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Barack Obama must act like a true leader \| Observer editorial	19.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind him It is a simple fact of American politics that power starts to fade away from a second-term president almost from the moment they are sworn in. Theoretically freed from the chains of having ever to seek re-election, they soon find that America's all too self-interested professional politicians are suddenly aware that the current occupant of the Oval Office will not be around in four years. The ability to cajole and bully Congress – and even members of their own party – and get them to pass laws – starts to evaporate. Add to that the propensity of second terms to see presidency-defining scandal – think Monica Lewinsky, think Iran-Contra – and it is no wonder that many re-elected presidents seem simply to be waiting around for the term "lame duck" to be applied. But even by the super-charged standards of the modern news cycle, ...
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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change	19.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ...
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Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder	18.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder
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Drumbeat: May 18, 2013	18.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Energy Department approves expanded LNG exports The Energy Department gave a terminal near Freeport, Tex., permission Friday to ship liquefied natural gas to Japan, providing a new outlet for rising U.S. production of shale gas despite qualms of environmentalists and many domestic manufacturers. The permit marks another step in the sudden reversal of fortune in the natural gas business. Less than five years ago, anticipating a worsening shortfall in domestic supplies of natural gas, the Freeport terminal on Quintana Island began operations as an import facility. But advances in hydraulic fracturing techniques have unlocked new supplies of natural gas from shale rock. Freeport, like other import terminals, now wants to spend $10 billion to retool the terminal so it can send gas abroad in liquefied form. The US Department of Energy has authorized Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC (Freeport) to export LNG to so called non-Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) countries. Subject ...
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Maps of the rare and unusual	18.5.2013	Earth Times
The protection of our fauna and flora is becoming one of the most important tasks of this generation, as more and more become endangered by human greed. Politics is part of the answer but initiatives such as those of the ZSL have a great part to play.
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Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Immigrants And The Environment	17.5.2013	Think Progres
Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Immigrants And The Environment
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb \| Nafeez Ahmed	17.5.2013	Guardian: Science
US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years. The release of the strategy came about a week after the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House Complex hosted a briefing with international Arctic scientists . Despite giving lip service to the values of environmental conservation, the new document focuses on how the US can manage the exploitation of the region's vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources in cooperation with other Arctic powers. US hinges success of Arctic strategy on diminishing sea ice At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to ...
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May 17 News: Ernest Moniz Unanimously Confirmed As Our Next Energy Secretary	17.5.2013	Think Progres
May 17 News: Ernest Moniz Unanimously Confirmed As Our Next Energy Secretary
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5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About	17.5.2013	Think Progres
5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About
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Drumbeat: May 17, 2013	17.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Avoiding the 'Energy Abyss' John Hofmeister doesn’t call it ‘peak oil,’ instead he calls it the ‘energy abyss,’ the point at which the global economy ceases to grow because the oil industry can no longer meet demand. Hofmeister is the former president of Shell Oil, the same Shell Oil that is preparing to drill the deepest hole yet drilled to reach oil and gas 200 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico in 9,500 feet (2,900m) of water, surpassing the working depth of Shell’s Perdido rig, also located out in the Gulf and producing around 100,000 barrels a day. The cost of that rig: $3 billion. In his 2010 book, Why We Hate The Oil Companies, Straight talk from an energy insider , he wrote the following: “It’s inevitable. The industry that produces oil can’t produce enough, unless the world doesn’t grow. It’s possible that we will have such expensive oil that we will stymie growth. How many people will suffer? How many poor will become poorer, while rich become richer because we have failed rational ...
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Artist finds inspiration in Canadian government's attempt to silence her	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Visual essays by Franke James reveal how the 'troublesome artist' was targeted because her views on climate change clashed with the push to develop Alberta's tar sands Canada, under the government of Stephen Harper, has exhibited little patience for dissent. The government has muzzled government scientists , insulted Nasa climate experts , and dismissed environmental protesters as dangerous radicals . But there is apparently one woman whom the government can't shut up: the Toronto environmental writer, illustrator and activist Franke James , who turned the efforts to silence her into material for a new book. Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship , released this week, shows how Canadian bureaucrats tried to silence James because her views on climate change clashed with the Harper government's push to develop Alberta's tar sands. The story is told through visual essays as well as official emails obtained by James, in which government bureaucrats ...
