Land Temperature Anomaly Video

mrblcollins

Uploaded on Oct 21, 2011

For more information about this study visit http://berkeleyearth.org. Berkeley Earth video representation of the land surface temperature anomaly, 1800 to the present. The map of the world shows the temperature anomaly by location over time. The chart at the bottom, shows the global land-surface temperature anomaly. The Berkeley Earth analysis shows 0.911 degrees Centigrade of land warming (+/- 0.042 C) since the 1950s.

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DC guessing game: Who will replace Lisa Jackson at EPA?

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/12/dc-guessing-game-who-will-replace-lisa-jackson-at-epa/

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Lisa Jackson’s decision to step down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency sets off a Washington guessing game over who President Barack Obama will pick to replace her.

Jackson’s move is not a surprise; she has been a lightning rod for criticism lobbed by Republicans and oil industry leaders who insist the EPA has too aggressively tried to regulate pollution from drilling, refining and burning fossil fuels.

Any EPA administrator — including Jackson — also is subject to criticism for weakening environmental protections or going too slowly to advance new safeguards.

During Jackson’s tenure, congressional aides sometimes joked that the EPA head spent more time on Capitol Hill than the lawmakers who frequently called her to testify.

The next EPA administrator is likely to oversee high-profile policy governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and refineries and low-sulfur transportation fuel. The agency could play a key role in regulating the use of hydraulic fracturing technology being used to unlock natural gas and oil previously trapped in dense rock formations.

Any potential replacement — no matter how well liked — could be in for a tough confirmation battle, as senators use debate over the nominee to highlight their opposition to the Obama administration’s environmental policies.

Back in October, Center for American Progress Action Fund fellow Dan Weiss predicted that “Senate Republicans could wage pitched confirmation battles to bully the administration into weakening public health safeguards.” He added:

“The Republicans may use this opportunity to squeeze commitments from the president to weaken public health protections he put in place during the first term.”

Obama might seek to elevate existing agency leaders and tap state regulators to fill the top EPA post.

Here is a look at some of the contenders:

• Bob Perciasepe, deputy EPA administrator. Perciasepe has years of experience at the agency, where he also ran the air and water programs two separate times under former President Clinton. Previously, Perciasepe was the chief operating officer at the National Audubon Society. Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, said Perciasepe is “a smart, pragmatic guy” who is “probably not likely to get too much opposition from industry.”
• Mary Nichols, the head of California’s Air Resources Board. Nichols is another veteran of Clinton’s EPA. She may relish her role advancing California’s climate change program too much to want to hop into the EPA administrator hot seat. Picking Nichols would be a sign that Obama wants to get more aggressive on environmental issues during a second term.
• Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s office of Air and Radiation. In her current role, McCarthy is a regular witness on congressional hearing stands, where she has defended the Obama administration’s approach to greenhouse gas emissions and cutting smog.
• Daniel Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection: Esty collaborated with Gov. Dannel Malloy to develop a clean energy bank in the state that aims to lure private capital to developing alternative energy technologies and could be a model for a federal investment program.
• Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection: McGinty has been rumored as a possible EPA administrator before; her name came up when Obama was filling his cabinet four years ago. In Pennsylvania, McGinty drew praise for successfully pushing new mercury emission controls. As a former chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality, McGinty was a top environmental adviser to former President Bill Clinton. Most recently, she has been involved with a clean tech firm and served on an Energy Department advisory board focused on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas drilling.

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Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

EPA Head Lisa Jackson’s Radical Environmental Justice Agenda

TheLIbertyJournal

Uploaded on Feb 17, 2010

This video exposes yet another of Obama’s radical leftist appointments, EPA head Lisa Jackson. – http://thelibertyjournal.com/2010/02/… – From indoctrination of our youth through the Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America, to fear mongering in a speech to LULAC, to playing the race card in front of BIG (Blacks in Government), Jackson covers all the Environmental Justice bases. Learn more about the real goals of Environmental Justice and the scam of man-made global warming @ http://thelibertyjournal.com, where the progressive agenda is being exposed.

Further interviews and talks by Lisa Jackson.

Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights

UCtelevision

Uploaded on Feb 7, 2008

Robert D. Bullard has been described as the nation’s leading authority on race and the environment. In this presentation from UC Santa Barbara, Bullard takes a look at the connection between human rights and the politics of pollution. Series: Voices [8/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11878]

Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Inhofe Highlights Increasing Concern with EPA Water Overreach

JimInhofePressOffice

Published on May 10, 2012

Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Inhofe Warns of Flood of New Costly Regulations Coming from Obama-EPA

JimInhofePressOffice

Published on Nov 28, 2012

Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

EVENT: Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/~/media/Fletcher/Microsites/CIERP/flyers/Freedman%20flyer%20Feb%2014.pdf

E130. E120,

See also: What You Need to See to Understand Blizzard ‘Nemo’

and  A New Harvard Report Probes Security Risks of Extreme Weather and Climate Change

Let’s move #ForwardOnClimate | Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/forwardonclimate/

On Feb. 17th, Greenpeace will join thousands of concerned Americans including our friends at Sierra Club, 350, the Hip Hop Caucus and dozens of other people-powered organizations to demand true progress for our country and our planet.

Join us via Twitter!

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Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

A New Harvard Report Probes Security Risks of Extreme Weather and Climate Change | HUCE

http://environment.harvard.edu/climate-extremes

Scientists identify security risks from climate change, and recommend investments in monitoring and forecasting to prepare for growing threats

Download the full “Climate Extremes: Recent Trends with Implications for National Security” report.

Contact: Michael McElroy Tel. (617) 495-4359; D. James Baker Tel. (215) 939-2021

Increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, severe storms, and heat waves have focused the attention of climate scientists on the connections between greenhouse warming and extreme weather.  Because of the potential threat to U.S. national security, a new study was conducted to explore the forces driving extreme weather events and their impacts over the next decade, specifically with regard to their implications for national security planning. The report finds that the early ramifications of climate extremes resulting from climate change are already upon us and will continue to be felt over the next decade, directly impacting U.S. national security interests. “Lessons from the past are no longer of great value as a guide to the future,” said co-lead author Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University. “Unexpected changes in regional weather are likely to define the new climate normal, and we are not prepared.” ….(more).

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Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

“Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?” Geoengineering Lecture | HUCE

Geoengineering Lecture Tuesday, February 12, 2013 – 5:00pm

Contact Name:

Lisa Matthews

matthew@fas.harvard.edu

Haller Hall, Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

“Smoke and Mirrors:  Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?” with Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

ABSTRACT: In response to the global warming problem, there has been a recent renewed interest in geoengineering “solutions” involving “solar radiation management” by injecting particles into the stratosphere, brightening clouds, or blocking sunlight with satellites between the Sun and Earth.  While volcanic eruptions have been suggested as innocuous examples of stratospheric aerosols cooling the planet, the volcano analog actually argues against geoengineering because of ozone depletion and regional hydrologic responses.  In this talk, I describe different proposed geoengineering designs, and then show climate model calculations that evaluate both their efficacy and their possible adverse consequences.  No such systems to conduct geoengineering now exist, but a comparison of different proposed stratospheric injection schemes, using airplanes, balloons, and artillery, shows that using airplanes to put sulfur gases into the stratosphere would not be expensive.  Nevertheless, it would be very difficult to create stratospheric sulfate particles with a desirable size distribution.  Our GeoMIP project, conducting climate model experiments with standard stratospheric aerosol injection scenarios, is ongoing, but has already shown that temperature and precipitation responses would be uneven globally.    …. (more).

Global Climate Change http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre130
Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120