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Dot Earth Blog: China Clarifies its Plans on Setting a CO2 Emissions Peak

A top Chinese official says the country may announce a peak year for climate-warming emissions soon. Read More –  Dot Earth Blog: China Clarifies its Plans on Setting a CO2 Emissions Peak ; ;Related ArticlesSummer School for AnchoviesOpinion: A Pipeline Threatens Our Family LandEquity Firm Restores Louisiana Marshland to Earn Credits It Can Sell ;

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World Briefing: Thailand: Celebrated Elephant Killed

Poachers have killed and sawed the tusks off a 50-year-old elephant that performed in Thai royal processions and was featured in Oliver Stone’s 2004 movie “Alexander.” Original article:  World Briefing: Thailand: Celebrated Elephant Killed ; ;Related ArticlesNew England Confronts Surging Demand for Natural GasDot Earth Blog: In Urbanization Update, U.N. Sees Tokyo Atop Megacities List Until 2030Economic Scene: Blueprints for Taming the Climate Crisis ;

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Dot Earth Blog: Keeping Track of Hurricane Arthur

If conditions align, Hurricane Arthur could break a 3,173-day stretch in which no major hurricane has made landfall on United States shores. Originally from:   Dot Earth Blog: Keeping Track of Hurricane Arthur ; ;Related ArticlesU.S. Catfish Program Could Stymie Pacific Trade Pact, 10 Nations SayNASA Launching Satellite to Track CarbonArchive Dive: When Halibut Was Plentiful ;

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Dot Earth Blog: A Cuisine for the Age of Us – the Anthropocene

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White Dwarf Issue 21: 21 June 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 21 of White Dwarf welcomes the arrival of the new Ork Codex with a Battle Report where the green tide goes up against the Great Devourer. Who’s the deadliest alien in the galaxy? Find out here. It’s joined by some Middle-earth gaming, an exclusive new datasheet for Ork Looted Wagons which you won’t find anywhere else, a look at the Ork O

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Codex: Orks (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

Orks thunder into battle bellowing “Waaagh!” at the top of their lungs. They fall upon their foes like an avalanche, a vast horde of barbaric greenskined warriors wielding an assortment of crude but deadly weapons. All Orks live for fighting. They are addicted to the thunderous racket of really big guns, to speeding about in ramshackle trucks and buggies, an

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes,

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Perfect Puppy In 7 Days – Dr. Sophia Yin, DVM, MS

With 400 photos and a step-by-step plan, this puppy book visually guides you through socialization, potty training, and life skills while making the process fun.   Dr. Marty Becker; “America’s Veterinarian” of Good Morning America, says, “This is like no other puppy book you’ve seen before.  It’s not just about teaching your puppy ma

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Waaagh! Ghazghkull – a Codex: Orks Supplement (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

It has long been said that should the disparate Orks ever unify beneath one leader they would crush all of the so-called civilised peoples of the galaxy. That doomsday draws nearer, for the great greenskin Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka has arisen, and Orks from all clans muster to his bellowing warcry. He is not just a mighty warrior, but a master strategist and

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Inside of a Dog – Alexandra Horowitz

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draw

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White Dwarf Issue 22: June 28 2014 – White Dwarf

They’re big, they’re angry, and they’re impervious to almost anything – we pit the new Meganobs against a variety of enemies to see how they fare. (Including an Imperial Knight!). In Codex Apocrypha, Phil Kelly digs into the background of Night Haunter, War Diary shows off Armies on Parade, in Sprues and Glue Dan shows us how to convert the Or

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Dog Training For Dummies – Jack Volhard & Wendy Volhard

Make training fun and effective This friendly guide shows you how to select the right training method for your dog, based on his unique personality, to reach your desired goals. Whether you want to teach Buddy to sit or master retrieving, you’ll get expert training tips and techniques for you and your dog — to ensure a mutually respectful relationship w

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The Art of Raising a Puppy (Revised Edition) – Monks of New Skete

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been among America’s most trusted authorities on dog training, canine behavior, and the animal/human bond. In their two now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend and The Art of Raising a Puppy, the Monks draw on their experience as long-time breeders of German shepherds and as t

