Real Time Oil Spill Map : SKYTRUTH

Real Time Oil Spill Map

Click on the map to explore the new, interactive Real Time Oil Spill Tracker! This great new resource from our friends at Skytruth reveals how frequently oil is spilled into our oceans. SkyTruth gathers data from the National Response Center, which relies on self-
reporting, so the daily spills you see on the web could actually be just a drop in the bucket…or oil barrel!
Check back often to track the startling amount of oil pollution that our oceans absorb.

Climate Change Reality - Smoke Stack Lightning

(vid) Climate Change Reality - The Denial Hits the Fan

In The Name Of Democracy - narrated by Charlie Chaplin from his movie The Great Dictator: Channel 44connected

In The Name Of Democracy

- narrated by Charlie Chaplin from his movie The Great Dictator:

Channel 44connected

Quotes from the video:

"We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness not by each others misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone, the way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned mens souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed...... machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want, our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.... the airplane and the radio has brought us closer together, the very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all."

you are the 99% - we are the 99%

League of Conservation Voters - Turning Environmental Values Into National Priorities

WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY PEOPLE --- TIME TO MOVE FORWARD AGAIN

It's Time To Get Cleaned Up :

The Industrial Revolution Of The 20th Century Has Become A Hazard

End The Use Of Coal, Oil, & Natural Gas:

It's Time To Get Cleaned Up:

We all live on the same earth,

the industrial revolution of the last 150 years

is not progress any more.

It has become a hazard."

Send This Blog To As Many People ...---... As You Can!

1. Shut down ALL natural gas, coal, and oil "electricity generation plants" NOW.

2. Demand Wind and Solar Electrical Power World Wide NOW.

3. If you must have a car, make your next car an electric car.

4. Support Unions and Organized Labor, ask government and business to help gas, coal and oil wokers find new, cleaner, better jobs.

5. Forward this message to everyone who dissagrees with me, and help me make friends and change their minds.

Thankyou. I love your kindness.

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(vid) Save The Nature

Republicans Editing Science Reports

Politicians and lawyers are Re-writing scientific climate reports. It didn't end with he Bush Administration, it still goes on within government and it's entanglement with the oil, gas, and coal industriues.

THese science papers are from Goddard Instritiute and Nasa, certainly reputable, It is full of MIT grads, supported by the national acedamy of science etc.

These papers were Edited bt white house chief of staff Phil Cooney, former oil industry lobbyist before coming to the white hoiuse. After was caught editing these science papers, then quit and went to work at Exxon.

Cooney (the white house) counsel on environmental quality

is becomes maybe uncertanty becomes

significant remaining uncertainty.

crossed out : energy production contributes to warming, references to human health are marked out.

entire paragraph on glacial melting crossed out.

View the full 60 minutes tv report here.

Weather and Climate Change : The Climate Reality Project

How is climate change impacting the water cycle?

Posted by Juanita Constible, Science and Solutions Director // 1 Comment

Climate change is increasing our risk of both heavy rains and extreme droughts. But why is that? Aren’t the two contradictory? Take a look at our new visual guide to how climate change impacts the water cycle.

You might remember the water cycle from school: Water evaporates from the land and sea and returns to the earth as rain and snow. Climate change is intensifying that cycle. Higher temperatures mean there is more evaporation. Warmer air can hold more water vapor, which can lead to more intense rainstorms. But much of the water runs off into the rivers and streams, and the soil remains dry. More evaporation from the soil increases the risk of drought.

This graphic draws a picture of how global warming changes the water cycle, and in turn is changing the weather we see outside. Take a look at this graphic and share it with your friends.

