Obama never said anything about climate change during the campaign. He only mentioned it during his speech to staff after he was declared the winner.
Now some of America’s biggest companies, like Duke Energy, are helping the right wing to stop people of color, young people, and seniors from voting in order to help Republicans get elected.
“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”
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Tagged Climate change, outrage
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Society as a whole picks up the tab for the damage or ignores and denies the damage by human carbon emissions. Fossil fuel producers and consumers have avoided paying for these external costs to coal power.
Nothing to which you should pay attention, just Destruction of Life on the Planet as We know It, move along
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Also posted in analysis, atmosphere, denial, education, energy, equity, ethics, forecast, thermodynamics, world
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Tagged Arctic, Climate change, oceans
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On July 2, 2012 Reuters reporter Nina Chestney noted a concern that this weblog also related before with particular concern for East Coast cities, e.g., New York City, Norfolk, etc. Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed [...]
Reprint of article by Julia Whitty for Mother Jones High Park Wildfire, Colorado: USDA via Flickr The extreme weather that began in June (see Deanna Pan’s MoJo coverage here) has rolled over into July. Yesterday—only the first day of the month—was brutal enough to shatter 27 records and tie 24 records for the highest ever [...]
“Getting to 80 percent renewables efficiently suggests the need for construction of 110-190 million miles of new transmission and 47-80,000 miles of new intertie capacity across the three interconnections. This would cost anywhere from $6.4 to $8.4 billion annually. However, this is in line with recent annual investments of $2 billion to $9 billion annually from 1995-2008. So, the new infrastructure demands are well in line with our national trajectory.”
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Tagged civic, Climate change, electric power, energy
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“pleading for the rights of her generation and of generations to come.”
“China, which in 2006 took over the U.S.’s historical position as the world’s biggest emitter, raced ahead in 2010, emitting 9.1bn tons – up 15.5 percent on the previous year, and a 240 percent increase since 1992. That makes China alone responsible for about one-quarter of global carbon emissions from energy, emitting about 48 percent more than the U.S.”
