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This is another excellent guest post by Muskegon Critic … Lake Michigan and Huron are within a couple inches of breaking all time low water levels on record, and now climate change is emerging as the leading cause. It works like this: warmer weather –> less ice cover in the winter –> more evaporation [We’re […]

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Starting at 8 pm (east coast) tonight, starting in New York City, Al Gore is running another “24 Hours of Reality” — bringing searing (and searingly accurate) discussions of climate disruption reality, from a global perspective and, hour-by-hour, regional discussions. Whether scorched by hot temperature records, burned out of home by wild fires, sitting in […]

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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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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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To the right is the Utne November-December 2012 issue cover (drawn and released prior to Hurricane Sandy). The cover refers to the “Confronting Climate Change” section with the following articles: Time to Get Crazy We might be doomed by climate change, but we should fight anyway by Chris Hedges, from TruthDig This Crisis Needs A Movement […]

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While far from the ‘breaking news’ MTV created with a “boxers vs briefs” question to Bill Clinton, MTV interviewer Sway Calloway did what journalist moderators at the three presidential and one vice-presidential debates were unable (unwilling) to do: ask a quite serious question about climate change. Until this year global climate change has been discussed […]

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National Defense, the magazine of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), has this banner headline at this time: The November issue’s lead article:  Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade.  Reading that article suggests, in comparison with the uninspired question arenas for next week’s Presidential debate on foreign policy, that National Defense […]

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Take a moment with this guest post from Joylette. The scientific consensus about climate change (it’s happening, people are causing it, if we don’t fix it a lot more people are going to get hurt) is pretty straightforward, and there is no reason accepting that much should be a partisan issue.  Nevertheless, finding a high-profile Republican, […]

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We all have too many things to do in the day … and there are only so many hours (or minutes) that can be given over to watching others rather than doing ourselves. However, here is 12 minutes that is truly worth watching (okay, truly worth listening to). Bill McKibben is incredibly articulate and informed. […]

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This guest post comes from Professor Scott Mandia. Professor Mandia addresses the significant discussion of climate change issues driven by moderator Jim Lehrer’s probing questions during the first 2012 Presidential debate. “The first role of the federal government is to keep the American people safe.” President Barack Obama “We have a responsibility to protect the […]

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