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A 100 year letter

September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on A 100 year letter

DeSmogBlog has a magnificent project, a call for letters to one’s descendents a hundred years from now. Sharon Moore offered an apology: Most of all I want to tell you I am sorry for how short-sighted we were. I thought I was doing all that I could to leave a good world for you to […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Wall Street Meltdown and a melting globe

September 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Wall Street Meltdown and a melting globe

Global Warming, it is said, offers perhaps both the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced and perhaps the greatest opportunity we’ve ever had. Either we will figure out how to transform society, to a prosperous and sustainable path, or we will fail to do so with dire consequences. When it comes to Global Warming and […]

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Tags: climate change · politics

Global Warming refugees on DC streets

September 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Global Warming refugees on DC streets

Every day, it seems, brings fresh news and fresh images of Global Warming‘s mounting impact on humanity (and human activities), local ecosystems, and the global ecosystem. Just coming across my desk are images of Global Warming refugees appearing in the nation’s capital. These refugees provide dramatic images underlining “how global warming is making polar bears […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · political symbols

White Roofing as Silver Bullet to slay Global Warming?

September 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Reflective roofing has long seemed one of the best geoengineering options to help turn the rising tides of Global Warming. An opportunity to reduce energy use through reduced cooling demand and longer lasting roofs, to improve urban life (and cut energy requirements) by reducing urban heat island impacts, and to contribute to fighting global warming […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · government energy policy

Morphing from Denialist to Skeptic?

September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Morphing from Denialist to Skeptic?

In her ABC interview, Sarah Palin has tried to morph herself from Global Warming denialist to simply being a Global Warming skeptic.

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · sarah palin

Move aside Gore. Move aside Pickens. Google is at the Podium!

September 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

At the Corporate ECOforum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a talk that looks well worth hearing. Schmidt began his talk with a Google Earth heavy discussion “of rising temperatures and government policies that are either speeding up or slowing down climate change.” There’s a total failure of political leadership, at least in the United States, […]

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Tags: alternative energy · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · google · government energy policy · green · renewable energy · solar · wind power

Sarah Palin’s Angry: Global Warming threatens “My Guy’s” hobby

September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sarah Palin’s Angry: Global Warming threatens “My Guy’s” hobby

Beneath her warm and endearing facade, one could suspect that Sarah “Pit Bull with Lipstick” Palin is outraged at the audacity of Global Warming as it threatens the favored sport of Todd “My Guy” Palin.    “My Guy” has won the the “grueling 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog [Pit Bull with Lipstick?]  snowmobile race four times.”  The now […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · john mccain · politics

Calculating John’s Housing Carbon Footprint …

August 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

John McCain makes much noise about his concern for Global Warming, that he views it as real and something that requires action (even if his actions don’t match his words, also). A more prominent activist on Global Warming, Al Gore, has been hit hard for his supposedly excessive energy use at his home being at […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · analysis · carbon dioxide · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming · green · john mccain

McCain campaign strategy working: media reporting “no difference” re Global Warming

August 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on McCain campaign strategy working: media reporting “no difference” re Global Warming

A critical Republican campaign strategy is working when it comes to framing for the November election. Despite actual facts, media reporting increasingly reports that there is no difference of import between John McSame McCain and Barack Obama when it comes to the arenas of energy and Global Warming. Take David Kesterbaum’s NPR report this morning […]

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Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · analysis · barack obama · climate change · Energy · greenwashing · john mccain · politics

A Prosperous, Climate-Friendly Society

July 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments

  Peak Oil. Gas Prices. Global Warming. There are real problems and real threats with terrifying implications that merit response.   Yet, threat and crisis creates opportunity. We have, before us (and the US), an opportunity for transformation. For responding to threat and handling crisis to create something better, to turn to a better path. […]

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Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · environmental · Global Warming