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Blog Post biomess: Leith Plant (Scotland) being resisted?

Blog Post, February, 22 2010 uk biomess
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Some Green Groups oppose the plans for Leith biomass plant (Scotland).

Commentary Landau: The Hottest Decade

Commentary, February, 19 2010 Saul Landau
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Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one...

Znet Article Hahnel: A Tale... Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing

Znet Article, January, 26 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I did not mention Patrick Bond, or anyone else for that matter by name, in my three part series on the Left and Climate Change posted on ZNet on December 24, 25, and 26. Nor did I speculate about the motives or political character flaws of any aut...

Commentary Cohen: Toxic Wastes & Haiti

Commentary, January, 25 2010 Mitchel Cohen
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Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 t...

Commentary Glick: Upping the Ante on Climate

Commentary, January, 24 2010 Ted Glick
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Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President. Hopes were high among progressive-minded people, including climate activists. Finally, we had a President who got it on the need for action to address the deepening climate crisis.

Commentary Hahnel: A Climate Change Policy Primer

Commentary, January, 12 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Because misconceptions are commonplace a basic tutorial on the logic and implications of regulation, carbon taxes, and tradable carbon emission permits is useful. Hopefully this will correct some common misunderstandings about what different polic...

Commentary Shah: Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

Commentary, January, 09 2010 Sonia Shah
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Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e...

Commentary Brecher: Freezing the Greenhouse: The Snowball Strategy

Commentary, January, 08 2010 Jeremy Brecher
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While world leaders play the blame game and politicians dither, deadly carbon emissions grow without restraint. The official US government "business as usual" projection is for a 39 percent increase in carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, roughly ...

Blog Post Jamal: The Limits of Our Politics

Blog Post, December, 28 2009 Mumia Abu Jamal
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As millions come to grips with the claimed agreements emerging from the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, it's impossible to resist the suspicion that politics can provide no solution to the serious environmental and ecological problems fac...

Commentary Hahnel: The Left & Climate Change 3/3: A Way Forward

Commentary, December, 26 2009 Robin Hahnel
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This is the third and final part of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel posted between Dec. 24-26, 2009.

Commentary Hahnel: The Left & Climate Change 2/3: Turn Back From The Road To Nowhere

Commentary, December, 25 2009 Robin Hahnel
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This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow.

Commentary Hahnel: Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?

Commentary, December, 24 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009

Commentary Bond: Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover

Commentary, December, 23 2009 Patrick Bond
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In Copenhagen, the world's richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out.

Znet Article Tokar: What was really decided in Copenhagen?or, “50,000 people went to Denmark and all they got was a lousy 3-page political agreement”

Znet Article, December, 23 2009 Brian Tokar
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Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear, even as countries step up the blame game in response to the summit’s disappointing conclusion.

Znet Article Monbiot: If You Want To Know Who's To Blame For Copenhagen, Look To The US Senate

Znet Article, December, 22 2009 George Monbiot
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The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organization assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The...

Commentary Brecher: Doom and Gloom

Commentary, December, 21 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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As world leaders return from Copenhagen without an agreement that will protect the earth's atmosphere from devastating climate change, we ordinary people are forced to confront not only what we think, but also what we feel.

Znet Article Chavez: Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen

Znet Article, December, 21 2009 Hugo Chavez
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Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen

Commentary Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity

Commentary, December, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue livi...

Commentary Bond: Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critique

Commentary, December, 16 2009 Patrick Bond
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Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch.

Commentary Tokar: Repackaging Copenhagen: Will There Be a Global Climate Agreement?

Commentary, December, 05 2009 Brian Tokar
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On the eve of the UN’s long-awaited Copenhagen climate summit, officials are pulling out all the stops to spin the conference as a success, no matter what actually happens.

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