This & that ...... Caring for Our Planet!

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Scientists from both Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a study on Friday showing that oil spills are causing death-by-cardiac arrest in tunas and other types of fish.

Toxins From Oil Spills Are Putting Fish Into Cardiac Arrest, Study Finds

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For marine life, this Valentine’s Day is shaping up to be less about love, and more about heartache. Attempting to draw attention to marine animals...

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Network News Notices Climate Change:

The three major Sunday morning network television shows all featured conversations about climate change on Sunday. Now that’s news. Throughout all of last year, the same programs and Fox News Sunday devoted only 27 minutes – combined – to global warming. Up from just 8 minutes the year before. This Sunday on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos discussed how to "get ahead" of climate change with Dr. Heidi Cullen, Climate Central's ...chief climatologist. The CBS program Face the Nation featured an interview with Dr. Marshall Shepherd, the former head of the American Meteorological Society. And on NBC’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory and scientist Bill Nye countered claims by Rep. Marsha Blackburn that there is no consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming. "But there is consensus," Gregory interjected. "Within the scientific community, there is consensus."
 

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ETOM Quote of the Day:
“The problem is that there are effects, and the Greenhouse Effect is one of them, which have long time constants. If you don’t worry abou...t it now, it’s too late, later on.” - Carl Sagan in Congressional testimony, 1985
With the release of Cosmos 2.0 next month, it seemed appropriate to drop a Sagan quote. Did you know the original Cosmos and ETOM share the same producer, Geoff Haines-Stiles?
h/t Joshua Wolfe for the quote.

 Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/news-notices-climate-change

Network News Notices Climate Change

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The three major Sunday morning network television shows all featured conversations about climate change on Sunday. Now that’s news. Throughout all of last year, the same programs and Fox News Sunday...

With this level of Bloated Military Spending, how can any reasonable person justify slashing FOOD STAMPS?

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oh, yeah, that

 

How can we shift our national spending priorities? With such an enormous military budget, can we really justify cuts to other programs that focus on our domestic needs? What alternatives do we have?

Source: National Priorities Project

Center for Biological Diversity and Grist.org shared a link.

Oil spills break fishes’ hearts

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, BP should dedicate some hearts to fish that were exposed to its Deepwater Horizon spill — new research suggests that the spill may have broken theirs.

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Oh snap! Thank Armed Democrats for this powerful message.

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