From Scripps Howard, Aug. 12: The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from… Read moreSatellite data: Greenland ice cap melting fast
More insidious lies from the liberal media. We all know that global warming is just a myth. So what if people make money by stating this truth? Why does the liberal media hate capitalism?* From ABC News, July 27: Making… Read moreUtilities fund global warming skeptics
Talk about your great moments in bad timing. Will we hit the much-feared $100 per barrel before the year is out? From Bloomberg, Aug. 8 (links and emphasis added): Oil traded near a three-week high in New York on concern… Read morePrudhoe Bay closure jacks up oil prices
Brian Tokar of Vermont’s Institute for Social Ecology writes: Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30 in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and… Read moreMurray Bookchin, visionary social theorist, dies at 85
North Korea notoriously test-fired at least seven missiles July 4—although the intercontinental Taepodong-2, which we were told could reach parts of the Western US, failed less than a minute after launch, falling into the Sea of Japan, along with the… Read moreJuly 4th fireworks threaten life on Earth
From AFP, June 7 via Spacewar: A new world war involving nuclear weapons may have already begun, Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday, warning that an attack on Iran would be disastrous. Mahathir said that bloodshed in Iraq… Read moreMalaysia’s Mahathir: “World War 4” looms
The Bush administration has just upped the ante on turning federally-administrated public lands over to corporate interests. Previously, they had just pushed to expand timber, oil and mineral lease rights, citing the energy crunch and need for “energy independence” due… Read moreBush seeks privatization of national forests
A good thing we all know global warming is only a myth. From MSNBC, May 2: BEIJING — Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming and the environmental consequences may be… Read moreTibet: glaciers melting fast
From AP, May 3: Sonar tied to deaths of 400 dolphins? Zanzibar scientists look for clues; U.S. Navy task force in area ZANZIBAR – Scientists are studying the remains of some of the 400 dolphins that washed up dead on… Read moreMeanwhile, the dolphins are dying…
This is just about the most insidious thing the Bush boys are doing—because while plans to bomb Iran at least spark headlines and outrage, plans to bomb the Moon languish in the back pages of the newspapers, and even many… Read moreBush plans bombardment of Moon
This one isn’t a joke, tho we wish it was. Another entry in the fast-mounting signs of global ecological collapse. From AP, March 31: WASHINGTON – A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed… Read moreMeanwhile, the coral is dying…
Six meters is almost 20 feet. From The Guardian, March 25: Half of Greenland and vast areas of Antarctica are destined to melt if global warming continues at the same pace until the end of the century, scientists warned on… Read moreStudy: half of Greenland could melt
