Wind energy output reaches record high in Spain REVE

Wind energy output reaches record high in Spain

REVE - ‎3 hours ago‎

Wind farm broke a record in February in Spain with wind turbines achieing their highest-ever electricity outpu. The wind power industry prevents 260 million euros of income transfers abroad. Wind power accounts for 21.7% of Spain's electricity demand.

I'm extremely skeptical, however: Ending Poverty in Our Time (VIDEO) Huffington Post

Ending Poverty in Our Time (VIDEO)

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎

1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty today. That's a staggering amount, but let's put those numbers in perspective: In 1981 52 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today it's 26 percent. Again, that means we have cut the number in half, ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Insists Tackling AIDS Has Wider Social Implications Christian Post

Archbishop of Canterbury Insists Tackling AIDS Has Wider Social Implications

Christian Post - ‎3 hours ago‎

By Ivana Kvesic , Christian Post Reporter The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, discussed the importance of combating HIV/AIDS in tackling global poverty and and its implications on gender roles and minority rights at a town hall meeting at ...

Growing population will increase global climate challenges MIT News

Growing population will increase global climate challenges

MIT News - ‎5 hours ago‎

As populations across the world grow, new research out of MIT shows the rising influence of large or developing countries in shaping our future global challenges. MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change's 2012 Energy and Climate ...

ROFL Title: When Romney Talks, Mitt Happens Huffington Post

When Romney Talks, Mitt Happens

Huffington Post - ‎42 minutes ago‎

Mitt Romney has the opposite problem that Al Gore Jr. had. When Gore was whipping America into a stupor long in 2000, the vice president's aides assured us that behind closed doors he was one funny dude.

 

I HAVE NO COMMENT ON THE ARTICLE - HAVEN'T READ IT.

Hunger strikers joined by prominent figure in fight for Chinese democracy Tibet Post International

Hunger strikers joined by prominent figure in fight for Chinese democracy

Tibet Post International - ‎9 hours ago‎

Dharamsala: On day ten of the Indefinite Hunger Strike in New York, Tibetan protestors were joined by Dr. Yang Jianli, President of Initiative for China and Research Fellow at Harvard.

Israelis deny winter clothing for Palestinian on hunger strike gulfnews.com

Israelis deny winter clothing for Palestinian on hunger strike

gulfnews.com - ‎2 hours ago‎

Ramallah: The Israeli Prison Service has refused winter clothing for Hanaa Shalabi as a punishment for the woman who refuses to end her 19-day hunger strike, family sources said. Speaking to Gulf News, Omar Yahya Shalabi, Hanaa's brother, ...

Students strike enters Day 6,still no word from colleges Indian Express indian express

Students strike enters Day 6,still no word from colleges

Indian Express - ‎16 minutes ago‎

Even as students' hunger strike to protest against charging of fees from Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), other backward caste (OBC) and other students from the reserved categories entered its sixth day on Monday, the 120 students are yet to ...

Palestine: Israeli soldiers invade Jenin, nearby areas, break into homes The Muslim News

Palestine: Israeli soldiers invade Jenin, nearby areas, break into homes

The Muslim News - ‎13 hours ago‎

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Jenin refugee camp, and a number of nearby areas, broke into and searched several homes; no arrests were reported.

106 U.S. Coal Plant Retirements Since 2010 cleantechnica

106 U.S. Coal Plant Retirements Since 2010

Environmentalists push climate change suits on behalf of kids KPLU

Environmentalists push climate change suits on behalf of kids

KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest - ‎44 minutes ago‎

By Jessica Robinson Nelson Kanuk, a 16 year old from Kipnuk, Alaska, has a lawsuit against the state of Alaska that aims to force the state to reduce carbon emissions.

Deutsche Bank: Big Energy Efficiency Push Could Save Americans $1 Trillion, Cut CO2 10%, Create 3 Million Jobs tpg org

Deutsche Bank: Big Energy Efficiency Push Could Save Americans $1 Trillion, Cut CO2 10%, Create 3 Million Jobs

Cigarettes' lessons for climate changeLos Angeles Times

Cigarettes' lessons for climate changeLos Angeles Times

Climate change is a geopolitical "threat multiplier," UK climate envoy said 89.3 KPCC

Climate change is a geopolitical "threat multiplier," UK climate envoy said

89.3 KPCC - ‎1 hour ago‎

A senior official in the British Royal Navy came to Southern California last week with a message about how climate change can affect political stability.

Accident shuts down New Lenox Tar Sands pipeline Chicago Tribune

Accident shuts down New Lenox pipeline

Chicago Tribune - ‎3 minutes ago‎

Line 14/64's capacity is equal to about 3 percent of total US oil imports. It carries a range of oil, including light synthetic derived from the Alberta tar sands as well as light, medium and heavy conventional oil. Several US Midwest refineries could ...

