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| 78. |
12/21/03 |
'Rewiring'
The World's Energy (Boston Globe)
CLIMATE CHANGE isn't just another
issue in this complicated world of proliferating
issues. It's the issue that -- unchecked -- will
swamp all others. Unfortunately, the urgency of
the climate crisis is overwhelmed by competition
from other major problems. We are under attack
from terrorists. We are apprehensive about the
aftermath of the Iraq war. Our trick-or-treat
economy is as unnerving to investors as it is
cruel to workers. These diverse challenges may
be susceptible to a common solution -- a rapid
worldwide transition to clean energy. |
| 77. |
12/19/03 |
Nothing
Virtual About Global Warming (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The overwhelming scientific
consensus is that global warming is real, it's
serious, it's caused mostly by humans and it is
to some extent correctable. But due to the intransigence
of the Bush administration and comrades, virtually
nothing has been done to correct it. |
| 76. |
12/19/03 |
Bush
Plans To Create 'Debating Society Over Science'
(Baltimore Sun)
Health, environmental rules could
be buried in peer reviews, critics fear |
| 75. |
12/18/03 |
Earth
Warming at Faster Pace, Say Top Science Group's
Leaders (San Francisco Chronicle)
Statement
by American Geophysical Union's council warns
temperature change is real and human-caused.
"It is scientifically inconceivable that
after changing forests into cities, turning
millions of acres into farmland, putting massive
quantities of soot and dust into the atmosphere
and sending quantities of greenhouse gases into
the air, that the natural course of climate
change hasn't been increased in the past century.'' |
| 74. |
12/11/03 |
Global
Trade = Global Warming (Salon.com)
Just one early impact
of increasing long-distance trade is the emerging
issue of "food miles." The fossil-fuel
energy spent to transport food products often
exceeds the energy contained in the foods themselves.
To add insult to injury, transportation is a major
source of carbon-dioxide emissions. |
| 73. |
12/4/03 |
Climate
Change Laid to Humans (San Francisco Chronicle)
Report Warns There's 'No Doubt'
Industry is Primary Cause |
| 72. |
12/4/03 |
Bush's
New Forest-Thinning Policy Drops Safeguard for
Wildlife (Los Angeles Times)
"There's a real
danger that the president's pen might as well
be a chainsaw." Amy Mall, Natural Resources
Defense Council |
| 71. |
12/3/03 |
No
Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S. Experts Say
(Reuters)
"There is no doubt
that the composition of the atmosphere is changing
because of human activities, and today greenhouse
gases are the largest human influence on global
climate," wrote Thomas Karl, director of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
National Climatic Data Center, and Kevin Trenberth,
head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research. |
| 70. |
12/2/03 |
The
Bottom of the Barrel, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
Oil
is running out, but no one wants to talk about
it. |
| 69. |
11/22/03 |
Pension
Funds Plan to Press Global Warming as an Issue
(New York Times)
"In global warming,
we are facing an enormous risk to the U.S. economy
and to retirement funds that Wall Street has
so far chosen to ignore," said Philip Angelides,
the treasurer of California. |
| 68. |
11/21/03 |
Investors
at UN Summit Demand Corporations Disclose Climate
Costs (Reuters)
"The data is piling
up and the trends are clear. In 2003, it is
irresponsible for any major investor or fiduciary
to ignore the risks of global warming,"
Panetta said, suggesting the lawyers who filed
the first lawsuits against tobacco and asbestos
firms were now looking at global warming. |
| 67. |
11/20/03 |
Crimes
Against Nature, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Rolling
Stone)
Bush
is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's
environment for more than thirty years |
| 66. |
11/7/03 |
Bush
Takes Quiet Aim at 'Green' Laws (Christian Science
Monitor)
Methods Range From Easing Regulations
to Siding with Industry in Lawsuits |
| 65. |
11/7/03 |
The
Blue Frontier Campaign to Save Our Living Seas
(Common Dreams)
We may be the last generation
(the next 40 years) to save our oceans from an
irreversible decline in performing their critical
functions for the planet, animal life and humans.
|
| 64. |
11/7/03 |
House
Exempts Department of Defense From Key Environmental
Laws, Threatening Wildlife (Natural Resources
Defense Council)
The Pentagon is trying
to exploit the unfortunate events of the past
two years by asking us to sacrifice our natural
heritage under the guise of national security. |
| 63. |
11/6/03 |
Rule
Drafted That Would Dilute the Clean Water Act
(Los Angeles Times)
"It's like writing
off the entire Southwest from the Clean Water
Act, where water is more precious than in any
other region of the country. Up to 80% to 90%
of streams in the Southwest would not fall under
the Clean Water Act if this rule were to go forward."
