Filed at 3:42 pm, Tuesday January 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 9:52 am, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Saturday January 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
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 […]
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Filed at 3:36 pm, Thursday January 18th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
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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Filed at 3:49 pm, Saturday December 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Oh man, you gotta check this out, it’s simply unbelievable. An environmental nonprofit, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sent out a press release which made its way to me the other day. Listen to this:
Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Wednesday December 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
If you’ve seen the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, you no doubt remember the animation of the polar bear drowning, because of global warming melting the block of ice he was living on. One of the most poignant moments of the film, I doubt if anybody left the theater able to forget it (if you haven’t […]
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Filed at 3:38 pm, Sunday December 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
So, should we be depressed that more Americans are certain that angels are literally real and actually flying around somewhere than are certain that global warming is real? Associated Press:
Belief in angels, however people define them, is highest — almost universal — among white evangelical Christians, 97 percent of whom trust in their existence, the […]
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Filed at 7:08 pm, Tuesday December 05th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who is set to take over the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works in January cannot wait to hold hearings on global warming issues:
Boxer said her first act would be to convene a series of hearings on global warming and climate change, as early as January.
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“There is going […]
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Filed at 12:18 am, Monday December 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The below video is from An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore discusses global warming skeptics.
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Filed at 11:30 am, Friday November 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I’ve mentioned him briefly earlier, but this bears bringing up again. Republican Senator Inhofe, the outgoing Chair of the Senate Environemntal and Public Works Committee thinks that global warming is a fraud. The man in charge of environmental matters in the Senate does not believe in climate science. Outrageous.
As an example of U.N. brainwashing at […]
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Filed at 10:03 pm, Tuesday November 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who was recently appointed as the future Chair of the Environment & Public Works Committee plans to do some excellent work regarding the environment and global warming (unlike her Republican predecessor, Jim ‘global warming is an elaborate hoax manufactured by hollywood elites’ Inhofe, who was truly a horror-show of a Senator […]
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Filed at 1:29 pm, Friday November 10th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s another Republican we can say goodbye to post-November 7th. Representaitve Richard Pombo of California. Hugely anti-environmental asshole, really. He stood out among his GOP colleagues as a leader of the viewpoint that earth’s resources and the environment ought to be exploited and thrown away.
Well, he was expected to be a shoe-in for re-election […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Friday November 10th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
In a promising sign, Senator Boxer (D-CA) has announced that she will take a much more aggressive approach to combatting global warming when she takes the reigns of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works come January. AP says she’s promising “major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup.”
The California Democrat […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Thursday November 02nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
From a McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder) article earlier this week titled “Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming“:
Most scientists believe that humans and their machines are mainly responsible for the 1.4 degree Fahrenheit rise in the world’s average temperature in the last 100 years. Most Americans think otherwise.
Last Wednesday, a group of 18 climate […]
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