“The People’s Climate March” is quickly approaching. The level of organization for Sunday’s event is more impressive than any other rally — climate or otherwise — this writer has ever witnessed in New York City. Organizers have predicted some 100,000 people will march, making it not only the largest climate
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DeSmogBlog: Climate Failure: U.S. Passes Saudi Arabia As World’s Largest Oil Producer
Is President Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy a success? Or a climate failure? A report issued recently by Bank of America declared the United States has now surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. The daily output average for the first quarter of 2104 exceeded 11 million
Continue readingEuropean Activists Protest First Major Tar Sands Shipment from Canada, Threaten Escalating Actions
Protests erupted in Spain last week at the site of the first major delivery of tar sands crude imported from Canada via the United States. According to a news report by EurActiv.com, an online news service focused on EU affairs, 600,000 barrels of Western Canada Select (WCS) crude were due to arrive
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: European Activists Protest First Major Tar Sands Shipment from Canada, Threaten Escalating Actions
Protests erupted in Spain last week at the site of the first major delivery of tar sands crude imported from Canada via the United States. According to a news report by EurActiv.com, an online news service focused on EU affairs, 600,000 barrels of Western Canada Select (WCS) crude were due to arrive
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Spills, Explosions, Earthquakes and War: Welcome to American Energy “Independence”
A well-deserved show of gratitude to the efficient and reliable fossil fuel sources of American energy independence — oil, coal and gas — is in order, following a truly remarkable string of success stories in recent days nationwide. On March 25, the BP refinery in Whiting, IN, leaked some 1,600 gallons
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: WakaWaka: Fighting Climate Change and Poverty, Not to Mention Lung Cancer
My writing for DeSmog, and other blogs, has focused on the problems related to climate change. Today, I write about solutions. It’s important to keep in mind that the fossil fuel industries (oil, coal, gas) have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in PR campaigns and influential political contributions
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Stanford Scientists: Climate Change Occurring 10 times Faster Than Any Time in Past 65 Million Years
With scant media attention, climate scientists from Stanford University have concluded that climate change is occurring 10 times faster than at any time in the past 65 million years, and the current pace of change will lead to a 5-6 degree (Celsius) spike by the end of this century. The
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: GOP Elder Statesman George Shultz Urges Strong Action on Climate Change – In Stark Contrast To Current GOP Leadership
George Shultz, who served as Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State from 1980 through 1984, is urging strong action on climate change and urging the US to move away from oil. In an interview in the July 24 issue of Scientific American magazine, Mr. Shultz said that dependence on
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Whether By Train Or By Pipeline, Oil and Gas Transport Is Unsafe
The deadly oil train disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec on July 5, which (as of this writing) has left 33 people dead, with 17 still missing, and contaminated over 60 miles of local drinking water sources, has initiated a curious response across the media spectrum. Some observers cite this accident
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Obama’s Climate Pledge: The Keystone XL Fracking Double Standard
President Obama, during his climate speech last week, surprised many observers by his unexpected remarks about the Keystone XL pipeline. The President, for the first time, placed a clear condition on the pipeline’s approval – its impact on the climate. “The net effects of the pipeline’s impact on our climate
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