Tag Archives: climate change

Earth: Game Over? via Foreign Policy in Focus (Reader Supported News)

Posted on 2014/04/26 by norma field

A subset of environmentalists is already preparing for the end game. In the latest New York Times Magazine, Paul Kingsnorth—the author of the manifesto Uncivilization—confesses that he has given up trying to save the planet. He rejects false hopes. “You … Continue reading →

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Political Roadblocks to Action on Climate Change via The New York Times (Letters)

Posted on 2014/04/20 by norma field

By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In their April 9 Op-Ed article, “Global Warming Scare Tactics,” Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, veteran apologists for nuclear power, trot out their threadworn and empirically unsupportable argument that poor messaging by the environmental movement … Continue reading →

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Old nuclear reactors can’t save the climate via Greenpeace

Posted on 2014/03/08 by norma field

So why did hundreds of Greenpeace activists take action yesterday? Because 44% of the reactors in Europe are just too old to still be on line. They acted to illustrate to the world the risk which these nuclear reactors pose … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Nuke-Powered Drone Strike on America’s Energy Future via EcoWatch

Posted on 2014/02/21 by norma field

By Harvey Wasserman So the “all the above” energy strategy now deems we dump another $6.5 billion in bogus loan guarantees down the atomic drain. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced finalization of hotly contested taxpayer handouts for the two … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: nuclear power is not the answer to climate change mitigation via Green World

Posted on 2014/02/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Today we are pleased to publish our first guest post on GreenWorld. It is a major contribution to the debate on nuclear power and climate change that has arisen since the November 3, 2013 publication of a letter from four … Continue reading →

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Movement to Resist Tar Sands “Megaloads” Unites Tribal Members, Environmentalists via Yes! Magazine & Reader Supported News

Posted on 2014/01/11 by norma field

Umatilla, a town of 7,000 sprawled out on the plains overlooking the Columbia River, once hosted a U.S. Army chemical weapons depot, but the last of that stockpile was destroyed in 2011. Now, it’s the starting point for the megaloads, … Continue reading →

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Groups oppose top climate scientists’ call to embrace nuclear power via E&E publishing

Posted on 2014/01/08 by norma field

More than 300 groups are rejecting calls from top climate scientists to embrace nuclear power to fight climate change since renewables cannot be deployed fast enough. Environmental and anti-nuclear groups from the United States and 22 other countries told former … Continue reading →

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Beyond Nuclear joins with Ralph Nader to promote carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy via Beyond Nuclear

Posted on 2013/12/14 by norma field

On Dec. 12th, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps joined with Ralph Nader (photo, left) in an hour-long presentation to the Climate Reality Check Coalition on why nuclear power is a false solution to the climate crisis. As described in the event … Continue reading →

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Ninety Companies Responsible for Two-Thirds of Global Warming Emissions via Think Progress/Reader Supported News

Posted on 2013/11/22 by norma field

ccording to a new report by the Climate Accountability Institute in Colorado, just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions. To be published in the journal Climatic Change, the report says the vast majority of the emitting firms … Continue reading →

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Can Abenomics Cope with Environmental Disaster? via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/10/28 by norma field

By Andrew DeWit Geographically, the Global Climate Risk Index 2013 shows that the countries most affected in 2011 were Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, El Salvador and the Philippines.7 A more comprehensive and nearly real-time accounting of climate risk and adaptive capacity … Continue reading →

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