Julie Sibbing, wetlands policy expert at the National
Wildlife Federation |
| 62. |
11/6/03 |
EPA
Drops Its Cases Against Dozens of Alleged Polluters
(Los Angeles Times)
"This confirms my
worst fears. First the administration weakens
our clean air law, and now it won't enforce it."
Sen. James M. Jeffords (I-Vt.) |
| 61. |
11/4/03 |
Do
We Value Commonwealth? (Cape Cod Times)
"If you drop a frog in a
pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically
try to clamber out. But if you place it gently
in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low,
it will float there quite placidly. As the water
gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a
tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot
bath, and before long, with a smile on its face,
it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled
to death." |
| 60. |
10/24/03 |
Road
to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet (Guardian)
America produces 25%
of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the population
has risen by 100 million since 1970 and when an
area three times the size of Britain was recently
opened up for mining, drilling, logging and road
building, no one took notice.
[
Picture
from original article... ]
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| 59. |
10/22/03 |
China's
Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem (New York
Times) |
| 58. |
9/16/03 |
(3
of 3) The Philosophy of Cant, by George Monbiot
(Guardian)
In the Third of a Three-part
Series on Trade, George Monbiot argues that Europe
wrecked the world trade talks, but it may accidentally
have forced the poor world to assert its power. |
| 57. |
9/9/03 |
(2
of 3) The Myth of Localism, by George Monbiot
(Guardian)
In the Second of a Three-part
Series on Trade, George Monbiot argues some of
those calling for changes in the way we trade
are working against the interests of the poor. |
| 56. |
9/6/03 |
Mission
Accomplished: Bush Administration Fulfills Wish
List for Corporate America (Knight-Ridder) |
| 55. |
9/3/03 |
Bush
to New Yorkers: Drop Dead (The Free Press) |
| 54. |
9/3/03 |
Toxic
Superfund To Run Out Of Money, GAO Says (Washington
Post) |
| 53. |
9/2/03 |
(1
of 3) The Worst of Times, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
In the First of a Three-part
Series on Trade, George Monbiot Argues That the
Rich World's Brutal Diplomacy is Worsening the
Plight of Poor Nations. |
| 52. |
9/3/03 |
EPA
Switch Allows Sale of PCB-Tainted Sites (Los Angeles
Times) |
| 51. |
9/2/03 |
EPA
lifts ban on selling PCB sites (USA Today) |
| 50. |
9/1/03 |
Protecting
forests ensures water supplies for cities (San
Francisco Chronicle) |
| 49. |
8/29/03 |
Bush
Administration: Carbon Dioxide Not a Pollutant
(Knight Ridder)
"The Earth is round.
Elvis is dead. Climate change is happening."
Melissa Carey, Environmental Defense |
| 48. |
8/29/03 |
Bush's
Forest Plan Worse Than Fire, by Edward O. Wilson
(Newsday)
The fires that have savaged
forests of western North America this summer are
the ecologist's equivalent of a perfect storm.
|
| 47. |
8/23/03 |
EPA
Misled Public on 9/11 Pollution (Newsday)
White House ordered false
assurances on air quality, report says
[ See
original photograph from article of World Trade
Center burning... ] |
| 46. |
8/22/03 |
Bush
Administration to Gut Clean Air Act: (Natural
Resources Defense Council)
Rule Would Allow More Pollution
at 17,000 Facilities |
| 45. |
8/18/03 |
Why
Hydrogen is No Solution - Scientific Answers
to Marketing Hype, Deception and Wishful Thinking
(FromTheWilderness.com)
Seeing
One Car Run on a Fuel Cell or Hydrogen Gas Does
Not Make It a Solution for Anything, Especially
If You Invest More Energy in the Hydrogen Than
You Get from Burning It or If You Make More
Greenhouse Gas at the Hydrogen Factory or If
You Can't Afford to Ship or Store It. |
| 44. |
8/15/03 |
Climate
Change Threatens the Future of Humanity, But
We Refuse to Respond Rationally - Interview
with George Monbiot by Amy Goodman (Democracy
Now!)
We’ve got to
get this in our heads, because unless we do,
we are doomed. We have to recognize that unless
we massively change our behavior, and reduce
our consumption of energy to 10 or 20 percent
of what it is at present, then there is no possibility
of sustaining the sort of lives that we know,
the sort of lives which are in any way decent
lives, beyond the next thirty or forty years. |
| 43. |
8/12/03 |
Sleepwalking
to Extinction, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
Something about the
human mind appears to prevent us from grasping
the reality of climate change |
| 42. |
8/12/03 |
Globalize
That: Capital Flight to China (Common Dreams) |
| 41. |
8/8/03 |
Bush
Misuses Science, Report Says (Washington Post)
Democrats Say Data Are
Distorted to Boost Conservative Policies
[ One
example from the report: Global Warming Interference...
]
[ See
new web site dedicated to investigating the Bush
Administrations' promotion of ideology over science...
