{"id":10169,"date":"2013-08-01T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2013-12-19T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T07:11:23","slug":"green-news-report-august-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10169","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; August 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #007F00;\"><strong>Welcome aboard to our newest affiliate partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipracuelshow.com\"><em>The Philip Racuel Show<\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; background-color:#f3fdf4; padding:10px 5px 4px 5px; line-height:20px; background-image:url('\/Images\/GradientDarkGreen_headline.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_ThaiOilSpill_BeachCleanup_073113.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:10px auto;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNewsReport.bsky.social\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Bluesky-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenNewsReport\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Twitter-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Facebook-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Mastodon-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman\/id788236916\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Apple Podcasts' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/itunes-listen-on-apple-podcast-logo-png.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman-desi-doyen\/PC:1000011151\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Pandora' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-Pandora-badge.png'><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-green-news-report-w-brad-f-30973644\/\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on iHeart' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-IHeartRadio.png'><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-News-Report-Friedman-Doyen\/dp\/B08JJRX3TP\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Amazon Music' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AmazonMusic-badge_690.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Green-News-Report-p477566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on TuneIn' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ListenOnTuneIn.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/GNR\/feed.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='RSS\/XML Feed' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RSS-XML-Feed.png\"><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px; 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Drop us a line at <a href=\"mailto:GreenNews@BradBlog.com\">GreenNews@BradBlog.com<\/a> or right here at the comments link below. All GNRs are always archived at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN &#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/strong> (<em>see links below<\/em>): Video: This is the U.S. in 2100; Drillers flaring away $100m in natural gas every month; More carbon emissions = less global warming?; Carbon tax working out great for British Columbia; Appeals court smacks down TX challenge to EPA; CA &#038; Sen. Boxer fight for chemical safety reform; &#8220;GOP doing the bidding of polluting industries&#8221;; Candidates running on climate action as public opinion shifts to reality &#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> Sea level rise &#8216;locking in quickly&#8217;, will impact 1700 U.S. cities &#8230; and much, <i>MUCH<\/i> more! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b>STORIES DISCUSSED IN TODAY&#8217;S &#8216;GREEN NEWS REPORT&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>NASA Video: Warming over the last 130 years, and into the next 100 years:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10167\"><b>Video Proof That Global Warming is a &#8216;Hoax&#8217;!: NASA Temperature Data 1888-2011<\/b><\/a> (The BRAD BLOG):<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EoOrtvYTKeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=39cBqY1sszY&#038;feature=c4-overview&#038;list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\"><b>NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100<\/b><\/a> (NASA).<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39cBqY1sszY?list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>RECORD HEAT Around the World: Greenland Hits 78\u00b0F<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/weatherhistorian\/comment.html?entrynum=180\"><b>Incredible Heat Wave in China, Greenland Record<\/b><\/a> (Dr. Jeff Masters&#8217; Weather Underground) <i>[emphasis added]<\/i>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><b>This July will go down as the hottest ever measured<\/b> for places like Shanghai, Changsha, and Hangzhou. <b>Records for Shanghai date back to 1873<\/b> and no such heat has ever been observed there or in much of Eastern China.<br \/>\n<b>BREAKING NEWS: Greenland has just measured its hottest temperature on record July 30th with a reading of 25.9\u00b0C (78.6\u00b0F) at Maniitoq Mittarfia during a foehn event.<\/b>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/weatherhistorian\/comment.html?entrynum=179\"><b>Wild Weather Around the World<\/b><\/a> (Dr. Jeff Masters&#8217; Weather Underground):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><b>Record rainfall in Philadelphia, record cold in the Midwest, record heat in eastern China, Japan, and Europe<\/b> where violent storms produced tornadoes and waterspouts.