Monthly Archives: August 2011

In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry … Continue reading →

Scientists Link Somalia Famine To Global Warming Somalia, East Africa – As millions of people struggle to survive a famine in East Africa, it’s hard not to ask whether anyone saw this disaster coming. Chris Funk, one of the leading … Continue reading →

The US Drought Monitor shows southeastern New Mexico in an exceptional drought. http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_west.htm Cloudcroft is located in the middle of the brown area, and has received rain on half of the days this month. This is what it looks like … Continue reading →

Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal ash—it’s all getting regulated. And, not surprisingly, some lawmakers … Continue reading →

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports, “The only Australian company which manufactures solar cells is closing the operation. Ilex Solar has announced it will stop making the cells at its western Sydney facility, with 30 jobs to be lost. http://thewinstonreview.com/ h/t … Continue reading →

“If we follow ‘business-as-usual’ growth of greenhouse gas emissions, I think that we will lock in a guaranteed sea-level rise of several metres, which, frankly, means that all hell is going to break loose.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-08-18/5-N85.850886-E177.293776

as we know the polar bear depends on sea ice for survival http://globalwarmingisreal.com/ Right. Hudson Bay is ice-free for several months every summer Aug 10th, 2011 Good numbers of  polar bears are showing up in and around the Churchill area … Continue reading →

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/18/floods-hit-bournemouth