Greenpeace Canada Climate and Energy Coordinator Dave Martin comments on the Harper Administration’s rather crafty emissions plan: " (Canadian Environment Minister John) Baird characterized it as turning the corner. I would describe it as hitting a dead end. What Mr. Baird came out with was a deliberate deception." LISTEN (10 min)
Category Archives: climate change
Greenpeace Canada Targets Prime Minister Harper For Climates Crimes
- Monday, 30 April 2007 17:39
- Written by William Craven
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Schwarzenegger tells the EPA to shape up
- Friday, 27 April 2007 20:16
- Written by William Craven
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Governor Schwarzenegger’s environmental adviser Terry Tamminen (author of the kick-ass book Lives Per Gallon ) stops by to break down the Governator’s letters to EPA head Steve Johnson, threatening a lawsuit if the EPA does not release California (and a line of other states around the corner) from the Clean Air Act. Doesn’t sound very environmental to you? Well, considering that climate change isn’t currently being addressed under the current version of the Clean Air Act (we’ll see what happens, now that we’re post-Mass v. EPA), Schwarzenegger is here actually asking permission to address climate change. But it doesn’t sound like he’ll be merely asking for long. EcoTalk loves it. LISTEN (10 min)
Elizabeth Kolbert: Field Notes From A Catastrophe
- Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:00
- Written by William Craven
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Elizabeth Kolbert’s vivid, intimate accounts of climate change through the eyes of people in the Netherlands, Iceland, and Alaska were initially published in the New Yorker Magazine and later compiled in the book Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Since "Field Notes" was first published, Kolbert has written a stunning piece on ocean acidification, and has profiled one-time boy wonder of the environmental movement Amory Lovins, now 49 years old and still the eternal optimist.
PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
"One of Amory’s basic points is that if you don’t use energy, you’ve
found a new energy source. A barrel of oil we don’t use, is a barrel of
oil found, in a way. If we just made cars more efficient, we would
basically found the equivalent of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves right
under Detroit."
Here Kolbert shares her thoughts on all that she’s investigated
and reported, not only on climate change but on the political and
social climate of climate change. She’s one of the most valuable
chroniclers of Our time on Earth, and we were thrilled to have her in
our Green Street studio.
Science Teacher faces Harrassment for teaching Common Sense
- Monday, 16 April 2007 19:04
- Written by William Craven
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Oregon Teacher of the Year Award Recipient John Borowski tells Betsy about the pressure he’s faced from school administrators to stop teaching his students how science can be practically applied to the largest challenge that they will inherit from us, climate change. Mr. Borowski points to corporate pressure on science teachers nationwide not to tell our kids too much about their future, but he teaches undeterred, determined to respect his students’ education and teach them to think critically about the world: "I ask kids to take a newspaper article on the environment and analyze it. I always told them that I’ll grade the paper based on two things: you presentation of facts, and how well you analyze those facts. But I’m not going to grade them on their opinion." LISTEN (11 min)
Newsweek: Save the Planet…or Lindzen
- Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:46
- Written by William Craven
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EcoTalk gives major props to the bevy of magazines that are doing entire issues dedicated to one of the only issues that really matters, but when one single page in Newsweek seeks to debunk the other 80 or so pages of the magazine, EcoTalk must take out its scalpel and dissect that malignant piece of paper.
Oh, What a surprise! Noted climate change skeptic Dr. Richard Lindzen! Climate Institute Chief Scientist Dr. Michael MacCracken says that while Dr. Lindzen holds his scientific colleagues to incredibly high standards, he lowers the bar a bit for his own statements: "As I read that piece, and it’s only about 7 or 8 paragraphs, I noted down a dozen things that were quite misleading or deceptive." LISTEN (11 min)