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BP fails in US Supreme Court gulf appeal

BP fails in US Supreme Court gulf appeal


Via: larry-crehore  •  Environment/Climate  •  5 Comments  •  11 years ago

BP s hopes of limiting the cost of compensation for its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been dealt a severe blow by the US Supreme Court , which has refused to hear the case over...
California cleans up as major storm slams Southwest

California cleans up as major storm slams Southwest


Via: nona62  •  Environment/Climate  •  15 Comments  •  11 years ago

California cleans up as major storm slams SouthwestClean-up begins after heavy rains move through CaliforniaCAMARILLO, Calif. Californians cleaned up Saturday from a major storm that soaked the...
Obama Declares Bristol Bay Off Limits to New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases

Obama Declares Bristol Bay Off Limits to New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases


Via: kavika  •  Environment/Climate  •  20 Comments  •  11 years ago

via the White House A victory in the fight to preserve the vast, pristine watershed region known as Bristol Bay in Alaska. ICTMN Staff 12/17/14 President Barack...
Signatures submitted to fight California plastic bag ban

Signatures submitted to fight California plastic bag ban


Via: nona62  •  Environment/Climate  •  1 Comments  •  11 years ago

Signatures submitted to fight California plastic bag banBusiness groups trying to overturn a new California law that bans single-use plastic bags said Monday that they've collected more than enough...
Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame Poll

Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame Poll


Via: jerry-verlinger  •  Environment/Climate  •  3 Comments  •  11 years ago

J.C. Moore, environmental activist [ 1 ] and a member of The NewsTalkers Climate Change & Environment group, has been taking a poll every year since 2009 to find those most...
Winter Safety: Four Dangerous Driving Myths Debunked

Winter Safety: Four Dangerous Driving Myths Debunked


Via: jerry-verlinger  •  Environment/Climate  •  5 Comments  •  11 years ago

Drivers should prepare to battle with snowy, icy and slippery conditions when out on the road. As motorists rush to get to their destinations, hazardous conditions are often ignored....
Chernobyl's giant shield takes shape

Chernobyl's giant shield takes shape


Via: hal-a-lujah  •  Environment/Climate  •  8 Comments  •  11 years ago

Source As this stunning time-lapse video shows, engineers have made huge progress on the construction of Chernobyls New Safe Confinement, an immense shield that will replace the infamous...
The Warming Scare : it's real cause

The Warming Scare : it's real cause


Via: petey-coober  •  Environment/Climate  •  36 Comments  •  11 years ago

LINK : http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/021015-738779-climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism.htm U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare 300 Comments...
The Siberian crater saga is more widespread — and scarier — than anyone thought

The Siberian crater saga is more widespread — and scarier — than anyone thought


Via: hal-a-lujah  •  Environment/Climate  •  5 Comments  •  11 years ago

Source In the middle of last summer came news of a bizarre occurrence no one could explain. Seemingly out of nowhere, a massive crater appeared in one of the planets most inhospitable...
A Bad River Win; Gogebic Taconite Putting Wisconsin Mine on Hold

A Bad River Win; Gogebic Taconite Putting Wisconsin Mine on Hold


Via: kavika  •  Environment/Climate  •  7 Comments  •  11 years ago

Penokee Hills A Bad River Win; Gogebic Taconite Putting Wisc. Mine on Hold Mary Annette Pember 3/3/15 Gogebic Taconite announced last week that it is closing...
Climate Change During The Medieval Warm Period

Climate Change During The Medieval Warm Period


Via: petey-coober  •  Environment/Climate  •  31 Comments  •  11 years ago

LINK : http://cpluhna.nau.edu/People/paleoenvironmental_change.htm Paleoenvironmental Change Long-term climate change causes shifts in plant, animal and human populations, but the patterns...
America Less Polluted Every Year, Thanks To U.S. Wealth

America Less Polluted Every Year, Thanks To U.S. Wealth


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  2 Comments  •  11 years ago

