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Around the globe, from little kids playing with friends to premier professional athletes battling for prize money, climate change is increasingly impacting the sports world. Even so, most sports reporting continues to fail to connect the dots between a warming planet and worsening conditions for sports events. Here are several recent examples. PRC Tennis Tournaments […]

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On July 29, the Trump Department of Energy released a deceitful, truthiness-laden broadsheet at odds with basic climate science with significant distortion of what has and is happening in the real-world. This fossil-foolish screed, written by five-handpicked credential climate-science deceivers and deniers, is clearly designed to facilitate the Trump EPA’s July 29th (yes, same day) […]

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Climate change policy and politics has long faced a Catch 22: One of the (many) reasons why “Energy Smart Jeff” Merkley gained my enthusiastic support and fundraising when running (successfully) for Senate in 2008 was his recognition of that Catch 22 and determination to confront it head on. In one conversation (paraphrasing, don’t have the […]

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The Steve Miller Band announced yesterday that it has “cancelled all … upcoming tour dates”: “The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires …” That list certainly seems a smorgasbord of climate crisis fossil-fueled extreme weather events.   The band has assessed the danger “risks for you our audience, the band and […]

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As Hurricane Helene devastates much of the Southeast, hitting hard a state whose governor (and government) has banned the words “climate change” from most official documents, some might be wondering when President Biden will pull out a sharpie and whether nuclear weapons are being discussed in the White House Situation Room. For any failing to […]

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In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]

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When it comes to climate action, the focus is all too often on physical actions (put solar on roof, eat less meat, and so on). These actions are, quite legitimately, examples of what we all can and should be doing but aren’t necessarily the most critical individual action. After voting (at all levels and opportunities) […]

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a true Climate Hawk and has one of the few national-level politicians with an extended record of forcefully speaking about the urgent necessity for serious climate action. One element of this record will close out later today with an impressive record: 279 #TimeToWakeUp speeches to draw attention to the climate […]

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Amid the momentous events of today, President Biden has plans to exhaust his hand signing executive orders (see note below re broken link. note: that is a broken link) to reverse some of Donald Trump’s worse excesses and to start the process of righting the ailing Ship of State. Among these is an item that […]

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A “Climate hawk is [someone] … who work[s] for aggressive steps regarding climate change and clean energy.” Such as, Jay Inslee is a climate Hawk. A Climate Hawk is also a way to describe someone who comes to understanding climate change implications and the necessity for action through a national security lens. A Climate Hawk understands that […]

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