The State Board of Education (SBOE) will vote to adopt new K-12 social studies textbooks, instructional and online materials on Friday, November 21 in Austin. This final week of the multi-month social studies textbook adoption process is not for the weary. Progressives
Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has forced the European Commission’s chief scientific advisor out of her post – because she supports genetically modified crops. Professor Anne Glover’s post will be abolished in January following a letter sent to Commission President Jean-Claude
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will give $3 billion to a U.N.-established fund to help poorer vulnerable countries prepare for a changing climate and develop cleaner energy, President Barack Obama announced Saturday. The United Nations is trying to raise
Big bucks Wall Street traders were flabbergasted that, after a year of lousy performance, huge internal battles at Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) that led to demands to fire Bill Gross, Barry Ritholtz of the View reported Gross had pocketed an
President Obama’s promise to China that the United States will cut CO2 emissions by at least 26% over the next decade is consistent with a legal strategy to use repetitive promises as the “politically binding” basis to force the U.S.
The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) film school has received a $10 million gift from Former EBay Inc. President Jeff Skoll to launch the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment, “dedicated to promoting social change through entertainment and performing arts.”
Barack Obama is the most dangerous lame duck ever to haunt the marshes of post-election defeat. He’s angry at the American people, testy with Democrats who blame him for their electoral losses, and more determined that ever to finish “transforming
A new examination of the distribution of CO2 has found that some areas of the earth experience huge seasonal variation by as much as 16 parts per million (ppm), whilst in other areas, notably at the Antarctic and equator, levels
Chinese citizens traveling to and from the United States on “short-term business and tourist travel” will now have the option to obtain 10-year visas, announced President Obama at this week’s APEC CEO Summit in China. “Under the new arrangement, student
Wind farm developers receive more than £115,000 in subsidies for each person they employ – and that figure is rising, as subsidies outstrip job creation within the industry, new analysis has found. 15,500 people are now directly employed by the
If the shale gas industry is to succeed in Britain, the government must relax regulations on the severity of tremors that fracking can cause, two academics have warned. They liken the current limit of 0.5 on the Richter scale to
US, China unveil ambitious climate change goals
President Obama sent out a letter to his Organizing for American brownshirts, asking them to stand up and voice their support for his liberal agenda in final two years of his presidency. Here is the letter. Please try to contain
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) – famed in climate change ‘denier’ circles as the institution that brought us the Climategate email scandal – have found that climate change affects the ability of a solitary bee species to
Organizing for America is letting Americans know that President Obama remains in denial about the Republican tidal wave that soundly rejected his policies last week. “With or without help from Congress, I’m not done making real change for the American
The average energy bill will be £1,319 by 2020, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has predicted. Government officials claimed that green energy subsidies will mean that the bills will be £92 a year lower than they otherwise
The government of Australia, which has been at the forefront of resisting international pressure of developed countries to manage their economies around the threat of climate change, is expected to resist more spending proposed at the summit for a “Green
There are many reasons to celebrate the Republican party surge in the US mid-term elections but for me they boil down to two words: “Tom” and “Steyer.” If you had to pick one person who embodied everything that is most
The Chinese government is banning individuals in Beijing from burning the clothes of dead relatives–a common tradition–during this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation Summit (APEC) in an attempt to diminish the alarm pollution raises in the capital. According to the
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (more commonly known as NASA) has issued a Climate Risk Management Plan, warning that climate change may compromise their ability to launch satellites and gather evidence on climate change. But climate change blog site
A “a rude, intolerant, highly politicized climate crusader” who was a “dangerous enemy of free speech” has been honoured by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest report. Its synthesis report, which is a climactic summary of a
The emperor was proudly parading his clothes this weekend, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in Copenhagen to release its new report into climate catastrophe. In line with previous reports, the latest offering has again gone one
Climate change is real, predominantly man-made and more urgent a threat than ever before, claims the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is
Despite the supposed political neutrality of the BBC, one of their editors has been caught out taking a dig at Tories and backing the Greens on his Twitter account. Michael Marshall, deputy editor of BBC Earth is a new recruit
Gen. Wesley Clark placed part of the blame for the Syrian Civil War on blamed climate change in a discussion on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” After host Bill Maher quoted a report from the Department of Defense saying
