Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=57046[graphic] IPCC ipcc.ch  NOAA climate portal climate.gov  Monthly climate report ncdc.noaa.gov  National Snow and Ice Data Center nsidc.org  [graphic][graphic] Al Gore's 7 Point Pledge The pledge: 1 To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next two years that cut...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5704638013210EricWind gives bigger share of electricity generation in the US UNITED STATES: Wind power generation rose in 2013 and produced more than 10% of electricity in nine states, up from five in 2011. Across the country, wind generated 3.5% of the nation's electricity, behind coal with 37%, natural gas with 30%, nuclear with 19%...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289021265/18/2013 12:26:15 PMWharf RatZombie climate sceptic theories survive only in newspapers and on TV Study finds overwhelming scientific consensus that humans have caused global warming, but media still hasn't caught up [graphic] According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289019545/18/2013 10:40:45 AMWharf Rat"Clinton focused specifically on small Pacific Island nations whose existences, she said, 'are truly at stake.'" Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas By Geoffrey LeanWorld Last updated: May 17th, 2013 Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289016945/18/2013 12:38:20 AMWharf RatHillary Clinton On Climate Change, Poaching: 'We Are In A Race Against Time' (VIDEO/GRAPHIC PHOTOS) The Huffington Post | By Joanna Zelman Posted: 05/17/2013 3:44 pm EDT [youtube video] "We are in a race against time," former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289016925/18/2013 12:36:01 AMEricGoldman Sachs to Finance $500 Million for SolarCity Roofs SolarCity Corp. (SCTY), a solar-energy developer chaired by billionaire Elon Musk, won financing from Goldman Sachs (GS) Group Inc. for more than $500 million in rooftop solar systems that the company will complete this year. The lease-financing agreemen...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289016295/17/2013 11:05:10 PMEricJames Hansen Says Greenland Melt May Cool North Atlantic [graphic] Icebergs drift by the mountains in Scoresbysund, Greenland. Inflows of cold, fresh water from Greenland would slow deep currents that carry cold water south, cooling the North Atlantic Greenland ice melting at an expanding pace may begin cooling t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289016155/17/2013 10:54:26 PMEricFrom Canadian Oil, a Black Pile Rises in Detroit [graphic] Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times Petroleum coke, a waste byproduct of refining oil sands oil, is piling up along the Detroit River. WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289015205/17/2013 9:48:30 PMEricFor Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change [graphic] Master Sgt. Mark Olsen/U.S. Air Force, via Associated Press Damage in Mantoloking, N.J., after Hurricane Sandy. Natural disasters caused $35 billion in private property losses last year. If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289014965/17/2013 9:27:48 PMWharf RatEPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants By Joe Romm on May 17, 2013 at 12:19 pm [graphic]EPA is legally obligated to issue rules regulating CO2 from existing power plants. Dave Roberts at Grist is (eternally) puzzled that folks don’t seem to know that. Since eternity is a very l...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289014375/17/2013 8:52:42 PMWharf RatClouds ‘cool Earth less than thought’ May 17, 2013 in Science By Paul Brown The ability of clouds to reflect sunlight back into space and so help to cool the Earth appears to have been over-estimated, researchers say, in a study especially significant for major polluters. LONDON, 17 May – Extra cloud cover cau...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289000035/17/2013 10:25:40 AMWharf Rat16 May 2013: Scientist’s U.S. Road Trip Reveals Unexpected Methane Emissions Methane measurements collected during a scientist’s road trip across the U.S. indicate that local emissions of the potent greenhouse gas are higher than previously known in many regions. Using a gas chromatograph mounted to the roof of a ren...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289000005/17/2013 10:23:14 AMEricMajor U.S. Cities Are at Risk for Climate-Related Water Shortage: Report [graphic] Visitor at Seal Beach, south of Los Angeles. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Bloomberg BNA -- Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, and San Diego are among the cities most likely to face water scarc...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288996245/17/2013 1:31:53 AMEricClimate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic guardian.co.uk http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288995715/17/2013 12:19:41 AMWharf RatU.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains By Joe Romm on May 16, 2013 at 7:16 pm [graphic]A new U.S. Geological Survey study finds, “Warmer spring temperatures since 1980 are causing an estimated 20 percent loss of snow cover across the Rocky Mountains of weste...