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  • Announcing: Summer Heat - Mass Action Across the US!

    350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News
    Duncan Meisel
    15 May 2013 | 6:38 am
    A letter from Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Sandra Steingraber, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood For the last two years, all across the country, people have said the same thing to us: “We’re ready to fight.” And as the planet lurches past 400 parts per million concentrations of CO2, the moment has come, the moment to ask you to do hard, important, powerful things. The last two weeks of July are, statistically, the hottest stretch of the year. This year we want to make them politically hot too. Which means we need you, out on the front line. We need some of you to risk going to…

  • Historical Sea Surface Temperature Adjustments/Corrections aka “The Bucket Model”…

    Watts Up With That?
    justthefactswuwt
    25 May 2013 | 1:33 pm
    Image Credit: Bob Tisdale – bobtisdale.wordpress.com By WUWT Regular Just The Facts The recent Adjustments/Corrections to the HadCRUT4 and CRUTEM4 Temperature Data Sets by the Met Office Hadley Centre and Climatic Research Unit got me thinking about the cumulative impact … Continue reading →

  • Severe weather partly a result of climate change - NBCNews.com

    "climate change" - Google News
    25 May 2013 | 4:23 pm
    Severe weather partly a result of climate changeNBCNews.comSevere weather partly a result of climate change. Damaging tornadoes are an annual springtime threat in parts of the country, but Monday's massive storm in Oklahoma, in a year that seems to have had more than its share of extreme weather, has many

  • Understanding the past and predicting the future by looking across space and time

    ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
    25 May 2013 | 11:37 am
    Scientists have validated a fundamental assumption at the very heart of a popular way to predict relationships between complex variables.

  • Linguistic Guide to the Vocalizations of American Teenagers [Greg Laden's Blog]

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    Greg Laden
    25 May 2013 | 7:53 am
    This guide covers most of the commonly heard vocalizations of American Teenagers. The text accompnaying the audio-video guide is here.
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    350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News

  • Announcing: Summer Heat - Mass Action Across the US!

    Duncan Meisel
    15 May 2013 | 6:38 am
    A letter from Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Sandra Steingraber, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood For the last two years, all across the country, people have said the same thing to us: “We’re ready to fight.” And as the planet lurches past 400 parts per million concentrations of CO2, the moment has come, the moment to ask you to do hard, important, powerful things. The last two weeks of July are, statistically, the hottest stretch of the year. This year we want to make them politically hot too. Which means we need you, out on the front line. We need some of you to risk going to…

  • A major milestone.

    Duncan Meisel
    10 May 2013 | 10:37 am
    For the first time, NOAA's Mauna Loa observatory recorded an average daily CO2 concentration above 400 parts per million. Globally, we're not yet at annual averages above 400, but this is indeed an important milestone. We've created 400.350.org to reflect on what this means, and talk about what we're doing to cool the planet. Please take a moment to read and share.

  • Take the Transition Challenge!

    Allyse Heartwell
    7 May 2013 | 5:40 pm
    This guest post was written by Marissa Mommaerts. Marissa is the Communications Manager at Transition US, the national hub of an international network of communities transitioning away from fossil fuels toward sustainable, local economies. During the month of May, join thousands of people across the country taking action to move our economy and society away from dependence on fossil fuels through the Transition Challenge.   Organized by Transition US, the Transition Challenge is an opportunity to get your hands dirty, create something beautiful, and be counted as part of a bigger…

  • Sitka, Alaska moves community members to create a resilient energy future

    Allyse Heartwell
    3 May 2013 | 10:04 am
    This guest post was written by Ray Friedlander at the Sitka Conservation Society. Alaska’s identity has been drilled into oil, and with the recent passage of Senate Bill 21 or the “Oil Wealth Giveaway Bill,” the state plans to subsidize this identity through billion dollar tax breaks to the world’s most profitable corporations at a huge financial loss to the climate, the state, and its citizens over the next several years.   Despite this statewide decision, the costal Alaskan town of Sitka has been approaching its energy needs differently. Sitka is committed to resiliency, the…

  • #FossilFreedom Day of Action Kicks off Across the Country

    Jamie Henn
    2 May 2013 | 10:06 am
    Over 50 events are planned on college campuses across the country today to highlight the growing fossil fuel divestment movement that has spread to more than 300 colleges and universities over the last semester. One of the day's largest events will take place at San Francisco City Hall, where students from across the city will rally with 350.org founder Bill McKibben  and city supervisors who recently voted unanimously to push the city’s pension fund to divest $583 million from the fossil fuel industry. San Francisco was inspired to work towards divestment because of the student…
 
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    Watts Up With That?

