GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The government in the Netherlands is highlighting the environmental record of Shell’s operations in Nigeria. Oil companies get away with a lot in foreign countries and there are few things that the home country can do to hold companies like Shell accountable.
- Climate Change is bringing us unusual and hard to predict weather patterns. Right now New York City is freezing over while the Arctic is melting.
- The Koch brothers are two businessmen that are dedicated to the control of the US government and economy for the sole benefit of their own bank accounts. During a conference put on by the brothers Greenpeace does their part to protest such destructive behavior.
- More advances in the world of batteries: The Economist reports.
- Obama is changing his environmental tune to try and create a clean energy plan, one that has a chance to pass the republican dominated House of Representatives.
- MotherJones published a couple of articles spawning from the new book called “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth” by Mark Hertsgaard:
- While creating substitutes for products with large environmental impacts is great, we need to make sure that the substitute does actually have a better environmental performance than the original product.
- Ode magazine covers the future of cars.
- The UK government has started to tackle Climate Change and has announced some plans to adapt to future changes, like transplanting fish populations and creating new standards for road construction.
- Fox News interviewed the President of the Environmental Defense Fund and managed to find something to agree on; free market fundamentals working to solve our problems.
