Tag: Oil Industry
Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out? In a new video series from [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2011 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 levels, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, science
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Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands. We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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The human anguish for their future in the Gulf – Heart breaking video footage
Shot by Robert M. Young and Edward James Olmos on a trip to the heart of the oil spill in the Gulf. Edited by Stephen Cohen. Robert Young and I jumped on a plane and went to the Gulf of Mexico just to lend our support by documenting what we saw… Well, the people [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: oil, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill
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A message from Obama
Today we received a message from the Obama Administration that the Foundation was asked to share with you. As regular visitors to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation will know, we are bi-partisan when it comes to issues of politics. We endorse no political party or position. We do endorse CHANGE from the polluting ways of the [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: Obama administration, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, United States
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CBS Threatened With Arrest for Filming the Gulf Oil Spill
The environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps not being accurately reported by the mainstream media due to government and BP manipulation. We may only be privy to half-truths and subterfuge . . . You be the judge. var showHover=false;
Posted: June 6th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill, World News
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The video BP does not want you to see – The one you must!
ABC News went underwater in the Gulf with Philippe Cousteau Jr., grandson of famous explorer Jacques Cousteau, and he described what he saw as “one of the most horrible things I’ve ever seen underwater.” Check out what BP does not want you to see. And please share this widely — every American should see what’s [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill
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Florida wildlife in danger as Gulf of Mexico oil spill enters powerful sea currents
Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the Loop Current May 2010. Scientists monitoring the US oil spill with ESA’s Envisat radar satellite say that it has entered the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida.\ “With these images from space, we have visible proof that at [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under General, Nature, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill
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US oil spill: BP ‘recovering less oil’ than estimated
BP has said the amount of oil recovered from a leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well on Thursday was less than half an earlier estimate. BP said it had siphoned 2,200 barrels in the 24-hour period to midnight on Thursday, down from an estimate of 5,000 barrels earlier in the day. The US government has [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill
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Peak oil production coming sooner than expected
Media, public, governments unprepared for the End of the World (As We Know It) Source: Sweetnam, DOE, April 2009 The BP oil disaster reminds us once again of the many large costs of oil use not included in its price. But because conservatives have blocked or rolled back all serious efforts to move us off [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: oil, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Sands, Peak Oil, World Oil Reserves
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The vast scope of the oil spill and the even greater scope of the vested interests collusion.
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Posted: May 19th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: Obama administration, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, Politics, pollution
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