Spotlight on green news & views: Cape Wind takes step forward, Bardarbunga bubbles, saving red wolf ::posted Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:00:06 +0000:: ift.tt/1sLCN3J rss@dailykos (Meteor Blades) Bárðarbunga sunset. Too many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week dont attract the attention they deserve. To help get more eyeballs, Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The most recent Wednesday Spotlight can be seen here. So far, more than 19,250 environmentally oriented diaries have been rescued for inclusion in this weekly collection since 2006. Inclusion of a diary in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it. Framing Climate Change Action Now: Advice, Slogans, & The Necessity Frame—by SusanCStrong: Right now many people are preparing for the Peoples Climate March, in New York or in many locations around the country. So Im getting requests for slogan ideas for signs and other demonstration pr. Below are three items that can give folks some ideas about what to say on signs and other demonstration media. 1.The first is a general suggestion to visit The Metaphor Project site, with directions for finding relevant articles Ive written about framing climate change for the general public. 2. The second is a list of slogans Ive generated for the March next week. 3. The third is a link to what I think is a very significant development in framing the issue: the necessity defense which emerged today in reports of a decision re two climate change activists who blocked a coal shipment from unloading in Rhode Island. [...] I also just generated a list of actual slogans, and they are pasted in below. They are just samples that show how to tinker and modify until you get what you want. The most important rule of thumb is this: say it out loud before you write it down on a sign. If it sounds clunky, tweak it until it has rhythm and sounds cool. The inner ear can hear the clunk, even if the slogan is just written down! Climate Safety Now! Climate Safety First! Climate Safety Fast! Our Earth needs a fast move—to climate safety! Our Earth needs a fast move—to green energy! Earth needs a fast move—to green energy! Lets make a fast move—to green energy! Lets move fast to green energy! Green energy now! Before its too late! (this tag could be added to any of them). Make cool rules the Earth can live by! Make cool climate rules! Make cool-the-earth rules! Stop carbon pollution! Stop the carbon pollution! Stop carbon pollution all over this earth! Meet the climate challenge now! Stop the methane monster now! Before its too late! World Trade Center Rescue/Recovery and Obstructive Airway Disease—by charliehall2: The inhalation of chemicals, particulate matter (dusts and fibers), and the incomplete products of combustion during occupational and environmental disasters has long been associated with respiratory disorders. While there is substantial literature on the association between respiratory diseases and chronic environmental exposures such as air pollution and long term occupational exposure in industries such as mining, silica handling, and construction, much remains to be learned regarding the biological mechanisms that cause such disease and on the latency between acute exposure and disease onset. [...] Our research group at the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), one of the Clinical Centers of Excellence in the WTC Health Program, administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), used innovative statistical methods to investigate for how long new-onset OAD is associated with WTC-exposure intensity. In this research, funded by a NIOSH cooperative agreement, we assessed whether the higher incidence rates of physician diagnosed OAD seen in FDNY firefighters who experienced a higher intensity of exposure persisted throughout the first five years after September 11, 2001, by allowing the relative rate of new-onset OAD in firefighters with more vs. less exposure intensity to vary over time. Our results were published in the August 1, 2014, issue of American Journal of Epidemiology. We found that although the relative rate of new-onset OAD diminished after 15 months, it remained elevated in firefighters who had experienced higher exposure intensity for the entire five year follow-up period. Similar results were seen in analyses that examined the incidence of OAD subtypes (asthma and chronic bronchitis). This is a longer period of latency than has been seen in previous studies of short-term exposures, but the WTC-exposure was unusually intense compared to other occupational/environmental exposures. Say Good-bye to a Western Natural Icon—by Jamess: Procrastination will only result in more ecological losses like this: [...] The iconic pine and aspen forests of the Rocky Mountains are dying off at an alarming rate thanks to conditions exacerbated by climate change—drought, insect infestations and wildfires—a new report says. Colorado alone could lose 45% of its aspen stands over the next 45 years, says the report released Thursday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. Pine bark beetles alone have killed 46 million acres of trees across the west, an area nearly the size of Colorado. The wildfires, infestations and heat and drought stress are the symptoms; climate change is the underlying disease, Jason Funk, the reports co-author and a senior climate scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement. And we and a future-based national energy policy could one day be the cure ... You can find more rescued green diaries below the sustainable squiggle. [Forwarded by the MyLeftBlogosphere news engine. Link to original post below:]
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