Climate Change

How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:59 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)

Seeded by Bart Gruzalski (Clipped by truthlover)

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

environment, not-news

USGS Details Effects of Climate Change on Water Availability in 14 US Water Basins

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:26 PM EDT (Phys.or)

Seeded by Jerry Verlinger

Climate change projections indicate a steady increase in temperature progressing through the 21st century ..... .......generally resulting in snowpack reductions, changes to the timing of snowmelt, altered streamflows, and reductions in soil moisture, all of which could af …

netherlands, global-warming, environment, cattle, climate-change, insects, researchers, pigs, greenhouse-gases, bugs

Historic variations in sea levels. Part 1: From the Holocene to Romans

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:58 PM EDT ()

Seeded by space guy

Much hysteria among the AGW class about sea level rise, but not much data. Here is some data. Kudo's to Judith Curry

science, climate-change, anthropogenic-global-warming, data-manipulation, nasa-research-in-climate-change

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Obama has up to $1 million in JPMorgan account

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 2:26 AM EDT (The Daily Caller)

Seeded by Cornhusker4Palin

No wonder Barack Obama is being nice to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: The president has up to $1 million parked in Dimon’s bank. Obama’s money is held in a “JPMorgan Chase Private Client Asset Management” checking account, according to the president’s …

wall-street, politics, jpmorgan-chase, barack-obama, jpmorgan, joe-biden

Obama's War on Bald Eagles

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 2:59 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Seeded by Cornhusker4Palin

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is proposing to loosen regulations prohibiting the killing of bald eagles for the benefit of renewable energy companies. The Heritage Foundation’s blog “The Foundry” reports on the latest instance of the Obama administration …

politics, endangered-species, national-symbol, obama-administration, fox-nation, obamaa, andrew-stiles, green-eneergy, war-on-bald-eagles

Australian Labor - 'C' word scrubbed right out of its latest carbon tax ads

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 10:12 PM EDT (The Age)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

The Australian Gillard Labor Government has mounted a $36.1 million TV advertisement campaign to promote its latest hand-outs to poor or middle income Australians - but it doesn't mention that these are actually compensation for their newly-imposed Carbon Tax. i.e. taking with on …

us, abbott, labor, australia, coalition, world-news, carbon, greenhouse, co2, greens

Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen's Scary New Math

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 3:16 PM EDT (TIME)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

How can NASA physicist and climatologist James E. Hansen, writing in the New York Times today, “say with high confidence” that recent heat waves in Texas and Russia “were not natural events” but actually “caused by human-induced climate change&rdq …

science, climate-change, global-warming, climatology, james-hansen

Global Warming Creating Dangerous Conditions

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:42 AM EDT (About.com)

Seeded by Jerry Verlinger

The Himalayan Mountains in central Asia and Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the range and in the world, is one of the front lines for global warming in the world. Most climate scientists agree that the Himalayas, sometimes called the Third Pole bec …

environment, not-news, climate-change, global-warming, netherlands, greenhouse-gases, bugs, insects, pigs, researchers

Why Is the Gates Foundation Helping Monsanto?

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 8:20 AM EDT ()

Seeded by zippybob

Monsanto-patented seeds are usually costly, which has led to numerous accusations of exploitation and contemporary colonialism. But how long will these particular strains of seeds last? What are the guarantees? Critics fear dependence on corporate fertilizers and pesticides, the …

world-news, foundation-s

The Duopoly of the United States of America: Democrats and Republicans working hard for the 1% (LIVE POLL)

Sat May 12, 2012 7:17 PM EDT

By Bart Gruzalski (Clipped by truthlover)

Many folks on the Vine are comfortable with the claim that the likely Republican candidate will be working hard and furiously for the 1%. It doesn't take a lot to realize that the same is also true of the Obama Administration. While one can make excuses for Obama, t …

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