The Republicans and their little followers just can’t seem to comprehend that “Global Warming” actually means climate change: Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A ‘Winter Storm […]
This is a huge victory for the environment: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. The dramatic intra-party showdown for the coveted position signals a leftward turn […]
The Sierra Club has been fighting this for a long time and they finally won: In a landmark action, the Environmental Protection Agency’s final decision-making board has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated. The Environmental Appeals Board ruled today that the EPA has no valid […]
More and more Americans are turning to alternative transportation in the face of rising fuel costs, credit crunches, global warming and a crumbling economy. That form of transportation also happens to be my favorite – a bicycle. Perhaps now we can get more work done on bike lanes and different cycling trails. I happen to […]
This is a stunning fact Salon has posted: […]The League of Conservation Voters analyzed transcripts of TV interviews and debates with the Democratic and Republican candidates. The interviews were conducted by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, MSNBC’s Tim Russert, Fox News’ Chris Wallace and CBS’s Bob Schieffer. As of Jan. 25, these five prime-time […]
But there global warming is a liberal myth The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned With all the warning signs we keep hearing about why isn’t global warming discussed more in the campaigns and […]
Mor e trouble for our planet: limate change has caused the greatest thaw of Greenland’s ice in half a century, perhaps heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in world sea levels, scientists said on Tuesday. “We attribute significantly increased Greenland summer warmth and ice melt since 1990 to global warming,” a group […]
Al Gore is now a Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it. “I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel […]
Wow Bush must be a liberal! He is going to the G8 to promote awareness on global warming. Well that is what the wingnuts are saying, but check out this story from today: The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the […]
I found it very interesting that so little time was dedicated to actual social issues. Global warming got very little attention, as did oil prices. Even when questions were asked on those issues, the candidates quickly ran to their old fear-mongering talking points of terror. For people that want to be President, they sure do […]