Special Project | Ecological Disasters, Week of February 26

Climate change is real and poses a threat to every living thing on the earth.

6 New Items including:

• 5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy
• EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding the Climate Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute
• Climate Change Must Be Addressed Now
• A Plan to Save Us From Global Warming? Industry's Colossal Experiment With the Future of Civilization at Stake
• Global Climate Change Deal Ignores CO2 Emissions, Critics Argue
• Big Greenwashing 101(Or How Sierra Club Learned To Stop Worrying About The 99% And Love Wall Street)

Jeanette Eastman, Associate Editor, Evergreene Digest

David Horsey

5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy, Erik Loomis, AlterNet
We've won a temporary reprieve from the Keystone XL Pipeline, but there are still places greatly at risk in the country.

EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding the Climate Denier Think Tank, Josh Israel & Brad Johnson, Heartland Institute / Think Progress, http://thinkprogress.org
Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the climate-denial think tank Heartland Institute received funding from at least 19 publicly traded corporations in 2010 and 2011.
 
Climate Change Must Be Addressed Now, Ted Kaufman, Huffington Post
Examine the mountain of evidence that has convinced 97 to 98 percent of climate researchers that climate change is a stark reality, and that human behavior has been a contributing factor to it.

A Plan to Save Us From Global Warming? Industry's Colossal Experiment With the Future of Civilization at Stake, Peter Montague, AlterNet
It's looking more and more like we're facing catastrophe from global warming, but the fossil fuel industry has prepared an escape for us. Too bad it looks like a nightmare, too.

Global Climate Change Deal Ignores CO2 Emissions, Critics Argue, James Gerken, Huffington Post
A recently announced climate change agreement between the United States and several other countries aims to reduce pollutant emissions, but it is drawing some concerns from a conservation group that claims it doesn't go far enough.

Big Greenwashing 101 (Or How Sierra Club Learned To Stop Worrying About The 99% And Love Wall Street)
Red Emma, It's Getting Hot In Here
John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. The organization he founded in 1892, the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest environmental group, have been in cahoots with the worst of the worst corporations in recent years.