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3.09.2012

MUST READ: The Fall of Foolish Faith Huffington Post

The Fall of Foolish Faith

Huffington Post -
A new technique that in recent years has been added to the arsenal of global warming denialism is to frame climate change as a theological issue.

Oh boy, Crack for the Deniers: Worriers have climate change anxiety: study ABC Online

Worriers have climate change anxiety: study

ABC Online -
A new study has found that many people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are worrying about the effects of climate change and global warming. Researchers from the University of Sydney looked at patients attending an anxiety disorders clinic.

BOTTOM LINE: IT'S UP TO YOU - I don't see millions of citizens demanding climate action," Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Durban climate change framework lacks citizens' support — UN

GMA News -
I don't see millions of citizens demanding climate action," Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at a lecture on Friday. "The reality we have to deal with is the process is very slow and the ...
 

MUST READ: What Insurance Companies Already Know About Climate ChangeCare2.com (blog)

MUST READ: Why Climate Change is a Matter of National Security Consumer Energy Report

Why Climate Change is a Matter of National Security

Consumer Energy Report -
I may bring down the wrath of the internet with this essay - I know from experience that talking climate change in a public forum draws out all the trolls.

Care about Your Heart & Lungs? You Should Care about Carbon Emissions (Driving Costs More than Gas Prices Show) cleantechnica

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 06:03 AM PST
Carbon emissions are horrifying little things, by which I mean tiny little particles of high octane nightmare fuel. It's now clear that carbon emissions are linked to heart and lung cancer.

MORE THAN 50 ADVERTISERS DROP FLEMBALL! Rush Limbaugh’s Advertisers Facing Social Media Firestorm tpg org

In US election year, Palestinians sidelinedThe Associated Press

NAZI ISRAEL MURDERS. US PRESS, LICKS THEIR BALLS: Israeli Airstrike Kills a Militant Leader in GazaNew York Times

8 rockets fired at Israel; IAF strikes 2 Gaza terror cells

Jerusalem Post -
By YAAKOV LAPPIN AND JPOST.COM STAFF Hamas says 2 more terrorists killed in 2nd IAF strike of the day; 1st strike kills PRC official Hanini, PRC chief Qaisi, who was at final stages of planning major terror attack against Israeli targets, says IDF.
Israeli Airstrike Kills a Militant Leader in Gaza
IDF strike in Gaza kills leader of Popular Resistance Committees

GO ABC!!! ABC News Explains Warm Winter, ‘Wild Swings In Weather’, Driven by Global Warming, Only Going to Get Worse

South Dakota Native Americans Blockade Tar Sands Shipment Through Their Lands, Five Arrested tpg org

Australia’s flood crisis was set to cost in excess of $530 million in New South Wales alone [AFP}

[AFP}

Australia’s flood crisis was set to cost in excess of $530 million in New South Wales alone

FG Gets $508m World Bank Grant For Erosion Control Leadership Newspapers

FG Gets $508m World Bank Grant For Erosion Control

Leadership Newspapers - 
Speaking yesterday at the proposed Nigerian Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), the Minister of Environment, Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, said the seriousland degradation problems faced by Nigeria posed great threats to its social economic ...

Farmers hail value of conservation programsMinneapolis Star Tribune

Change erodes 1985 soil pact

Politico - 
Or to hear environmentalists tell it: The landmark 1985 treaty to curb erosion is, well, eroding. That's the thrust of a report out Monday from the Environmental Working Group that warns early progress reducing soil erosion has stalled and in some ...

Ohio Quakes Probably Caused by Drilling-Fluid Well, Report Says Bloomberg

Ohio Quakes Probably Caused by Drilling-Fluid Well, Report Says

Bloomberg - 
Earthquakes last year in Ohio were probably caused by wastewater from oil and natural-gas drilling injected into a disposal well, and regulations are needed to address concern about seismic activity, a state report said.

EPA Issues 2011 Fuel Economy Trends Report EP Magazine

EPA Issues 2011 Fuel Economy Trends Report

EP Magazine - 
The average fuel efficiency for new cars and light duty trucks has increased while the average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to decrease for the seventh consecutive year, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) annual ...

GOPigs believe that what you don’t know can’t hurt them. NYT Krugman

Ignorance Is Strength

New York Times - 
One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning newsvirginian

Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning

Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says Bloomberg

Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says

Bloomberg -
Germany will probably install a record amount of solar panels this year even as the world's biggest market for the industry plans to cut subsidies, according to the DIHK national industry and trade chambers.

Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale Gizmag

Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale

Gizmag -
Like forests, this structure maximizes the amount of solar energy that can be captured, with the vertical structures trapping and absorbing the light, while the flat surfaces reflect it.
Nanotrees harvest solar energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel
Nanowire Structure Optimizes Hydrogen Production by Capturing More Solar Energy

Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years sacramento bee

Up to 18% Growth Projected for Lubricants in the Wind Turbines Market ...

Sacramento Bee -
By Kline & Company PARSIPPANY, NJ, March 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years, according to the recently published report Lubricants for Wind Turbines 2011: ...

Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market REVE

Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market

REVE -
Installed wind farm capacity is set to increase as wind power markets are expected to witness massive growth in multiple regions, following a temporary decline caused by the global recession.

Privately generated wind energy picking up RenewablesBiz

Privately generated wind energy picking up

RenewablesBiz -
Anchored into the ground by concrete footings and supported by steel cables on a 70-foot tower is the retired Newton public works employee's private source of wind power. "We're green, and we eventually want to get off the grid," Swank said about his ...

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ... Christian Post

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ...

Christian Post -
WOV is a volunteer ministry of the well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization World Vision. World Vision serves as a Christian humanitarian organization to tackle the challenges of global poverty and injustice in over 100 countries around the world.

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty Women's eNews

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty

Women's eNews -
By Cassandra Q. Butts Women produce half of the world's food, earn 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of the world's property. The US Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation says its anti-poverty efforts aim to change ...

UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be metWNCT

UN's Ban cites gains in fighting world poverty

Al-Arabiya -
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there has been “broad progress” in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in reducing poverty, but some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not seeing progress yet. (Reuters) By Reuters The world has been able ...
Concerted global efforts have led to great strides against extreme poverty – Ban
UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be met

Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession New York Times

Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession

New York Times (blog) -
By ANDREW C. REVKIN The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the ...