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Amid the takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives by anti-science syndrome suffering haters of a livable economic system, there are few reasons for joy and celebration for those looking to foster a stronger and more prosperous America.  One of the few is the opening it has given for senior Democratic politicians to engage forcefully [...]

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In March 2010, the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and John Hopkins University-Advanced Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) held a joint conference Climate & Energy: Imperatives for Future Naval Forces. In many ways, this was a rich conference (proceedings here). For example:

Dr. Jay Gulledge of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change spoke eloquently and powerfully about how focusing [...]

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Today, the DC Environmental Film Festival had a “pre-screening” of BAG IT at the Warner Theatre.
A great film fest …
Before turning to a discussion of this (great) film, a short note on the festival. This is the “19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the nation’s capital” and it will bring to the screen some 150 [...]

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The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy held the ARPA-E Innovation Summit last week.  As discussed last week, the ARPA-E summit had a number of speeches meriting a read and worthy of far greater audiences.   The speech from the ‘governator’, Arnold Schwarzenegger ranks among them.

 While the full text is below (and recommended), here are [...]

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This guest post from DWG provides a window as to how Global Warming is impacting and is reflected in one of the world’s oldest agricultural luxuries with, as well, some of the most extensive and detailed records related to harvests and weather. As I wrote several years ago in Sipping our way to a [...]

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