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| Senate to hold all-night climate change talkathon Monday, Mar 10, 2014 08:22 PM PDT  Burning midnight oil, dozens of senators seeking to push climate change higher up the US political agenda launched into a rare all-night session highlighting the need to reduce the global warming threat. At least 28 Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were participating in the session -- mocked by Republicans as a stunt -- that began after the last vote Monday and was due to wrap up Tuesday morning. The overnighter is the first major effort by the newly-created Climate Action Task Force in Congress, which wants to kick-start public debate on climate change. The coterie of Democrats was "sending a clear message: it's time for Congress to wake up and get serious about addressing this issue," Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said. Full Story | Top |
| [$$] Major U.S. Airlines Reveal Effects of Winter Storms Monday, Mar 10, 2014 08:04 PM PDT The four largest U.S. airlines said they had canceled a combined 74,500 flights in the first two months of this year because of extreme winter weather. Full Story | Top |
| Twenty-Eight Senators Are Pulling an All-Night Talkathon About Climate Change Monday, Mar 10, 2014 05:17 PM PDT  A little less than a third of U.S. senators will be staying up all night tonight to discuss climate change on the Senate floor. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. Senate Democrats pulling all-nighter on climate change Monday, Mar 10, 2014 04:37 PM PDT  By Thomas Ferraro and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two dozen U.S. Senate Democrats joined forces to speak through the night on Monday, hoping to "wake up" Congress to what is seen as the threat of climate change. "Despite overwhelming scientific evidence and overwhelming public opinion, climate change deniers still exist," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. "They exist in this country and in this Congress." The Nevada Democrat made the comments in kicking off the marathon gabfest at 6:27 p.m. on Monday. Thirty of the Senate's 53 Democrats, plus the two independents who caucus with them, have signed up to participate. Full Story | Top |
| Climate Action Senators Raised Less From Oil And Gas Industry Than Those On The Sidelines Monday, Mar 10, 2014 04:10 PM PDT  WASHINGTON -- The 30 senators set to occupy the Senate floor Monday for an all-night talkathon on climate change have raised substantially less from the oil and gas industry in recent years than those who are not participating. The action by the 30 senators is intended to raise attention on climate change, which has fallen off the legislative map in recent years and was barely mentioned during the 2012 presidential campaign. "The cost of Congress' inaction on climate change is too high for our communities, our kids and grandkids, and our economy," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senate holds global warming all-nighter: Why 4 Dems will be no-shows Monday, Mar 10, 2014 04:05 PM PDT On Monday night, Senate Democrats are hosting a rare pajama party of sorts, conducting an all-night "talkathon" on climate change – minus the pajamas, and definitely minus some of their colleagues. Twenty-eight Democrats and two left-leaning Independents, including Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada and his top lieutenants, are scheduled to speak in shifts until about 9 a.m. Tuesday. The intent is to urge a divided Congress and nation to "wake up" on this issue. Some notable Democrats, however, are no-shows: Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Full Story | Top |
| Climate Change Keeps a Quarter of the Senate Up All Night Monday, Mar 10, 2014 03:30 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — Get ready for another all-nighter in the Senate. Twenty-eight Democratic senators are expected to take turns speaking on the Senate floor this evening all the way through Tuesday morning, all in the name of climate change awareness. While there is no specific legislation... Full Story | Top |
| They're Up All Night To Get Wonky: 30 Senators Hold Overnight Climate Session Monday, Mar 10, 2014 03:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON -– Senators planning to stay up all night Monday talking about climate change say the marathon session is the "opening salvo" in a renewed effort to pass legislation curbing greenhouse gas emissions. "We have a simple message for all Americans: We're not going to rest until Congress acts on the most pressing issue of our time," said Sen. Brian Schatz, a freshman Democrat from Hawaii, who organized the all-nighter on the Senate floor. The overnight session is meant to "make sure everybody across the nation knows we're taking this seriously, and that there is a stirring in the Senate Full Story | Top |
| NE Ohio fishing report: Weather making an impact Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:56 PM PDT Full Story | Top |
| Morning MoneyBeat Asia: Debating the Data, the Weather, the Calendar Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:34 PM PDT The S&P 500 slipped all of, well, actually, it wasn't down even a whole point on Monday, but given all the hoopla over the bull-market's five-year anniversary, that counts as a major selloff. We jest. ... Full Story | Top |
| Doing the Math on Polar Sea Ice Melt Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:23 PM PDT  "We're using pretty sophisticated mathematics to better understand the role of sea ice in the climate system, and, ultimately, to improve our projections of climate change," Golden said in a talk Wednesday (March 6) at the Museum of Math in New York City. In high school and college, he studied the physics of sea ice, but his main interest was mathematics. "I loved sea ice, but I had no intention of building my career around it," Golden told Live Science. Later, he realized that sea ice could be modeled using the same math as composite materials, whose components contain different physical or chemical properties. Full Story | Top |
| FEMA's New NYC Flood Maps Will Soon Be Out-of-Date (Op-Ed) Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:11 PM PDT  FEMA maps guide people out of harm's way, helping homeowners make informed choices about where they live; But FEMA's flood maps have never accounted for the future impacts of climate change on flood risk. Hurricane Sandy served as a wake-up call for New York and New Jersey — and the nation — to become better prepared for flooding and the other impacts of climate change. Given that it can take two decades or longer for FEMA to update flood maps for an area, it's important that those maps start providing a more realistic look at both present and future risk. Full Story | Top |
| 28 Lawmakers Are Staying #Up4Climate Tonight Monday, Mar 10, 2014 02:03 PM PDT Watch out, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman: The best late show tonight might just be on C-SPAN. That's because a band of 28 crusading U.S. lawmakers—26 Democrats and two independents—will be taking over the Senate tonight to deliver uninterrupted speeches on climate change. The goal of the gabfest is to convey the urgency of climate change and to get Congress to take legislative action. "Climate change is real, it is caused by humans, and it is solvable," said Sen. Brian Schatz, in a statement. Full Story | Top |
| An Artistic Climate Transforms Data into Art (Op-Ed) Monday, Mar 10, 2014 01:53 PM PDT She reports on activities and projects at the intersection of art, science and technology. This article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts for Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As concern over climate change has grown, many artists have employed their work to explore the human toll on the natural world. Andrea Polli, an award-winning digital media artist based in Albuquerque who teaches art and ecology at the University of New Mexico (UNM), calls attention to the way our climate is evolving by transforming scientific data into soundscapes, sonifications and participatory public artworks. Full Story | Top |
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