] |
| 40. |
7/29/03 |
Three
Journal Editors Resign Over Paper by Skeptics
(Cox News Service)
JOURNAL EDITORS RESIGN IN PROTEST
OVER FLAWS IN PAPER BY SKEPTICS |
| 39. |
7/28/03 |
Global
Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction (Guardian)
It Kills More People
Than Terrorism, Yet Blair and Bush do Nothing |
| 38. |
7/26/03 |
Experts
at US Conference on Global Warming Say Bush's
Position ‘Ludicrous' (Associated Press)
|
| 37. |
7/25/03 |
Future
Tense: Is Mankind Doomed? (Independent) |
| 36. |
7/20/03 |
Bush
Ready to Wreck Ozone Layer Treaty - US Slips in
Demand
to Drop Ban on Harmful Pesticide (Independent) |
| 35. |
7/1/03 |
Shadow
of Extinction, by George Monbiot (Guardian) |
| 34. |
6/20/03 |
White
House cuts global warming from report (Guardian)
Environmental study censored,
say critics |
| 33. |
6/2/03 |
Foes
of global warming theory have energy ties (COX
News Service) |
| 32. |
5/6/03 |
Poor,
but Pedicured, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
It appears that those
at the bottom are getting richer
- but sadly the maths just doesn't add up |
| 31. |
3/2/03 |
GOP
to Bush: Keep Denying Climate Science (Heat Is
Online)
REPUBLICANS AIM FOR SOFTER, GREENER
ENVIRONMENTAL TALK |
| 30. |
2/27/03 |
Advisers
Tell Bush His Climate Plan is Useless (Guardian) |
| 29. |
1/14/03 |
The
29th Day for America? (Boston Globe) |
| 28. |
1/8/03 |
Lomborg
Deemed "Scientifically Dishonest" (New
York Times)
Environment and Science: Danes
Rebuke a 'Skeptic'
(See
also 2 other articles on this topic above on 6/26/03) |
| 27. |
12/31/02 |
Deliver
Us From Finity. Capitalism Is Not Even Mathematically
Possible, Let Along Biologically Viable (Guardian)
- We will pay the price
for believing the world has infinite resources.
-
Even the repayment of debt, the pre-requisite
of capitalism, is mathematically possible only
in the short-term. As Heinrich Haussmann has shown,
a single pfennig invested at 5% compounded interest
in the year AD 0 would, by 1990, have reaped a
volume of gold 134bn times the weight of the planet.
|
| 26. |
12/17/02 |
Planet
of the Fakes, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
There are two planet
earths. One of them is the complex, morally challenging
world in which we live, threatened by ecological
collapse. The other is the one we see on the wildlife
programmes. |
| 25. |
12/5/02 |
Much
Ado about Nothing -- Whither the Caspian Riches?
(FromTheWilderness.com)
Over
the Last 24 Months Hoped For Caspian Oil Bonanza
Has Vanished With Each New Well Drilled -- Global
Implications Are Frightening.
The "war which will not end in our lifetimes"
is proving itself to be a sequential war to
control the last remaining oil reserves on the
planet, especially those which have not yet
peaked. |
| 24. |
11/5/02 |
In
the Crocodile's Mouth, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
The world's oil reserves,
the depletion analysis centre claims, appear to
be declining almost as swiftly as the North Sea's.
Conventional oil supplies, it suggests, will peak
within five or ten years, and decline by around
two million barrels per day every year from then
on. |
| 23. |
10/23/02 |
Colin
Campbell on Oil (FromtheWilderness.com)
Perhaps the World's Foremost
Expert on Oil and the Oil Business Confirms
the Ever More Apparent Reality of the Post-9-11
World
FTW: What will be the likely
effects of hitting the downslope of production?
Campbell:
Big question. Simply stated: war, starvation,
economic recession, possibly even the extinction
of homo sapiens, insofar as the evolution of
life on earth has always been accomplished by
the extinction of over-adapted species (when
their environmental niche changed for geologic
or climatic reasons) leaving simpler forms to
continue, and eventually giving rise new more
adapted species. If Homo sapiens figures out
how to move back to simplicity, he will be the
first to do so. |
| 22. |
10/6/02 |
-
Eleven Inherent Rules of Corporate Behavior, by
Jerry Mander (Earth Island Institute) |
| 21. |
10/6/02 |
-
Eight Corporate Rules of the Game, by Jerry Mander
(Third World Traveler) |
| 20. |
9/12/02 |
Americans...
Leading the Way... Destroying The Planet.
