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Entries from July 2012

A challenge of Olympic proportions …

July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on A challenge of Olympic proportions …

The opening ceremony is hours away and sporting events have begun for the 2012 summer Olympics in London. Besides a life-long joy at exposure to new sport, great sports feats, and the basic global harmony concept of the Olympic games, the London games caught my attention for the organizers’ plans to make it totally green. […]

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Tags: business practice · carbon offsets · Energy · Global Warming · green · greenwashing

The power of niche: Solar displacing diesel for a nation’s electricity supply

July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on The power of niche: Solar displacing diesel for a nation’s electricity supply

Writ large, around the world, liquid fuel (generally diesel) has a relatively small role in providing electricity and thus the “oil” and “electricity” domains have a minimal overlap. There are, however, exceptions that are notable generally in being “islands”. These islands can be temporal (power supply disruption leading to use of generators while the electric […]

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Tags: Energy · renewable energy · solar

“When Hitler learned climate change was real …”

July 24th, 2012 · Comments Off on “When Hitler learned climate change was real …”

Have to say that this video by fortunx will anger some … but, one has to wonder, who is being called Hitler here? Perhaps those being deluded by climate deniers?

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Tags: Energy

97% of Greenland is in thaw … unprecedented

July 24th, 2012 · Comments Off on 97% of Greenland is in thaw … unprecedented

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · Global Warming

Time for a breakup …

July 24th, 2012 · Comments Off on Time for a breakup …

Many have outlined reasons why Keystone XL pipeline is not a smart project for the United States. Opening the pipeline likely will lead to increased gasoline prices for many Americans. The pipeline, carrying the rather dangerous and difficult to clean up “Dilbit” oil, risks having leaks (despite industry promises that, well, such leaks would never, […]

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Tags: Energy

Pres. Obama: “those who have looked at the science of climate change are scared”

July 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Increasingly, it seems, we need to look to ‘a-traditional media outlets’ like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert for (the most) truthful discussion about the nation’s challenges and opportunities. Rolling Stone, when it comes to catastrophic climate chaos, ranks among the nation’s best media outlets. As, for example, in the recent Bill McKibben powerful piece “Global […]

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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · political symbols · politics

Pioneering Energy Smart futures in American municipalities

July 18th, 2012 · Comments Off on Pioneering Energy Smart futures in American municipalities

ClimateSolutions‘ New Energy Cities project, with funding from the Henry M Jackson Foundation, just released a study entitled Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up:  Profiles in City-Led Energy Innovations.  The study examines the real world experience in cities with populations under 250,000.  From the study’s executive summary: To date, large cities from New […]

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Tags: Energy · research

Scientists Simple Plea to Secretary Clinton

July 17th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Today, a group of the nation’s leading experts on climate science sent a brief letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  The message is simple: include climate change in the review of the Keystone XL pipeline.  From that letter: At the moment, your department is planning to consider the effects of the pipeline on “recreation,” […]

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Tags: climate change

“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire …” Differentiating Skeptic from Denier

July 16th, 2012 · 5 Comments

In discussion of one of my recent posts, Kyril reacted to a questionable question from another commentator with perhaps the clearest differentiation between a science skeptic and denier that I have ever seen. As we seek to inform others about the perils of anti-science syndrome, such a clear (if perhaps sophomoric) differentiation might have value. Kyril’s […]

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Tags: climate delayers · global warming deniers · guest post · skeptic

“Welcome to the rest of our lives”

July 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on “Welcome to the rest of our lives”

“Welcome to the rest of our lives“ is the latest video from someone who should be one of the world’s most important videographers, Peter Sinclair (or Greenman3610). Peter has, for years now, focused his efforts on confronting global warming denialism and providing stark evidence of the truth that shows denialist arguments to be deceptive fraud. […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming