{"id":10567,"date":"2014-04-03T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T22:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2014-04-03T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:08:11","slug":"green-news-report-april-3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10567","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; April 3, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<span style=\"color: #007F00;\"><strong>Today welcoming aboard <em>GNR<\/em>&#8216;s newest affiliate partner:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/RickSmithShow.com\"><em>The Rick Smith 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_DavidKochFundForScience.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; display:block; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;\"><i>(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>IN TODAY&#8217;S RADIO REPORT:<\/strong> Startlingly blunt U.N. climate report warns window of opportunity to act on climate change is closing; The Billionaire Koch Brothers are environmental freedom fighters &#8212; according to the Koch Brothers; Texas breaks wind &#8212; <i>wind records<\/i>, that is; <i>PLUS:<\/i> Exxon Mobil agrees &#8216;the risk of climate change is clear&#8217; but says &#8216;F#@K you, World! 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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>): &#8216;Killer smog&#8217; in the UK; Supreme Court&#8217;s campaign finance ruling is bad for Greens, good for Kochs; EPA failed to warn of cancer risk in research studies; 1\/4 of Europe&#8217;s bumblebees face extinction; Plowing under native US grasslands has consequences; Citigroup says &#8216;age of renewables&#8217; has begun &#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> All the positive and helpful things in the IPCC report no one will talk about &#8230; and much, <i>MUCH<\/i> more! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b>STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY&#8217;S &#8216;GREEN NEWS REPORT&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>UN IPCC: Climate Change Will Affect &#8216;Nearly Every Aspect of Human Life&#8217;:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar5\/\"><b>IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2013 (AR5)<\/b><\/a> (U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/03\/30\/3420723\/climate-breakdown-of-food-systems\/\"><b>Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces &#8216;Breakdown Of Food Systems&#8217; And More Violent Conflict<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/43118\/climate-change-global-warming-united-nations\/\"><b>Warming World Threatens Us All, Warns U.N. Report<\/b><\/a> (TIME Magazine): A new U.N. report illustrates the impact that rising temperatures will have on crop yields, water supplies and sea levels.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZONwnqWFe8&#038;feature=youtu.be\"><b>VIDEO: IPCC Working Group 2 Press Conference<\/b><\/a> (IPCC Geneva)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/03\/24\/us-climatechange-temperature-idUSBREA2N1MG20140324\"><b>Global warming has not stopped, will go on for centuries: WMO<\/b><\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2014\/03\/27\/big-climate-danger-could-arrive-as-soon-as-2036\/\"><b>Big Climate Danger Could Arrive as Soon as 2036<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/climatecrocks.com\/2014\/03\/31\/hurricanes-risks-and-bears-in-the-woods\/\"><b>Hurricanes, Risks, and Bears in the Woods<\/b><\/a> (Climate Crocks) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Let me illustrate this with a simple example. Suppose observations showed conclusively that the bear population in a particular forest had recently doubled. <b>What would we think of someone who, knowing this, would nevertheless take no extra precautions in walking in the woods unless and until he saw a significant upward trend in the rate at which his neighbors were being mauled by bears?<\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-04-01\/the-scientists-don-t-really-know-the-effect-of-climate-on-gdp-and-that-s-okay.html\"><b>What Climate Change Means in Dollars and Cents<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Corporate Media <i>Mostly<\/i> Ignores Blunt Warnings of UN IPCC Report:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/climatecrocks.com\/2014\/04\/03\/nbc-on-ipcc\/comment-page-1\/\"><b>VIDEO: NBC on IPCC<\/b><\/a> (Climate Crocks):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpDew7oy1b4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/01\/climate-change-cable-news-ignores_n_5068379.html?utm_hp_ref=green&#038;ir=Green\"><b>Cable News Winds Up Mostly Ignoring Terrifying Climate Change Report For A Full Day<\/b><\/a> (Huffington Post Green)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2014\/04\/01\/study-cnn-largely-ignores-major-climate-reports\/198710\"><b>STUDY: CNN Largely Ignores Major Climate Report&#8217;s Warnings: Even Fox News Covered Climate Report More Than CNN &#8212; But To Dismiss It<\/b><\/a> (Media Matters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2014\/04\/02\/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-lambasts-medias-poor-cli\/198716\"><b>VIDEO: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Lambasts Media&#8217;s Poor Climate Change Coverage<\/b><\/a> (Media Matters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Exxon Mobil Accepts Climate Science, Says &#8216;F*ck You, World!&#8217;:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2014\/04\/exxon-climate-change-regulations\"><b>Exxon Has 25 Billion Barrels of Fossil Fuel and Plans To Extract it All<\/b><\/a> (Mother Jones)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/04\/01\/3421417\/exxon-mobil-climate-risk-report\/\"><b>Exxon Is Behind The Landmark Climate Report You Didn&#8217;t Hear About<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.exxonmobil.com\/en\/environment\/climate-change\/managing-climate-change-risks\/carbon-asset-risk\">report<\/a> released by Exxon Mobil the same day about how greenhouse gas emissions and climate change factor into its business model found that <b>climate change, and specifically global climate policies, are &#8220;highly unlikely&#8221;\u009d to stop it from selling fossil fuels for decades to come<\/b>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/04\/02\/exxon-burn-oil-gas-reserves-climate\/\"><b>Despite Climate Warnings, Exxon Plans to Burn Through Oil and Gas Reserves<\/b><\/a> (Mashable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/ten-miles-square\/2012\/05\/whats_good_for_exxon_is_not_go037099.php\"><b>What&#8217;s Good for Exxon is Not So Good for America<\/b><\/a> (Washington Monthly) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">When Lee Raymond, CEO of Texas-based ExxonMobil from 1993 to 2005 [said], <b>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a U.S. company and I don&#8217;t make decisions based on what&#8217;s good for the U.S<\/b>.