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This guest post comes from Mokurai. Buying a compact fluorescent light will not solve Global Warming by itself. Do it anyway. It is an essential component in the grand strategy by which we build ourselves into the foundations of a mass movement, constructed piece by piece, to the point where our opposition cannot resist us, and […]

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The Guardian is reporting that President Obama is “seriously considering” hosting a climate summit. Barack Obama may intervene directly on climate change by hosting a summit at the White House early in his second term If this is true, that the White House staff is prepping up a “broad-based and bipartisan summit to launch a […]

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The U.S. Climate Extremes Index was just released.  While it should surprise no one who lived through it and/or is somehow connected to reality, here is the NOAA (summary, full report) headline/conclusion: 2012 was warmest and second most extreme year on record for the contiguous U.S. 2012 was a historic year for extreme weather that included […]

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Some might say that those ‘Down Under’ have a competitive streak with Americans — great allies but truly ecstatic when an Aussie beats an American at the Olympics. At times, however, competition can go too far. And, such is the case with the #BigAussieHeat. After the United States set massive numbers of high temperature records […]

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C4 (Catastrophic Climate Chaos Cliff) threatens our future prospects and our ability to create a positive future reality for ourselves and descendents. George Herbert Walker Bush lies at the core of a driving motivation in my life. President Bush was facing a reelection battle against Bill Clinton, and so advisers persuaded him to attend the […]

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The Center for American Progress’ Think Progress website is home for one of the strongest and most widely read climate science / clean energy blogs.  Led by Joe Romm, Climate Progress forcefully enters into climate science discussions and provides excellent material about clean energy progress.  For anyone (especially Americans) concerned about fostering the conditions for […]

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The Washington Post’s Tom Toles well deserved the Pulitzer Prize that he won 22 years ago. And, since then, Toles has regularly demonstrated why he should be in the running for another one year after year … as per yesterday. As with so many other of his cartoons, Toles demonstrates the power of an excellent […]

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A seemingly simple question heading to the end of 2012: What were the most notable climate-related stories of the year? A group led by Greg Laden, interested in climate science, put together a list of notable, often, most worrying, climate-related stories of the year, along with a few links that will allow you to explore […]

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For some reason (hint: Sandy), The New York Times has become a powerful voice in the traditional U.S. media scene when it comes to climate change issues. Worthwhile opinion pieces, over this past weekend, included Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines and Is this the end? Associated with these articles is a powerful graphical tool that shows, […]

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In the event that your nights are too tranquil, might I suggest some bedside reading from the (typically) staid World Bank?  Turn Down the Heat‘s subtitle is tellingly revealing: “Why a 4 Degree C Warmer World Must Be Avoided”.  Bankers — especially international bankers — and banker analysts don’t typically hyperventilate.  This tendency underlines why […]

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