  • Historical Sea Surface Temperature Adjustments/Corrections aka “The Bucket Model”…

    justthefactswuwt
    25 May 2013 | 1:33 pm
    Image Credit: Bob Tisdale – bobtisdale.wordpress.com By WUWT Regular Just The Facts The recent Adjustments/Corrections to the HadCRUT4 and CRUTEM4 Temperature Data Sets by the Met Office Hadley Centre and Climatic Research Unit got me thinking about the cumulative impact … Continue reading →

  • Josh on great moments in use of the ‘D word’

    Anthony Watts
    25 May 2013 | 11:18 am
    Lucia notes: As some of you know, Dana flung the “D” word at Richard Tol. He and a sympathizer who uses the handle “@IdiotTracker” have provided interesting definitions of either “Denier” or “acting like a denier”. For those who don’t … Continue reading →

  • Saturday silliness – more motivation to leave California

    Anthony Watts
    25 May 2013 | 7:18 am
    Yesterday I lamented the potential banning of fire. For those of you that don’t know, I live in a town that rivals Berkeley for nuttiness. Thanks to the progressive thinking fomented by Chico State University, Chico is often like an … Continue reading →

  • Stacked Volcanoes Falsify Models

    Willis Eschenbach
    25 May 2013 | 12:28 am
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, this has been a circuitous journey. I started out to research volcanoes. First I got distracted by the question of model sensitivity, as I described in Model Climate Sensitivity Calculated Directly From Model Results. Then … Continue reading →

  • Time to leave – California wants to ban campfires at the beach

    Anthony Watts
    24 May 2013 | 9:55 am
    From the Washington Times, idiocy only bureaucrats could muster: “Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we’ve gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the … Continue reading →
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    "climate change" - Google News

  • Severe weather partly a result of climate change - NBCNews.com

    25 May 2013 | 4:23 pm
    Severe weather partly a result of climate changeNBCNews.comSevere weather partly a result of climate change. Damaging tornadoes are an annual springtime threat in parts of the country, but Monday's massive storm in Oklahoma, in a year that seems to have had more than its share of extreme weather, has many

  • Scientist Corrects Gullible Reporter: 'Climate Change' Not Causing More ... - NewsBusters (blog)

    25 May 2013 | 1:59 pm
    Scientist Corrects Gullible Reporter: 'Climate Change' Not Causing More NewsBusters (blog)A perfect case in point is the notion popularized by environmental alarmist Al Gore that the Earth is experiencing more severe weather events supposedly caused by “climate change.” Like his earlier debunked claims that global temperatures were

  • With climate change, villagers become strangers in their own land - The Express Tribune

    25 May 2013 | 1:49 pm
    The Express TribuneWith climate change, villagers become strangers in their own landThe Express TribuneWorld Wildlife Fund- Pakistan (WWF-P) recently organised a trip to the area where journalists got to explore the impact of climate change on people in these communities. A media manager for WWF-P, Tahir Abbasi, said that 0.27 million hectares had

  • Climate Change: UK Emissions Must Be Halved By 2030, Says Ed Davey - Huffington Post UK

    25 May 2013 | 11:54 am
    The IndependentClimate Change: UK Emissions Must Be Halved By 2030, Says Ed DaveyHuffington Post UKEurope should commit to a tough new target to halve emissions by 2030, Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has said. The Lib Dem Cabinet minister said the goal was ambitious but achievable as the Government set out its position ahead of efforts to secure Britain calls for EU target to halve emissions by 2030The Independentall 7 news articles »

  • Climate change art exhibition opens in Beijing - The Guardian

    25 May 2013 | 5:04 am
    Climate change art exhibition opens in BeijingThe GuardianThe issue of climate change and environmental issues in general are the topic of much debate in China, both among the public and in the media. "It seemed logical that we bring it to China because the issues about climate change are often focused around
 
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    ScienceBlogs

  • Linguistic Guide to the Vocalizations of American Teenagers [Greg Laden's Blog]

    Greg Laden
    25 May 2013 | 7:53 am
    This guide covers most of the commonly heard vocalizations of American Teenagers. The text accompnaying the audio-video guide is here.