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288994985/16/2013 11:15:37 PMRonhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288994825/16/2013 11:03:27 PMWharf RatFish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth’s Poles For more than 30 years, ocean fish and mammals have migrated away from warming equatorial waters and toward the poles, providing more evidence climate change has already had broad global consequences. [ Washington Post] Fish and other sea l...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288994815/16/2013 11:03:03 PMRonWhy the tar sands and Keystone suck: my.firedoglake.com  oilsandsrealitycheck.org http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288993705/16/2013 9:26:30 PMWharf Rat"They say outdoor pot should be grown in greenhouses that allow in natural sunlight, not expansive open fields." Otdoors is outside, with wind and unfiltered sunlight and bugs and deer and wild pigs. Greenhouses are indoors. "DeAngelo said the best pot he’s ever seen came from northern California outdoor grows in ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288984505/16/2013 2:04:52 PMNo Mo MoA sense of humor helps when dealing with catastrophe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roller coaster on Jersey Shore to be called ‘Super Storm’ Published May 16, 2013 [graphic] New Jersey officials this week announced a new thrill ride...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288983995/16/2013 1:40:23 PMNo Mo MoOutdoors is better. --------------------------------------------- Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footprint Originally published May 11, 2013 at 8:04 PM | Page modified May 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM The carbon footprint of producing 2.2 pounds of mari...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288983895/16/2013 1:34:53 PMSamA move back to the 'pre-Madmen' days, by modern madmen IMO, it is an attempt to move back to the Gilded Age daze. Pre-FDR, pre-TR--even McKinley was too liberal for these guys. They want, for some reason, to return to the boom-and-bust days that even JP Morgan got tired of after the Panic of 1907. But they are not onl...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288976625/16/2013 9:08:39 AMRonJust a preview of what the whole country would get if the GOP gets ahold of the Federal Government again... A move back to the 'pre-Madmen' days, by modern madmen.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288976295/16/2013 8:49:26 AMSamWell, anything that hurts developers should be removed, shouldn't it? Bill sponsor Sen. Rick Gunn, a Republican from Burlington, pointed out that the lake has had water-quality problems since it was impounded in 1983. He said efforts to improve upstream sources of pollution have made it hard on developers and mu...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288974045/16/2013 12:11:02 AMSamNew App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart forbes.com  This is a busy page, better to read it there. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288973115/15/2013 10:41:22 PMWharf RatStudy Finds Warming In Central China Far Greater Than Most Climate Models Indicated By Climate Guest Blogger on May 15, 2013 at 10:56 am [graphic] China's Loess Plateau A UCLA news release reveals yet another key part of the world is far more sensitive to climate change forcing than the models had suggested. ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288970755/15/2013 7:50:49 PMWharf RatFour Charts On How America Can Do Much More To Tackle Climate Change By Jeff Spross on May 15, 2013 at 11:48 am [graphic]The U.S. Energy Information Agency’s new state-by-state report on carbon emissions shows some progress, but you sort of have to squint to see it. The paper, which came out on Monday, didn’t a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288970715/15/2013 7:48:43 PMWharf RatSkeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature Posted on 16 May 2013 by dana1981, John Cook A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97% consensus in the peer-reviewed lit...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288970655/15/2013 7:46:32 PMWharf RatSchmitt and Happer manufacture doubt Posted on 15 May 2013 by Dumb Scientist Dr. Harrison Schmitt and Dr. William Happer, who have scientific backgrounds but are not climate scientists, just wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. Despite their claims, global warming continues. This continued warming ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288970575/15/2013 7:40:44 PMRonHow Monsanto is threatening global food diversity with help from the US State Dept: thinkprogress.org http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288966435/15/2013 4:41:33 PMWharf RatI should contact PG&E and have them sell my XS power to the NC lege, instead of my neighbor.