Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels Posted: 16 May 2013 07:19 AM PDT Garvin Jabusch A train, loaded with coal, crashed into the back of a passenger train in Czechloslovakia in 1868. Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon …

Extreme Weather and the 2012 Election

kristyGlobal Citizen, Earth Systems Science

August 9th, 2012 Let’s make climate change an election issue! Tell Romney and Obama to make climate change a campaign issue now! TAKE ACTION NOW! It’s official. July was the hottest month in U.S. history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But we don’t have to tell you …

Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming

kristyTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2012) — A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century. The research was published today in the journal Proceedings of …

Global Warming Causes Heat Waves, Says NASA Scientist

kristyTrendspotting

Global Warming Causes Heat Waves, Says NASA Scientist Heat wave events, once rare, are becoming more frequent due to global warming, says NASA scientist James Hansen. Such summertime heat events covered only 1% of Earth?s surface for most of the time since humanity has been studying the climate. Now, when …

Entirely Surrounded: Protesters Encircle White House, Close in on Tar Sands Industry

kristyGlobal Citizen

Entirely Surrounded: Protesters Encircle White House, Close in on Tar Sands Industry by Bryan Farrell Published on Monday, November 7, 2011 by Waging Nonviolence “We don’t know how many people it takes to encircle the White House, but we’re about to find out,” Bill McKibben told a crowd of over …

A Call for Civil Disobedience on the Keystone XL Pipeline

kristyGlobal Citizen

DEMAND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE! A Call for Civil Disobedience on the Keystone XL Pipeline FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2011 Contact: [email protected] Washington — Eleven veteran environmentalists on both sides of the border today called for demonstrations outside the White House later this summer to block the proposed Keystone XL pipeline …