  • Around the Web: Librarian Angst & Bravery R Us, Open access vs academic freedom and more [Confessions of a Science Librarian]

    John Dupuis
    25 May 2013 | 5:29 am
    The Downside of Being Universally Liked 5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864 (satire) What’s a Library? Can Information Professionals Afford Apprenticeships? A Thought Experiment Faculty Usage of Library Tools in a Learning Management System The bravery of librarians We Aim to Misbehave Librarians need bigger egos Beyond measure: Valuing libraries Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics New Higher Education Model Higher Ed in 2018 Four ways open access enhances academic freedom…

  • Another Counterintuitive Math Problem [EvolutionBlog]

    jrosenhouse
    25 May 2013 | 12:18 am
    A while back I did a post about counterintuitive math problems. However, I deliberately held one back, since I was using it as my Problem of the Week for that week. So here it is: Suppose a steel beam, one mile long, is fastened securely to the ground at each end. As the day heats up, the metal expands. Let us assume that at the hottest part of the day, the metal is actually one mile and one foot long. Let us further assume that the beam is fastened in such a way that it can only buckle upward, and not side to side. Your problem is to estimate how high the beam will rise above the ground.

  • Cosmic Bombardment of the Earth ca 2.2 Million Years Ago? [Greg Laden's Blog]

    Greg Laden
    24 May 2013 | 5:31 pm
    There are bacteria that use Iron (and other elements) to make tiny magnets that they carry around so they don’t get lost. (I anthropomorphize slightly.) There are isotopes of Iron that are not of the Earth, but are found only elsewhere in the universe. Suppose an event happened elsewhere and spewed some of that cosmic Iron isotope, say Fe-60, onto the earth, and the bacteria who were busy making their tiny compasses at that time used some of it. Then the bacteria died and were trapped inlayers in seafloor sediment and later examined by scientists looking for … well, looking for…

  • How to find your very own supernova [Starts With A Bang]

    Ethan
    24 May 2013 | 4:50 pm
    “Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly because I have to – I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!” -Ronald Moore Well, you probably don’t actually want to feel the wind of a supernova flowing over you; trust me on this. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada, of the remnant of SN 1987a. But to find one for yourself, that’s definitely within your reach,…
 
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    Climate Change: Changing our World

  • Breakup Continues on the Wilkins Ice Shelf

    24 May 2013 | 7:43 pm
    Wave action and glacial dynamics split another chunk of ice off of the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2013. An ice shelf is a thick plate of ice attached to a coastline on one side and floating over the ocean on the other side. Many ice shelves fringe Antarctica, including the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, which underwent a series of breakup events in 1998, 2008, and 2009. Just as earthquakes can sometimes leave landscapes more prone to future quakes, the breakups on the Wilkins Ice Shelf left it vulnerable to further disintegration. In addition, the sea ice that had long…

  • For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change

    23 May 2013 | 2:15 pm
    If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried aboutclimate changeit would have to beinsurance, right? From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the Midwest Corn Belt, natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers last year, generating$35 billion in privately insured property losses, $11 billion more than the average over the last decade. And the industry expects the situation will get worse. “Numerous studies assume a rise in summer drought periods in North America in the future and an increasing…

  • "We are engaged in an unprecedented experiment." Scientist Michael Mann on 400ppm

    22 May 2013 | 3:20 pm
    "We are engaged in an unprecedented experiment." Scientist Michael Mann on 400ppm

  • Lines in the sand

    20 May 2013 | 8:03 pm
    A lot of what’s known about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be traced back to a chemist named Charles David Keeling, who, in 1958, persuaded the U.S. Weather Bureau to install a set of monitoring devices at its Mauna Loa observatory, on the island of Hawaii. By the nineteen-fifties, it was well understood that, thanks to the burning of fossil fuels, humans were adding vast amounts of carbon to the air. But the prevailing view was that this wouldn’t much matter, since the oceans would suck most of it out again. Keeling thought that it would be prudent to find out if that was, in fact,…

