Democracy Now! June 27, 2012

June 27, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

The Supreme Court strikes down a century-old Montana law banning corporate campaign spending, in a case billed as "Citizens United II." Democracy Now! continues its conversation with Monika Bauerlein and Andy Kroll of Mother Jones magazine looking at the hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into the 2012 US presidential race. And Bill McKibben of 350.org speaks about extreme weather, the Keystone XL pipeline, and the failure of Rio+20. Plus headlines, and more.

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Rio+20

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20, or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community. Hosted by Brazil ... Explore this topic

Bill McKibben

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leadi... Explore this topic

Keystone Pipeline

The Keystone Pipeline System is a pipeline system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States "primarily to refineries in the Gulf Coast" of Texas. The products to be shipped include synthetic crude oil and dilbit from the Western Canadian Sedimentary... Explore this topic

Earth Summit

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit, Rio Conference, and Earth Summit, was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992. In 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Develop... Explore this topic

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

In 2012 the United Nations will convene the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20, hosted by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, as a 20-year follow-up to the historic 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) ... Explore this topic

Extreme weather

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution: Extreme wea... Explore this topic

Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods through a pipe. Most commonly, liquids and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes using compressed air can also transport solid capsules. As for gases and liquids, any chemically stable substance can be sent through a pipeline. Th... Explore this topic

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Cli... Explore this topic

Tropical cyclone

The Tropical Cyclone type holds all hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and other 'warm core' storm systems. A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in... Explore this topic

Wildfire

Pożary są jednym ze zjawisk zachodzących w lasach. Z punktu widzenia gospodarki leśnej zaliczane są do najpoważniejszych niebezpieczeństw zagrażających lasom. Corocznie na świecie notuje się blisko 2000 pożarów. Pożary lasów dzieli się na następujące kategorie: ⁕pożary ziemne ... Explore this topic

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