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This guest post comes from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor of geological sciences at Cornell University.  It was originally posted as a comment to a post at the Dot Earth blog of The New York Times which discussed one angle of The WSJ 16’s climate disinformation OPED.  RE that monstrocity, see Whacking 16 Moles [...]

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As noted in Whacking 16 Moles, flaring anti-science syndrome suffering climate denier and delayer inanities often divert people from valuable and productive activities. Prominent eruptions of this malady, however, drive white-cell like effort to respond and dampen the damage. With the publication of “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”, “The Wall Street Journal [...]

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Barath’s guest post provides another way of looking at the reality that Peak Oil and Climate Change are THE Progressive Crises.
What is progressivism?  What is it to be a progressive?

The history of the concept goes back a few hundred years to the enlightenment, and in one reasonable definition:
…the Idea of Progress is the theory that [...]

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A guest post from James Wells providing some useful ‘basic’ talking points.
Sometimes when the topic isn’t overtly about climate change, it really is about climate change, or it should be.
Much of the information which influences public opinion appears in connection with articles, discussion threads, tv shows, newspapers, and other media where the [...]

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I received a couple notes from Twitter.
The official White House blogger, Jon Carson, is now following me and responded to one of my messages.
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@A_Siegel thanks for helping me hear from folks about SOTU, getting lots of people talking about clean energy jobs  Jan 09, 8:50 AM via web
In reply to…
A_Siegel WH asks: What should be [...]

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This guest post from Barath lays out a perspective on the interactions of climate change and peak oil — interactions in terms of people as well as substance.  My perspective from a few years ago might be of interest:  THE Progressive Crises: Global Warming and Peak Oil.  
I’ve been wondering for the past year about the [...]

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Sadly, this isn’t about Breaking Bubbles and my inability to get a good (let alone great) score while procrastinating. While that might merit counting as some form of distressing situation (in perhaps the saddest form of self absorption), the Breaking is about distressing news from Russian scientists.
In the backdrop of our lives, the atmospheric carbon [...]

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