  • The Scientific Debate is Over

    19 May 2013 | 7:45 pm
     
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    Jennifer Marohasy

  • Ten of the Worst Climate Research Papers: 5 Years On

    Cohenite
    23 May 2013 | 3:34 am
    I consider anthropogenic global warming, AGW, a failed theory, but it still shuffles on like an animated corpse sustained by money, politics and the faithful.  The faithful keep publishing junk science.  I put a list together of the 10 worst climate science research papers in September 2008 [1].  I added to this list in April 2009 [2].  There was more by me published at Jo’s  AGW ‘science’ has fallen over a cliff.  Now I’m adding another ten papers to the worst list, so I guess it’s the ten recent worst. Regards, Cohenite. 1. Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global…

  • Expensive Water Still in Dams: Barnaby Joyce

    admin
    22 May 2013 | 1:07 am
    Media Release 850 billion litres of water purchased through Federal Government buybacks has not been used according to an Australian Audit Office report, Commonwealth Environmental Watering Activities, released today. This is despite the Federal Government not expecting to acquire even half the Murray Darling Basin water it has deemed necessary for environmental watering purposes. The Australian Government has bought an asset with borrowed money that the government does not know what to do with. This is a business plan very similar to that of the NBN. We are borrowing money from overseas to…

  • Dam Building in Singapore

    jennifer
    18 May 2013 | 12:21 am
    MANY South Australians, and the Australian government, and the Murray Darling Basin Authority, claim that it is necessary to have barrages across the bottom of the Murray River because of the upstream irrigation industries [1]. There is no equivalent large-scale irrigation in Singapore, but they have barrages across the Marina channel. In Singapore, unlike Australia, the government freely admit that the barrages have dammed the estuary to create a freshwater reservoir. Such refreshing honesty. Singapore is a tiny country with not much freshwater [2]. An official website explains [3]: “Built…

  • Open Thread

    admin
    14 May 2013 | 7:32 pm
    “NO one can deny that aspects of the environment are predictable. Day follows night, summer follows winter, most of us sleep when it’s dark, eat at midday and watch the 6.00pm news. Random events are for the most part whimsically quaint, as when the phone rings and it turns out to be the person you were thinking about. Oh, you exclaim, I must be psychic. But there is also a likelihood that between your and your friend’s life, some parallel pattern exists unaware to you both…” from Ken Ring’s book entitled ‘Predicting Weather by the Moon’

  • Haven’t Lost Half of the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2, Junk Methodology

    jennifer
    10 May 2013 | 5:28 am
    HOW could scientists conclude that half of the Great Barrier Reef has been lost in the last 27 years: target coral reefs most affected by cyclones, coral bleaching and crown-of-thorn starfish outbreaks, while ignoring more representative reefs with healthy corals. And I didn’t make that up! It’s documented in a peer-reviewed study by H. Sweatman, S. Delean and C. Syms entitled: ‘Assessing loss of coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over two decades, with implications for longer-term trends’ [1]. Indeed the claim that there has been a 50 per cent decline in coral cover at…
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    RealClimate

  • Introducing PubPeer.com

    group
    25 May 2013 | 8:12 am
    Guest post from PubPeer.com The process of reviewing published science is constantly occurring and is now commonly being called post-publication peer review. It occurs in many places including on blogs such as this one, review articles, at conferences around the world, and has even been encouraged on the websites of some journals. However, the process of recording and searching these comments is, unfortunately, inefficient and underused by the larger scientific community for several reasons: To successfully impact the publication process, this database of knowledge has to accomplish two…

  • The scientific debate on climate change

    david
    24 May 2013 | 12:19 pm
    by Jill and David Archer

  • Unforced Variations: May 2013

    group
    3 May 2013 | 8:28 pm
    This month’s open thread.

  • The answer is blowing in the wind: The warming went into the deep end

    rasmus
    26 Apr 2013 | 1:39 am
    There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on the last decade’s worth of temperature measurements, and a lengthy story in the Economist tries to argue that the climate sensitivity may be lower than previously estimated. I think its conclusion is somewhat misguided because it missed some important pieces of information (also see skepticalscience’s take on this story here). The ocean heat content and the global mean sea level height have marched on. While the Economist referred to some unpublished work, it missed a new paper by Balmaseda et al.

