9.03.2012
nd GWDF2 D13a Stomach Pain back after 2 days. Huh?
nd GWDF2 D13a Stomach Pain back after 2 days. Huh?
9/3 - Tracking Plan B - War Room
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT
Weather holds the key to the world's food price volatility
Telegraph.co.uk -
1 hour ago
The index, which weighs the US dollar price of internationally traded
food commodities, shows that sharp price increases were felt across the
board in July. Rice, which fell 4pc, was the only major exception. The
price of maize and wheat rose by a ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 6 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 5 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:13 AM PDT
The era of cheap food may be overThe Guardian
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:12 AM PDT
Eaton, DOE upgrading and downsizing hybrid power system
Autoblog (blog) - 2 hours ago
Eaton is working on upgrading its hybrid electric vehicle power control
system by reducing the size of the battery 50 percent and improving the
total performance of the system and its charge rate while maintaining
battery life, fuel economy and overall
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:31 AM PDT
Antarctic ice may cover 4 billion tons of methane
Winnipeg Free Press - 20 hours ago
LOS ANGELES -- Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane
could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global
warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study
published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:51 AM PDT
Assateague: Climate change could threaten island's existence ...
Carroll County Times - 8 hours ago
A look at Assateague Island National Seashore,
located along Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is one of the places where
climate change could be disruptive if the Atlantic Ocean continues to
rise in the 21st century: $142 million: The amount of visitor ...
Report: Atlantic National
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Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital RollingStone.com
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The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.
Excesses of feudals: Peasant leader's longest hunger strike for rights The Express Tribune
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ISLAMABAD: Veteran peasant leader Comrade Ghulam Rasool Sehto's hunger strike has completed 100 days but the rulers seems unmoved.
Gaza teenager dies after self-immolation BBC News
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man has died in Gaza after setting himself alight in apparent protest
against his family's living conditions, Palestinian officials say.
Sgt. Foley, “An Officer and a Gentleman:” “I expect to lose half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary - fair and unfair - to trip you up, to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”
Sgt. Foley, “An Officer and a Gentleman:”
“I expect to lose half of you before I'm
finished. I will use every means necessary - fair and unfair - to trip you up,
to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”
9.02.2012
GWDF2 D12b 'The risk of doing nothing to avert Environmental Armageddon outweighs the risk of doing something potenitally suboptimal.....' Loving
GWDF2 D12b 'The risk of doing nothing, too little, too late... to avert Environmental Armageddon outweighs the risk of doing something potentially suboptimal. From the standpoint of 200 billion kids, anything is better than nothing, if it promises to be commensurate with, potentially proportional to the impending horror.' Loving, inspired by words of a Keystone XL obstructor in Texas, last week, in the news.
See recent post this site on Bonhoeffer - Who stands fast. Sublime.
See recent post this site on Bonhoeffer - Who stands fast. Sublime.
GWDF2 D12b 'If or when I'm imprisonned or institutionalized I expect to cease water as well.' Loving
GWDF2 D12b 'If or when I'm imprisoned or institutionalized I expect to cease water as well. Not that it matters. It doesn't. The next 200 billion children are what matter.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'And you? I'm a Soldier fighting the World War III of Terror of Environmental Armageddon from GHD dumping.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'And you? I'm a Soldier fighting the World War III of Terror of Environmental Armageddon from GHD dumping.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'If you've attained that which is Priceless, it you Everything.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'If you've attained that which is Priceless, it you Everything.' Loving
GWDF2 D12b Full AJ Muste Essay: "If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work."
"If men are not
willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of
commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice
the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly
non-violence will not work."
Single greatest compendium of
Essays on Unviolence -
Peace and Nonviolence
http://peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/
Full essay here >>> THE WORKABILITY OF NONVIOLENCE, A.J. MUSTE
Bio: During his lifetime, A. J. Muste
was regarded as one of the most prominent spokesmen for the pacifist
movement in America. He wavered in the mid-1930’s, believing violence to
be an effective means for change, but after 1936 he was reconverted to
the validity of a religious-based pacifism, as the fol lowing selection
‘K indicates.
Single greatest compendium of
Essays on Unviolence -
Peace and Nonviolence
http://peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/
Full essay here >>> THE WORKABILITY OF NONVIOLENCE, A.J. MUSTE
Tutu: Bush And Blair Should Face Trial At The Hague NPR
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Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and
George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for
their role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
9.01.2012
8/28 subscribe Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:35 PM PDT
"The
experts, including those at many nonprofit organizations, have been in
Washington too long. They are careful to only nudge industry, asking
only for what is ―politically realistic rather than what is in the best
interests of the public. They will not state clearly what is needed.
