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Alberta Shuts Energy Efficiency Agency, Eliminates Cabinet Approval for New Tar Sands/Oil Sands Projects - The Energy Mix

Alberta is moving to phase out its energy efficiency agency and allow future tar sands/oil sands projects to proceed without cabinet approval under a 14-point omnibus bill introduced last Thursday, prompting the energy efficiency community to scorch the Jason Kenney government for shutting down a job-creating program in the midst of a deep recession.

Efficiency Canada Executive Director Corey Diamond noted that energy efficiency measures can reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40%. “It’s also a massive job creator,” he told CBC. “More jobs are created in the energy efficiency sector right now than any other part of the energy sector in North America.”

With its support for building insulation, better appliances, efficient lighting, and other infrastructure improvements, Energy Efficiency Alberta delivered electricity savings at a cost of just 2.4¢ per kilowatt-hour, Efficiency Canada adds. And with post-pandemic recovery programs under development, “EEA was a strong candidate for federal investment to kick-start the economy,” although cities like Edmonton have already begun moving into the vacuum created by Alberta’s withdrawal from energy efficiency incentives.

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Microbes go dark to stay warm in cooler climates

Microbes go dark to stay warm in cooler climates

Microorganisms in colder climates darken themselves to capture more heat from the sun and improve their ability to survive, according to a study from scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

For the study, published online today in the journal Current Biology, scientists examined yeasts collected at different latitudes, and found that dark-pigmented ones were more…

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"You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'"

John Oliver of @LastWeekTonight

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/john-oliver-climate-change-debate_n_5308822.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politics

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Theory in the Era of Climate Change

Read more  at Aftermedia, the website of Joanna Zylinska

OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS is delighted to announce the publication of two new open access books in its Critical Climate Change series:

TELEMORPHOSIS: THEORY IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE, vol. 1 edited by Tom Cohen (University at Albany) Freely available here The writers in the volume explore how the 21st century horizons that exceed any political, economic, or conceptual models alter or redefine a series of key topoi. These range from figures of sexual difference through to bioethics, care, species invasion, war, post-carbon thought, ecotechnics, and time. As such, the volume is also a dossier on what metamorphoses await the legacies of “humanistic” thought in adapting to, or rethinking, the other materialities that impinge of contemporary “life as we know it.” # Introduction: Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory by Tom Cohen # 1. Time by Robert Markley # 2. Ecotechnics by J. Hillis Miller # 3. Care by Bernard Stiegler # 4. Unicity by Justin Read # 5. Scale by Timothy Clark # 6. Sexual Indifference by Claire Colebrook # 7. Nonspecies Invasion by Jason Groves # 8. Bioethics by Joanna Zylinska # 9. Post-Trauma by Catherine Malabou # 10. Ecologies of War by Mike Hill # 11. Notes Toward a Post-Carbon Philosophy by Martin McQuillan # 12. Health by Eduardo Cadava and Tom Cohen

IMPASSES OF THE POST-GLOBAL: THEORY IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE, vol. 2 edited by Henry Sussman (Yale University) Freely available here The diverse materials comprising Impasses of the Post-Global take as their starting point an interrelated, if seemingly endless, sequence of current ecological, demographic, socio-political, economic, and informational disasters. These include the contemporary discourses of climate change, ecological imbalance and despoilment, sustainability, security, economic bailout, auto-immunity, and globalization itself. # Introduction: Spills, Countercurrents, Sinks by Henry Sussman and Jason Groves # 1. Anecographics: Climate Change and “Late” Deconstruction by Tom Cohen # 2. Autopoiesis and the Planet by Bruce Clarke # 3. Of Survival: Climate Change and Uncanny Landscape in the Photography of Subhankar Banerjee by Yates McKee # 4. Global Warming as a Manifestation of Garbage by Tian Song # 5. The Physical Reality of Water Shapes by James H. Bunn # 6. Sacrifice Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood (A Speculative Essay) by Rey Chow # 7. Security: From “National” to “Homeland” … and Beyond by Samuel Weber # 8. Common Political Democracy: The Marrano Register by Alberto Moreiras # 9. Bare Life by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek # 10. Sustainability by Haun Saussy # 11. The Global Unworld: A Meditative Manifesto by Krzysztof Ziarek # 12. Bailout by Randy Martin # 13. Auto-Immunity by Henry Sussman

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New Ice Age Data Emphasizes the Dangers of Greenhouse Gases

2011 was the ninth warmest year on record since the 1800′s, meaning that the 21st century already contains nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record.

The dramatic temperature increases that thawed the last ice age followed spikes in carbon dioxide levels in the air, a new study finds. Researchers say that further strengthens the scientific case explaining current man-made global warming.

In the new study, scientists show the atmospheric concentration of that heat-trapping greenhouse gas jumped more than 40 percent. Then global temperatures went up about 6 degrees Fahrenheit (3.5 degrees Celsius).

What is remarkable is that when the two are plotted they rise, plateau and rise again in a striking similar way with a slight lag. The warming over 6,000 years follows the greenhouse gas increase, just as scientific theory has long held.

This is important because, until this study, the two curves weren’t quite so in sync. At some points, it seemed that the temperatures warmed before the carbon dioxide levels increased, something that climate skeptics seized upon.

How could carbon dioxide cause warming if the temperatures warmed first, argue skeptics, who are in the scientific minority.

Earlier studies had looked at carbon dioxide levels and temperature readings from Antarctica, not the entire world. A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimated global temperatures using 80 different proxies — ice and mud samples from dozens of places around the world — and found that globally, temperatures clearly went up only after carbon dioxide jumped.

“You end up with something that looks remarkably similar to the pattern of rising carbon dioxide through time,” study lead author Jeremy Shankun of Harvard University said. “This, to me, seems like pretty powerful proof of theory of the connection between greenhouse gases and global warming.”

There are two main sources of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. The natural source comes mostly from dead plants and animals and that amplified the ice age thaw. In modern day, emissions from burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels add greatly to that natural carbon dioxide.

The ice age warming in Antarctica still appears to come before the carbon dioxide increases, which are calculated using an 800,000 year old Antarctic ice core, but there’s good reason, Shankun said.

Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma says the bible proves global warming is a hoax - one more shithead republican who has no business in public office.