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Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that?	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
We need a new narrative in which we frame migration as a way for people to adapt to climate change This week the Guardian has been running a major series on "climate refugees" about the village of Newtok in Alaska, which faces an imminent threat to its existence from erosion. The term is problematic for a number of reasons. The first being that people who are facing movement do not like the term. The word "refugee" brings to mind a number of (not always accurate) images: tented camps, long lines of people walking, dangerous boat crossings. People facing the prospect moving hope that they will have some choice in the timing and circumstances of their movement and that when they arrive they will find work and become active members of their new communities. Their hope is that they will move with dignity. President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific, told Australia's ABC Radio that the people of Kiribati do not want to leave as refugees but as skilled migrants . ...
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Australia's 'unpopular' carbon price isn't to blame for Labor's poor polling \| Alexander White	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Claims that Julia Gillard's unpopularity were linked to her introduction of carbon pricing in 2012 don't stack up Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009 , Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative radio shock-jocks on the airwaves, and in parliament by extremist opposition party leader Tony Abbott. From the moment Australia's carbon pricing legislation package, the Clean Energy Future Act, was announced Tony Abbott has barnstormed from one end of Australia to another, declaring a "blood oath" that repealing the carbon price would be his first priority if elected: "I am giving you the most definite commitment any politician can give that this tax will go. This is a pledge in blood." Behind this incendiary phrase is Abbott's own climate change policy, a mishmash of ineffective handouts to industry to "clean up" polluting power ...
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The Great American Descent into Plutocracy (Kroll) (Cached)	17.5.2013	Informed Comment
Andy Kroll writes at Tomdispatch.com Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no [...]
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Six Americans, 9 others killed by car bomb	17.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
Nation & World briefing KABUL, Afghanistan -- A car packed with explosives rammed a pair of U.S. military vehicles in the Afghan capital,
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CBS Evening News: Republican Sources Caught Doctoring Emails	17.5.2013	Little Green Footballs
Video SCOTT PELLEY: Also at his news conference today the president called for tighter security for U.S. diplomatic facilities to prevent an attack like the one in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Of course, Benghazi has become a political controversy. Republicans claim that the Administration watered down the facts in talking points that were given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for television appearances while Mr. Obama was running for reelection. Republicans on Capitol Hill claim that they had found proof of this in White House e-mails that they leaked to reporters last week. Well, it turns out some of the quotes in those e-mails were wrong. Major Garrett is at the White House for us tonight. Major? MAJOR GARRETT: Scott, Republicans have claimed that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was trying to protect itself from criticism. The White House released the real e-mails late yesterday and here's what we found when we ...
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IHT Rendezvous: Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn’t the Public Know That?	17.5.2013	NYT > World
IHT Rendezvous: Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn’t the Public Know That?
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Monkey Shares Lollipop With Puppy, Then Bonks Him With It	17.5.2013	Little Green Footballs
YouTube Via: Boing Boing
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'Green News Report' - May 16, 2013	17.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hysterical Fox 'News' flip-floppery on Tesla; Consensus strikes again: 97% of climate scientists say global warming is man-made, but the public thinks it's evenly split; CO2 levels pass 400ppm; You're already paying a 'disaster tax'; PLUS: Thanks to renewable energy, one town now has too much ...
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GOHMERT!	17.5.2013	Little Green Footballs
Bristling Gohmert The dumbest man in Congress, Texas Representative Louie " Terror Babies from the Future " Gohmert, got all lathered up yesterday because Eric Holder said, in so many words, that Gohmert didn't know WTF he was talking about when he asked a weird, pointless question about some tortuous Muslim-Christian persecution fantasy he apparently got from World Net Daily. So the hearing wasn't a complete waste. "Because of political correctness, there was not a thorough enough investigation of Tamerlan to determine this kid had been radicalized," Gohmert said of one of the Boston bombing suspects. "On the one hand, we go after Christian groups like Billy Graham's group - we go after Franklin Graham's group - but then we're hands-off when it comes to possibly offending someone who has been radicalized as a terrorist." Holder responded by saying that Gohmert didn't have access to all of the facts. "Unless somebody has done something inappropriate, you don't have access to the FBI ...
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