Methane emissions from industry soar past previous estimates, study says - NBC News.com

Methane emissions from industry soar past previous estimates, study says - NBC News.com 

Heartbreaking that science under-assessed their 'estimates' for methane emissions. The real concentrations measured in the atmosphere are much higher than anticipated, 50% higher than the EPA estimates. These emissions are from cows/livestock, and fossil fuels and fracking.
We have to do a better job tracking these greenhouse gases, and acting accordingly.

Founding Fathers Wanted Distribution of Wealth and Ownership, Not Concentration of Wealth

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'James Madison warned that inequality in property ownership would subvert liberty, either through opposition to wealth (a war of labor against capital) or "by an oligarchy founded on corruption" through which the wealthy dominate political decision-making (a war of capital against labor). John Adams favored distribution of public lands to the landless to create broad-based ownership of property, then the critical component of business capital in the largely agricultural U.S. Current levels and trends in inequality would almost certainly have terrified the founders, who believed that broad-based property ownership was essential to the sustenance of a republic.
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If increasing inequality is indeed as dire a problem as the Founding Fathers imagined, what, if anything, can the U.S. do to reverse the pattern and to assure that in the next three decades, all of us share in the benefits of modern technology and economic progress? What is the best way to avoid Madison's dark scenarios?

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We propose a new strategy: to expand capital ownership and capital income for normal workers through programs that encourage broad-based employee stock ownership of firms, widely available profit-sharing, and all-employee stock options and stock grants in firms that now restrict ownership, stock options and bonuses to only the highest-level executives. (More active pension fund investments, more active institutional investors economy-wide and reforms in corporate governance are also needed to address what we could call the ownership gap, but we'll save them for another day.)'

Yes.

NY Times: Typhoon in Philippines Casts Long Shadow Over U.N. Talks on Climate Treaty

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We're fucking this up pretty mighty.
The world governments better commit to action ASAP.
The ass draggers and oil investors are irrelevant.
Because we are talking about the viability of whole nations and ecosystems here.
We're talking about our species and keeping Earth's climate intact.
Science knows what needs to be done. We need to keep CO2 PPM under 400.
That needs to be done, FUCKING ASAP.

U.S. negotiators offer Iran relief on sanctions

U.S. negotiators offer Iran relief on sanctions 

This has promise. I hope Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani comes clean and they become transparent, clearly non-nuclear weaponizing and not a rogue regime. We all want a nuke-free world.

EPA in US Should be Lauded (detractors should be sent to China for a 'last gasp' aircation)

Thomas Friedman lays out a first-person account of China's air here. What is awful, and what good people are trying to do to make it livable there (read: not just increase hospital size and airmask supply).

Too Big to Breathe?

FDA Ruling Would All but Eliminate Trans Fats

This is good news, to help make for less obese and less heart-attacky Americans.
More sustainable. Reminds me of Thomas Friedman's kudos to the EPA (read: FDA doing good= EPA doing good) for keeping our skies blue and healthy, as opposed to China (here: Too Big to Breathe?)

FDA Ruling Would All but Eliminate Trans Fats