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Codex: Orks (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Orks thunder into battle bellowing “Waaagh!” at the top of their lungs. They fall upon their foes like an avalanche, a vast horde of barbaric greenskined warriors wielding an assortment of crude but deadly weapons. All Orks live for fighting. They are addicted to the thunderous racket of really big guns, to speeding about in ramshackle trucks and buggies, an

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Dot Earth Blog: A Cuisine for the Age of Us – the Anthropocene

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NASA Launching Satellite to Track Carbon

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is scheduled to lift off Tuesday with the aim of getting better data on how carbon moves into and out of the atmosphere — a key to understanding climate change. Link to original:  NASA Launching Satellite to Track Carbon ; ;Related ArticlesU.S. Catfish Program Could Stymie Pacific Trade Pact, 10 Nations SayCreeping Up on Unsuspecting Shores: The Great Lakes, in a Welcome TurnaroundDot Earth Blog: The Agriculture Secretary Sees a Smart (Phone) Solution to GMO Labeling Fight ;

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U.S. Catfish Program Could Stymie Pacific Trade Pact, 10 Nations Say

Ten Asian and Pacific nations have complained that the Agriculture Department’s catfish inspection program, which was added to the 2008 farm bill, violates international law. Source: U.S. Catfish Program Could Stymie Pacific Trade Pact, 10 Nations Say Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: The Agriculture Secretary Sees a Smart (Phone) Solution to GMO Labeling FightApp Smart: Navigating National Parks With Light and Rich Digital GuidesVast Stretches of Minnesota Are Flooded as Swollen Rivers Overflow

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The Agriculture Secretary Sees a Smart (Phone) Solution to GMO Labeling Fight

Can smart phones and scannable label codes offer clarity on GMOs in food? The secretary of agriculture thinks so. Link:  The Agriculture Secretary Sees a Smart (Phone) Solution to GMO Labeling Fight ; ;Related ArticlesCelebrating a Reviving River Through Sail and SongBipartisan Report Tallies High Toll on Economy From Global WarmingThe Next Generation of GM Crops Has Arrived ;

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Obama is absolutely lambasting Republicans on climate change now

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Obama is absolutely lambasting Republicans on climate change now

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It isn’t cool to wreck the climate. Not in 2014, anyway. That much is iceberg clear in the wake of a speech by President Barack Obama on Wednesday. Addressing a League of Conservation Voters’ annual dinner, Obama, who one year ago outlined a Climate Action Plan that sidesteps the obstructionist Congress, escalated the ridicule that he has lately been slathering on Republicans and other climate change deniers. From Politico:

“It’s pretty rare that you encounter people who say that the problem of carbon pollution is not a problem,” Obama said. “In most communities and workplaces, they may not know how big a problem it is, they may not know exactly how it works, they may doubt they can do something about it. Generally they don’t just say, ‘No I don’t believe anything scientists say.’ Except, where?” he said, waiting for the more than accommodating crowd to call back, “Congress!”

Obama smiled — not his big toothy self-satisfied grin, but his stick-it-in-the-ribs smirk.

“In Congress,” he said. “Folks will tell you climate change is hoax or a fad or a plot. A liberal plot.”

Then, Obama said, there are the people who duck the question. “They say, hey, I’m not a scientist, which really translates into, I accept that man-made climate change is real, but if I say so out loud, I will be run out of town by a bunch of fringe elements that thinks climate science is a liberal plot so I’m going to just pretend like, I don’t know, I can’t read,” Obama said.

“I mean, I’m not a scientist either, but I’ve got this guy, John Holdren, he’s a scientist,” Obama added to laughter. “I’ve got a bunch of scientists at NASA and I’ve got a bunch of scientists at EPA.”

These weren’t Obama’s first jabs at the atrociously anti-science, burn-it-all, fuck-the-planet, Koch-fueled Republican stance on climate change. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported over the weekend:

When President Obama stood before students in Southern California a week ago ridiculing those who deny climate science, he wasn’t just road testing a new political strategy to a friendly audience. He was trying to drive a wedge between younger voters and the Republican Party.