What's The World To Do? (Common Dreams)
|
| 19. |
8/8/02 |
The
Logic of Empire. The US is Now a Threat to the
Rest of the World, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
The Sensible Response is Non-Cooperation |
| 18. |
8/5/02 |
Sustainable
Development is a Hoax: We Cannot Have It All (Guardian)
Unlimited desire is bound to destroy
a world of limited resources |
| 17. |
8/3/02 |
Poisoned
Back Into Poverty (Washington Post)
As
China Embraces Capitalism, Hazards to Workers
Rise |
| 16. |
7/23/02 |
Capitalism
Without Conscience (Common Dreams) |
| 15. |
7/16/02 |
Advice
to Green Team: Take Off the Gloves (Common Dreams) |
| 14. |
7/14/02 |
Where
Did All the Protesters Go? (Observer of London) |
| 13. |
7/2/02 |
The
Alchemy of Water (Common Dreams) |
| 12. |
7/1/02 |
Economic
Inequality in US (DAWN) |
| 11. |
6/30/02 |
Bush
Slashing Aid for E.P.A. Cleanup at 33 Toxic Sites
(New York Times) |
| 10. |
6/23/02 |
The
real reasons for hunger (Observer of London)
Leading Indian ecological activist
Vandana Shiva disagrees with Amartya Sen's analysis
of global hunger and argues that famine has
returned to democratic India. |
| 9. |
3/16/02 |
The
Future of Life - Interview with E.O. Wilson (CBC
Radio)
"We're going to lose a lot
of biodiversity. We're going to damage this planet
still more than it has been. We're going to create
serious problems for ourselves. But that aside,
we can turn it around. And the way to look at
I think is in terms of a bottleneck that runs
through the 21st century.", E.O. Wilson |
| 8. |
2/24/02 |
The
Bottleneck, by Edward O. Wilson (Scientific American,
excerpt from Edward O. Wilson's book, "The
Future of Life")
- "For every
person in the world to reach present U.S. levels
of consumption with existing technology would
require four more planet Earths."
- "The constraints of the biosphere are fixed.
The bottleneck through which we are passing is
real. It should be obvious to anyone not in a
euphoric delirium that whatever humanity does
or does not do, Earth's capacity to support our
species is approaching the limit." |
| 7. |
3/22/01 |
Bush's
Global Warmers (The Nation)
For most of the 1990s,
Western Fuels, a $400 million coal industry propaganda
outlet, funded the most visible of the greenhouse
skeptics. Now ExxonMobil--the only major oil company
to deny the reality of climate change--has joined
the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse
the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists
from 100 countries on the IPCC. |
| 6. |
12/28/00 |
A
Dead End for Humanity. With the Loss of Other
Cultures, We Risk Being Imprisoned in Our Own,
Never Knowing What Might Have Been (Toronto Globe
& Mail) |
| 5. |
11/24/00 |
Global
Warming Could Bankrupt Us by 2065 (Environmental
News Service)
"We've
still not yet really begun to see the effects
of climate change in the West. What we are seeing
so far is largely the result of more people living
in areas which are becoming more dangerous. "But
once this thing begins to happen, it will accelerate
extremely rapidly, as the IPCC report makes clear." |
| 4. |
10/6/00 |
Ford
Predicts End of Car Pollution (Independent)
The 100-year reign of
the polluting internal combustion engine is coming
to an end, Bill Ford, chairman of the Ford Motor
Company, said yesterday. It will soon be replaced
in motor vehicles by the hydrogen fuel cell, which
emits no pollution whatsoever and
so can reduce the build-up of greenhouse gases
causing climate change.
-
I've included this article as an example because
the problems with it are many:
1. I've read that commercial hydrogen requires
more energy invested than will be returned (EROEI-Energy
Returned On Energy Invested). Hydrogen is extracted
from natural gas, which, along with oil, is a
finite, non-renewable resource. The extraction
process requires steam, created by burning hydrocarbons
(more natural gas, oil or coal), contributing
to global warming.
2 . Ford claims zero pollution, but pollution
is generated during the process of producing hydrogen
(hydrocarbons are burned to generate the hydrogen,
etc., contributing to global warming).
3 . The transportation system he envisions still
greatly depends on oil, even if hydrogen could
be used to power automobiles. This is unsustainable
since experts are saying that Peak Oil production
for the world will occur around the year 2010.
4.
Ford will profit greatly in the short term if
people believe his claim.
- To fully validate Mr. Ford's claims, read "Nine
Critical Questions to Ask About Alternative Energy". |
| 3. |
3/13/00 |
Scientist
Is Fearful of Computer Mutiny: (San Francisco
Chronicle)
Sun Micro Co-Founder
Says Replicating Robots Could Replace Humans |
| 2. |
10/10/00 |
Clones
In A Cul-De-Sac (Guardian)
That scientists may be
able to recreate "lost" life is interesting
but quite irrelevant to the real problems facing
the conservation of animal life. More sober scientists
agree that nature is even now in freefall.
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| 1. |
5/30/93 |
Is
Humanity Suicidal? by Edward O. Wilson (New York
Times Magazine) |
