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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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This guest post from the accurately named Magnifico looks at the new USDA map on gardening / planting zones.
An updated map that will likely be familiar to anyone who has planted a packet of seeds was presented today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is the first new version of Plant Hardiness Zone [...]

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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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This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation.

…while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might have heard about it.  We no longer have energy problems.  That’s right, as the Murdoch headlines announced triumphantly:
U.S. [...]

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Written prior to the SOTU, guest blogger Barath’s thoughts still ring true as to what the focus should have been …

You may have read that President Obama is going to propose energy as a key piece of his agenda in the State of the Union tonight:
President Barack Obama will encourage the country’s booming natural gas [...]

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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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This guest post from scientist FishOutOfWater looks at the what might be the closest event in Earth’s history to what humanity, through its ever mounting carbon emissions, is rapidly heading the planet to …

The most precise study yet of the the earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by [...]

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This guest post comes courtesy of Barath.

We’re at the end of economic growth as we know it.  Not everyone has realized this yet, but it has arrived nevertheless [see discussions here and here].
As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are rightly argue ever more [...]

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