Democrats are convinced that climate change is the new same-sex marriage, an issue that is moving irreversibly in their favor, especially among young people, women and independents, the voters who hold the keys to the White House in 2016. …

Polls show large majorities of Americans favoring action on climate change, even if it causes electricity prices to rise. That’s one reason Obama has moved ahead forcefully on a rule proposed this month by the Environmental Protection Agency to limit carbon dioxide pollution from the nation’s power plants, the biggest step against climate change yet taken by any administration.

It’s also worth noting that billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, who is spending $50 million to help topple climate change-denying Republicans in this year’s midterm elections, met with White House officials yesterday.

Recall that less than two years ago, Mitt Romney was ridiculing Obama for caring about climate change. “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans,” Romney said as he accepted the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, an apparent quip that elicited raucous laughter. “And to help the planet.” More laughter. “My promise is to help you and your family.” Cue near-deafening applause.

Well, who’s laughing now?


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Barack Obama becomes mocker-in-chief on climate change skeptics, Politico
Democrats use climate change as wedge issue on Republicans, San Francisco Chronicle

John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets, posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants: johnupton@gmail.com.

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Observatory: The Secret of the Disco Clam’s Light Show

Microscopic spheres of reflective silica in the inner lip of the disco clam help it create its mirror-ball effect underwater. Why the clam does this is still a mystery. Original source –  Observatory: The Secret of the Disco Clam’s Light Show ; ;Related ArticlesLoan Sought for Tappan Zee Work Is FaultedEconomic Scene: Carbon Cuts Now Won’t Stop Climate Change, but Could Limit DamageApp Smart: Navigating National Parks With Light and Rich Digital Guides ;

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Happy first birthday, U.S. Climate Action Plan!

It’s just a baby

Happy first birthday, U.S. Climate Action Plan!

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Anthropogenic climate change is as old as a tortoise – it’s been more than a century since our fossil-fuel pollution started raising temperatures and melting snow and ice. Global action to temper climate change is considerably younger. It hasn’t been a quarter of a century since the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was launched to help thrash out global climate treaties.

And here in the U.S., climate action is little more than a disoriented baby. It has been exactly one year since President Barack Obama unveiled his Climate Action Plan, circumventing Congress and setting 75 goals for reducing carbon pollution, bracing for the impacts of climate change, and leading international climate efforts.

Since then, as the administration notes in a progress report, it has proposed carbon pollution rules for new and existing power plants, ramped up efforts to use federal land for renewable energy projects, leased out federal waters for a planned wind farm, published an overdue National Climate Assessment, embarked on an effort to reduce methane pollution, and proposed a $1 billion climate adaptation fund. Meanwhile, Obama and other Democrats and their progressive allies have begun a campaign of ridiculing Republicans on their climate-change denialism, using the issue as a wedge.

None of which has made much of a dent in the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, which the U.S. lamely aims to reduce by just 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. But, hey, climate action in the U.S. is just a baby! Here’s how the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions assesses Obama’s efforts so far in a new report:

One year after its launch, the administration has made significant progress toward achieving many of the goals of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, but overall, the record has been mixed. The plan demonstrates a commitment toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is important to meeting the U.S. goal of reducing emissions 17 percent by 2020, especially in the absence of congressional action. If progress in the first year is mirrored in future years, the United States could achieve its emission reduction goal. However, additional actions must be undertaken or completed before success can be assured.

In other words, if climate action continues to be nurtured in the U.S., it could grow into something that could make a meaningful difference — the type of wild-eyed adolescent capable of busting heads and taking out the trash.

One of the most effective ways of nurturing climate action here would be to replace much of Congress with lawmakers who actually care about climate change, like the nation’s mayors. Getting rid of all those fossil fuel–friendly climate skeptics and deniers would allow federal laws to be passed and funds appropriated to help tackle global warming, beyond the kinds of federal regulations that Obama can implement on his own.

“One of the main premises behind the climate action plan is it has required no new money and no congressional action,” Dan Weiss, director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, told Bloomberg BNA. “[T]hat also means some important things can’t happen.”


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President Obama’s Climate Action Plan Progress Report, White House
One Year Into Obama’s Climate Action Plan, Limits on Executive Actions Remain Obvious, Bloomberg BNA
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan: One Year Later, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

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