That is why young people will need to stand up for their rights."
Jim Hansen, "Storms of my Grandchildren."
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:38 PM PDT
GOP Draft Platform Attacks Obama Admin For Saying Climate Change Is A ‘Severe’ National Security Threat
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT
A quantitative comparison of fee-and-dividend and cap-and-trade has been made by economist Charles Komanoff (www.komanoff.net/fossil/CTC_Carbon_Tax_Model.xls).
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:26 AM PDT
Carbon dioxide emissions reach record high
Boise State University The Arbiter Online - 5 hours ago
Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide reached an all-time high last
year, reducing the chances that the world could avoid a dangerous rise
in global average temperature by 2020, according to the International
Energy Agency.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:29 AM PDT
Politico
Carbon tax offers win-win-win
Politico - 12 hours ago
Though some of these difficult changes may be inevitable, what if we
could avoid some tax hikes and spending cuts? And did it while
stimulating the economy and cutting pollution and oil imports? A carbon
tax would do just that, according to our new study.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:24 PM PDT
Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?
Yale Environment 360-Jul 30, 2012
But as the battle over a major fast-breeder reactor in the UK .....
superior neutron economy of a fast neutron reactor makes it possible to
build a ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists
The Guardian - 3 hours ago
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet
about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have
to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years
to avoid catastrophic shortages ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:13 PM PDT
Abbott admits carbon tax not a catastrophe
Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 25, 2012
Tony Abbott has admitted the introduction of a price on carbon had not
immediately been ''catastrophic''. After spending months warning the
carbon tax would be a ''wrecking ball'' to the economy, the federal
Opposition Leader said the effects would ...
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:54 AM PDT
nd
'I assumed Joe Romm stood for something. But I can't find it, no
matter how I try. Oh, except for being adulated. True, none but Hansen
are any better.' Loving
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT
Small Island Nations Take Fight Against Climate Change Into Their Own
Hands
CleanTechnica - 1 hour ago
Small island countries around the world probably face the gravest threat
from global warming and climate change. Some of these countries are
also among the economically weakest in the world.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT
Recently, Micronesia proposed several strategies to counter climate change.
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8/26 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM !!!subscribe!!!
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT
Why Climate Action Won’t Be Like Civil Rights
By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 25, 2012 at 12:25 pm
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:05 PM PDT
Carbon Tax Silence, Overtaken by Events
New York Times - 3 hours ago
With distressing images of weather-related disasters saturating the news
media, climate change no longer seems such a distant and abstract worry
- except, perhaps, in Washington.
8/25 NOW. Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:03 PM PDT
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:26 PM PDT
nd GWDF D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:52 PM PDT
Final Test Before California's Cap-and-Trade Program Kicks Off
Energy Collective - 6 hours ago
All facilities regulated by California's cap-and-trade program are
eligible to participate in next week's simulation in preparation for the
first real auction in November, which precedes the official 2013 start
of the program.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 PM PDT
Water Trumping Carbon Spreads $17 Billion Market
Bloomberg - 20 hours ago
So-called RO facilities operate for about $1 per cubic meter, half the
price of 20 years ago, according to the International Desalination
Association, an industry group based near Boston.
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Greenpeace activists storm oil rig in Russia's Pechora Sea in protest of ...
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
MOSCOW
- Greenpeace activists have stormed a floating oil rig in Russia's
Pechora Sea, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the nearest port, to
protest oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental organization said
Friday.
Greenpeace scales Russian oil rigUPI.com
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Will Hurricane Isaac Destroy Wind Turbines?
Clean Energy News (blog) - 4 hours ago
Wind turbines
are readily designed to withstand extreme winds - even up to Category 3
hurricanes. But last year, a study released in the Proceedings of the
National Academies of Science by some Carnegie Mellon researchers
estimated that half of ...
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:14 AM PDT
Aliens and Climate Change: Do non-human people frustrate progress?
Examiner.com - 21 hours ago
Fossil
fuel burning humans and Mother Nature are on a collision course. The
exponentially expanding population craves more and more energy to power
the things that apparently make life worth living: cars, planes, TVs,
computers, lawn mowers, washing ...
Aliens and Climate Change:
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Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:05 AM PDT
Bats threatened by climate change
BBC News - 6 hours ago
Mathieu
Lundy, Hayley Sherwin and Ian Montgomery of Queens University, Belfast,
UK reviewed the scientific literature for observed impacts that climate
change has had on bat species. They then looked to see how many of the
bat species living across ...
