Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn How close the world is to a catastrophic collapse of giant ocean currents is unknown, making halting global warming more critical than ever, scientists say Guardian, Damian CarringtonEnvironment editor Serious disruption to the Gulf Stream [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
November 15th, 2017 - 8:19 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who said that?
(I) “don’t think a single person—twenty-five years after the end of the Second World War, in 1945, and even with the use of their right reason and knowing how to read and write—had ever heard a word about the blind, inexorable and accelerating march of humanity towards the destruction of[...]
July 30th, 2017 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope Francis Attacks Trumpism
Allies of Pope Francis attack pro-Trump Christian fundamentalists in explosive article on ‘spiritual war’ An article being described as “explosive,” written by two allies of Pope Francis in a Vatican-reviewed publication, is taking on the “spurious alliance between politics and religious f[...]
July 17th, 2017 - 1:02 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
Trump wants to use a United Nations climate change fund to build coal-fired power plants in places endangered by global warming
Trump Wants More Coal Plants as a Solution to Global Warming! Did Macron offer Trump a bag of coal to endorse the Paris accords? The U.S. already donated $1 billion to the UN Green Climate Fun. A White House official said the U.S. is commuted to “work closely with other countries to help the[...]
July 15th, 2017 - 8:10 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who said?
“To put it succinctly, I think that preserving the environment is incompatible with the policies of the WTO, which are apparently designed to allow rich nations to flood the world with their merchandise with no restrictions whatsoever and to wipe out the industrial and agricultural development[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 12:58 am § in The Ave Scene
Will Canada’s Oil Destroy the Puget Sound?
ORCA vs. Sand Tar Joel Connely, Seattle PI: No two places in North America look less alike than the tar sands of Alberta, a vast, Mordor-like oil field, and the blue waters and islands of the Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca, shared by British Columbia and Washington. The “oil patch”[...]
May 22nd, 2017 - 8:21 am § in The Ave Scene
Washington loses fight, might pay up to $2B to save salmon
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year affirmed a lower court’s 2013 ruling ordering the state to fix or replace hundreds of culverts — large pipes that allow streams to pass beneath roads but block migrating salmon. Idaho and Montana joined Washington state in asking the[...]
April 10th, 2017 - 8:22 am § in Misc.
On Pesach … THE Ave Challenge: Who compared the environmental crisis to Auschwitz?
“Though nothing is comparable to the horror of Auschwitz, today globalization favours the great crimes committed against the environment, which cause tremendous harm and may have dreadful consequences for future generations. Are you sensitive to the problem of environmental protection?”[...]
March 9th, 2017 - 9:36 am § in America
GLOBAL WARMING: Be afraid of swimming off of California!
A helicopter crew off of Bolsa Chica State Beach in Southern California saw a great white shark. Lifeguards banned swimming from Warner Avenue to north Anderson Street in Sunset Beach. A mile of shoreline in Bolsa Chica State Beach was also closed. “Heed the signs, we are looking out for the publ[...]
July 8th, 2012 - 7:59 am § in Politics
When The Solar Industry Goes Political
Sunny Business Germans Lobby for Solar Subsidies By Alexander Neubacher and Catalina Schröder Der Spiegel DPA Solar subsidies cost German consumers billions of dollars a year and are widely regarded as inefficient. Even environmentalists are concerned that Berlin’s focus on solar comes at the[...]