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Trump’s inane rejection of climate science (and, well, fundamental statement that he is clueless about the most basic concepts of science and the scientific method) are well known, provide a comedic statement about what has become core Republican dogma, and sadly occupy the Oval Office. In all seriousness, it seemed on 5 November 2016 that […]

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The turn-around of U.S. fossil fuel energy fortunes has been stunning over the past fifteen years. From a general (not universal, but general) understanding that the U.S. had passed peak natural gas and that the globe was facing eminent peak oil, the general (not universal, but general) perspective is that U.S. natural gas supplies are […]

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The video below provides a year’s worth of high and low temperature records globally. In 2018, across all these sites, there was about a two-to-one skewing of high vs cold temperature records. Writ large, over time, there should be a rough balance between these. With humanity’s thumb on the scales, with a warming climate, monitoring […]

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Just as the military considers climate change a threat multiplier increasing risks and threats around the world, making its job(s) harder to accomplish with every passing year, so too businesses of all shapes and flavors should view climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ creating risks that require attention to maintain continued viability. News today about […]

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While the pace is picking up, it is a simple truth that too few U.S. politicians speak to their constituents about climate change in meaningful ways. Thus, to start with, a mark of appreciation for politicians who do make the effort to speak to their constituents to educate them and seek to mobilize them to […]

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Paris is burning and the Wall Street Journal editorial page is gleeful in its misrepresentation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) flames. Along with so many others in the fossil-foolish climate-science denial cabal, the WSJ editorial page is asserting that the flames are about rejecting efforts to address climate change. It is all about, for the […]

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You don’t have to be that old to remember when fishing in Virginia meant searching for a body of water rod and reel in hand. This is changing as, with sea level rise, streets are increasingly flooded with ‘moon tides’ or in storm events where it didn’t occur (or less frequently) in the past. A […]

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On Thanksgiving eve, Trump (yet again) tweeted out idiocy related to climate change, demonstrating (yet again) his arrogant ignorance on the most critical issue facing humanity. 34 other times Donald Trump tweeted his ignorance about how weather works https://t.co/dq54sqoAkm pic.twitter.com/aUEGRMS0h8 — Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) November 22, 2018   Sigh … Pulling hair out … when things written in […]

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Youth climate activists didn’t put their passion away last Tuesday evening at the end of balloting. The likely next Speaker of the House, who has indicated that (a) there will be recreation of a Climate-focused committee but (b) climate won’t be top of the agenda, has a few hundred passionate, knowledgable Sunrise Movement activists pounding […]

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Erev Yom Kippur’s Virginia Climate Crisis Forum (full event video) featured Senate candidates Senator Tim Kaine (D) and his climate-science-denying opponent, Corey Stewart (R).  The several hundred (perhaps 400) attendees heard Kaine give a reasoned set of comments about climate science and policy issues. They also, unfortunately, suffered through deceitful commentary from fossil-foolish Stewart, who basked in […]

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