The usually cautious International Energy Agency warns that without far-reaching action in the next five years, the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the “safe” 2 degrees Celsius.
Risk analysis and mapping company Maplecroft released the Climate Change Vulnerability Index, examining the climate risks and adaptive capacity of 193 nations. Many of the top-listed nations are now being devastated by floods.
The Occupy Wall Street movement reports demonstrations in over 1,500 cities across the globe Saturday, including over 100 US cities from coast to coast. Scores were arrested in New York, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Sacramento and San Diego.
Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic was pierced by a hole of unprecedented size last winter and spring caused by a long cold period in the stratosphere, according to new NASA research published in the journal Nature.
Virginia’s North Anna nuclear power plant, shut down by power failure after the East Coast earthquake, had seismographs removed in the 1990s due to budget cuts. Four other plants experienced “unusual events” due to the quake.
A Shell Oil spokesman in Aberdeen, Scotland, assured that “everything” possible is being done to contain a massive oil spill from a North Sea pipeline. But officials acknowledged that the pipeline is still believed to contain up to 660 tons of oil.
BP is denying blogosphere reports that the company has contracted 40 vessels to contain a new “oil sheen” near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster—but the denials are full of “wiggle words” and obfuscation.
A federal appeals court rules that human genes can be patented, as the Daily Mail reveals that British scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos. Relax, popcorn-heads, it’s only a movie.
We sure hope not, but this isn’t looking too good. From AP, June 26: BROWNVILLE, Neb. — A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were… Read moreFukushima on the Missouri?
As the new UN climate summit opens in Bonn, advocates of the hubristic “geo-engineering” agenda appear to have won the ear of some on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Extreme weather events, such as the flooding now devastating much of the South, are likely to increase in the future due to biospheric imbalance that once scientist terms “global weirding.”
Barack Obama announced that he is ordering the Interior Department to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve—as the oil industry gears up for a new thrust of expansion in the Last Frontier.
