Taxing Banks to Fight Climate Change: The Robin Hood Tax (Video)

Image credit: The Robin Hood Tax The UK’s top bankers may be using G-Wiz electric cars to get around these days, but that’s not enough to make them popular. In fact there is as much public anger over bank bailouts in the UK as there is in the US. And while higher taxes may, in general, be a tough sell—taxing bank profits may be a little more palatable to your average man on the street.

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New Report Shows Arctic Melt Could Cause $24 Trillion in Damages by 2050

If the threat of rising seas and altered ecosystems isn’t enough to convince lawmakers we need some serious climate legislation, maybe the financial bottom line will. A report released today indicates that Arctic melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050! Read the rest of New Report Shows Arctic Melt Could Cause $24 Trillion in Damages by 2050 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Arctic ice melt , Arctic Treasure Global Assets Melting Away , climate legislation , cost of Arctic ice melt , methane , methane and climate change , Pew Charitable Trust , Pew Environment Group , Reuters

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NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space

While everyone else is commuting home from work today, a NASA rocket will be making another, longer, trip–taking the agency’s newest weather satellite into space ! After the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) journeys to its orbit 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use the data it gathers to support scientists’ work. Though satellites have been around for a while, newer satellite technology like this will undoubtedly play more of a role as climate change alters environmental conditions. Read the rest of NASA to Launch New Weather Satellite in Space Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: climate change and storms , climate change and weather , Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite , GOES-15 , GOES-P , nasa , NASA launches new satellite , NOAA , satellites

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Global Warming Hits World’s Women the Hardest — Especially When They Don’t Have Equal Rights

Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr.

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Jargon Watch: SMIDSY

It is an English acronym, short for “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You!”, a common excuse used when pedestrians get hit, doors get opened, and “accidents” happen.

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Snapshots of the Bizarro State of Climate Discussion: Inhofe’s Witch-Hunt & South Dakota’s ‘Interrelativity’

Oklahoma sunset with oil derricks, photo: Clinton Steeds via flickr. Recent headlines about the ongoing bar room brawl over climate change have made me mostly just hang my head at the absurdity of it all

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Snapshots of the Bizarro State of Climate Discussion: Inhofe’s Witch-Hunt & South Dakota’s ‘Interrelativity’

Costa Rica’s Golden Toads Killed by El Niño & A Pathogen, Not Climate Change

The Monteverde golden toad went extinct in 1989.

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Today on Planet 100: Astronomical Not Astrological Climate Change (Video)

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How Much Carbon Do Different Forests Store & What Size Offsets Your Driving For a Year?

photo: Chor Ip via flickr. As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change –deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire transportation sector.

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Al Gore Op-Ed in New York Times: "We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change"

Expect a hundred comments about how climate change is a hoax, reminding us of how much snow fell this month, the non-shrinking glaciers or hacked emails. They will probably be from people who will not even bother reading Al Gore’s long op-ed in the Sunday New York Times. If they did, they would find that he addresses all of these issues.

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