1 hour ago by jblevins

Recently, the Eco-Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches went on an immersion experience to Whitesburg, Kentucky, to see the impacts of Mountain firsthand, but also heard the stories of people whose lives have been drastically impacted – from lost jobs, to lost homes and propertie ...

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1 hour ago by Gerry Canavan

Misc. * Ezra Klein argues Nancy Pelosi is playing three-dimensional chess. * "Tea Party" is now a registered party in Florida. Excelsior! The sky's the limit. * John Hodgman now has a daily podcast. * 40 House Democrats are now threatening to vote no on the health care conference bill unless Stupak ...

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1 hour ago by Chase Martyn

State Rep. Ralph Watts (R-Adel), an outspoken critic of climate change science, has been reappointed to the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council. The council was authorized in 2007, and the four non-voting members from the legislature serve two-year terms, appointed by the head of each party’s caucu ...

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2 hours ago by JoFerguson

Aside from a few notable exceptions, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that most of the Mainstream Media won’t be directly involved in actually MAKING any environmental news by at least driving any progressive or new Public Opinions. Fair enough, because as we’ve already discussed, It’s not really ...

Envirogy - envirogy.wordpress.com · 2 references

2 hours ago by The Piping Shrike

Malcolm, Barnaby, Andrew, Janet stop gambling with our future. You’ve got to know when to fold ‘em and for the sceptics, that time has come. K Rudd 6 November I’m not as familiar with the Alumni of Bumcrack as you may be. Or any bumcrack quite frankly. Piers Ackerman Insiders 8 November A few nights ...

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2 hours ago by Jessica Benham

WASHINGTON — As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they’d heard on talk radio. So Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, Tex ...

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2 hours ago by Wes

It has always been easy for Greens and others who consider themselves progressives to find reasons for the easy reception of the climate change denial message. We blame it all on the power of corporate advertising, on lobbyists, on the evil nature of a pair of ex-junkies (Beck and Limbaugh) on talk ...

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3 hours ago by Greenbang

Greenbang’s weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim is to provide a numerical, week-to-week indicator of climate change developments. Items that qualify for listing in each week’s index include new climate data published in pee ...

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3 hours ago by gurmeet

The moment I lay my eyes on this article on windmills by Kumkum Dasgupta in today's Hindustan Times, I just knew that it would be strong on uninformed tosh and unquestioning credulity. I was not disappointed(or rather was- that this large article was no different from thousands of others).Here is th ...

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3 hours ago by skyler hype

So it seems that nuclear has become entangled in the debate over America’s energy future with senate republicans calling for nuclear power to play a much larger role in the energy and climate bill. John Rowe, chief executive of Exelon—the biggest operator of nuclear plants in the country – has calle ...

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