And if you’d like even more detail on climate change
and the water cycle, check out my recent blog post here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

Coal vs. Wind Coal generates 54% of our electricity, and is the single biggest air polluter in the U.S.
	Tell me more about: Air Pollution Wastes Generated Fuel Supply Water Supply References Coal vs. Wind
Air pollution: Burning coal causes smog, soot, acid rain, global warming, and toxic air emissions. Click on its photo to learn more. Wastes generated: Ash, sludge, toxic chemicals, and waste heat create more environmental problems. Click on its photo to learn more. Fuel supply: Mining, transporting, and storing coal levels mountains and pollutes the land, water, and air. Click on its photo to learn more. Water use: Coal plants need billions of gallons of cooling water and harm wildlife. Click on its photo to learn more.	A typical (500 megawatt) coal plant burns 1.4 million tons of coal each year. There are about 600 U.S. coal plants. Coal pollutes when it is mined, transported to the power plant, stored, and burned. Click on the pictures above left to see more about the kinds of environmental damage caused by coal. Power plant photo credit: Warren Gretz, DOE/NREL



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(vid) The Threat to the Planet: Energy Policy : James Hansen Phd.

A cold winter doesn't mean global warming is a lie.

Watch this talk from Phd scientist, James Hansen:

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A Note To Fossil Fuel Tycoons: All's Well That Ends Well.

.... those who profit from: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear and anything else that is burned for energy, look in the mirror and look at what your doing to everybody:

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

-- William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

World Resources Institute

(vid) Death Valley Days - Train To Mercy - The Walkabouts

The Empire Builder

Nobel Prize Winning Secretary Of Energy: Steven Chu

"I see a rooftop and I want to paint it white..."

The current administration's Secretary Of Energy stated on the daily Show last July (2009) that the U.S. need "a new industrial revolution, and we want it carbon free." Mr. Chu said, "this is a good time to explain to the america people and policy makers in congress that this is a serious problem, and also an opportunity for america to lead the way in a new industrial revolution.

Keep in mind Mr. Chu is a Science Nobel Laureate, and the congressional policy makers are lawyers and executives. Some of these policy makers don't believe in climate change, not even when hearing it from a scientist who holds a Nobel Prize. The politicians claim to have 30, 000 leters from other scientists disputing the green house effect, and even put 3 or 4 on TV to prove it. That doesn't mean a thing. My 6th grade science teacher was a "scientist", he didn't have a nobel prize in science, he taught 6th grade, and called himself a scientist. He taught simple things like photo synthesis.

Ironically congressional policy makers would believe that reducing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is . "taking food from trees" before they will listen to a Nobel Laureate say that climate change is "a serious problem." These congessional non-scientists believe that Co2 is harmless because it is natural. To paraphrase Mr. Chu, water is natural, but a flood is destructive.

Saddly, so many of the general public believe these idiotic politicians before believing Mr. Chu. The rhetoric from these people who don't believe in global warming is distrubing. They make angry statements, attack political and party aligments, call people f**ing moron, dirty hippe, leftie commie, UN nazi f**ers, even refer to Oboma negatively as "black man" (and worse.)

I'm guessing these people don't listen to Mr. Chu or President Obama is simply because they are not white. They would rather call names, chew tabacco, and deep fry a turkey than to listen to someone that nobody in their little town would listen to. They are so afraid of not fitting in with everyone else in the trailer park, that they don't have the guts to think for themselves. They would rather believe without question our last administrations Environmental Council Chief Of Staff, Phil Cooney just because he, and most congressman are white.

These idiots don't seem to notice that Mr. Cooney both before and after serving in the Bush administration is a lawyer and lobyist for the petroleum industry, and took a job at Exxon after getting caught altering scientific reports from the worlds most leading scientist on climate change, Dr. James Hansen of Goddard/NASA and graduate of Columbia University.

I am sure that some people will call me names, though my intention is to rally everybody on the same side. Others will pick on me and say that "a green economy will never work, and that I am just wasting my time." Maybe they are right. I should just forget about the whole thing like they do, until it's 120F in all the places that it usually doesn't get over 80F.... and people become a panicked mob, bombing coal plants, and killing one another while everybody attempts to over run every neighborhood more affluent than their own, just to survive a little bit longer.

