headermask image

header image

category archive listing Category Archives: climate crisis

Testing the Climate

December 28, 2007 – 4:49 am

Climate Crisis Coalition 
By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, December 24, 2007. “Last week, Al Gore, at the start of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, took note of a curious coincidence. Almost exactly seven years earlier — on December 12, 2000 — the United States Supreme Court had called a halt to the Florida recount, thereby un-electing him [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in Al Gore | Comments (0)

Action Alert: Stop the $40 Billion Loan Guarantees for Coal and Nuclear Power

December 18, 2007 – 1:54 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
By Ted Glick, U.S. Climate Emergency Council, December 17, 2007. “Word is that leadership in the House and Senate — meaning, in particular, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid — have agreed that there will be close to $40 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power, coal-to-liquids and coal-to-gas in the huge $520 billion or so [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in nuclear power | Comments (0)

Better access to earth observation data agreed

December 12, 2007 – 2:54 am

The declaration supports efforts to create a global satellite monitoring system
Lynne Smit and Christina Scott
10 December 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Ministers and government officials have signed a declaration to make earth observation research more accessible and support efforts to create a global satellite monitoring system.
The agreement was signed at the Ministerial Summit of the Group on Earth Observations [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in global satellite, observation | Comments (0)

This just in…act now

October 17, 2007 – 7:24 pm

 

 

Last week, our founder and chairman Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless efforts to help solve the global climate crisis. But he’s not working alone — millions of people across the country and around the world know that climate change is a critical issue that we need to act [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in Al Gore, nobel peace prize | Comments (0)

The Skinny Gray Whales

October 15, 2007 – 1:16 am

 
 
 

This comes to us courtesy of Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols. who is author of more than fifty scientific papers, book chapters, popular articles, and reports on sea turtle ecology and ocean conservation. His efforts are featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, Time, Newsweek and other international media. He is the author of the [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in climate, skinny gray whales, wallace j. nichols | Comments (0)

Federal Judge Rules that Bush Officials Broke Law by Not Reporting on Warming

August 26, 2007 – 9:23 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
Federal Judge Rules that Bush Officials Broke Law by Not Reporting on Warming
Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2007
“The Bush administration has violated a 2004 congressional deadline for presenting the latest scientific research about global warming to lawmakers and the public and must submit its report by next spring, a federal [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in bush officials, global warming | Comments (0)