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Fire boat response crews spray water on the blazing remnants of BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig Jorge Madrid and Kiley Kroh in a CAP repost . One year ago the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster caused immeasurable damage to the Gulf Coast and the people who live and work there. Unfortunately on the first anniversary of the spill those ecosystems and communities are still suffering. Solutions from both Congress and the parties responsible for the spill are slow moving or nonexistent. It is time for action to restore this vital region in the short term and start building lasting solutions to bring economic and ecological stability to the Gulf Coast over the coming decades. A group of trustees including federal agencies are responsible for determining the extent of damage done to the Gulf via a Natural Resource Damage Assessment, or NRDA, a process likely to drag on for several more years. Of course, the communities and sensitive environmental areas in the Gulf need their remediation to begin immediately.
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One year later BP still not “making it right” in Gulf restoration funding
Our guest blogger is Bill Becker. Like the BP disaster, the extreme weather events occurring worldwide offer a Sputnik moment to focus attention on the urgent need to address climate change. Here is the speech I’d love to see Obama give in a special session of Congress, perhaps on Earth Day
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At the crossroads: Floods, fires and the speech Obama should give on climate change
This guest post by Miloslav Nic was first published on Skeptical Science . This is a post about my website Zvon.org where I’ve created a resource for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4).
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So you want to find a peer-reviewed paper in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report
by Jonathan Hiskes. Rumors have been floating around for a while, but on Monday the unfortunate fact became public : the sustainability news and advocacy site Worldchanging is shutting down. The 501c3 non-profit will dissolve by the end of the year, though the hope is to preserve its seven-year online archive. A note on the site says the organization had grown almost completely dependent on revenue from the speaking fees of co-founder and editor Alex Steffen: Why is this happening? Worldchanging readers were generous over the years and an important part of our ongoing operations, but we were never able to secure major foundation support, so Worldchanging relied most heavily on income generated from Alex Steffen’s speaking engagements (Alex gave more than 400 talks over the past five years) and the Worldchanging book
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Worldchanging’s bright green contribution