This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country (Huffington Post)
Apple to hold event on March 9, as Watch launch nears (Reuters)
Will Great Britain and Italy Say "Screw Nuclear" And Get Power From A Giant Concentrated Solar Plant Located In Tunisia's Sahara Desert? (The Ecologist)
Watch How NASA Monitors Sand Flying From the Sahara to the Amazon (Time Magazine)
Study provides direct evidence that human activity is causing global warming: For the first time, researchers directly observed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere (Salon)
Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space – with a fifth newly in orbit – after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than a decade (NASA)
Lawmakers Seek Information on Funding for Climate Change Critics (NY Times)
Intel To Announce Their New 10 Nanometer Silicon Manufacturing Process; Will Move Away From Silicon When Moore's Law Takes Them Down to 7 Nanometers (Ars Technica)
Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into At Least 10 TBTF Banks' Manipulation of Metals/Precious Metals Markets (Bloomberg)
"The Pentagon & Climate Change: How Deniers Put National Security At Risk" (Rolling Stone Magazine) Bikram Yoga Founder Accused of New Rape Charges/Human Trafficking (The Guardian UK) How having the proper "Growth Mindset" can help us all become better investors (John Reeves - Motley Fool) Today, Alaska Become 3rd State To Legalize Marijuana Growing and Smoking (ABC News)
California Drought Exposes Boats, Man Made Reefs and Other Detritus In Drying Up Lakes (NPR)
Alex Wagner on NBC's NOW interviews Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He talks about the drought plaguing the U.S., its political implications, and what it means about changing the views of denialists on climate change.
Ms. Wagner also has on Eric Bates, Executive Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, which recently published an alarming and much discussed story about climate change, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill McKibben. Published more than a month ago on its website, this story is still the number one article on its "Most Popular" sidebar.
Both Wagner and Bates lacerate lobbyists and big money men from Big Oil -such as the Koch Brothers - who buy and payoff politicians to give distorted views on science and the environment.
As climate change causes more disturbances in weather, and as more Americans wake up to how climate change can negatively affect farmers, food prices, and those businesses, small and large, downstream, the more pressure will be put on the Kochs, Murdochs and Trumps of this world who deny climate change is here and is for real: