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Sparked by the White House’s thoughtful (and wonderfully hilarious and must read) rejection of the petition to build a Death Star (by 2016), actor Mark Ruffalo has posted a White House petition calling for a declaration of war on Climate Change. I just started a petition. Let’s declare War On Climate Change. Figured if the […]

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This coming Tuesday, 15 January 2013, an interfaith coalition will hold a “Pray-In for the Climate” in front of the White House. (Yes, sadly, this will be in front of the White House rather than in it even though this is the sort of “Prayer Breakfast” that the President (and family) should join as part […]

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This infographic comes from Get Up Australia and is from here. For a printable version. The hottest average maximum temperature ever recorded across Australia – 40.33 degrees, was set on Monday surpassing the old record of 40.17 °C set in 1976. (Bureau of Meteorology) The number of consecutive days where the national average maximum daily […]

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Sadly, as this guest post from Australia by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky reminds us, the United States is not the only nation under siege by Anti-Science Syndrome Haters Of a Livable Economic System in positions of political power. Australia is experiencing the mother of all heat waves. Records are tumbling everywhere: For the first time in […]

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With 1998 either being the hottest or one of the hottest (dependent on which temperature record set one works with) years in recorded history, a constant refrain has been “there has been no warming since …” (or, for awhile, since 1998 was such a peak (aberration), ‘there has been cooling’).  That number has been extending […]

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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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