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How the world the world is changing. We have melting ice. Smoke clouds heading into the Pacific from California. The oceans hitting their limits of carbon dioxide absorption. A shrinking, threatened Amazon. Story after story showing a world being damaged by CO2, other emissions, and by warming. It is not hard to find reasons for […]

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When discussing any particular disaster and its relationship to Global Warming, one needs to be cautious, to avoid saying “Global Warming caused X” as it is quite difficult to show a direct cause and effect relationship with a global trend to any particular activity. Thus, stronger storms are correlated with rising temperature which correlated with […]

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To start with, let me express my sympathy to all those who have been hurt, lost property, or are threatened by the California fires.  My — our — thoughts are with you.  ======================== The threat from the fires is quite direct. Images of a burning home, fleeing families, roaring flames engulfing a mountain side, smoke […]

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Consider the implications of one’s actions, one’s decisions for Seven Generations. That is truly a path toward a sustainable society.   Below the fold are Seven Principles for energy/global warming legislation from Sierra Club and other organizations.  These Seven Principles could be called “Seven Principles for Seven Generations”.  Worth reading … and taking to heart.  

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The Guardian is reporting that Gordon Brown’s advisors are calling Tony Blair’s renewable energy targets are too expensive and face ‘severe practical difficulties’.

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Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights?  Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]

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There are many ways to take action to change the world’s heedless path toward the precipice of Catastrophic Climate Change (and Peak Oil, Peak Water, etc …).  We can act as individuals, families, communities, businesses, nations …  And, we can foster action by others through our own actions … directly and indirectly. When it comes […]

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While I’m writing something more substantive related to this, a note to encourage all to spend a few moments watching this video … and to share it with as many friends as possible.

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The Guardian reports that data about oil production, globally, shows conclusively that the world has past Peak Oil and we are now in the post-Peak Oil era.  This is based on an Energy Watch Group report scheduled to be released Monday in London. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a […]

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“Things are on more of a hair trigger than we thought.” Ted Scanbos, Univ of Colorado So ends a Washington Post article for Monday morning, At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate.  This article (the latest in the Post series In the Greenhouse: Confronting a Changing Climate) lays out many reasons for concern about […]

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