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The 10:10 campaign is targeting getting nations, organizations, businesses, individuals, etc to commit to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions 10 percent per year as a path to achieve reductions, globally, in line with what looks necessary to have any serious chance of avoiding catastrophic climate chaos. As part of this, sparked in efforts with groups [...]

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Upfront. A single day, in a single nation doesn’t prove (or disprove) climate change science / The Theory of Global Warming. Got it.
However, ….
29 September 2010, United States of America, temperature records
Total Number of Records for September 29, 2010 (out of 5,341 stations with at least 30 years of data)
Highest Max Temperature:  139 new [...]

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“Alaska: The Last Frontier” is so eerily echoing of The Final Frontier. And, as with ever so many episodes of Star Trek: The Final Frontier, The Last Frontier is seeing a struggle that could have life-or-death implications for a planet.

At this time, the U.S. Senate is the roadblock between U.S. action (even if inadequate) [...]

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R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post is part of a series highlighting the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican candidates for Congress. An [...]

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Mountain-top removal (MTR) is a travesty, a crime on current and future generations in the interest of near-term profits. Even within the context of mining coal, MTR isn’t just a way to get the miner out of the mine but miners out of the coal industry as blowing up the mountains and devastating the [...]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action.

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
This last week, I have been staring at The Transport Politic post, Republican Wave Could Spell Trouble for High-Speed [...]

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This past Saturday, I opened the Washington Post editorial page and saw the following title:
Could the garbage heap help save us from global warming?
This title and quick glance talking about agricultural waste caught my attention, making me think that The Washington Post was publishing an OPED about one of my favorite win-win-win-win climate change mitigation/geoengineering  [...]

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Today is time to take a moment to make a plug for a specific charity as I am about to write a check and you might want to as well. A bit of background first.
Micro-finance programs are, imo, one of the most empowering developments around the world over the past several decades. Providing sensible [...]

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R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post is part of a series highlighting the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican candidates for Congress. An utter disdain for science, [...]

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Repower America for clean air.

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