I will keep encouraging everyone to avoid this scenario by gathering their courage to make peacefull change now, when there is still time, and still hope. I really don't care what color you are, which party you registered in, or what you watch on TV. I don't care if you are a Nascar fan or a tree hugger. I don't care if you vacation at Martha's Vinyard, live in the Bronx, east L.A. or Wyoming. I don't even care if you live in france, or China, Kuwait, or Mexico.

Nobody else should care about any of those things either, when it comes to the fact (that even a 6th grade science student can understand) which is that in the beginning of the 21st Century, that mankind on earth has made scientific and technological advances which makes fossil fuels obsolete. We are on the cutting edge of a new frontier. Green technology has caught up with the dreams and sci-fi of the past. We have the technology to do what both political parties in america have been putting off for 40 years.

A green technolgy revolution means an entirely different economy than we have now. Petroleum and vast stores of coal are no longer valuable with an uncertain future. Shifting to clean power will make coal as worthless as confederate money, and oil a prized commodity in the manufacture of durable/semi-durable goods. If we don't shift to clean power, the earth will becom inhabitable and all fosssil fuels will be as worthless as the sand that will be in everyones shoes.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-july-21-2009/steven-chu

RePower America's Response To The State Of The Union Speech

Millions of new jobs in green energy

It is well documented that investments in clean, renewable energy can create millions of American jobs — three times as many jobs as equivalent investments in fossil fuels.

Fossil workers should get special consideration for these new jobs if they change carreers. Their current bosses are unfairly using themas scapegoats to block clea...n energy and perpetuate polluting energy by telling their employees that the EPA and the public doesn't care about them. Nothing could be further from the truth and we need to prove it.
http://www.repoweramerica.org/

Germany Renewable Energy Could Power 100% Of Country By 2050 (This is what happens when you don't buy into the idea that we need coal to maintain the economy.

Germany Renewable Energy Could Power 100% Of Country By 2050

Germany is not particularly windy, If Germany Can Do It, Why Can't The U.S.?

First Posted: 07- 8-10 03:25 PM | Updated: 07- 8-10 03:42 PM

The Guardian:
Germany could derive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 and become the world's first major industrial nation to kick the fossil-fuel habit, the country's Federal Environment Agency said today.
Read the whole story: The Guardian

and it is not particularly sunny.

If they can go 100% green, anyone can do it.

2050 doesn't really seem soon enough though, but Germany is also putting forward the best electric vehicles while the U.S. is still dinking around with somewhat efficient Hybrids.

America and China are in the same boat, because on Land, there is not even a plank between us and death.

U.S. Electric Utilities Fall Behind China's Green Conversion

Chinese companies have one-quarter of the world's solar panel production capacity
and are currently gaining market share rapidly, especially in Europe.

China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy

Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

As China takes the lead on wind turbines, and solar panels,
President Obama is calling for American industry to step up.

By KEITH BRADSHER Nw York Times

Published: January 30, 2010

TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.

Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

A worker inside a wind turbine at a factory in Tianjin, China.

