Apparently inspired by the so-called Arab Spring movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the Occupy Wall Street movement began almost as a curiosity, largely ignored by the media, political leaders, and even NYC law enforcement. However, the movement began to grow. As conservative elements began to denigrate OWS and distance themselves, and liberal elements…
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OWS: Cop Punches Demonstrator to the Ground
Yesterday, there were several reports of clashes with the police during the Occupy Wall Street march celebrating the reprieve from the cleaning of Zuccotti park, and the possible dismantling of the protest infrastructure. There were fourteen reported arrests, and major news outlets reported that police drove police scooters at and over protesters in order to…
Obama Sends U.S. Troops To Central Africa To Aid Campaign Against Rebel Group
President Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help local forces battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that the administration says has waged a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping for more than two decades. Obama said Friday the troops will act as advisers in efforts to hunt down…
Occupy Wall Street vs. The Arab Spring
A short film juxtaposing the two movements, with words from our leaders.
Occupy Wall Street Rages On Around The World
Occupy Wall Street, a movement that began as a small band of protesters in Zuccotti Park, gained endorsements from major unions and progressive leaders as well as prominent politicians. Within a few short weeks, it has come to resemble a movement with more than 900 meetups in 900 cities across the country. It…
Masters on “Unprecedented” Arctic Ozone Hole: Inaction Risks “Future Nasty Climate Change Surprises Far More Serious”
An unprecedented ozone hole opened in the Arctic during 2011, researchers reported this week in the journal Nature. Holes in the Antarctic ozone layer have opened up each spring since the early 1980s, but the Arctic had only shown modest springtime ozone losses in the 5% – 30% range over the past twenty…
Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a “Human Fingerprint” on Recent Climate Change
Last year, physicist John Cook, who runs the must-read website Skeptical Science, published “The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism.” It’s a good introduction to global warming science and skepticism. He sent me the 8 figures of the “human fingerprints on climate change,” which I repost below. The clever deniers these days don’t…
Climate Change Could Make Chocolate A Luxury Item, Report Finds
The worlds $9 billion chocolate industry gets almost half of its cocoa from West African farmers in Ghana and Cote dIvoire Ivory Coast, reports Thinkprogress.org.According to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, if Ghana and the Ivory Coast experience a 2.3 Celsius degree jump in temperature by 2050, the climate wont be suitably cool enough…
NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell
Sea levels have been rising steadily for over a century as the ever warmer ocean water expands and the world’s remaining glaciers and ice sheets melt. In fact sea levels are rising twice as fast now as they were a few decades ago. As the NASA chart above shows there have been some…
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales
By September of that year, the researchers had found evidence of improper payments to secure contracts in six countries dating back to 2002, authorized by the business director of the company’s Koch-Glitsch affiliate in France. “Those activities constitute violations of criminal law,” Koch Industries wrote in a Dec. 8, 2008, letter giving details of its…
NYT: Forests dying off as worlds climate warms
From the mountainous Southwest deep into Texas, wildfires raced across parched landscapes this summer, burning millions more acres. In Colorado, at least 15 percent of that state’s spectacular aspen forests have gone into decline because of a lack of water.The devastation extends worldwide. The great euphorbia trees of southern Africa are succumbing to…
NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”
Climatologist Slams Media for “Silent Summer”: Poor Coverage of Link Between Extreme Weather and Human-Caused Climate Change The nation’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, has a new paper out — and he has been speaking out. At 350.org’s Moving Planet event in New York on Saturday, he said: “Climate change — human-made global…
EIA: China and India rule our energy world
On Monday, the Energy Information Administration released its International Energy Outlook 2011 report. The chart on the right shows the projections for global energy consumption from 1990 to 2035. Notice that energy use in the OECD countries — North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia — stays nearly flat during that period. It’s the…
Canada to Rogers Cable: we want fix for game throttling by next week
Canada’s telecommunications regulator appears none too pleased with Rogers Communications explanation for the throttling of game streams over its cable ISP network. The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission wants the company to crank out out a plan for fixing the problem—and by Tuesday, September 27. Bottom line: Rogers must come up with a scheme…