Tag Archives: Global Warming
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s Remarks to the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Since the beginning of this year, Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has orchestrated 170 votes against environmental protection. That is almost a vote for every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation’s environmental laws. Much of this has happened in response to myths and misleading information. Continue reading
Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies in November 2011
Results from a national survey fielded from October 20 to November 16, 2011 with 1,000 adults, using the online research panel of Knowledge Networks. The report includes measures of public support for national and local climate change and energy policies, desire for action by corporate and government leaders, and how these have changed since June 2010, January 2010, and November 2008. Continue reading
The Climate Debate is Over. Let’s Tap Markets to Save the Trees, the Planet, and Ourselves
Everything you have heard about “institutional bias” among scientists in the IPCC is wrong. Everything you have heard about the rate of global warming slowing down is wrong. If anything, the earth is warming faster and all signs point to mankind as the culprit. To fix this problem, we must fundamentally change the way our economy prices goods and services. If we do that, everything else will follow. Continue reading
Kansas Energy and the Bremby Decision: Four Years Later
Efforts continue to obscure the facts, derail the rule of law, and deny the public interest in order to benefit the coal plant project and its special interest allies, but Mr. Bremby’s decision four years ago remains as visionary and important an act of public service now as it was in October of 2007. Continue reading
Climate Change and the End of Australia
Want to know what global warming has in store for us? Just go to Australia, where rivers are drying up, reefs are dying, and fires and floods are ravaging the continent. Continue reading
British Engineer Says Climate, Resource Problems Make Future Economic Growth Much Harder
While some economists and many environmentalists have voiced similar concerns over the years, it is rare to hear the warning coming from a pragmatic group of people who pride themselves on their ability to fix pretty much everything. Short-termism is an absolute killer. We are so short-term it is a tragedy. Continue reading
More Americans Believe World is Warming, According to New Poll
“That is exactly the kind of situation that will provoke the public to think about the issue in a way that they haven’t before,” Krosnick said about news reports on the Republicans denying climate change science. Continue reading
Water Issues, Carbon, and Price of Power Top Utility Concerns
By Chris Holly for Energy Daily (from Coal Power Mag) In a clear sign of growing industry unease about the availability of water for power plant operations, utility officials recently surveyed by Black & Veatch on a host of policy … Continue reading
Kansas IPL Hires New Coordinator
OVERLAND PARK, KS, April 13, 2011: Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, a statewide interfaith effort to address climate change, has announced that it has hired Rabbi Moti Rieber to serve as statewide coordinator. Rabbi Rieber began his new position on … Continue reading
Critics’ Review Unexpectedly Supports Scientific Consensus on Global Warming
By Margot Roosevelt for the Los Angeles Times A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensuson global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing … Continue reading
