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While most discussions of climate change focus on modern history, discussing the change from pre-industrial CO2 levels of roughly 275 parts per million to today’s 410 (or so), humanity has been impacting the climate for millennia. Essentially since the emergence of agriculture, humans have been putting their thumb on the scales and influencing climate. While […]

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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is supposedly designed to bring fracked natural gas to theoretical markets in Virginia and North Carolina. This environmentally devastating project (from cutting swaths through pristine forests to worsening climate pollution) is, at its core, designed to boost its owners profitability (Dominion Energy (48%), Duke Energy (47%), and Southern Company (5%)) […]

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For 2020, the Democratic Party is rich in good to extremely good options for nomination to be the next President of the United States of America. From Kamala Harris to Cory Booker, from Jay Inslee to Elizabeth Warren, from … to …, there are literally have dozens of (potential) candidates who would be good person to vote […]

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The turn-around of U.S. fossil fuel energy fortunes has been stunning over the past fifteen years. From a general (not universal, but general) understanding that the U.S. had passed peak natural gas and that the globe was facing eminent peak oil, the general (not universal, but general) perspective is that U.S. natural gas supplies are […]

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Seeking to think through Green New Deal, the following seem to be the fundamental core principles and objectives. To create a plan (actually, an adopted actionable program) that will Reduce humanity’s risks from and impacts on climate change (in accord with climate science) and Strengthen society (improve economic performance, reduce economic and other disparities, address […]

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The video below provides a year’s worth of high and low temperature records globally. In 2018, across all these sites, there was about a two-to-one skewing of high vs cold temperature records. Writ large, over time, there should be a rough balance between these. With humanity’s thumb on the scales, with a warming climate, monitoring […]

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Just as the military considers climate change a threat multiplier increasing risks and threats around the world, making its job(s) harder to accomplish with every passing year, so too businesses of all shapes and flavors should view climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ creating risks that require attention to maintain continued viability. News today about […]

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A good share of the U.S. government is shut down over Trump’s faux emergency demand for taxpayer money to fund the wall that he promised his supporters, time and again, that Mexico would pay for. Amid this manufactured crisis, which has easily over a million uncertain about their next paycheck (government employees and contractors, along […]

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