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/07\/30\/2341511\/greenland-antarctica-rapid-ice-loss\/\"><b>Greenland And Antarctica &#8216;May Be Vulnerable To Rapid Ice Loss Through Catastrophic Disintegration&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>The World&#8217;s Newest Oil Spill, Killing Tourism in Thailand:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/07\/31\/2388201\/thailand-oil-leak\/\"><b>PHOTOS: Beaches Blanketed In Crude Oil After Major Spill In The Gulf Of Thailand<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/31\/world\/asia\/thailand-oil-spill-beach\/?hpt=hp_c2\"><b>VIDEO: Thailand&#8217;s Koh Samet beach oil spill &#8216;threatens tourism, fishing industries&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/e2-wire\/315039-top-interior-officials-huddle-with-offshore-oil-and-gas-industry-after-accidents\"><b>Top Interior officials huddle with offshore oil and gas industry after accidents<\/b><\/a> (The Hill&#8217;s e2 Wire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Obama Debunks KXL Jobs Myths, But Ignores Unstoppable Tar Sands Spills<\/b>:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/07\/30\/2384551\/obama-keystone-jobs\/\"><b>VIDEO: Obama Calls Out Republicans For Wasting Time On Keystone: &#8216;That&#8217;s Not A Jobs Plan&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress): The State Department estimatest the total number of permanent jobs created by Keystone at 35. Were the pipeline completed, it would emit levels of CO2 equivalent to that of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/04\/17\/1885621\/keystone-pipeline-will-create-only-35-permanent-jobs-emit-51-coal-plants-worth-of-carbon\/\"><b>51 coal-fired power plants<\/b><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2013\/07\/29\/cold-lake-spill-no-control-incident-says-energy-regulator#comment-form\"><b>Cold Lake Spill: &#8220;There is No Control on this Incident,&#8221;\u009d says Energy Regulator<\/b><\/a> (DeSmogBlog Canada):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">In this case, this is still an ongoing incident. <b>There is no control on this incident<\/b>.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2013\/07\/05\/tar-sands-css-blowout-whole-new-kind-oil-mess\"><b>Tar Sands CSS Blowout Contaminates Lake, Creates &#8220;A Whole New Kind of Oil Mess&#8221;<\/b><\/a> (DeSmogBlog Canada)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/07\/31\/207286517\/canadian-regulators-investigate-mysterious-tar-sands-spills\"><b>AUDIO: Canadian Regulators Investigate Mysterious Tar Sands Spills<\/b><\/a> (NPR) <i>[emphasis added]<\/i>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><b>Thick oil is gurgling up unexpectedly from the ground instead of flowing through the wells that were built to collect it<\/b>. The spills are raising questions about a technology that&#8217;s rapidly expanding to extract fossil fuels that could ultimately end up in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/01\/transcanada-pipeline-idUKL1N0G214720130801\"><b>TransCanada ramps up East Coast pipeline as Keystone stalls<\/b><\/a> (Reuters) <i>[emphasis added]<\/i>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><b>The government of Quebec, where memories of a crude oil rail crash that killed 47 are still fresh, has yet to say if it will support the project.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Tar Sands Cleanup Spill Closes Kalamazoo River <i>Again<\/i>, 3 Years Later:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11j4FP9\"><b>3 Years Later: Sunken Tar Sands Oil Is Looming Threat to Kalamazoo River:<\/b><\/a> (InsideClimate.org):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Once black with oil, the Kalamazoo River runs clear now. But EPA orders dredging and says it will be years before the spill&#8217;s long-term effects are known.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130730\/NEWS06\/307300120\/New-round-of-dredging-in-Kalamazoo-River-after-2010-oil-spill\"><b>Enbridge begins new round of cleanup in Kalamazoo River from oil spill<\/b><\/a> (Detroit Free Press):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge has begun a new round of dredging in the Kalamazoo River in a further attempt to clean up oil from the company&#8217;s July 2010 pipeline spill&#8230;. While dredging is underway, 12 miles of the river will be temporarily closed. Enbridge will dredge approximately 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment during this phase of the cleanup.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Breaking Wind News: US First-Ever Offshore Wind Lease Sale:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/08\/01\/207308203\/sold-first-parcels-auctioned-for-future-offshore-wind-farms\"><b>AUDIO: Sold! First Parcels Auctioned For Future Offshore Wind Farms<\/b><\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bloom.bg\/16m1MPt\"><b>Deepwater Wind Top Bidder in First U.S. Wind-Power Lease Sale<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><b>INNOVATION: Switzerland Gets Fast-Charging Electric Bus Pilot Project (Sorry, U.S.):<\/b>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/bulletin\/flash-charging-powers-electric-buses-in-15-seconds\/21007\"><b>Flash charging powers electric buses in 15 seconds<\/b><\/a> (Smart Planet):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The &#8220;world&#8217;s first high-capacity flash charging electric bus system&#8221;\u009d powers buses at select stops with 15 second shots of energy along its route between the Geneva airport and Palexpo, the city&#8217;s international exhibition center. At the end of the line the bus charges fully for three or four minutes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OaU1rL7IhM4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>&#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/i> (Stuff we didn&#8217;t have time for in today&#8217;s audio report)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/07\/climate-sea-level-danger-us-cities\"><b>Study Predicts a Watery Future for Major US Cities<\/b><\/a> (Mother Jones):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">1,700 places in the United States are at greater risk of rising sea levels than previously thought.