Capital HillPolitical & Economic AnalysisAmerica Less Polluted Every Year, Thanks To U.S. Wealth3 CommentsBY KERRY JACKSON03/12/2015 06:58 PM ETView Enlarged ImageTo hear the constant shrieking...
Fracking Saved U.S. Economy

Fracking Saved U.S. Economy


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  4 Comments  •  11 years ago

The fracking revolution has been a major boon for the U.S. economy and the switch from coal to natural gas has dramatically reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Hydraulic fracking over the last...
California Tightens Drought Rules as Water Supply Dwindles to One Year

California Tightens Drought Rules as Water Supply Dwindles to One Year


Via: kavika  •  Environment/Climate  •  162 Comments  •  11 years ago

California Tightens Drought Rules as Water Supply Dwindles to One Year ICTMN Staff 3/18/15 Faced with a fourth year of drought, California officials on March 17...
Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science

Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  18 Comments  •  11 years ago

Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale Professor Dan Kahan. He finds that...
Climate-change defectors having to weather Democrat-led storm

Climate-change defectors having to weather Democrat-led storm


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  2 Comments  •  11 years ago

Top Democrats are turning up the pressure against college professors who aren't on board with their agenda to unconditionally promote "climate change," even when the evidence stacks up against...
Climate change as ‘leftist malware’

Climate change as ‘leftist malware’


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  1 Comments  •  11 years ago

An excellent new meme has entered the climate change debate thanks to David Harsanyi, writing in The Federalist . In his article he articulates why wide acceptance of catastrophic climate change...
Prince Charles To Americans: Capitalism Has “Enormous Shortcomings”

Prince Charles To Americans: Capitalism Has “Enormous Shortcomings”


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  4 Comments  •  11 years ago

Prince Charles took a shot at capitalism by stating that it had enormous shortcomings: Prince Charles spoke of an economic system that seems to have enormous shortcomings at one of the final...
California governor orders first ever water restrictions

California governor orders first ever water restrictions


Via: randy2  •  Environment/Climate  •  20 Comments  •  11 years ago

The governor of California has implemented the first mandatory water restrictions in the state's history. The order implements a 25% reduction in water usage for cities and towns across the...
Environmentalism and Envy

Environmentalism and Envy


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  3 Comments  •  11 years ago

Envy is among the least admirable of human emotions. It is not an emotion that we publicly acknowledge or often even acknowledge privately to ourselves. Entire ideological movements are based...
New York State Is Planning a Massive Mute Swan Kill. Signatures Needed

New York State Is Planning a Massive Mute Swan Kill. Signatures Needed


Via: perrie-halpern  •  Environment/Climate  •  21 Comments  •  11 years ago

Stop New York's Mute Swan Management Plan NYS is planning on killing two-thirds or more of New Yorks mute swans, including the entire upstate population, and the DEC would force strict...
A few doomsday predictions from the first Earth Day that never quite materialized

A few doomsday predictions from the first Earth Day that never quite materialized


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  1 Comments  •  11 years ago

Yesterday was Earth Day, so I hoped you hugged a tree or kissed a marmoset, or something. But way back in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated, several prominent scientists made a...
Eco-Marxism: Deception 2.0

Eco-Marxism: Deception 2.0


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  5 Comments  •  11 years ago

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and theyre easier to fool with lies than most other people, too.Dashiell Hammett puts these words into the mouth of a minor...
Happy Earth Day 2015: The Earth is doing just fine, thank you

Happy Earth Day 2015: The Earth is doing just fine, thank you


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  1 Comments  •  11 years ago

Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day. To hear the experts like Usher and Al Gore tell the story, the planet is in a miserable state. We're running out of our natural resources, we're overpopulating...
Taking a broom to climate change gloom and doom

Taking a broom to climate change gloom and doom


Via: xxjefferson51  •  Environment/Climate  •  3 Comments  •  11 years ago

As the old saying goes, forewarned is forearmed. And, like Climate of Corruption , the book Scared Witless delivers much forewarning on the nature of the climate-hysteria business, especially...
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