  • The PAGES-2k synthesis

    group
    21 Apr 2013 | 10:00 am
    Guest commentary by Darrell Kaufman (N. Arizona U.) In a major step forward in proxy data synthesis, the PAst Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Consortium has just published a suite of continental scale reconstructions of temperature for the past two millennia in Nature Geoscience. More information about the study and its implications are available at the FAQ on the PAGES website and the datasets themselves are available at NOAA Paleoclimate. The main conclusion of the study is that the most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which…
 
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  • Answers

    Jeff Condon
    21 May 2013 | 7:38 am
    So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere?   An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work.  The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending AR5 IPCC report.  It is being hosted at Bishop Hill blog and WUWT. New energy-budget-derived estimates of climate sensitivity and transient response in Nature Geoscience WUWT Since Skeptical Science pooped all over Nic’s result just last month, and that result has now been replicated by 14…

  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest

    Jeff Condon
    4 May 2013 | 9:01 am
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at the “subjects” being “studied” to justify the authors pre-determined conclusion personal attacks.  Lucia’s blog has an interesting discussion on the survey.  She decided that she would not to link the new survey at all.  It is an understandable decision as we can be…

  • Dana’s Planet

    Jeff Condon
    20 Apr 2013 | 7:23 am
    UPDATE: Nic Lewis left this interesting comment down below - Actually, in Chapter 9 of AR4 WG1, dealing with observationally-constrained estimates of climate sensitivity, the IPCC only discuss medians and modes. Not a mean in sight! And it refers to the mode as the “best estimate”. Nor does Figure 9.20 (where the estimated PDFs for climate sensitivity from Forest 2006 and other studies are shown, labelled EQUILIBRIUM climate sensitivity) mark the means. And Forest 2006 itself only reported the mode. So I’m not being either misleading on any count, or misrepresenting anything. But Dana…

  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding

    Jeff Condon
    9 Apr 2013 | 3:32 pm
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearly inspired my reading, and unfortunately the inspiration came through a wholly skeptical lens.  In time it has turned out that the skeptical perspective of the statistics and  data in paleoclimate were 100% justified. With data so noisy, yet so full of potential revelations, scientists are also…

  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics

    Jeff Condon
    30 Mar 2013 | 11:15 am
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this time, is relatively lightweight stuff, and it happens to involve the fortuitous filtering activities of Mannian filter-matics. I highlighted an email on the topic a few weeks ago here which contains a quote that I thing belongs in Willis’s article.   Michael Mann has long been interested in…
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    Powwownow Blog

  • Methods of increasing your productivity

    Sarah Fuller
    24 May 2013 | 7:15 am
    A common problem in today’s busy society is how to maintain a good work/life balance and ensure that the former doesn’t encroach on the latter. A good way to avoid this is to remove any temptation to stay late by increasing productivity during the working day. In our attempt to make life as easy as possible, here are a few ideas to keep in mind next time you’re feeling the pressures of time getting to you. 1. Have clear objectives and support It may sound obvious but making sure team members know exactly what their responsibilities are and what is expected from them is essential. This…

  • Branded Welcome Messages – what’s all the fuss?

    Sarah Fuller
    22 May 2013 | 1:34 am
    It’s not often that we take the indulgent step of dedicating a blog post to one of our services, but as personalisation of the customer experience becomes an increasingly important tool, we thought that we’d make an exception. If you’re already a user of the Powwownow service, or if you’ve had chance to nosy around our site before, then you’ve probably seen us mention Branded Welcome Messages. This is a personalised message that is recorded to your requirements and assigned to a dedicated dial-in number. Consequently, whenever a conference is held using this number, call…

  • Collaboration Technology Offer

    Jacqui Keep
    13 May 2013 | 5:51 am
    With Work Wise Week aiming to show businesses that there are smarter ways of working, Work Wise UK has teamed up with Powwownow to offer 100 lucky people the chance to sample our collaboration product Powwownow Engage. The first 100 people to email: workwiseoffer@powwownow.com and enquire about Powwownow Engage during Work Wise Week (12th – 18th May 2013) will be given a free three month trial for their company*. Successful individuals will be notified by 31st May 2013 by Powwownow. Powwownow Engage *Licences limited to 50 people per company for the trial period. 

