Repost: The Keystone XL Pipeline Idea is a Blunder, a Misguided, Obsolete Folly That Needs to Stop Now

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Coal Shuts Down W Va Drinking Water, Oil the Mississippi; Pollution, Corruption, Injustice, Unsustainable

Oil shuts down 65 MILES of Mississippi Here. Coal ash threatens North Carolina and Virginia Here. Coal-related chemical spill proves no such thing as clean coal Here. U.S. Gov mum on long-term effects. Ukrainian uber-corruption (what 1-2%ers are fighting for in America) Here.

Christine Todd Whitman: Yes, The EPA Has the Power to Stop Climate Change

Here Yes. 

NYT: Let the EPA Do Its Job

Here  Yes.

"Iran, Six Big Powers Agree Seek Basis for Nuclear Accord" -- Let's Hope So

Here Iran would do best to not be fucking around here. Diplomacy, and transparent peaceful energy production = back in the league of nations as a civilized country. Delays, dodging inspections and more fucking around = more ever severe sanctions and/or bombs (eventually, unfortunately). Those are two options they can expect, and can largely choose one.

Obama Ups Fuel Standards, Kellogg's Doing the Right Thing - Sourcing Responsibly Farmed Palm Oil

Here Nice!! For islands, habitat, biodiversity and climate. They will no longer buy palm oil from companies that employ deforestation, but only those that responsibly, sustainably harvest the (not really healthy anyway, junk food additive) oil. Great news.

And Obama's upping gas mileage standards for larger vehicles, saving money, gas and climate emissions for all of us. Sweet, more please. Here

John Kerry Calls Climate Change 'World’s Most Fearsome' Weapon Of Mass Destruction | ThinkProgress

John Kerry Calls Climate Change 'World’s Most Fearsome' Weapon Of Mass Destruction | ThinkProgress

"Secretary of State John Kerry gave perhaps his strongest climate speech in Indonesia Sunday. He called climate change the “world’s most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction and said “the science of climate change is leaping out at us like a scene from a 3D movie. It’s warning us; it’s compelling us to act.”

At the same time, a must-read new analysisby Oil Change International finds that “all of the scenarios used by the State Department” in their Final Environmental Impact Study (EIS) of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline “result in emissions that put us on a path to 6 degrees C (11°F) of global warming according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).” Talk about mass destruction!"

Kerry's Almost Right: Today it Is Bigger: John Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs

Happy Olympics. Loving the events! The US is doing pretty well. And vs. Russia in the medal count too. Remember what a big deal that was growing up in the Cold War? Makes me nostalgic (loved the Soviet/US astronaut friendship feature), thinking how some big things have changed. Now bigger threats, rather than worrying about Soviet nukes, are terrorism and climate change. The second is positioned to be the worst by far. Quiet and insidious, one of the problems with climate change is that it's an adversary that is tough to envision (big hint: oil, coal, individual apathy and the power of greed). We as a great country rally. Bode Miller got bronze. If we as a nation get this on the podium, we will win.

Us/you. Do our part. Next car HAS TO BE an electric car. Turn off lights not used in your house. Let a reputable company -- at $0 to you -- put solar panels on your roof and sell you the sun's clean energy. Lower your bill. solarcity.com sungevity.com They'll give free quotes. Be mindful and ACT, help, send letters, call your politicians, at least sign big petitions. Take your kids to the first leg of the historic cross-country Climate March that starts in LA March 1st. http://climatemarch.org/

Them: Urge politicians to pass a carbon cap, and carbon tax in the U.S.http://citizensclimatelobby.org/options-for-action/current-actions/ Tell them the EPA must close down coal plants today until they can come online without spewing such pollution. We need to get to 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. This needs to start today.

(CNN) -- Saying that climate change ranks among the world's most serious problems -- such as disease outbreaks, poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on all nations to respond to "the greatest challenge of our generation."

Kerry said he and Obama had no time for what he called the "Flat Earth Society." It will soon be too late for action to prevent the immense costs of doing nothing. People who refuse to look at the evidence and agree on change are "burying their heads" in the sand, he said.

"U.S., China Agree to Work on Climate Change"

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1E05320140215?irpc=932

Well, "work" is not planning.

If "...The two sides "commit to devote significant effort and resources to secure concrete results" by the Sixth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue later this year, the statement added."

Then we need concrete results of lowering atmospheric CO2, not planning on it.
Not agreeing to plan for it.
We NEED to start LOWERING atmospheric CO2. Not
slowly curtailing emissions decades from now.
We should be turning off coal powered plants today.
These polluting behemoths must be retrofitted with the best scrubbers money can buy if they are ever let online again. And governments might need to help pay for that. And governments must lead and help subsidize a WWII-like effort of manufacturing rows and rows of wind turbines and solar fields, combined with private investment, and citizen micro-investment, until they are flying off of assembly lines and into power grids in every continent on the planet.