various ecosystems and also, indirectly, the manmade world. Also, check out his well-researched book: The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse. The most important call […]
By Juliet Eilperin9 September 2012 BOULDER CITY, Nevada – Drought and rising temperatures are forcing water managers across the country to scramble for ways to produce the same amount of power from the hydroelectric grid with less water, including from behemoths such as the Hoover Dam. Hydropower is not the only part of the nation’s […]
By Natalie Obiko Pearson 10 September 2012 Inner Mongolia’s rivers are feeding China’s coal industry, turning grasslands into desert. In India, thousands of farmers have protested diverting water to coal-fired power plants, some committing suicide. The struggle to control the world’s water is intensifying around energy supply. China and India alone plan to build $720 […]
Arctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history. Pippa goes off script and drops some science. For more, check out Deep Rogue Ram (Facebook, Twitter). Filmed at Strut Studios in Vancouver. Starring Pippa Mackie and Kai Nagata. Written by Heather Libby. Weathergirl goes rogue Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,North America,Arctic,sea ice,coal,oil production,Canada
By Stefan Nicola and Tino Andresen20 August 2012 Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government says RWE AG’s new power plant that can supply 3.4 million homes aids her plan to exit nuclear energy and switch to cleaner forms of generation. It’s fired with coal. The startup of the 2,200-megawatt station near Cologne last week shows how Europe’s […]
By Farron Cousins13 August 12 With the selection of Wisconsin Republican Representative Paul Ryan has his running mate, Mitt Romney has effectively pushed his campaign into the climate change denying fringe. While Romney hasn’t been considered a friend of the environment since he began running for national office, his tendency towards flip-flopping made some of […]
By Michael Slezak, Australasia reporter6 June 2012 A resources boom that has shielded Australia from the global economic meltdown is threatening the Great Barrier Reef and provoked an argument between the state and federal governments. The kerfuffle was sparked last week when the Queensland state government approved the development of one of the country’s largest […]
