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Tom Perez and the DNC staff have truly stepped into it … explicitly rejecting hosting a climate debate and threatening Democratic Party presidential candidates ready to participate in one hosted by some other organization. By pegging the climate crisis as yet another ‘single issue’, Perez and his team are demonstrating a fundamental failure to understand […]

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Joe Biden has issued a climate plan: Joe’s Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. While there are many (good, okay, and, sigh, bad) details, angles, and elements to Biden’s plan to address the climate crisis, that isn’t what is most important.  What is, to steal the words from Oil Change USA’s David Turnbull, is important is […]

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Looking around the world, there is much to be frustrated and angry with. “If only …” could start a million sentences about possibilities for change to the better. The climate and clean energy space is replete with such ‘missed opportunity’ frustration space. Assaad Razzouk‘s new podcast “The Angry Clean Energy Guy” (website) gives voice to […]

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Over 3300 economists around the world have signed the Economists’ Statement on Climate Dividends. Original co-signatories include Nobel laureates (27!), former Chairs of the Federal Reserve, former Treasury Secretaries, … Let us be clear, upfront, that it is important that so many credentialed, prominent economists have come together to call for action to address climate […]

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Trump’s inane rejection of climate science (and, well, fundamental statement that he is clueless about the most basic concepts of science and the scientific method) are well known, provide a comedic statement about what has become core Republican dogma, and sadly occupy the Oval Office. In all seriousness, it seemed on 5 November 2016 that […]

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The turn-around of U.S. fossil fuel energy fortunes has been stunning over the past fifteen years. From a general (not universal, but general) understanding that the U.S. had passed peak natural gas and that the globe was facing eminent peak oil, the general (not universal, but general) perspective is that U.S. natural gas supplies are […]

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The video below provides a year’s worth of high and low temperature records globally. In 2018, across all these sites, there was about a two-to-one skewing of high vs cold temperature records. Writ large, over time, there should be a rough balance between these. With humanity’s thumb on the scales, with a warming climate, monitoring […]

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Just as the military considers climate change a threat multiplier increasing risks and threats around the world, making its job(s) harder to accomplish with every passing year, so too businesses of all shapes and flavors should view climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ creating risks that require attention to maintain continued viability. News today about […]

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While the pace is picking up, it is a simple truth that too few U.S. politicians speak to their constituents about climate change in meaningful ways. Thus, to start with, a mark of appreciation for politicians who do make the effort to speak to their constituents to educate them and seek to mobilize them to […]

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Paris is burning and the Wall Street Journal editorial page is gleeful in its misrepresentation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) flames. Along with so many others in the fossil-foolish climate-science denial cabal, the WSJ editorial page is asserting that the flames are about rejecting efforts to address climate change. It is all about, for the […]

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