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Around the globe, from little kids playing with friends to premier professional athletes battling for prize money, climate change is increasingly impacting the sports world. Even so, most sports reporting continues to fail to connect the dots between a warming planet and worsening conditions for sports events. Here are several recent examples. PRC Tennis Tournaments […]

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Unless you have been in a coma for several decades or living in Donald Trump’s dystopian mind, these two things are quite evident truths: Confronting these two realities feeds into a long-described self-description as a pessimistic optimist. The reality is that humanity has already created significant disruption to the earth’s system with serious and mounting […]

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On July 29, the Trump Department of Energy released a deceitful, truthiness-laden broadsheet at odds with basic climate science with significant distortion of what has and is happening in the real-world. This fossil-foolish screed, written by five-handpicked credential climate-science deceivers and deniers, is clearly designed to facilitate the Trump EPA’s July 29th (yes, same day) […]

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Climate change policy and politics has long faced a Catch 22: One of the (many) reasons why “Energy Smart Jeff” Merkley gained my enthusiastic support and fundraising when running (successfully) for Senate in 2008 was his recognition of that Catch 22 and determination to confront it head on. In one conversation (paraphrasing, don’t have the […]

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The Steve Miller Band announced yesterday that it has “cancelled all … upcoming tour dates”: “The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires …” That list certainly seems a smorgasbord of climate crisis fossil-fueled extreme weather events.   The band has assessed the danger “risks for you our audience, the band and […]

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As Hurricane Helene devastates much of the Southeast, hitting hard a state whose governor (and government) has banned the words “climate change” from most official documents, some might be wondering when President Biden will pull out a sharpie and whether nuclear weapons are being discussed in the White House Situation Room. For any failing to […]

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In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]

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When it comes to climate action, the focus is all too often on physical actions (put solar on roof, eat less meat, and so on). These actions are, quite legitimately, examples of what we all can and should be doing but aren’t necessarily the most critical individual action. After voting (at all levels and opportunities) […]

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Teed up by Chuck Todd’s abysmal climate change question (about flood insurance prices) in the Virginia gubernatorial debate, Glenn Youngkin lived up to what one would expect from the Virginian Republican (Grand Oil Party) nominee for Governor: predatory delay truthiness. In summary, Youngkin Avoided saying “climate change” and directly acknowledging basic reality which would risk […]

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The climate crisis made a brief appearance in last evening’s Virginia gubernatorial debate (see here for commentary on other portions of the debate) An oddball question from NBC’s Chuck Todd sparked strong comments from Democrat Terry McAuliffe and shallow predatory-delay, deceptive climate-truthiness from Trump-wannabe Glenn Youngkin. In a southern state that, under Democratic Party leadership, […]

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