Religious Leaders Urge Obama To Reject Pipeline On "Moral Grounds"
A faith-based appeal from more than 150 clergy against the Keystone XL pipeline. “We pray for you as you make your decision…”
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Obama Group Braces For Progressive Backlash Over Keystone
Talking points released by the Obama grassroots arm caution members about demands from pipeline opponents. “OFA supports and respects the process as it is currently underway.”
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OFA Tells Keystone Activists They Won’t Play Ball
Despite cries from the left, Obama’s grassroots arm says they won’t get involved in the pipeline debate. “OFA is not going to change its mission,” says an official.
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Carbon Levels Highest Since Mammoths Roamed The Earth
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has passed 400 parts per million for the first time in human existence.
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A Freaking Adorable Cat Typeface Leads The Daily Links
Plus Aaron Paul and the word “bitch,” what it’s like to be chased by killer whales, and film-set photos by the Big Lebowski himself.
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Keystone Pipeline Opponents Hope For A Hero In Joe Biden
“Biden is known for speaking his mind and speaking the truth, and I think that’s what he did here,” an activist says.
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Republican Congressman Cites Biblical Great Flood To Say Climate Change Isn’t Man-Made
“If you believe in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change. That certainly wasn’t because man had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.”
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By 2050, Hurricane Katrina Could Happen Every Two Years
A new climate model shows the frequency of huge hurricanes skyrocketing as the planet warms.
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Marco Rubio Avoids Talk Of Immigration Reform In CPAC Speech
Florida Republican stuck to climate change and marriage equality. “Just because I believe states should have the right to define marriage in the traditional way does not make me a bigot,” he said to applause.
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Sea Animals Are Doing Climate Change Research
Elephant seals, narwhals, and leopard seals are helping with research that could save their habitat.
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Democratic Governors: The States Must Lead On Climate Change
With little chance of legislation in Washington, heads of state take the lead. “This is the field the game is going to be played on,” says Inslee.
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8 Crazy Global Warming Solutions Scientists Have Actually Considered
Most of these ideas seem crazy, but at least we have options if things really go downhill.
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Marco Rubio Shrugs Off Climate Change In State Of The Union Response
“Government can’t control the weather.” Climate activists in Florida were hopeful for a different outcome.
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Obama Calls On Congress To Divert Oil And Gas Revenues To Alternative Energy Research
Obama will threaten executive orders if Congress can’t pass its own energy and climate legislation.
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Despite Presidential Push, Congress Still Cool On Tackling Climate Change
Not a priority for the Democratic Senate, and a nonstarter in the Republican House. Lacking support from Congress, the president will have to go it alone.
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Henry Waxman: Carbon Tax Is “Best Legislative Option”
The new bicameral task force on climate change could move forward with carbon tax legislation. “It can also help reduce our deficit,” says Waxman.
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Climate Hawk: GOP Will “Pay In The Future” For Ignoring Climate Change
A new bicameral task force will make the case for Republicans to act on climate change. Another cap and trade bill not likely, says Whitehouse.
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Reaching For History, Obama Could Make Same Mistakes As George W. Bush
As the president looks to tackle legacy-defining issues like gun control and immigration, bipartisan murmurs on the Hill grow louder. “They’re not talking to anybody.”
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Maggie Q Naked And Body-Painted In New PETA Ad
The Nikita star is one of the animal rights organization’s most vocal supporters. (via osocio.org)
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Al Gore Skewers TV News
After selling off struggling cable network Current, the former vice president tells BuzzFeed that television is hurting democracy. He has nice things to say about Al Jazeera, though.
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Jon Huntsman: The GOP’s Lonely Climate Hawk
It may have hastened his fall in the Republican primary, but Huntsman is still pushing climate change. A harder line on big oil and corporate lobbyists.
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2012 Was The Hottest Year On Record, And Here’s A Whole Slew Of Charts Proving We’re Screwed
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that 2012 was the hottest year in American history, and they had the depressing maps to prove it.
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Wildfires Ravage Australia During Record Heatwave
Towns in Tasmania are burning, and the most heavily populated part of the country in New South Wales is fighting violent gusts of wind and vicious brush fires. The photos of the fires from space are incredible.
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8 Most Powerful Climate Change Ads
Hurricane Sandy restarted the conversation in Washington. Some of these ads are seriously depressing.
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6 Things Washington Promised It Would Fix First In 2013
Obama and members of Congress have promised top billing to gun control, climate, immigration — and the list goes on. Something’s gotta give.
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Environmentalists Try To Make “Climate Cliff” A Thing
The goal: “Win the Twitter war on the climate cliff versus the fiscal cliff,” says Johnson. It hasn’t quite caught on.
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Top Obama Environmental Official Departs “Frustrated” Over Pipeline, Inaction On Climate
She had “too much principle” to work on Keystone, says Tittel.
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Departing Environmental Chief Suggests Obama Has Failed On Climate
A pointed statement on the way out. “I spoke about the need to address climate change, but…”
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Largest Iceberg Break-Up Ever Filmed
Filmmaker James Balog describes it as watching “Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes.”
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Filipino Delegate Makes Emotional Plea For Action On Climate Change
Naderev Saño fights tears at the final session of a climate change conference. “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
