Dr. Michael Mann's Testimony to the Democratic Platform Committee

Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State testified before the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee about the critical issue of climate change, and the importance of building on the progress from the Paris Climate Conference.

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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Bill McKibben has written an important article on the terrifying new math of climate change. He defines the three numbers we should be following and what they mean. The Environmentalist endorses this article and requests our readers work to make it viral. The article was published by Rolling Stone: 

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math.


Please read and share: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

Silver Linings in the Muck

by William S. Becker

It seems insensitive to talk about silver linings in the middle of the life-killing oil spill in the Gulf. But in fact, there are a couple we should recognize and act upon now.

There’s hope, for example, that the spill is proving the folly of trying to extract every last drop of a finite resource by invading ever more difficult and sensitive places. The past safety record of offshore drilling, cited by President Obama when he announced he was opening up more ocean to oil companies, means nothing when those companies are moving into uncharted waters, technically speaking.

As BP has tried each new trick to stop the hemorrhage on the ocean floor, it has made clear these techniques have never been attempted at that depth – a public admission that one of the world’s largest oil companies, using the industry’s most advanced extraction technologies, doesn’t have the experience or tools to drill safely in these new places. Continued...

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