// // The Keystone XL Pipeline - you've certainly heard that term before. ?What the hell is it, and why is everyone so wound up about the whole thing? ?I must state due to obligatory...
// // The bill to build the Keystone XL Pipeline has passed the House of Representatives and now sits poised to be voted on by the Senate. Rumors are flying from both sides attempting to...
Everyone knows that California is undergoing an historic drought. It's so bad that in many areas water of any kind is at a premium, and water clean enough for human consumption is most precious of...
The narrative of North Carolina's struggle to clean up the Duke Energy coal-ash spill keeps getting crazier. This week it was announced that current governor, Pat McCrory, teamed up with former governors Jim Hunt and...
climate change
// // Following long negotiations, President Obama and Xi Jinping, President of China, agreed to a "historic" deal to protect the global climate, multiple sources?report. Under that deal, the United States vows to cut CO2 to...
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I stumbled across this short video last night and I think it explains in very easy-to-understand language exactly what "global warming" is. Honestly, even the most obtuse person can get a basic grasp of what...
science denier climate change
As a member of the Christian Left, one of my biggest frustrations is science deniers.?It's positively maddening to try to talk to these people. Not all Christians are science deniers, of course. As with any...
water not a basic or public human right
After three consecutive years of drought, anxiety over water supplies is increasing in some areas of California. There's been a crackdown on watering lawns, washing cars, and cleaning sidewalks in?a desert area in Southern?California because...
// // Leonardo DiCaprio delivered his best lines to the 2014 U.N. Climate Summit this week. The beautiful thing about these lines is that they were truth, not lines from a Hollywood movie set. And...
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// // Climate change?is considered to be one of the most serious threats facing mankind today, with sea level rise threatening to wipe out entire coastal areas. However, extremists on the right wing aren't going...
Scott Brand -- the folks who make Scott toilet tissue and paper towels -- wrote an article titled "10 Small Things We Do That Are Actually Very Wasteful" for BuzzFeed in early September. They're promoting...
This isn't any ordinary storm alert, so put down your umbrella. Following two recent coronal mass ejections ? bursts of solar wind and radiation that erupt from the sun ? a geomagnetic solar storm is...
In 2010, shortly after Range Resources began fracking in the Barnett Shale, Steve Lipsky discovered that water from streams and wells on his property could be lit on fire. Lipsky, recorded video and uploaded it...
The federal government is resuming oil and gas leased for California after a recently released report found little evidence that fracking is dangerous. The Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, (which apparently seems to only...
It is a staggering number, 175 million. To put it in perspective, over 40% of the total world population will be affected by climate change every year and that is only counting the children. The...