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A question to ponder:  If you received an “award” from a shoddy institution celebrating some of your weakest work, would you go proudly proclaim the stained medallion or would you bury the award in a closet hoping to never hear about it again? CBS faces such a conundrum … As per Media Matters reporting, a […]

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  Barath provides a guest post building on Jeff Masters’ observation about our extreme weather disruption likely providing tangible demonstration of human impacts on the climate system. The media is talking about the weird weather we’ve been having, but they tend to ignore the elephant in the room.  Take this story from NPR: News cameras […]

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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 16” […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 headline […]

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In the United States, at this time, any voter who progresses “Green” sentiment has no viable option other than voting Democratic in all Federal elections — even as Democratic politicians and the Democratic Party fall (far) short of what is required to address our climate and other challenges.

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