  • The Smarter Connection – Powwownow Insights Whitepaper

    Jacqui Keep
    3 May 2013 | 8:30 am
    How Smarter Tools and Better Teamwork will Power Successful SME’s in 2013 The Smarter Connection With business leaders increasingly under pressure to be both more productive and more innovative – the ability to connect people together and getting them to work in a fast and flexible way is more valuable than ever. In this paper, the Insight Team from Powwownow share their latest research into the importance of effective collaboration and team work, explore how our offices are changing shape – and show how small businesses and medium sized enterprises can benefit the most from the…

  • CASE STUDY: A Million Minutes in a Day

    Jacqui Keep
    29 Apr 2013 | 6:20 am
    With the first quarter of the year firmly under our belts, we are strongly on track to meet our ambitious targets for 2013. This follows on from a momentous 2012 for Powwownow, with not one but seven ‘Million Minute Days’ being achieved. This meant that on those days, Powwownow users spent over a million minutes using the conference calling service. To achieve such a traffic rate in normal economic times would have been an achievement. To do so during today’s recession is something worth shouting about. First it is important to note the key reasons why people choose to use conference…
 
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    Behind Current Events

  • An Eco-friendly T-Shirt Line That Actually Looks Good

    Gina-Marie Cheeseman
    2 May 2013 | 9:15 pm
    Many people who try to live an eco-friendly life struggle to find clothes that actually look good and are made from greener materials. Enter a young entrepreneur from the Bay Area of California named Jamila Smith who created a line of t-shirts called BE TH3 CHANGE. The t-shirts are made from 50 percent recycled cotton ...read more

  • Major Businesses Sign a Climate Declaration

    Gina-Marie Cheeseman
    2 May 2013 | 7:15 pm
    Last month, 33 major U.S. companies signed a Climate Declaration which urges the Congress to take action on climate change by promoting clean energy, limiting carbon emissions and boosting efficiency. The companies include eBay Inc., Nike, and Limited Brands. Combined, the companies provide approximately 475,000 jobs in the U.S., and have a combined annual revenue ...read more

  • Nike Urged To Stop Buying Cotton Produced by Slave Labor in Uzbekistan

    Gina-Marie Cheeseman
    17 Apr 2013 | 6:34 pm
    In January, I wrote about slave labor used in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry. Uzbekistan is the sixth largest producer of cotton and the third largest exporter, so chances are great some of the clothes you wear contain Uzbeki cotton. For decades, the Uzbeki government has forced adults and children to pick cotton, and over a million ...read more

  • The Slave Labor Behind Uzbekistan Cotton

    Gina-Marie Cheeseman
    17 Jan 2013 | 12:56 am
    Chances are great that at least some of the cotton in the clothes you wear is from Uzbekistan. A Central Asian country, Uzbekistan is the sixth largest producer of cotton, and the third largest exporter, according to the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF). For decades the Uzbeki government, under President Islam Karimov, has forced adults ...read more

  • Activists Urge New York Governor To Uphold Fracking Ban

    Gina-Marie Cheeseman
    12 Jan 2013 | 12:10 am
    The state of New York has had a moratorium on the controversial method of gas extraction called hydraulic fracturing or fracking for two years. In a few months, New York will decide whether to lift the ban. Environmental activists are hoping the ban will stay, as evidenced by a recent protest in Albany, New York. ...read more
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    Climate Chronicle

  • The climate-conscious corpse (part 1)

    Rick Chamberlin
    3 May 2013 | 1:56 pm
    “God made death so we’d know when to stop.” -Steven Stiles “First, it’s not a matter of if your body will produce greenhouse gases, but when and over what length of time. At one extreme, burning will release all of the greenhouse gasses immediately. At the other extreme, putting your body in a coal-forming wetland might delay the release by many millions of years. Since the problem is anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the delayed release option would be the best option for addressing your concerns, since presumably anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions…

