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There are likely a lot of East Coasters wishing they lived in sunny, dry (and comparatively warm) California right now. But Californians know their weather is anything but a blessing these days with a drought that’s being called “unprecedented.”
A series of recent developments highlight the way we are losing ground in the epic struggle to slow global warming.
While governors have declared states of emergency from Louisiana to New Jersey due to the massive snow and ice storm, other examples of extreme weather are being seen across the globe.
Progressive Radio’s Gary Null talks peak oil, climate change, economy, culture, policy and much more with Kurt Cobb and Nate Hagens.
•The End of Snow? •The ‘pause’ in global warming is not even a thing •"We Can’t Trust Capitalism to Just Fix This" Global Warming Mess •Tunisia embeds climate change in constitution •Climate change: Rainforest absorption of CO2 becoming erratic •Discovering a Legal Tool to Curb Climate Change •Six Decades of a Warming Earth •Met Office report spells out climate change link to UK storms and flooding
Today it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation, precisely because it has never been more important to do so. Got that? No? Okay, let me explain.
It took major storm damage and record floods to get energy prices off the front pages, but any ministers hoping for a brief respite on the turmoil over energy policy will be no doubt disappointed.
The U.S. State Department released its final environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline Friday, and although some scientists and advocates who have spent years making the case that it would be an environmental disaster don’t much like the results, other pipeline opponents have found it encouraging to their cause.
In case you haven’t been able to keep up with all the details and implications of ever-spiralling global energy use, the financial risks are increasingly varied.
Here’s the scoop: When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway.
For the past 15 years, islanders have watched Lake Michigan slowly disappear.
Based what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
