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The next step in Nuclear energy?

Professor Bob Cywinski is every inch the academic: a wavy-haired, bearded man with a... more

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Bill McKibbon email re: Keystone XL...It's baaaaaaaack!!!!

The Keystone XL zombie is lurching back to life and we need your help to knock it back again.

This week, the Senate is considering a series of tricks designed to force approval of the project. It’s hard to track what’s real and what’s just noise, but our friends on the Hill assure us this is a crucial moment for the public to weigh in.

Keystone XL is the perfect symbol of the cronyism that’s corrupting our government: the 44 Senators who co-sponsored the most recent piece of legislation have taken $22.3 million in oil and gas money -- that’s more than three times as much dirty money as those opposing the pipeline. The one Democrat on this list, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, has taken more money from the fossil fuel barons than anyone else in his party—it’s really just a game of follow-the-cash.

We need to let the Senate know that we’re on to their game. Last month, we called a penalty on Congress with hundreds of referees blowing the whistle in Washington, DC. In the coming weeks, we’ll be organizing dozens of similar referee actions in districts across the country.

Together, we’re not only beating back Keystone XL but going on the offensive against an even larger scam -- the billions of taxpayer dollars the fossil fuel industry gets in handouts and subsidies every year.

Right now, the most important thing we can do is flood the Senate with messages opposing Keystone XL. Here’s the link where you can send an email:

act.350.org/letter/senate-keystone-xl-feb/

Your great work all fall and winter has meant that energy and climate issues are at the heart of the debate in Washington as they’ve really never been before. It’s good to see our representatives engaged on this.

Now we need to press even harder—and not just about this single pipeline, but about the deeper question of whether we’re ready to rein in the fossil fuel industry and get serious about clean energy. Thanks to you, that’s what’s on the line.

With respect,

Bill McKibben for 350.orgThe Keystone XL zombie is lurching back to life and we need your help to knock it back... more

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The Future of Nuclear Power

Here it is, in all its morbid glory.

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Israeli scientists/activists bring green power to West Bank village Susya, South Hebron Mountains

Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the... more

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Can the Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have in Store?

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Wave Powered Pistons To Generate Hydrolic Power For England

23 January 2012 Last updated at 05:05 ET Plans for sea energy device Searaser... more

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BP may pay U.S. $25 billion for Gulf spill

Who would get the money? *** BP Plc (BP/), the operator of the Macondo well that... more

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The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats - free Energy hidden from 1914.

The Moray Radiant Energy discovery, using radiations from the cosmos as its power... more

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Prophetic Predictions for 2012

The great seer, Obscuranto Oracula, predicts major events for 2012.

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Autoprodurre energia con rinnovabili e staccarsi dalla rete elettrica, è possibile?

la produzione e distribuzione dell’energia elettrica diventa un problema sia... more

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Electric Charging Stations In San Francisco

I went to my local Walgreen's today and got a surprise. They had a charging... more

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Oil Cowboys Strike Rich Crude In Desert

Amazingly, cowboy's tankers line up to wait for the black gold to flood out of... more

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Biofuel Research Boosted by Discovery of How Cyanobacteria Make Energy

A generally accepted, 44-year-old assumption about how certain kinds of bacteria make... more

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Production Tax Credit: Lifeline to US wind frays

With anti-government zeal in America high and US lawmakers unable to reach a consensus... more

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Keystone XL: The Pipeline That Won't Die

The zombie pipeline lives! You might think that the Obama administration's... more

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The solution to the world energy crisis?

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NY Times gets blunt: Climate action requires a fundamental remaking of the sinews of modern life

John Broder had this remarkable sentence in his Sunday New York Times dispatch from Durban:

Effectively addressing climate change will require over the coming decades a fundamental remaking of energy production, transportation and agriculture around the world — the sinews of modern life.

This is uncharacteristically blunt for the Times. It reflects a worldview that is generally not reflected in their overall coverage, as I discussed in “The New York Times Abandons the Story of the Century and Joins the Energy and Climate Ignorati.”

Broder’s point is that the UN process is simply not up to the task of addressing the climate problem:

It is simply too big a job for those who have gathered for these talks under the 1992 United Nations treaty that began this grinding process.

“There is a fundamental disconnect in having environment ministers negotiating geopolitics and macroeconomics,” said Nick Robins, an energy and climate change analyst at HSBC, the London-based global bank.

Unfortunately, most economics ministers are pretty clueless about the subject. That said, I’ve never been a big fan of the current process, which requires near-unanimous consent by nearly 200 countries.

What’s most blocking action, from my perspective, isn’t the process so much as the failure of the media and policymakers here and around the globe to realize that failing to address climate change will lead to an even bigger remaking of what’s left of modern life in a world of 10°F warming (see An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces“).

Inaction will create the almost impossible task of feeding 9+ billion in “the face of a rapidly worsening climate.” And avoiding mass starvation and general chaos will certainly require a fundamental remaking of the world. The NYT‘s science reporter Justin Gillis gets this, as you see in articles like “Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet” and “Global Warming Hinders Crop Yields, Study Finds.”

We cannot escape fundamentally remaking the sinews of modern life over the coming decades — in a sustainable way if we act on climate and in a catastrophic way if we don’t. Now is the time for major media outlets like the New York Times to remake their coverage to inform the public of this far more clearly and unambiguously.

More at the linkJohn Broder had this remarkable sentence in his Sunday New York Times dispatch from... more

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Genocidal Cynicism - by Fidel Castro Ruz

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Romney: Scientists can figure out global warming 50 years from now

By Muriel Kane Friday, December 9, 2011 When asked about his views on climate... more

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If Ignorance Is Bliss America Is Heaven

Human Rights Day is today Saturday, December 10, 2011

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