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In response to a post earlier today analogizing 2012 US hot temperature records with the East German women Olympic swimmers on steroids, a frequent commentator and interlocutor had some thoughts about what is ‘appropriate’ behavior for ones who are aware of how serious the situation is when it comes to mounting catastrophic climate chaos. Note […]

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Millions (perhaps billions) around the world hold their breath during Olympic events, watching the seconds fly with their eyes on the “OR” (Olympic Record) and “WR” (World Record) numbers in the corner of the screen. And, moving past the nationalism of “our” (whichever nation’s) athletes, it is a hold the breath amazing moment when a […]

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Senator “Give ‘Em Hell Harry’ Reid (D-NV) sometimes shows a propensity for speaking truths, which is what he did today at the Fifth Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s time for us all – whether we’re leaders in Washington, members of the media, scientists, academics, environmentalists or utility industry executives – to stop […]

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Increasingly, it seems, we need to look to ‘a-traditional media outlets’ like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert for (the most) truthful discussion about the nation’s challenges and opportunities. Rolling Stone, when it comes to catastrophic climate chaos, ranks among the nation’s best media outlets. As, for example, in the recent Bill McKibben powerful piece “Global […]

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Today, a group of the nation’s leading experts on climate science sent a brief letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  The message is simple: include climate change in the review of the Keystone XL pipeline.  From that letter: At the moment, your department is planning to consider the effects of the pipeline on “recreation,” […]

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“Welcome to the rest of our lives“ is the latest video from someone who should be one of the world’s most important videographers, Peter Sinclair (or Greenman3610). Peter has, for years now, focused his efforts on confronting global warming denialism and providing stark evidence of the truth that shows denialist arguments to be deceptive fraud. […]

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A bit unreasonable, considering that the Deseret dominates with the Mormons in Utah, but is there reason to believe that Etch-A-Sketch Mitt Romney and other Mormons would pay more attention to the Salt Lake Tribune than many of the nation’s other leading newspapers? The Tribune‘s 7 July 2012 lead editorial’s title: A Hotter West: Climate […]

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This guest post from eOz derived from a response to something that I wrote commenting about how the fires in Colorado and heat records falling across the country seemed to have people thinking climate change. eOz’s thoughts merits a posting of its own. I also work with a variety of clients, many of whom buy […]

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Have humanity driven the climate system beyond the tipping point beyond which preventing catastrophic climate chaos is no longer a viable option? Have emergent catastrophic climate chaos, as evidenced in US wildfires and high temperature records falling like bowling pins, created a tipping point in American public opinion that might enable a movement toward actual […]

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