‘Worldwide, investors put $1.9 billion into clean tech startups in the first three months of 2010. That is an 83% increase from the same quarter last year and a 29% increase from the fourth quarter of 2009. Additionally, the number of deals hit a record high.’
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Clean Tech Investments Soaring in 2010 : CleanTechnica
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Climate scientist Hansen wins $100,000 prize | Reuters
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010‘(Reuters) – U.S. climate scientist James Hansen won a $100,000 environmental prize Wednesday for decades of work trying to alert politicians to what he called an unsolved emergency of global warming.’
Solar-powered plane soars above Switzerland | Reuters
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Solar-powered plane soars above Switzerland
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms – NYTimes.com
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010‘WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.’
via Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms – NYTimes.com.
Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time – NYTimes.com
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010‘WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.’
via Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time – NYTimes.com.
Obama announces plans to expand offshore oil, advocates “clean” coal, invokes “science”
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Today President Obama announced plans to open new coastal areas to offshore oil exploration and drilling, including in Alaska’s North Slope. He also called for development of “clean” coal.
Obama invoked science to mollify critics of offshore drilling: “We’ll be guided not by ideology but by scientific evidence”. However, this policy shift clashes with climate science. The extraction and use of fossil fuels moves carbon from safe long term underground storage up into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide where it acts as a greenhouse gas, trapping additional heat in the atmosphere.
BBC News – Gulf Stream ‘is not slowing down’
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010‘The Gulf Stream does not appear to be slowing down, say US scientists who have used satellites to monitor tell-tale changes in the height of the sea.’
Climate Data Wasn’t Distorted, British Panel Finds – NYTimes.com
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010‘LONDON (AP) — A parliamentary panel investigating allegations that scientists at one of the world’s leading climate research centers misrepresented data related to global warming announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence to support that charge.’
via Climate Data Wasn’t Distorted, British Panel Finds – NYTimes.com.
Copenhagen Accord climate pledges too weak: U.N. | Reuters
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010‘Reuters – More than 110 countries have signed up to the Copenhagen Accord on fighting global warming but the United Nations said on Wednesday that their pledges for cutting greenhouse gas emissions were insufficient.’
via Copenhagen Accord climate pledges too weak: U.N. | Reuters.
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine | Greenpeace USA
Monday, March 29th, 2010Greenpeace releases report exposing corporate funding of climate denialists:
‘Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch have a vested interest in delaying climate action: they’ve made billions from their ownership and control of Koch Industries, an oil corporation that is the second largest privately-held company in America which also happens to have an especially poor environmental record’
via Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine | Greenpeace USA.