The EU’s carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, according to an investigation by BBC Radio 4’s “File on 4” program. According to the consumer watchdog Energywatch, after… Read moreBBC: carbon trading a scam
New satellite analysis shows that at least once in the past several years, masses of unusually warm air—up to 40 degrees Fahrenheit—pushed to within 300 miles of the South Pole, melting surface snow across an expanse the size of California…. Read moreSatellites detect interior Antarctic melt zone
George Monbiot writes on ZNet, May 12: Request for Climate References People who deny that manmade climate change is taking place have this in common: they do not answer their critics. They make what they say are definitive refutations of… Read moreAlex Cockburn denies climate change; George Monbiot drops gauntlet
Federal regulators have fined the operators of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant $130,000 for failure to meet an April 15 deadline to install a new emergency siren system for the 10-mile evacuation zone around the plant. Officials from… Read moreNew York’s Indian Point nuke plant fined $130K
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 April 2 that global warming is real, and that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts lost valuable shoreline because of its effects. Writing for the majority in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, Justice John Paul Stevens… Read moreSupreme Court: global warming exists
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his first editorial since largely disappearing from public view due to illness last year, charged US demand for biofuels directly hurts the world’s poor. The article, appearing in the official Cuban newspaper Granma, was titled… Read moreFidel bashes bio-fuels
The threat of terrorism has allowed governments around the world to crackdown on the rights of ethnnic minorities, according to the latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights Group International. The report finds that key allies of the US… Read moreReport: ethnic minorities under threat in GWOT
More sinister propaganda on the New York Times op-ed page March 16, this time from Russell L. Schweickart, a former Apollo astronaut and chairman of the B612 Foundation, “which promotes efforts to alter the orbits of asteroids.” Entitled “The Sky… Read moreNYT op-ed: nuke the asteroids!
Hey, fuck the polar bears. If they don’t have what it takes to survive in an unregulated free-market economy, why does the world owe them a living?* From the San Francisco Chronicle, March 9: U.S. accused of silencing experts on… Read moreWhite House censors scientists —again
From No War, No Warming: Fight Climate Change, Not Wars for Oil! It’s time to bridge the divide between the peace movement and the climate action movement. For far too long, our groups have been working on one or the… Read moreNew coalition bridges Iraq war, climate change
Our January issue featured the story “Niger Delta: Behind the Mask” by Ike Okonta, which explored the concept of petro-violence, pioneered by Michael J. Watts of UC Berkely, in the context of contemporary Nigeria— where oil exploitation has only brought… Read moreUS oil profligance and third world petro-violence: our readers write
It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight
