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Energy bill needs a zap of bigness
By DAVID YARNOLD | 7/20/10 4:05 AM EDT
"A small-bore U.S. energy law would create a few hundred thousand jobs, according to its sponsors’ highest estimates. But a serious clean energy law — one that uses the tools we know work against pollution — would create millions. Not to mention the pesky little matter of helping save our kids and grandkids from the worst effects of climate change over the next few decades."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39922.html#ixzz0uVODirRY
The Tea Party must purge racism from its ranks
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
"When the nation's leading civil rights organization passed a resolution condemning displays of racism by Tea Party activists, leaders of the movement reacted with umbrage so thick you could cut it with a knife -- then demonstrated that the NAACP's allegation was entirely justified."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR201007...
Hot Times in Antarctica
Posted by Michael Lemonick Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/06/17/hot-times-in-antarctica/#ixz...
"The world's polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula is especially steamy. Over the past 50 years, winter temperatures have shot up by an almost unbelievable 6°C—more than five times the global average, according to a paper just published in Science."
It’s time we tax financial gambles
BY SARAH ANDERSON, Tuesday, June 22, 2010
"Remember the May 6 stock market 'flash crash,' when the Dow plummeted nearly 1,000 points in less than an hour? The experts are still scratching their heads over the exact cause of that historic market bungee jump. What is clear is the plunge never would have happened without automated high-frequency trading, which accounts for 50 percent to 75 percent of daily stock trades."
Real-Time Gulf-Crisis Web site Goes Live
The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a Gulf-Crisis Web site that will be updated daily with information on how big the spill is, where it's hitting shore, what species are suffering the impacts, and how the rescue effort is going.