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288957845/15/2013 11:53:22 AMRonGo ahead and laugh. They're coming for your solar panels, next...... (I know, I know... from my cold dead hands...) http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288957635/15/2013 11:47:04 AMWharf RatTesla? Isn't that Muslim? Sounds Islamic to me. Ban him. North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition”From the state that brought you the nation’s first ban on climate science comes another legislative gem: a bill that would prohibit automakers from selling their cars in the state. The proposal...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288955825/15/2013 10:59:04 AMWharf RatVery sad. How soon do they ban the color itself? Red, yellow, and blue traffic lights ahead? Oops; red, yellow, and grey.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288954375/15/2013 10:25:08 AMSamClimate weirding. 105 degrees in Sioux City Iowa yesterday. Never seen before this early in the year. It snowed there two weeks ago.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288953915/15/2013 10:11:28 AMRonEvil Republican idiots in North Carolina House move to block green public building construction: bizjournals.com  Straight out of the Koch Brothers/ALEC playbook. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288948065/14/2013 11:03:03 PMWharf RatGovernance in the Long Emergency by David Orr, originally published by Worldwatch Institute | TODAY This is Chapter 26 of the new WorldWatch State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? report. It is reproduced here with permission. resilience.org http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288947355/14/2013 10:12:52 PMEricTesla’s Straubel Keeps Motors Rolling as Stock Surges 57% Elon Musk was fresh off the sale of PayPal and starting another business, commercial rocket service Space Exploration Technologies Corp., when he met kindred spirit JB Straubel. Their shared belief that consumer electronics advances could be applied to more ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288942235/14/2013 5:35:27 PMT L ComiskeyIm thinkin...god does not like tehas...much ifin he did... how come ...commie pinko (rat) bastards....got away with torching the govs...big househttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288941845/14/2013 5:23:23 PMWharf RatThe Make Drought Illegal Act of 2013... Cornyn Files Amendment to Help Address Texas Water Shortage, Engage Mexico on Treaty Compliance WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reauthorization to address Mexicos failure to take action ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288939755/14/2013 3:55:17 PMWharf RatNew Jersey Transit Ignored Climate Change Warnings Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 10:16 AM By Kate Hinds / Andrea Bernstein New Jersey Transit commissioned a study on climate change. But the report didn't raise alarms, and when Sandy roared in, the nation's largest statewide transit agency was overwhelmed, leavin...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288939325/14/2013 3:41:24 PMWharf RatWashington, May 14, 2013 | UPDATED 19:07 IST Mount Everest shrinking? Glaciers recede due to global warming, snow line moves upward by 180 metres [graphic] [graphic] File Photo: Mount Everest (centre) and other peaks of the Himalayan range. Photo: Tim Chong/Reuters Global warming effects to unfold faster a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288939215/14/2013 3:38:49 PMWharf RatThe last time carbon dioxide concentrations were around 400ppm: a snapshot from Arctic Siberia Posted on 14 May 2013 by John Mason Synopsis During the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Series of the Cenozoic Era, 3.6 to 2.2 Ma (million years ago), the Arctic was much warmer than it is at the present day (with sum...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288936675/14/2013 2:11:25 PMWharf RatThe people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away. guardian.co.uk http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288930355/14/2013 10:27:53 AMWharf RatCoccidioidomycosis alert Outbreaks of valley fever have been attributed in part to climbing temperatures in California and Arizona By Tara Lohan If you haven’t heard of valley fever, you’re not alone. Although cases in states like California are rising, public awareness is low and misdiagnoses from doctors are s...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288930265/14/2013 10:25:06 AMErichttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288918785/13/2013 4:59:57 PMT L Comiskeyhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288915515/13/2013 2:11:01 PMT L Comiskeyhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288915415/13/2013 2:06:50 PMEricThe "renewables" have finally broken out of their bottom. Look at Tesla's stock... $85 and change this morning. The future is upon us... Erichttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288913525/13/2013 12:33:28 PMRonIf the North Carolina Teabag legislature is trying to stifle Tesla sales, maybe Tesla is being regarded as a real threat to auto dealers. Very interesting: wral.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288911465/13/2013 10:44:56 AMWharf Rathttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288908645/13/2013 8:13:52 AM