  • The hope cycle

    Rick Chamberlin
    30 Mar 2013 | 5:02 am
    “He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” -Ben Franklin Hope-sprung I was not raised Roman Catholic, or brought up in a faith tradition of any sort. Nevertheless, one Lenten season about a decade ago I gave up something significant – for good. What I gave up was hope, but that is not the only irony in this tale, because I hold a Catholic Archbishop responsible for the fact. It was Oscar Romero’s words, printed in the program of a Protestant church I happened to attend one Sunday all those years ago, that lodged themselves in my head and heart: “…if you need to feel hope…

  • Can we imagine a better future? On dystopias and hope

    Priscilla Stuckey
    9 Jan 2013 | 1:24 pm
    This post by Priscilla Stuckey was originally written for her blog This Lively Earth and is reprinted here with her kind permission and my photos. Priscilla’s critique of popular dystopian fiction and its role (if there is one) in meeting the climate crisis is nuanced and fair, and it speaks to many of the concerns and frustrations those of us who look to contemporary fiction for inspiration feel when we survey what appears to be a darkening literary landscape.  A blog reader named Ray contacted me a while back to say that he shares a deep concern about climate change. In fact,…

  • Sometimes you just gotta laugh

    Rick Chamberlin
    18 Dec 2012 | 6:32 pm
    In the immortal words of Van Morrison, sometimes we cry. I’ve written a lot about how important it is for those of us who care deeply about the natural world to express our grief over how climate change is altering our world. But sometimes you just gotta laugh. Mike Mossman and Lisa Hartman have long shared a passion for laughter, nature, music and each other — not necessarily in that order. The couple was recently driving to a friend’s birthday party when they started talking about the unseasonably warm weather. As musicians, Lisa and Mike are usually adapting Celtic tunes or…

  • We have seen the enemy…

    Rick Chamberlin
    3 Dec 2012 | 3:37 pm
    … and it is most definitely not us. It is true that almost all adults are responsible for the greenhouse gases that end up in the Earth’s atmosphere. As an American I am responsible for a hell of a lot more of it than the average world citizen. Bill McKibben pointed out during his stop in Madison last week as part of 350.org’s Do the Math Tour that the good ol’ US of A has put more carbon into the atmosphere than any other nation (China recently surpassed us in total yearly emissions but we still emit more on a per capita basis). But the average Jane or Joe American would be…
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    Claimer.org

  • Complete overview list of all climate change litigation articles on the news section of Claimer.org

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    1 May 2013 | 8:45 pm
    Peru: possibly an interesting forum for climate change compensation - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Ecuador climate change compensation good chances - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Colombia: A promising place for seeking climate change damage compensation - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Venezuela: apparently rather good chances for victims of climate change - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 Mexico: low

  • Peru: possibly an interesting forum for climate change compensation

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    1 May 2013 | 1:13 pm
    The Supreme Court of Justice Peru (Image Manuel González Olaechea) Peru is the latest of the Latin American we look at afters our first look at tort law systems in a view of possible climate change compensation litigation. Based on the Civil Codes of the respective state as few relevant legal literature, we tried to cover the important aspects of possible climate change compensation. The

  • Ecuador climate change compensation good chances

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    23 Apr 2013 | 1:53 pm
    the National Court of Justice in Ecuador After our first look at tort law systems in a view of possible climate change compensation litigation we continue researching with Ecuador, based on the Civil Codes and relevant legal literature. The Civil Code of Ecuador obliges by its Article 2214 the authors of “delitos” (illegal acts / offenses) and of “cuasidelitos” to compensate damages. There is

  • Colombia: A promising place for seeking climate change damage compensation

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    17 Apr 2013 | 1:41 pm
    Colombian Supreme Court (Image Torax) After a brief first look at tort law systems we continue researching possible climate change compensation litigation in Latin American. The blog entries are mainly based tort law in the Civil Codes and a few relevant legal literature, if any, is available on the internet. The Civil Code of Colombia provides, in its Article 2341, for liability in case of

  • Venezuela: apparently rather good chances for victims of climate change

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    8 Apr 2013 | 9:28 am
    Venezuela climate change changes apparently look good (Image: Claimer.org) In a series of short blog entries we have a first look on Latin American tort law systems in a view of possible climate change compensation litigation. The blog entries are mainly based on the Civil Codes of the respective state as few relevant legal literature, if any, is available on the internet. Here we discuss
 
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