" ‘Green News Report’ – February 14, 2013 "

 

IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Special Coverage: Climate change takes center stage at the State of the Union address (though not in the corporate media) while activists and Senate Democrats turn up the heat … All that and more in today’s Green News Report!

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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): Fukushima: 3 youth diagnosed with thyroid cancer; GAO warns weather is changing; Superstorm Sandy 2nd costliest; $188b cost for weather disasters in two years; NY to ban Styrofoam cups?; NJ officials charged with poisoning drinking water; Tesla v. NYTimes; Solar ‘glass’ breakthrough; Fox News ‘stands in way of energy security progress’; Refinery fire: Chevron refinery pipes 80% corroded; Industry ousts scientist from EPA panel … PLUS: Global climate treaties work: Antarctic ozone hole smallest in 10 yrs … and much, MUCH more! …

STORIES DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…

• VIDEO: Obama’s State of the Union ‘Seems Like A Lot of Work’: (Colbert Report):
• Washington Post Overlooks Obama’s Extensive Remarks On Climate And Energy: If a tree falls in the forest (because of global warming), but the media doesn’t report on it, does it make a sound? (Climate Progress)
• Climate Change in the State of the Union 2013:
• Extended Transcript: Climate Hawk Obama: ‘If Congress Won’t Act Soon To Protect Future Generations, I Will’
  (Climate Progress):

• VIDEO: Obama on Energy: U.S. Must Combat Climate Change (ABC News)
• Full Transcript: Obama’s State Of The Union Address As Prepared For Delivery: (NPR)
• SOTU 2013: Energy Efficiency:
• State of the Union Hints at Ways to Bridge the Gap Between Old and New Energy (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Obama Clean-Energy Fund Would Gain If Oil Drilling Expanded (Bloomberg News):
• State of the Union address: What is Obama’s ‘energy security trust’? (CS Monitor)
• Using Federal Oil Revenues to Cut America’s Oil Use (NYT Green)
• Analysis and Response to the Climate SOTU 2013:
• State of the Union Hints at Ways to Bridge the Gap Between Old and New Energy (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Obama’s threat to act unilaterally on climate change? Looking empty (Grist) [emphasis added]:
• President Obama Wants to Go All of the Above on Energy. But Will Anyone Join Him? (TIME Eco-Centric):
• From Obama’s speech, four ambitious climate and energy proposals (David Roberts, Grist)
• Strangely Anti Climactic? (Climate Crock of the Week)
• Debunking Nature’s arguments for Keystone (Grist)
• Leaders Offer Sweeping Oil Security Policy Essential to Strengthening Economy, Fiscal Outlook (Securing America’s Energy Future)
• 5 things the President should do to tackle climate change (CrossCut)
• Republican Rubio’s Anti-Science, Strawman Response (GULP!)
• VIDEO: GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Mocks Climate Change (Climate Progress):
• VIDEO: GOP’s Future Still Stuck In The Past: Rubio Claims There’s ‘Reasonable Debate’ On Cause Of Climate Change (Climate Progress)
• Poll: Majority of Americans Support Action on Climate Change:
• Two-thirds of Americans want Obama to act on climate change, says poll: Two new studies released after president’s state-of-the-union promise to act on climate change with or without Congress. (Guardian UK)
• 65% support ‘significant steps’ on climate change [pdf] (League of Conservation Voters)
• Climate Change: Key Data Points from Pew Research (Pew Research Center)
• Activists Turn Up the Heat on KXL:
• 48 arrested in civil disobedience at White House to stop Keystone XL pipeline and push Obama on climate action (Climate Science Watch)
• Dozens Arrested at White House Protest of Keystone XL Pipeline (Environment News Service):
• 5 Myths About Keystone XL, Debunked (Media Matters)
• RFK Jr. arrested: Celebs, enviros arrested at Keystone pipeline protest: Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune also was arrested — the first time in the group’s 120-year history that a club leader was arrested in an act of civil disobedience. (CS Monitor)
• Snowballs in Hell: Sen. Sanders Intros Climate Legislation:
• Sen. Boxer hopes to bring climate legislation to floor by summer (The Hill’s E2 Wire)
• The Newly Proposed Carbon Tax Will Fight Global Warming, Protect Low-Income Americans And Reduce The Deficit (Climate Progress):
  A carbon fee is just like any other consumption tax in that it inordinately impacts low- and middle-income families. The Climate Protection Act and Sustainable Energy Act create a rebate program to make sure that these families are not harmed. This is modeled after Alaska’s oil dividend, and will ensure that pollution reduction is not a regressive tax.
  …
  This package funds the Weatherization Assistance Program, ARPA-E, the production tax credit and investment tax credit, manufacturing for clean energy technologies, worker training, and other programs that will be critical in transitioning to a clean energy future. Finally…The Climate Protection Act and Sustainable Energy Act will reduce the debt by $300 billion over the next ten years.

  ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…

  • Global Climate Treaties WORK: The Antarctic Ozone Hole Is the Smallest It’s Been in a Decade (Motherboard) [emphasis added]:
  • Fukushima Fallout: 3 young people have thyroid cancer (Japan Times):
  • Chevron Refinery Fire: Investigators Find Widespread problems (SF Gate)
  • Canada: Scientists say new confidentiality rules on Arctic project are ‘chilling’ (Ottawa Citizen)
  • Climate Change: Congress Warned By GAO That Weather Is Changing (Huffington Post):
  • Report: Sandy was 2nd-costliest hurricane in US (AP): The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed 8,000 to 12,000 people.
  • Bloomberg Pushes for Plastic-Foam Ban in ‘State of the City’ (Bloomberg):
  • New Jersey Water Officials Charged With Poisoning Drinking Water (Environment News Service):
  • What’s at stake in the fight between Tesla and the New York Times (Washington Post)
  • Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power: British firm develops colourful, transparent solar cells that will add just 10% to glass buildings’ cost (Guardian UK)
  • Fox Stands In The Way Of Energy Security Progress (Media Matters)
  • Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout (PBS Newshour)
  • Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks (Guardian UK)
  • $188b Price Tag From U.S. Extreme Weather From 2011 To 2012 (Climate Progress)
  • The New Sustainable Energy Factbook: A Strong Case for Consistent Policy (Bloomberg New Energy Finance, via Climate Progress.org):
  • VIDEO: Humans Have Already Set in Motion 69 Feet of Sea Level Rise (Mother Jones): Glaciologist Jason Box describes a post-warming world that you won’t even be able to recognize.

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• New Research: World on Track for Climate Disaster:
• COVER STORY: It’s Global Warming, Stupid (Businessweek):
• CO2 Emissions Rises Mean Dangerous Climate Change Now Almost Certain (Guardian)
• Study: Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than Projected, Planet Keeps Warming As Expected (Climate Progress)
• Ocean Acidification: Animals are already dissolving in Southern Ocean (New Scientist)
• Global warming targets further out of reach, UN says (Phys.org):
• Thawing of permafrost to be ‘major factor’ in global warming, warns UN report (UN News Centre)
• Must-Read: Economist William Nordhaus Slams Global Warming Deniers, Explains Cost of Delay is $4 Trillion (Climate Progress):
• Essential Climate Science Background:
• Skeptical Science: Get the FULL DEBUNKING of ALL Climate Science Denier Arguments
• Report: Humans near tipping point that could dramatically change Earth (CS Monitor) [emphasis added]:
• VIDEO: James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change (TED Talks):
• VIDEO ANIMATION: Time history of atmospheric CO2 (NOAA Carbon Tracker YouTube channel):
• VIDEO: Animation Charts Modern Global Warming (NYT Green)
• Thinking Big: NREL Study Shows 80 Percent Renewables Possible By 2050 (Climate Progress)
• Part 1: The brutal logic of climate change (David Roberts, Grist) [emphasis added]:
  It’s simple: If there is to be any hope of avoiding civilization-threatening climate disruption, the U.S. and other nations must act immediately and aggressively on an unprecedented scale. That means moving to emergency footing. War footing. “Hitler is on the march and our survival is at stake” footing. That simply won’t be possible unless a critical mass of people are on board. It’s not the kind of thing you can sneak in incrementally.

  It is unpleasant to talk like this. People don’t want to hear it.

• Part 2: The brutal logic of climate change mitigation (David Roberts, Grist)
• How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate Change: Mobilize to Stop Soot and Methane: A short list of relatively simple actions taken to reduce greenhouse gases other than CO2 could help put the brakes on global warming–if implemented globally (Scientific American)
• World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns: If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change (Guardian UK) [emphasis added]:
• Concise Overview: The IPCC report on extreme climate and weather events (Real Climate)
• The Real Global Warming Signal (Tamino)
• No, global warming hasn’t stopped (New Scientist)
• VIDEO: Climate Scientists Michael Mann on “A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future” (TEDx, YouTube)
• Earth’s Plant Growth Fell Because of Climate Change, Study Finds (NYT Green)
• Heads in the Sand: Warning: “Climate change is occurring … and poses significant risks to humans and the environment,” reports the National Academy of Sciences. As climate-change science moves in one direction, Republicans in Congress are moving in another. Why?
     
           
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