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/29\/us-bakken-flaring-idUSBRE96S05320130729\"><b>Exclusive: Bakken flaring burns more than $100 million a month<\/b><\/a> (Reuters) <i>[emphasis added]<\/i>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Oil drillers in North Dakota&#8217;s Bakken shale fields are allowing nearly a third of the natural gas they drill to burn off into the air, <b>with a value of more than $100 million per month<\/b>, according to a study to be released on Monday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNorth Dakota&#8217;s flaring, <b>which NASA astronauts can see from space<\/b>, releases fewer greenhouse gases than direct emission of natural gas into the air, but it is essentially burning product that could be sold at a profit if there were pipelines.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/17PtdAe\"><b>Internal EPA Report highlights disputes over fracking and well water:<\/b><\/a> (LA Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">An EPA staff report suggests methane from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminated wells near Dimock, Pa., but the agency says the water&#8217;s safe to drink.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2013\/07\/30\/more-carbon-emissions-less-global-warming\/?WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter\"><b>Debunker: More Carbon Emissions = Less Global Warming?<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American) <i>[emphasis added]<\/i>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">After the <i>Economist<\/i> published the table, which it had somehow obtained, IPCC spokespeople and independent experts quickly trashed the data&#8221;\u201dand the magazine itself. They said the table was <b>a preliminary draft, was not reviewed<\/b>, was not even being used by the relevant IPCC experts, and <b>should never have been quoted.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2013\/jul\/30\/climate-change-british-columbia-carbon-tax?CMP=twt_gu\"><b>Can a carbon tax work without hurting the economy? Ask British Columbia<\/b><\/a> (Guardian UK):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Five years in, BC&#8217;s carbon tax has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions in a stable economy.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/26\/usa-legal-climate-idUSL1N0FW0PY20130726?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=rbssEnergyNews\"><b>U.S. appeals court upholds EPA authority to set greenhouse gas emissions rules<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a legal challenge by Texas and Wyoming to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s efforts to implement greenhouse gas regulations.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/Barbara-Boxer-pushes-ahead-on-chemical-safety-law-4699870.php\"><b>Sen. Barbara Boxer pushes ahead on chemical safety law<\/b><\/a> (SF Gate):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Lautenberg and Boxer led failed efforts to reform the law until spring, when <b>Lautenberg, seeking a breakthrough at age 89, brokered a deal with Vitter that alarmed California officials and many public health and environmental activists<\/b>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-california-states-fight-toxics-law-20130731,0,7494075.story\"><b>California and other states fight changes in toxic chemicals law<\/b><\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/e2-wire\/314993-house-dem-gop-doing-bidding-of-polluting-industries?utm_campaign=E2Wire&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\"><b>House Dem: GOP doing &#8216;bidding of polluting industries&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (The Hill&#8217;s e2 Wire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/07\/30\/2379301\/climate-change-candidate-ads\/\"><b>As Public Opinion Shifts, Candidates Explicitly Run On Doing Something About Climate Change<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ca35VH\"><b>Sea level rise &#8216;locking in quickly&#8217;, cities threatened<\/b><\/a> (Climate Central):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Measurements tell us that global average sea level is currently rising by about 1 inch per decade. But in an invisible shadow process, our long-term sea level rise commitment or &#8216;lock-in&#8217; &#8212; the sea level rise we don&#8217;t see now, but which carbon emissions and warming have locked in for later years &#8212; is growing 10 times faster, and this growth rate is accelerating.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/huff.to\/13MxhUN\"><b>New Study Predicts Dramatic Sea Level Rise:<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Sea levels could rise by 2.3 metres for each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase and they will remain high for centuries to come, according to a new study by the leading climate research institute, released on Monday.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\"><\/center><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticalscience.com\"><b>Skeptical Science: Get the FULL DEBUNKING of ALL Climate Science Denier Arguments<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/apocalypse-now-climate-change-is-going-to-kick-our-asses\/\"><b>Warning: Even in the best-case scenario, climate change will kick our asses<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=10012\"><strong><i>Green News Report: Essential Background Page<\/i><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome aboard to our newest affiliate partner, The Philip Racuel Show! 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