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The cap and trade legislation has been “put off” until well after the Copenhagen summit in December. It’s pushed into spring, 2010, if then.  If you want to read some better bills than cap and trade, which should be called Cap and ...

The new 2009 World Energy Report shows a decline in oil, but did the U.S. interfere in the final report to avoid a panic in the markets?  The IEA denies the pressure. Many experts think Saudi Arabia and other countries are inflating the numbers ...

LinkTV has a new weekly climate change video here and will appear on FN’s news website every week also. I went to a talk tonight given by Sami Rasouli . . . He’s an Iraqi-American who has been a peace activist for Iraq and he recently ...

Meat consumption might be destroying the planet and killing us.  It’s certainly not green, so maybe we should think about it more before using it so much.  And Americans consume more meat than anyone on the planet.   It’s contributing to ...

Climate change will be very much about justice in the years and decades to come.  This is Episode8 of the podcasting marathon known as Napodpomo.  Green money–Green jobs–Green greed–the Jolly Green Giant Known as Copenhagen — Is ...

The Brutal Truth about climate change is this:  it’s much worse, and much more threatening to our future, than the public thinks it is.  In fact, it has scientists scared.  Yet the political response is to “work with business” and ...

The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think. And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn’t discover it either, despite his 1988 ...

This is NaPodPoMo5, the fifth installment of Futurism Now’s podcast marathon. Covered in this episode:  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change. Trees in the desert, say the Sahara, might solve climate change?  Well, it’s a ...

News from Futurism Now, and episode #4 of the NaPodPoMo podcast marathon. What are Senators up to on the climate bill? Senate Republicans Stall Climate Legislation!  Story here. Panic at 2:00 am!   Where is the ice? Utilities Drop Plans for Big Stone ...

This is episode 3 of National Podcast Post Month. The mystery of global warming Skeptics. I don’t understand people who deny facts and science — do you? Someday, we’ll figure it out. Meanwhile, climate change continues to happen, ...

Here are some things you need to know before Copenhagen, just the basics. There will be more basics coming later this week. Start with the UNFCCC website and their facts about climate change. Today’s installment of NaPodPoMo #2, my podcasting ...

Kicking off NaPodPoMo month, Futurism Now covers environmental and climate justice and EPA news.  Join FN this month while we explore whether a daily podcast can be done  while retaining a semblance of a life. NaPodPoMo stands for “National ...

The UN Summit on Climate Change brought together 100 world leaders at the UN on September 22 and the Age of Stupid movie event happened on September 21, all in New York City. What did they all accomplish? Possibly a lot! The UN Summit was a good start, ...

Will the U.S. avert climate catastrophe in time?  Are we really even trying? Last Thursday, September 17th, the American Security Project came up with a report, the Climate Security Index.   You can download the report here. It almost sounds like ...

The very air we breathe is causing us health problems.  Aerosols and other things in our air are still making us sick.  The military might be putting something in it, to fight climate change, or for reasons much worse. What’s in the air? Whatever ...