Uhhhhhh… Check your calendars, everybody. It’s not April fool’s day, right? Read this:
In one of the most unexpected conversions since Saul of Tarsus hit the road to Damascus, Rupert Murdoch is turning into a green campaigner. He is making the whole of his worldwide operations carbon neutral and setting out to “educate and engage” his […]
Earth Day was Sunday, April 23rd. How do Americans feel about global warming and who do they trust to solve the problem?
Here are the results of a new Washington Post/ABC poll on public attitudes towards the environment in chart format, provided exclusively by The Daily Background.
Today the Supreme Court rebuked the Bush Administration, deciding with the pro-regulation environmental side in saying that the EPA has the right to regulate harmful CO2 emissoins from cars and other vehicles. Here’s the Wapo:
The Supreme Court today ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, narrowly siding with […]
You can watch Al Gore’s opening statements from the Joint Hearing on climate change before the House Energy and Science Committees today over at Nancy Pelosi’s YouTube account. Part one here, part two here, and part three here. Gore also testifies before the Senate today, but there’s no video available for that yet. Evidently a […]
NYT this weekend:
The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.
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Kristen A. Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House on environmental […]
John McCain on Ethanol in 1999:
“Ethanol is not worth it. It does not help the consumer. Those ethanol subsidies should be phased out. And everybody here on this stage, if it wasn’t for the fact that Iowa is the first caucus state, would share my view that we don’t need ethanol subsidies. It doesn’t help […]
A recent Harris Interactive poll that has gotten literally zero coverage in the United States asked respondents in five European countries, plus the those here in United States whether they thought that corporations should be taxed in accordance to the amount of pollution they create.
The results are quite something. 82% of Americans think that the […]
This is a 2006 video of Al Gore giving a follow up talk to his more famous global warming presentation. Gore relates several funny anecdotes as well as some important facts about climate change. On the whole though, it’s very funny stuff.
Reuters reported this week that the British government will be distributing a “global warming information pack” to all of its secondary schools (high schools) soon:
The government will distribute Al Gore’s dramatic global warming film to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis, Environment Minister David Miliband said on Friday.
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For the second year in a row, ExxonMobil announced today that they had their best year ever. And, for the second year in a row, that best year ever was also the best year for any company in history.
The record haul? 39.5 billion dollars. With zeroes, that’s $39,500,000,000, or a profit of more than $338,000 […]
A major international report on global warming is set to be published on Friday which will predict some of the most dire consequences yet if emissions caps and other pro-active environmental measures are not imposed. NYT:
Scientists involved in writing or reviewing the report say it is nearly certain to conclude that there is at least […]
Let me make it clear: I love YouTube. I think it’s the cat’s pajamas, and probably one of my favorite websites ever. But some of the people on the site are incredibly, incredibly dumb. And not just dumb, but dumb to the point of being hilarious. Check out the following exchange I had with some […]
According to a new poll of Canadians, a vast majority is willing to make sacrifices in their lives if it will help curb global warming. CTV says:
- 76 per cent are willing to pay to have their houses retro-fitted to become more energy efficient
- 73 per cent […]
An Inconvenient Truth in Scotland:
The film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, made by the former US vice-president Al Gore, is to be shown in secondary schools in Scotland as part of a new learning initiative unveiled today
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Initial pilot screenings are anticipated to take place towards the end of the current academic year with the […]
With the last item on the 100 Hours agenda related to global warming and big oil corporations, Speaker Pelosi has apparently decided to create a special new House Committee aimed at combatting global warming. Writes the AP in a pretty crappy article mostly focused on how Pelosi is shaking things up and how much she […]
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