Billionaire Activist Tom Steyer Vows To Battle Trump, Says Money Not An Issue

November 28, 2016

Tom Steyer is putting together a strategy that will “engage voters and citizens to fight back.” From an Article by Richard Valdmanis, Huffington Post, November 16, 2016 Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $140 million on fighting climate change, said on Tuesday he will spend whatever it takes to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-drilling [...]

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Climate Reality has a Way of Seeking Attention Now or Taking its Toll Later

November 27, 2016

The divorce from reality while understandable, desperately needs correcting Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Jane Lew, Lewis County, WV  It is obvious to most well educated people that the world is approaching several kinds of crises at once.  I hardly need mentioning them – exponential population increase,  greater need [...]

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NOTE: “Remembrance Day for Lost Species” is November 30th

November 26, 2016

Why don’t we grieve for extinct species? From an Article by Jeremy Hance, The Guardian, November 19, 2016 Photo: Martha flies again. Martha was the world’s last passenger pigeon, who perished on September 1, 1914. Once the most populous bird on the planet, passenger pigeons vanished remarkably quickly due to overhunting and habitat destruction. In 2014, mourners [...]

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Trees Planting Project Started in 2013 to Honor Civil War Dead

November 25, 2016

The goal is to plant one tree for each soldier who died in the line of duty. From an Article by Greg Toppo, USA Today, December 21, 2013  LEESBURG, Va. — On a busy stretch of suburban highway an hour’s drive south of the Mason-Dixon Line, workers are digging holes in a grass median, then [...]

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U. S. Active in COP22 Paris Agreement at Marrakech, Morocco

November 24, 2016

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech at the COP22 climate change conference on November 16, 2016, in Marrakesh.  MARRAKECH, Morocco—The Obama administration fulfilled what is probably its final major contribution to the Paris Agreement yesterday, releasing an outline for how the United States can act in the long term to help the [...]

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EARTH as Seen from Four Billion Miles Away — A Pale Blue Dot

November 23, 2016

A Pale Blue Dot: EARTH as Seen from Four Billion Miles Away From the Book “Pale Blue Dot,” by Carl Sagan, Cornell University, 1994 PHOTO: The Pale Blue Dot of Earth, NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2/14/1990 This excerpt from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan’s suggestion, [...]

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Methane Leaks in Pittsburgh Sniffed Out via Google’s Cars

November 22, 2016

Google is Using Street View Cars to Map Methane Leaks in Pittsburgh From an Article by Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front, November 18, 2016 This past week, I squished into the backseat of a Google Street View car with Karin Tuxen-Bettman. She manages the Google Earth Outreach program, and she traveled to Pittsburgh from California [...]

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Fracking Now Directly Linked to Earthquakes in Alberta, Canada

November 21, 2016

Groundbreaking Study Shows Direct Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes From an Article by Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch.com, November 18, 2016 IMAGE: Seismicity of northwestern Alberta, Canada for the period 1985−2016. The size of the dot correlates to the magnitude of the earthquake. Xuewei Bao and David Eaton Geoscientists have revealed a direct link between hydraulic fracturing, [...]

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Finn Harries Speaks Against Climate Change at the United Nations

November 20, 2016

The scale and the immediacy of the problems we face today present a really unique opportunity for change From Project 1324, Parsons School of Design (NYC), Nov. 17, 2016 On November 3rd I had the opportunity to speak at the United Nations in New York to incoming students at Parsons School of Design as part [...]

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Military Leaders Urge President-Elect to See Climate as a Security Threat

November 19, 2016

Dozens of military and defense experts advised the president-elect that global warming should transcend politics From an Article by Erika Bolstad, ClimateWire, November 15, 2016 PHOTO: Rising sea levels are a theat to naval bases such as the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. It may well end up in the paper shredder, but a bipartisan group of [...]

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