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This is a follow-up discussion from mwmwm to his thought-provoking “The End of the Beginning of the Collapse“. “The End of the Beginning of the Collapse” addressed some conflicting economic-analysis diaries by bonddad and bobswern about “the end of the end of the Recession.” I made the case that a real economy operates within a […]

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Notable (notorious) climate skeptic Anthony Watts has made much of looking at scientists work and seemingly showing where there problems with that work. Evidently, however, he has some concerns when he faces such a look; perhaps because that look provided a clear and accessible demonstration of the shallowness of Watts’ claims. A recent video by […]

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This guest post comes from mwmwm, who is found normally at ApocaDocs. This is a powerful, must read, discussion about the seriousness of the “convergence of emergencies” that we, as a society and a species, face in the coming years and decades. This morning, I started my day with a coffee cup and DailyKos, intrigued […]

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After highlighting the absurdity of Senator Claire McCaskill’s comments re Global Warming in Twitting Claire and To Twit Claire, a musing step back contemplation. Putting aside simply doing the right thing, recognizing the science, taking the Energy Smart path, and fighting to convince her voters that she’s right as she seeks to put the nation […]

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40 years ago, today, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It had been just over eight years earlier when a young President John F Kennedy walked into the House of Representatives and made the call to go to the moon. We choose not to go to the moon […]

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Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon) has misused the power of his chairmanship and, now, Ranking Minority status on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee to expend taxpayer resources on distorting, misleading, and outright deceiving when it comes to scientific issues, most notably in relation to questions of Global Warming. One of the most infamous […]

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Let’s face facts, to far too many, for far too long, “environmentalism” has seemed a lilly-white activity, something for people with enough resources to engage in caring about the environment. And, in some ways, there is some truth to this perspective. As Jerome Ringo put it in I joined the Louisian WIldlife Federation in 1991. […]

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Expect lots of global warming denier screaming headline titles about a new paper on climate modeling and the press release on it from Rice University.  The title of that press release: Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong Unknown processes account for much of warming in ancient hot spell “Global warming: Our best guess […]

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The Waxman-Markety American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) targets for renewable energy and climate emissions reductions are, to put it simply, far from what they should be. And, let’s put aside “should be”, they are far weaker than they could be. Let’s stick with 2020 targets for a moment. The bill, as passed by the […]

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Amid many frustrations re the American Climate Energy & Security (ACES) Act (climate legislation), it is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard when people say “it will only cost X” (“just a postage stamp a day”). There is celebratory discussion of CBO and EPA numbers showing very low costs, seemingly useful to counter R […]

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