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Climate Change Goes Away

January 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Global Warming · catastrophic climate change · climate change · guest post · journalism · media · weather

International Energy Agency Warns: Last Chance to Protect Humanity’s Future

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments

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Tags: Energy · carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change

Climate Disruption Activists Seek Aid re Arrests for Disrupting Climate Disrupters

May 4th, 2011 · No Comments

As you are so well aware from the massive media coverage (note the sarcasm?), 10,000 youth climate activists gathered in Washington, DC, last month, in Powershift 2011.  Powershift representatives met with the President (for a first-person account, see What I Said at The White House). They shared their stories — successes and failures. They engaged with key leaders and [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · catastrophic climate change · climate change · political symbols

Taking Account of Full Costs and Total Benefits in achieving a more efficient building sector: Architecture 2030 Challenge for Products

February 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Simply put, Architecture 2030 (Ed Mazria) is among my favorite organizations. Architecture 2030 has been developing and promoting well-thought through and practical concepts for shifting America’s built architecture toward a sustainable path.  Concepts that have an impact on many, from aspiring architecture students to policy-makers to businessmen creating more energy efficient products.
Not until today, [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · architecture · architecture2030 · catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental

Confronting Anti-Science Climate Cranky Zombie Politicians

February 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment

A simple truth, anti-science suffering haters of a livable economic system have hindered action to address our mounting resource challenges of our overuse and overabuse of depletable resources. These include oil (Peak Oil), water (depleting fossil acquifers), top soil (with increasingly serious dust storms in many parts of the world hastening creation of new deserts), [...]

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Tags: Congress · Global Warming · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · global warming deniers · political symbols · politics · republican party

Giving Thanks for Hopeful Pessimists

November 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

For a long time, I described myself as a pessimistic optimist (or an optimistic pessimist — just couldn’t remember which …). This changed recently as I learned a critical definitional issue.
An optimist is assuming things will work out and it doesn’t necessarily rely on their efforts or necessarily require any special action [...]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change

Seeking Harmony — prosperity and sustainability working together

November 19th, 2010 · No Comments

This evening, NBC will broadcast Harmony. Harmony could be described, perhaps, as the Prince Charles entry into the documentary film arena, with Prince Charles narrating a discussion both of the global challenges climate change creates and providing thoughtful / meaningful paths to address these challenges to help avert catastrophic climate chaos.
For decades, The Prince [...]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change

“Outrage-Lib” Climate-Change LTE

August 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Warren S has made a commitment with a New Year’s Resolution. Every day, another letter to the editor or a politicians about climate change and global warming issues. One of his most recent conclusions is that the rampant inability of traditional media institutions to link global record war temperatures, the hottest year in recorded weather [...]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · guest post

The Darker Side of Lexus’ “Darker Side of Green”?

July 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Under the title The Darker Side of Green, Lexus (e.g., Toyota) has chosen to host a series of “debates” on climate change as part of its roll-out of hybrid Lexus CT200h. These events are hosted by a celebrity, with an environmentalist journalist and prominent skeptic ‘debating’ climate-change issues.
To debate or not to debate: that [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · advertising · anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · greenwashing

Global Warming: Effing Scary! Complex! Easy!

July 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Lafeminista’s Global Warming: Are you f***ing scared yet? highlights yet another reason for grave concern about the impacts of our using the atmosphere as a trash pit: we are killing life in the ocean as
Scientists have discovered that the phytoplankton of the oceans has declined by about 40 per cent over the past century, [...]

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