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Two recent major Washington Post articles about urban planning and preparing for ‘Sandy-like’ events provided radically different views of the 21st century. While both 4 November’s “In a perfect storm” (Metro front page) and 5 November’s “In coast communities” (front page) highlighted the challenges for urban planners and politicians in expending (quite significant) resources to reduce […]

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With Clean Break, a recommended 99 cent ‘Kindle Single’ purchase/read, Osha Gray Davidson has provided English speakers an enjoyable and illuminating look at Germany’s Energiewende — that wholesale societal shift commonly translated as “energy shift” and “energy transition”.   Despite its booming economy — in the powerhouse position of Europe — and the mounting role that solar […]

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Today’s core GOP (accurately called the Grand Obstructionist Party) can be easily summarized as: Pale Male Stale, and Addicted to the Tall Tale. The first three are quite well understood and are a key part of the chattering class analysis about the reasons for Republican Party failures yesterday and their inevitable failures in elections to […]

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And, as the President was speaking in front of the cameras, youth climate activists were speaking in front of the White House:

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Last week’s Bloomberg Businessweek made news with its cover. That title, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid”, created waves post-Sandy’s devastating storm surge waves and certainly upset those who the magazine’s editor directly challenged as “stupid”. With great uncertainty as to the political reality in America come tomorrow, the title suggests something beyond the connection of Global […]

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Representative Steve King (R-IA-5) has made quite a name for himself over the years for many reasons, such as his violent case of anti-science syndrome.  This author remains particularly stunned, months later, with King’s gleeful bragging about wasting taxpayer money. Many Americans had their eyes open with what some term as the “King foot-in-mouth disease” […]

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This guest post comes from Dean Baker who, in a sane world, would be on (or chairing) the White House Council of Economic Advisors.  Who knows, perhaps there is hope that the United States will turn to sanity in Sandy’s wake on climate change and other issues … When Gov. Romney gave his acceptance speech […]

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This guest post comes from meteorologist Paul Douglas.  His simple, powerful, and straightforward conclusion is one that we hope American voters follow this Tuesday. elect politicians who still respect sound science. Were you impacted by “Nor’easter-cane” Sandy?” Statisticians will debate whether it was a 1 in 100 year storm — or something worse. Insurance companies […]

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This guest post comes from scientist FishOutOfWater. The north Atlantic ocean is heating faster than all the world’s oceans because of the increased flow from the Indian ocean to the Atlantic ocean.The rapidly strengthening greenhouse effect produced by exponentially increasing human emissions of greenhouse gases is affecting earth’s climate unevenly. The North Atlantic ocean is […]

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In 2005, just a week after Katrina hit New Orleans, blogger Meteor Blades outlined a plan for rebuilding New Orleans in a smart, sensible, leading-edge way: Eco New Orleans: ‘A Shining Example for the Whole World’. Meteor Blades began this must read (especially now, again) discussion: The tragedy wrought by Katrina provides a chance to […]

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