China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China.
“Most of the energy equipment will carry a brass plate, ‘Made in China,’ ” said K. K. Chan, the chief executive of Nature Elements Capital, a private equity fund in Beijing that focuses on renewable energy.
President Obama, in his State of the Union speech last week, sounded an alarm that the United States was falling behind other countries, especially China, on energy. “I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders — and I know you don’t either,” he told Congress.
The United States and other countries are offering incentives to develop their own renewable energy industries, and Mr. Obama called for redoubling American efforts. Yet many Western and Chinese executives expect China to prevail in the energy-technology race.
Multinational corporations are responding to the rapid growth of China’s market by building big, state-of-the-art factories in China. Vestas of Denmark has just erected the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturing complex here in northeastern China, and transferred the technology to build the latest electronic controls and generators.
“You have to move fast with the market,” said Jens Tommerup, the president of Vestas China. “Nobody has ever seen such fast development in a wind market.”
Renewable energy industries here are adding jobs rapidly, reaching 1.12 million in 2008 and climbing by 100,000 a year, according to the government-backed Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association.
Yet renewable energy may be doing more for China’s economy than for the environment. Total power generation in China is on track to pass the United States in 2012 — and most of the added capacity will still be from coal.
China intends for wind, solar and biomass energy to represent 8 percent of its electricity generation capacity by 2020. That compares with less than 4 percent now in China and the United States. Coal will still represent two-thirds of China’s capacity in 2020, and nuclear and hydropower most of the rest.
As China seeks to dominate energy-equipment exports, it has the advantage of being the world’s largest market for power equipment. The government spends heavily to upgrade the electricity grid, committing $45 billion in 2009 alone. State-owned banks provide generous financing.
China’s top leaders are intensely focused on energy policy: on Wednesday, the government announced the creation of a National Energy Commission composed of cabinet ministers as a “superministry” led by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao himself.
Regulators have set mandates for power generation companies to use more renewable energy. Generous subsidies for consumers to install their own solar panels or solar water heaters have produced flurries of activity on rooftops across China.
China’s biggest advantage may be its domestic demand for electricity, rising 15 percent a year. To meet demand in the coming decade, according to statistics from the International Energy Agency, China will need to add nearly nine times as much electricity generation capacity as the United States will.
So while Americans are used to thinking of themselves as having the world’s largest market in many industries, China’s market for power equipment dwarfs that of the United States, even though the American market is more mature. That means Chinese producers enjoy enormous efficiencies from large-scale production.
In the United States, power companies frequently face a choice between buying renewable energy equipment or continuing to operate fossil-fuel-fired power plants that have already been built and paid for. In China, power companies have to buy lots of new equipment anyway, and alternative energy, particularly wind and nuclear, is increasingly priced competitively.
Interest rates as low as 2 percent for bank loans — the result of a savings rate of 40 percent and a government policy of steering loans to renewable energy — have also made a big difference.
As in many other industries, China’s low labor costs are an advantage in energy. Although Chinese wages have risen sharply in the last five years, Vestas still pays assembly line workers here only $4,100 a year.

China’s commitment to renewable energy is expensive. Although costs are falling steeply through mass production, wind energy is still 20 to 40 percent more expensive than coal-fired power. Solar power is still at least twice as expensive as coal.

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The Chinese government charges a renewable energy fee to all electricity users. The fee increases residential electricity bills by 0.25 percent to 0.4 percent. For industrial users of electricity, the fee doubled in November to roughly 0.8 percent of the electricity bill.
The fee revenue goes to companies that operate the electricity grid, to make up the cost difference between renewable energy and coal-fired power.
Renewable energy fees are not yet high enough to affect China’s competitiveness even in energy-intensive industries, said the chairman of a Chinese industrial company, who asked not to be identified because of the political sensitivity of electricity rates in China.
Grid operators are unhappy. They are reimbursed for the extra cost of buying renewable energy instead of coal-fired power, but not for the formidable cost of building power lines to wind turbines and other renewable energy producers, many of them in remote, windswept areas. Transmission losses are high for sending power over long distances to cities, and nearly a third of China’s wind turbines are not yet connected to the national grid.
Most of these turbines were built only in the last year, however, and grid construction has not caught up. Under legislation passed by the Chinese legislature on Dec. 26, a grid operator that does not connect a renewable energy operation to the grid must pay that operation twice the value of the electricity that cannot be distributed.
With prices tumbling, China’s wind and solar industries are increasingly looking to sell equipment abroad — and facing complaints by Western companies that they have unfair advantages. When a Chinese company reached a deal in November to supply turbines for a big wind farm in Texas, there were calls in Congress to halt federal spending on imported equipment.
“Every country, including the United States and in Europe, wants a low cost of renewable energy,” said Ma Lingjuan, deputy managing director of China’s renewable energy association. “Now China has reached that level, but it gets criticized by the rest of the world.”

