On this week’s episode: Europeans go crazy for ethical squirrel meat. Bloggers can make a difference. DeSmogBlogger Kevin Grandia pwns The Heartland Institute for publishing a list of 500 scientists that deny Global Warming, and scientists are pissed! And Sarah Silverman’s for Human Rights in Burma. Burma can’t wait!
On this week’s episode: Al Gore is planning on making An Inconvenient Truth 2 - but not really, Crocs starts recycling and donating their “shoes,” Green Gorilla will entertain and educate your kids, and we check in on some Green Celebs.
From SciDev.Net
by Naomi Antony
3 April 2008
Biomass stoves contribute
to black carbon emissions
Flickr/Eileen Delhi
Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found.
They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.
“We’ve got one more thing to worry about,” says Veerabhadran […]
The Alliance for Climate Protection has unveiled a new website called We can solve the climate crisis and is reaching out to a diverse array of groups to build broader awareness and support for solving global warming. They’ve also created this video to illustrate the importance of Americans taking leadership on the issue:
Click here to […]
My good friend and newly inspired poet Terry Feingold wrote the following poem that I think is worth a ponder …
Woolly Mammals
by Terry Feingold
I sit, before me
Loosely clothed of garments soaked,
Well-read thoughts, some memories,
Some doubtful.
I lay, from within
We speak of melting,
Tomorrow knowing, today comes ghastly,
Meteoric troubled times.
Standing comes easily,
As one from afar, no future,
Not only […]
January 8, 2008 – 2:48 am
Global warming could cause northern plants to lose carbon
Jia Hepeng
4 January 2008
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere rather than sequester it, according to a new international study.
The research, published in Nature yesterday (3 January), looked at atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and carbon dioxide held in […]
January 4, 2008 – 9:36 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2008. “California and 15 other states sued the Bush Administration Wednesday, seeking to overturn a federal decision last month rejecting the state’s bid to curb greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, marks a […]
December 10, 2007 – 6:46 am
TreeHugger
People stranded on rooftops. Floodwaters covering the interstate. Thousands without power, displaced from their homes. Sound like the scene from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? Right now, it’s the reality for many communities in the Pacific Northwest. The region was recently hit by a major rain storm, which triggered massive flooding on rivers in Oregon […]
December 8, 2007 – 1:56 am
Earth Justice
Aviation sector must join efforts to fight climate change
December 5, 2007
Aircraft account for 12 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. transportation sources.
Washington, DC — A coalition of environmental groups, states and regional governments filed petitions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today urging the agency to address the effects of vast amounts of […]
December 7, 2007 – 2:12 am
GreenPeace
December 03, 2007
It’s said that a week is a long time in politics. The burning question is whether two weeks is long enough for governments to finally wake up, smell the carbon and confront the biggest problem facing the world. We say yes! It’s time for governments to take action on global warming.
Here it is […]
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