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8/24 Daily Summary email - Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT
nd
'The world starves for actionable info, leadership, and Joe Romm, Bill
McKibben, Lester Brown, Gaius Publious pander. Auth-whores. Only Jim
Hansen speaks what's needed.' Loving
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:56 AM PDT
The Guardian
levels to reach record low within days
The Guardian - 4 hours ago
Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early
as this weekend, in "dramatic changes" signalling that man-made global
warming is having a major impact on the polar region. With the melt
happening at an unprecedented rate of ...
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:58 AM PDT
Coal-Plant CO2 Captured, Stored Underground In US First
EarthTechling - 3 hours ago
It ain't all solar panels, wind turbines and algae oil, people. Among
the clean-energy developments the Obama administration is encouraging -
part of the $90 billion that Mitt Romney says the president has
“invested in so-called green energy companies ...
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT
The Atlantic
Better Batteries: Charged Up Over Energy Storage
The Atlantic - 1 hour ago
Because of the high costs that go along with managing peak power
demands, the investments needed to keep the grid reliable, and the
integration of renewable energy sources, better batteries are seen as an
important solution. General Electric, which has ...
Momentum Building for
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:49 AM PDT
MIT Creates Superbug that Squirts out Biofuel
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
A team of scientists at MIT has tweaked a common bacteria into
producing biofuel the way a cow produces milk: without having to be
squished.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Providence Business News
Ethanol Stays in Gasoline Even If Mandate Ends
Bloomberg - 7 hours ago
Still, the biofuel is 15 percent cheaper than gasoline with which it's
mixed, known as RBOB, or reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:42 AM PDT
Scientific American (blog)
US Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles
Written by
Mark Fischetti
Scientific American (blog) - 20 hours ago
But a recent deal between a Boston-based battery maker and a major
Chinese auto company shows that a strong movement is underway that could
soon make China the center of the electric vehicle world.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:37 AM PDT
Scientific American (blog)
US Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles
Written by
Mark Fischetti
Scientific American (blog) - 20 hours ago
But a recent deal between a Boston-based battery maker and a major
Chinese auto company shows that a strong movement is underway that could
soon make China the center of the electric vehicle world.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT
BBC News
Science advisor warns climate target 'out the window'
BBC News - 8 hours ago
Professor Watson added the Chancellor, George Osborne, should back
efforts to cut the UK's CO2 emissions. He said: "I have to look back (on
the outcome of sucessive climate change summits) Copenhagen, Cancun and
Durban and say that I can't be overly ...
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:56 AM PDT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17847196
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT
After a Wildfire, the Erosion Problem Begins
EarthFix - 13 hours ago
Extreme heat from wildfires destroys trees and groundcover. That means
plants no longer keep soil from sliding down hillsides and into streams.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:54 AM PDT
GE and Houweling's Tomatoes Unveil the First Greenhouse Combined Heat
and ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - 20 hours ago
GE (NYSE: GE) and its customer Houweling's Tomatoes, a leading North
American greenhouse grower, today unveiled the first combined heat and
power (CHP) greenhouse project in America that captures carbon dioxide
(CO2) for use in plant fertilization.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:52 AM PDT
Carbon dioxide could be turned into fuel, say scientists
The Earth Times - 1 hour ago
The microbe has a tendency to stop growing and to use its energy to make
complex carbon compounds, so scientists are attempting to get it to use
carbon dioxide as its source, so it can be make fuel from emissions.
Research scientist Christopher Brigham ...
MIT Tweaks Microbe To Make Gasoline
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:40 AM PDT
Michael Vickerman: Debunking the myth of almost unlimited natural gas
Capital Times (blog) - 3 hours ago
With the development of shale gas wells, many consumers got the
impression that our nation's supply of natural gas is almost unlimited.
Shale gas failure offers rescue for EU green energy driveChicago Tribune
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT
Romney Supportive of Coal Industry He Said 'Kills People'
Businessweek - 5 hours ago
Romney, who as Massachusetts governor vowed to close an aging coal-fired
power plant because it “kills people,” has embraced the coal industry
in his presidential bid, with Murray proving a key ally. He touts coal
development as central to his aim of ...
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Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT
First Solar to Build India Farms as Outages Propel Sun Power
Bloomberg - 5 hours ago
First Solar Inc. (FSLR), the only profitable panel-maker among the 10
biggest in the world, plans to develop solar farms in India as chronic
outages drive demand for electricity derived from sun power. The target
is to take at least a 20 percent share ...
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