"Between 3.6 percent and 7.9 percent of the gas leaks to the atmosphere as methane" Cornell

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/science/content/2012/02/29/two-cents-frack-or-not-frack

The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom. Rolling Stone

The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom.  It’s not only toxic – it’s driven by a right-wing billionaire who profits more from flipping land than drilling for gas.  Aubrey McClendon

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-big-fracking-bubble-the-scam-behind-the-gas-boom-20120301#ixzz1oG2pdc8c

Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas RollingStone.com

Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas

RollingStone.com (blog) - ‎Mar 2, 2012‎

3. It argues that switching to natural gas will reduce the risk of global warming. True, burning natural gas

The Natural Gas Fracking Bubble & Scam (Fracking Ponzi Scheme?) CleanTechnica

The Natural Gas Fracking Bubble & Scam (Fracking Ponzi Scheme?)

CleanTechnica - ‎25 minutes ago‎

Even worse, new studies suggest that because of fugitive emissions of methane from wellheads and pipelines, natural gas may actually be no better than coal when it comes to global warming. 'I was an early optimist about natural gas,' says Robert ...

2011, American renewable energy investment in solar energy and wind power technologies dominated the global market REVE

Solar power and wind energy in US Renewable Energy Attractiveness

REVE - ‎19 hours ago‎

In 2011, American renewable energy investment in solar energy and wind power technologies dominated the global market, propelling the United States past China into the leadership.

Investments in North American Wind Energy Installations Will Total $145 Billion through 2017, Forecasts Pike Research mw com

Investments in North American Wind Energy Installations Will Total $145 ...MarketWatch (press release)

Fuel for thought - MIT Economist - STOP ARTIFICIALLY DEFLATING GAS PRICE PhysOrg.com

Note, YES, sLoving took liberties in the title incinerating some of the political correctness in the article.

Fuel for thought

PhysOrg.com - ‎3 hours ago‎

You can point to this and say, 'Here is a more immediate, salient reason for a gas tax.'” According to Knittel and Sandler, 70 percent of the costs of a gas tax of $1 per gallon could be recouped by immediate health benefits from reduced pollution.

Must-Read: Economist William Nordhaus Slams Global Warming Deniers, Explains ... ThinkProgress

Must-Read: Economist William Nordhaus Slams Global Warming Deniers, Explains ...

ThinkProgress - ‎Mar 2, 2012‎

By Joe Romm on Mar 2, 2012 at 11:42 am Yale economist William Nordhaus has eviscerated the 16 scientists who wrote a disinformation-filled Wall Street Journal piece in late January.

Global Crisis Wrap-up (Global Crisis Series) planetsave

Global Crisis Wrap-up (Global Crisis Series)

ARGH@#$#)()&*. I'M ON IT. I see that some of the 'links' I post are incorrect. (no detai)

Deutsche Bank: Big Energy Efficiency Push Could Save Americans $1 Trillion, Cut CO2 10%, Create 3 Million Jobs tpg org

Deutsche Bank: Big Energy Efficiency Push Could Save Americans $1 Trillion, Cut CO2 10%, Create 3 Million Jobs

Netanyahu says he appreciates Obama's positions on Iran Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu says he appreciates Obama's positions on Iran

Jerusalem Post - ‎1 hour ago‎

By HERB KEINON Ottawa -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said an hour after Obama's speech to AIPAC Sunday that "he very much appreciates that fact that [US President Barack] Obama reiterated the position that Iran must not be allowed to develop ...

STUNNING PEACE MAKER: Obama: I make no apologies for pursuing peace Jerusalem Post

Obama: I make no apologies for pursuing peace

Jerusalem Post - ‎2 hours ago‎

COM STAFF US President Barack Obama said Sunday that he "make[s] no apologies for pursuing peace" between Israelis and Palestinians.

Insurers Confirm Global Warming Is Real, Continued Political Paralysis Costly The Moderate Voice

Insurers Confirm Global Warming Is Real, Continued Political Paralysis Costly

The Moderate Voice - ‎4 hours ago‎

I.) on Friday, before the weekend's mayhem, see humans as a cause: “From our industry's perspective, the footprints of climate change are around us and the trend of increasing damage to property and threat to lives is clear,” said Franklin Nutter, ...

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf Crack Shows Dramatic Calving Process (VIDEO) Huffington Post

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf Crack Shows Dramatic Calving Process (VIDEO)

Huffington Post - ‎Feb 23, 2012‎

The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in western Antarctica is in the process of "calving" a massive iceberg that, when it breaks away, will have an area of about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers) -- 15 times the size of Manhattan.