Eight California Counties Agree To Buy Green Electricity from someone other than PG&E

San Rafael OKs 'clean energy'

by Marin Clean Energy on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 3:28pm

San Rafael OKs 'clean energy' authority

Staff Report
Posted: 12/02/2008 03:59:45 PM PST

"The San Rafael City Council this week endorsed a new joint powers authority that would allow residents and businesses to purchase "green" electricity from a source other than Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
The council Monday voted 3-1 to approve the authority. Councilman Cyr Miller voted against the move, saying the city should get better rates and green programs from PG&E. Mayor Al Boro recused himself due to a financial interest in the utility.

Governing bodies throughout Marin are deciding whether to create an alternative energy program that would maximize the use of sources such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and small hydroelectric plants.

Tiburon, Fairfax, Belvedere, San Anselmo, Ross, Mill Valley, Sausalito and the county of ..."

(pic) Woody Guthrie: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten"

I saw the documentary movie "Joe Strummer, The Future Is Unwritten" Tonight.
Woody Guthrie was in the movie too.We need Joe & Woody here today, so I posted this photo.

Here is a quote by Joe from the end of the movie:

"And so now i would like to say, people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks, I am one of them. But we,ve all got to stop just following our own little mouse trails. People can do anything. This is something that I am beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other because they are being dehumanized. It's time to take humanity back into the center of the ring, and follow that for a time. Greed isn't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard accross Times Square. Without people we are nothing. Thats my speil."

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Oil = War / Sky Cries Mary - Shipwrecked

(vid) The Corporation - What is a corporation - Bad Apples

(vid) Timothy Leary Think For Yourself - The Post Industrial Age

Prison without trial threatens U.S. citizens on U.S. soil for criticizing our government

Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
Senators need to hear from you, on whether you think your front yard is part of a “battlefield” and if any president can send the military anywhere in the world to imprison civilians without charge or trial.
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night’s Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing.
I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn’t anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?
The answer on why now is nothing more than election season politics. The White House, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General have all said that the indefinite detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act are harmful and counterproductive. The White House has even threatened a veto. But Senate politics has propelled this bad legislation to the Senate floor.
But there is a way to stop this dangerous legislation. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) is offering the Udall Amendment that will delete the harmful provisions and replace them with a requirement for an orderly Congressional review of detention power. The Udall Amendment will make sure that the bill matches up with American values.
In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.” Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”
The solution is the Udall Amendment; a way for the Senate to say no to indefinite detention without charge or trial anywhere in the world where any president decides to use the military. Instead of simply going along with a bill that was drafted in secret and is being jammed through the Senate, the Udall Amendment deletes the provisions and sets up an orderly review of detention power. It tries to take the politics out and put American values back in.
In response to proponents of the indefinite detention legislation who contend that the bill “applies to American citizens and designates the world as the battlefield,” and that the “heart of the issue is whether or not the United States is part of the battlefield,” Sen. Udall disagrees, and says that we can win this fight without worldwide war and worldwide indefinite detention.
The senators pushing the indefinite detention proposal have made their goals very clear that they want an okay for a worldwide military battlefield, that even extends to your hometown. That is an extreme position that will forever change our country.
Now is the time to stop this bad idea. Please urge your senators to vote YES on the Udall Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

(vid) Active Army Unit Deployed Inside U.S. : Democracy Now

NORTHCOM Denies US Army Stationed To Fight U.S. Civilians. Claims deployment is a "post Katrina, after the storm" type event.

An active army unit stationed for the first time inside the U.S. for U.S. deployment outlined thier duties as after disaster deployment and fighting civil unrest but then claim they will not fight civil unrest, or they may with "higher orders." ~clean electric