Tag Archives: Michael Bloomberg

HD5

7/21/2011 – 12:33 pm

Last Wednesday, 13 July 2011, was HD5 or Hansen Day Five.  It marked the fifth anniversary of James Hansen’s 2006 essay in the New York Review of Books, in which he wrote: “…we have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse [...]

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Money Can Buy

11/5/2009 – 10:52 am

I know you’re sick of all the election analysis. Me, too. It was the off-est of off years and yet we beat it to death with talking and I don’t want to add to that.
Except. I read New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent at least $90 million getting elected to his third [...]

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News From the (Warm) Front

5/31/2007 – 11:00 am

Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the nation’s leading expert on global warming, says we have less than 10 years to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. He made that statement last summer, the first anniversary is coming [...]

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