Obama mocks deniers holed up in Congress

It's about time the president spoke out as described in this article. Way to go, Mr. President.

A paltry start in curbing climate change

That's the premise behind this NY Times op-ed I just read. And the headline is on the mark. I read nothing in the EPA's plan to curb the burning of coal any mention of individual Americans' carbon footprint. Where is the plea from President Obama to everyone to live more quietly and simply turn the lights off earlier each day? Growth for the sake of growth is the meandering spirit of the EPA plan. And that's not good enough.

Rejuvenating the green groups and climate change

I long served on the board of Pennsylvania Audubon, the state's office of National Audubon, and recall sitting through many meetings focused on such things as Audubon's Important Bird Area program. Now, as this NY Times article makes note of, the agenda at Big Green is climate change and refocusing the outreach on that pressing issue has meant changing basic operations. Read the article and let me know what you think.

The Big Melt accelerates

And still, the politicians listen only to what the lobbyists for Big Coal and Big Oil polluters are telling them. Oh, and the campaign contributions from those same people/outfits help keep the status quo alive. What a disaster. Read about the Big Melt here.

The Points of No Return

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote this telling piece for today's op-ed page. Somehow, though, I doubt whether any of the deniers will be shake loose from their protective moats of lies.

Our lonely home in Nature

And thet is Nature with a capital "N." I really prefer, on top of that, the phrase "Wild Nature." With a capital W and a capital N. This NY Times column looks at the topic suggested by the headline.

What does today owe tomorrow?

NY Times writer Justin Gillis tackles that question in this article.

The globe is running out of time

This editorial from today's NY Times drives (no pun intended) the point home: Earth is running out of time for nations to take real, meaningful action to curtail the constantly escalating burning of fossil fuels. For the U.S. Senate, that means kicking lobbyists out of the chambers and doing the real work its members were elected to do.

Fossil fuel dollars stopping U.S. progress on climate

Big Oil. Big Coal. the land raping industry. All of them and others are stopping any kind of legislative effort in Congress to even slow the buildup of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. So, what will it take to convince "elected" representatives to take action?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/us/politics/political-rifts-slow-us-effort-on-climate-laws.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140414&nlid=63006275&tntemail0=y

U.N. panel's report: Deadline is now for climate action

This NY Times article does all the explaining, but I wouldn't expect the U.S. Congress to act. Hell, it's already too late. I think about this every time I go for a fitness walk or a hike in the woods, burning calories not gasoline as I do so. Proud, well yes I am of myself. But a walk down the hall of the U.S. Capitol is not the same.

UN panel's warning on climate risk: The worst is yet to come

More reporting that yells at policymakers: Do something!

A look at the shills, skeptics and other climate change denalists

What a crowd. The Earth - our only planet - is entering what conservationists have termed the Sixth Great Extinction - but the shills skeptics and other shrills are worried only about the goodwill of their polluting campaign contributors and the other outliers in the "clean coal" universe. Read a dissection of the denalists.

Op-ed: Don't sell U.S. coal to Asian markets

There is no such thing as "clean" coal. Whether anthracite or bituminous, the stuff is fossilized dirt, and digging it up and shoveling it into a furnace means spreading the filthy, harmful dust. The writer of this NY Times op-ed says it right. If Americans care about the atmosphere we leave for generations to come, we'd better stop burning it, and selling it, too.

IPCC report out: 'Extremely likely' that humans behind climate change

This is The Associated Press's report, but what makes it noteworthy to me, at least, is the fact that I found it on the Daily Oklahoman's Web site. That's the daily serving the Oklahoma City metro area - in the heart of the state served by climate change denier-n-chief U.S. Sen. James Inhofe. Hah.

Warming climate worsening mercury pollution

Mercury pollution will, among many things, lead to the extinction of the Common Loon, THE bird of the North Country. Americans continue to thumb their noses at doing anything to stop the poisoning of our atmosphere. See http://www.livescience.com/39983-climate-change-worsens-mercury-pollution.html

IPCC to release its fourth climate assessment

And now, more than ever, the man-made situation is tipping to disaster for people of Earth's future. Read all about it right here.

A new paper released on Thursday reported that climate change compounded Hurricane Sandy's flooding, the damage. The paper also said that climate change worsened the U.S. heat waves, the shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, drought in Europe's Iberian peninsula, and extreme rainfall in Australia and New Zealand.And still, the U.S. Congress refuses to pass even the most mundane anti-greenhouse gas legislation. Still. Read more about the paper's findings.

Carbon dioxide and sea life

The NY Times today: "A new collection of scientific papers provide fresh insights on how the ecology of the oceans is being affected by the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities."
Yes, the research papers found what journalists like to call "mixed results," but the underlying damage is still pretty horrifying, according to this citizen scientist, i.e., me.

Get ready: Changing climate making wildfires more frequent, intense

This is hardly rocket science to those who've taken the time to learn the dynamics, but was continues to amaze me is the absolute lack of action on the part of Congress to take any sort of substantive, positive action to even slow climate change. What is wrong with those people?