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Dr Vicky Pope, the head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre, wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian. Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims
News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event [...]

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Well, not exactly, but birds are heading north for the ’summer’ of Global Warming. The Audobon Society just released a report, Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Motion (pdf),
Analysis of four decades of Christmas Bird Count observations reveal that birds seen in North America during the first weeks of winter have moved [...]

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Just a little while ago, the White House held a ‘progressive media and bloggers teleconference’ with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist for the Vice President. As a quick reminder, Jared is one of the bloggers that have become “former bloggers” by transitioning into the Obama Administration.
Not surprisingly, Bernstein’s call focused on the American Recovery [...]

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Joe Romm, in his book Hell and High Water, had this to say about why we should be cautious about meteorologists talking about Global Warming/Catastrophic Climate Change.
Asking a meteorologist to explain the cause of recent extreme weather is like asking your family doctor what the chances are for an avian flu pandemic in the next [...]

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A guest post from Gooch who took the time (and emotion) to provide a comprehensive and impressively polite reproach to a denier’s disingenuous argument. To the extent that someone is an ‘honest’ skeptic, this provides the substance to change a mind that is ‘open’ to truth.  Enjoy … and learn.
I got an email from my [...]

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Early this afternoon, the Senate overwhelming passed an amendment to the Stimulus package from Senator Coburn. We need to be Going Green to make green, and improving the stimulus package. Instead, the Republican and conservative D Senate have driven changes that progressively worsened an already not aggressive enough, not as effective economically as it [...]

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The other day, the Environmental Defense Action Fund opened voting for ‘the people’s choice’ as to the best 30-second video to explain how a Cap & Trade program to control carbon dioxide would help cut the nation’s dependence on oil. Putting aside questions as to Environmental Defense’s devotion to a CAP uber all, the [...]

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Sadly, every time that we fill up our gas tank, flip the switch for fossil-foolish electricity, warm ourselves with (high efficiency?) natural gas, we risk sending funding to people dedicated to destroying the potential for fostering paths toward mitigation of global warming and our other serious challenges. Fractions of pennies add up to serious [...]

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few know that [Michael] Moore was the editor of the liberal Mother Jones in 1986 — for four short months. He was fired from the publication for refusing to print an article critizing the human rights record of the Sandista government in Nicaragua. Moore didn’t balk because of any solidarity with the communist regime, but [...]

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T. Boone Pickens efforts to convince the political leadership to invest heavily in a fundamentally flawed energy concept continue to move apace.
Superficially, Pickens’ $10s (likely over $100 now) of millions expended on advertising, web sites, and otherwise provide a superficially appealing concept:

Build wind turbines
Use wind electricity to displace gas-fired electricity (about 22 percent of the [...]

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