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Durban: Putting the Dust into the Dustbin of History?

December 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Durban: Putting the Dust into the Dustbin of History?

This guest post, from Heather Libby in Durban, South Africa, provides a window in thinking as to the gap between the negotiating halls and people suffering from climate chaos a few miles away, the gap between putting happy faces on a problem and choosing to address climate change in a way to reduce its catastrophic […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy

A window for thinking about “the” military and climate change … and the importance of careful discussions

December 6th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Too often, people point to statements and actions by civilian leadership to state “the military” thinks this or that about energy and climate issues. While  the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) spoke of climate change as a national security issue,  the QDR is always a highly political document driven by civilian (political appointee) leadership even with […]

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Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2012 Presidential Election · 746 · Abu Dhabi · advertising · climate change · climate delayers · government energy policy

Green Travel …?

December 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Green Travel …?

One shouldn’t pretend that flying half way around the world to stay in an ‘eco-resort’ somehow merits a Gold Star for heroic climate mitigation action as guest poster Ban Nock explores Green Travel … isn’t. It is hard to think of any form of travel that isn’t harmful to the atmosphere, our ecosystem, and even […]

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Tags: carbon offsets · climate change · emissions

Warming led to Huge Fires & Ecosystem Collapse @ the End Permian

November 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment

This guest post from scientist FishOutOfWater looks at the what might be the closest event in Earth’s history to what humanity, through its ever mounting carbon emissions, is rapidly heading the planet to … The most precise study yet of the the earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · guest post · science

A “China Syndrome” … in a different twist …

November 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on A “China Syndrome” … in a different twist …

No, not a nuclear meltdown but a different form of nuclear option. For many, one of the painful elements of European cap and trade along with other arenas enabling and funding carbon offsets is how it creates opportunity for gamemanship that exaggerate positive impacts and wastes resources. One arena where this has seemed to be […]

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Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2012 Presidential Election · 746 · climate change · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy

International Energy Agency Warns: Last Chance to Protect Humanity’s Future

November 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on International Energy Agency Warns: Last Chance to Protect Humanity’s Future

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Tags: carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy

Reality confronts reality …

September 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Reality confronts reality …

At this time, the Climate Reality program is on a 24-hour long world-wide tour. Organized by (Vice) President Gore, this program moves time-zone by time-zone around the world, laying out the truth of climate science, things that are occurring to help turn the tide on Global Warming’s rising seas, realities of the time zone or […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · climate zombies · Energy · Global Warming · republican party · sarah palin · science · skeptic

Finding another currency …

August 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Finding another currency …

Day in, day out, for two weeks dedicated and impassioned Americans of all creeds, races, (adult) ages, have made a choice that likely would have been thought unthinkable just less then three-years ago when President-Elect Barack Obama stated that climate change mitigation would be the top agenda item for his Administration: they have chosen to […]

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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · Energy · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics

Cool shirt … but what is the carbon (and other pollution) footprint?

August 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Climate Reality project is an interesting concept: > a global day-long event looking to the realities of climate science and climate disruptions impacts (existing and forecast), time zone by time zone. While not surprisingly under attack from the global warming denial machine (GWDM), we can expect that Gore and his team will assemble 24 […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · clothing · government energy policy

Climate Disruption: THE Progressive Crisis!

June 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Sunday, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher asked Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! Smith and Brecher lay out a series of challenges and issues that coalesce […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · peak oil · politics