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/videos\/zxr7i2\/u-n--climate-change-report?xrs=share_copy_email\"><b>U.N. Climate Report Will<\/b><\/a>  (Colbert Report)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:320px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:74141086-78e3-4c59-9096-3abcfde258bc\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/full-episodes\/\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision\">Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecolbertreport\">The Colbert Report on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li><b>The Koch Brothers Are Environmentalists Fighting For Freedom &#8211; Just Ask &#8216;Em:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/04\/03\/3422514\/orwellian-op-ed-charles-koch-2\/\"><b>Another Orwellian Op-Ed From Charles Koch<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Let&#8217;s us have a moment of silence for the plight of misunderstood businessmen. Time&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n<p>Koch&#8217;s agenda is to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few, especially himself, with no regard to the health and well-being of the many who will suffer along the way &#8220;\u201d and he will stop at nothing to achieve this. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop&#038;mg=reno64-wsj\"><b>Charles Koch: I&#8217;m Fighting to Restore a Free Society<\/b><\/a> (Op-ed, Wall St. Journal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Massive Wind Spill In Texas Breaks Wind Energy Records:<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/03\/31\/3421140\/texas-wind-instantaneous-record\/\"><strong>Wind Reaches Its Highest Generation Level Ever In Texas, Heralding A Challenge To Natural Gas<\/strong><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/03\/28\/texas-wind-power-breaks-another-record\/\"><strong>Texas Wind Power Breaks Another Record<\/strong><\/a> (NPR State Impact)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\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:\/\/bit.ly\/1dUWelC\"><b>Supreme Court&#8217;s Campaign Finance Ruling: Bad for Greens, Good For Kochs<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/buswk.co\/PpAWRP\"><b>EPA failed to warn of cancer risk for people in research studies:<\/b><\/a> (BusinessWeek): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to disclose cancer risks to volunteers used in research studies on harmful pollutants, a government watchdog says.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planetark.org\/enviro-news\/item\/71361\"><b>1\/4 of Europe&#8217;s bumblebees, vital to crops, face extinction:<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):  Almost a quarter of Europe&#8217;s bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/plowed-under\"><b>PLOWED UNDER: Loss of America&#8217;s Native Grasslands<\/b><\/a> (American Prospect): Across the northern plains, native grassland is being turned into farmland at a rate not seen since the 1920s. The environmental consequences could be disastrous.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2014\/03\/31\/all-positive-and-helpful-things-ipcc-report-no-one-will-talk-about\"><b>All the Positive and Helpful Things in the IPCC Report No One Will Talk About<\/b><\/a> (DeSmog Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/sahara-dust-cloud-reaches-uk-3341912\"><b>&#8216;Keep kids out of killer smog&#8217;: Warning as polluted Sahara dust cloud reaches UK<\/b><\/a> (UK Daily Mirror)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/citigroup-says-the-age-of-renewables-has-begun\"><b>Citigroup Says the &#8216;Age of Renewables&#8217; Has Begun<\/b><\/a> (Green Tech Media):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Citi says the big decision-makers within the U.S. power industry are focused on securing low-cost power, fuel diversity and stable cash flows, and this is drawing them to the increasingly attractive economics of solar and wind.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/closing-window-action-climate-change-offers-consequences-opportunity\/\"><b>Can We Turn Climate Consequences Into Opportunity?<\/b><\/a> (PBS Newshour)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/03\/climate-oil-idINL5N0MV28920140403\"><b>UN climate chief urges radical clean-up of oil, gas industry<\/b><\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/2014\/why-the-fossil-fuel-industry-wants-us-to-ignore-risk-80330\"><b>Why the fossil fuel industry wants us to ignore risk<\/b><\/a> (Renew Economy):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">[Renewable energy] technology is having a massive impact on incumbent industries, perhaps more than any climate policy might have done in such a short period. The fossil fuel industry understands this &#8220;\u201c which is why they are so desperate to take such technologies out of the market&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/04\/01\/3421088\/koch-brothers-tennessee\/\"><b>Koch Brothers Quietly Seek To Ban New Mass Transit In Tennessee<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/inhaling-ozone-is-like-getting-a-sunburn-on-your-lungs-and-other-reasons-for-smog-pollution-standards\/\"><b>&#8220;Inhaling Ozone Is Like Getting a Sunburn On Your Lungs,&#8221;\u009d and Other Reasons For Strong Smog Pollution Standards<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/health\/253063501.html\"><b>MN: Soil Contamination Leaking Toxic Gases Into Homes:<\/b><\/a> (Minneapolis Star Tribune):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Discovery that contamination in soil can vaporize and seep into homes has prompted a statewide review of polluted sites.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/OaIJSw\"><b>Toxic coal ash poses persistent threat to US waters:<\/b><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A recent spill of coal ash in North Carolina underscores the challenge of disposing hazardous substances captured from power plant stacks. Are we diverting air pollutants into our waterways?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/04\/07\/140407fa_fact_osnos\"><b>Chemical Valley: Coal industry, politicians, and the Big Spill:<\/b><\/a> (The New Yorker): Politically, coal and chemicals are sacred cows in West Virginia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/on.wtsp.com\/1heBQGQ\"><b>Horseshow crabs are now in danger:<\/b><\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alj.am\/1lzNLa8\"><b>Ocean garbage thwarts Flight 370 search:<\/b><\/a> (Al Jazeera America):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Anticipation has repeatedly turned into frustration in the search for signs of Flight 370 as objects spotted from planes in a new search area west of Australia have turned out to be garbage. It&#8217;s a time-wasting distraction for air and sea crews searching for debris from the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished March 8. 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