Oils sands (tar sands) in Canada polluting nearby lakes with carcinogens
The oil sands study’s author, Prof John P. Smol: “Now we have the smoking gun.”
Climate strategies that don’t work
UPDATE: A complete list of climate series pieces is available here: The Climate series: a reference post. ________ This is the second of a series of articles on Bill McKibben’s ...
How did James Hansen’s 1981 global warming predictions work out?
UPDATE: A complete list of 2012 climate series pieces is available here: The Climate series: a reference post. ________ One of the chief climate scientists from the early days of this ...
Hugging the monster: Climate scientists and the C-word (Catastrophe)
UPDATE: A complete list of climate series pieces is available here: The Climate series: a reference post. Global warming photovia Shutterstock This post asks two questions: ▪ ...
“Game over for climate change”
A chilling op ed in the NYT from the head of NASA Goddard. If [tar sands] Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate. Canada’s tar sands, deposits of ...
What happened to Canada? (Ans: Corporate power is global)
This piece by Chris Hedges is from a few months ago, but the point he makes hasn’t somehow magically disappeared (h/t the aggregator blog anotheroldwoman for the article; the ...
Obama to fast track Keystone oil pipeline
UPDATE: This is getting awfully confusing. The administration is saying that this isn’t a flip-flop. They’re saying that this is what the President said he’d ...
Canada fights to have right to pollute the world
How did things go so wrong in Canada? There used to be a day when we could count on our level headed neighbors to the north to be decent and more rational than our own country. And ...
Greenpeace launches hard-hitting ad against Obama
https://www.youtube.com/v/gI2Uo1U_Al4?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0&hd=1 This is a pretty interesting web video from Greenpeace, hitting President Obama for rolling back EPA ...
Koch Bros will be big winners if Keystone sludge-oil pipeline is approved
Well, there’s a surprise. Obama’s worst enemy, and the climate’s as well, the ever-famous Koch Brothers and Koch Industries, are positioned to be big winners if (when) ...



