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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
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- Biomass energy has been touted as a smart way to deal with bio-refuse. The idea is being reexamined though because the act of burning bio-refuse is more damaging than any alternative. Also, the pay off for making biomass burning carbon neutral is 50-100 years away, and we need to address climate conditions now, not later.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap – June 16-21
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Last night, in his first Oval Office speech, President Obama had the perfect opportunity to define his executive, leadership and inspirational skills and abilities, as the leader of the free of the world, the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. Did he succeed? Alas, while his rhetoric was somewhat soaring, or perhaps hovering, he yet again missed the tanker and failed at what could have been a golden and critical moment – to actively develop and implement a National Clean Energy Plan and tie the need to end our addiction to fossil fuels with the need to curb our emissions of climate changing GHGs.
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The draft of the American Power Act is now out (see NRDC’s first read summary of the entire bill). The core global warming pollution limits in the bill, covering all major pollution sources, are a solid foundation for Senate legislation to put a final bill on President Obama’s desk this year. So how does this legislative proposal address the critical international investments that aid our international efforts to address global warming?
Continue Reading Tools for Supporting International Action on Global Warming: American Power Act
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- Obama promises that his next focus will be the environment. It will be interesting to see how hard Obama pushes against industry and how much we accomplishes.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap-Up: April 11-19
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- Supreme Court Justice John Stevens announces his retirement, opening the door for Obama to nominate a second Justice. Grist explains what this means for environmentalism.
- Is environmentalism not enough, is global warming out of our control, should we focus on adaption rather than mitigation? Ecology.com explores this topic, and discusses Derrick Jensen’s version of environmentalism.
Continue Reading April 3rd-10th: Environmental News Wrap-Up
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Editor’s Note: This is the first of a new series of environmental current event reviews from our new contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander.
- Koch is a large, mostly unheard of US company that is one of the main funders of the climate denial movement. MotherJones shines a spotlight on them.
Continue Reading April 5th: Global News Highlights from an Environmentalist
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The President remains committed to advancing his stalled legislative agenda. Addressing the Democratic National Committee in Washington last Saturday, Obama insisted he is not going to let go of his aspirations for America. “I’m not going to walk away from the American people,” he said. “I’m not going to walk away on any challenge.”
Continue Reading The President’s Strategy and Climate Change Legislation
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Despite near instantaneous condemnation of his role in the culmination of the COP15 climate negotiations last week, president Obama voiced his frustration over the course those negotiations took and accord that resulted from them.
Continue Reading Obama Frustrated with Outcome of Copenhagen Climate Talks
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President Obama spoke here in Copenhagen about 50 minutes ago, following is the text of his speech as released by the White House:
Copenhagen, Denmark
December 18, 2009
Good morning. It’s an honor to for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come together here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. You would not be here unless you – like me – were convinced that this danger is real. This is not fiction, this is science. Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet. That much we know.
Continue Reading President Obama Speaks at COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen
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