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Raw Story has printed a letter sent to Congress from thousands of US scientists and experts.
In it, our scientific community expresses unconditional recognition of the real dangers of global warming, the impact it’s already had on our planet, and the urgent need for government action to reduce our fossil fuel consumption. Though […]

Admit it. Environmentalists have gotten to you.

I am sorry, Keptin. I… must.. hug… this… YEEEEARRRGH!
Now those nature-humping bastards are trying to plant their ear-bugs in the kindly old folk at the Supreme Court home:
The Supreme Court is set to enter the debate on global warming for the first time next week when 12 […]

My favorite anti-feminists are back, putting the “propriety” back in “prudery,” complete with a link to a two-year old article about marketing to kids. I almost blogged that one, but it wasn’t even timely when it was written (2004) as it was mostly a book report style regurgitating of 2001’s “Merchants of Cool,” a […]

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works seems to think that, like tye dye and peace pipes before it, the fad known as global warming is becoming dreadfully uncool.
Get it? Global Warming? Uncool?
I kill me.
But I may not kill me before the planet does if the […]

A BBC.com editorial by World Conservation scientist Jeffery McNeely lists some of the lesser-discussed cons of biofuels, including ethanol:

However, biofuels - made by producing ethanol, an alcohol fuel made from maize, sugar cane, or other plant matter - may be a penny wise but pound foolish way of doing so….
-Much of the fuel that Europeans […]

Fuck it. If the feds won’t act, maybe a bunch of other states will follow California’s lead (h/t Raw Story):
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and four other automakers were sued by California for making vehicles that contribute to global warming, causing pollution and erosion that costs the state millions of dollars.
The lawsuit filed […]

What if this were true?
Within the next decade or two, Lovelock forecasts, Gaia will hike her thermostat by at least 10 degrees. Earth, he predicts, will be hotter than at any time since the Eocene Age 55 million years ago, when crocodiles swam in the Arctic Ocean.
“There’s no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the […]

It’s been a nice day for me, and I’ll pass the feeling on by blogging some nice news.
First up, from MSNBC, an article on eco-friendly travel. I didn’t know what carbon-offsetting was until I ordered some stuff online from a company that offered it as an option. I’m still hazy on how it […]

As the Republicans have been telling us, there are great positives to global warming (which does not exist, unless needed) that us pansy liberals are too negative to see.
The 49-year-old reindeer rancher says a warming trend in Greenland over the past decade has caused the glacier on his farm to retreat 300 feet, revealing land […]

Anyone care to speculate on the future price of Antarctican real estate?
Trees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard.
With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 […]

Pam Spaulding linked Shake’s Sis who linked Brad Plumer who got us all talking about the Alternet piece on the energy-hogging epidemic of American air-conditioning.
From Alternet via Brad (whose comment is in the middle):
The United States devotes 18 percent of its electricity consumption just to air-condition buildings. That’s more than four times as much electricity […]