Posts Tagged ‘USA’

• Severe droughts and heatwaves in Argentina, Australia and California

  Photo credit: suburbanbloke As a top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating, while 2008 ends up being the tenth warmest year ever recorded and a NOAA study shows climate change is “largely irreversible for 1000 years” we hear …

• Al Gore: “We’ve Arrived at a Moment of Decision”

  Yesterday Al Gore testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about repowering America and the need for USA to resume global leadership on the climate crisis. You can read his opening statement below. Al Gore is also calling for you …

• Obama warns of “irreversible catastrophe” on climate, says he will not deny facts

  Yesterday Barack Obama delivered a speech about jobs, energy independence, and climate change as he “will direct federal regulators to move swiftly to grant California and 13 other states the right to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards,” …

• Big 3 will continue to sue the Government to prevent stricter fuel-efficiency standards

  Photo credit: Ateo Fiel After getting bailed out by the American public the “big three” in USA still show that they can’t be trusted. For years these failed auto companies have resisted and done everything in their powers to stop …

• Tax cuts instead of public transportation in Obama’s stimulus package

  Just days after his inauguration it seems we will see the first letdown from President Barack Obama. In the stimulus package, proposed by Obama, which is designed to ease the financial crisis only 18% of the money will go to …

• Uneven Development and Northern Imperialism in the making of Today’s Ecological Crisis

  What is equality and development? And what kind of influence has the environment on both of these relations? For me, environmentalism has always been about caring about the well-state and equality of everyone and everything. Al Gore said, during the …

• Watch: Celebrities thank Obama, talks about energy and global warming

  Some celebrities from the entertainment industry in the US got together in this video from the Sierra Club, America’s oldest grassroots environmental organization, to thank President-Elect Obama “for the extraordinary leadership he has already demonstrated on environmental issues”. The celebrities, …

• Coal Ash Dump Disaster Strikes East Tennessee

  Just days after Al Gore and a bunch of environmental organisations launched a “Reality Coalition” campaign to tell the American public that there is no “clean coal” they might have gotten their best advertisement, ever. Last month a coal ash …

• Green Bible sparks controversy in USA

  A new “Green Bible” which is said to embrace environmentalism and the need to protect the Earth has apparently sparked some controversy among evangelicals in the US, the United Press International reports. The Green Bible, has been endorsed by the …

• Climate Emergency, Gaza Massacre & Orwellian Lies

  Photo credit: Amir Farshad Ebrahimi Australians (and indeed most people in the Western Murdochracies) live in an Orwellian world in which “war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength and 2 plus 2 does not equal 4”. [1] Thus …