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As the world’s attention is absolutely not riveted on the international climate change talks underway in Doha, take a look to the right (full size table after the fold) for a simple reality:  the developed world has more than five times the resources going to financially-related dirty energy subsidies than it is spending in climate […]

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Several days ago, my email burned with a weather notice from a Republican that I do pay serious attention to: Republican meteorologist Paul Douglas. This email was a weather alert: Midday Update. The major storm we’ve been tracking for northern California and Oregon is still on track, several waves of very heavy rain (and mountain […]

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This post comes from a scientist who finds himself to be a Fish Out Of Water.  In a related story, see When it comes to SLR, conservatism is (unrealistic) optimism Hurricane Sandy and a series of noreasters have combined with an apparently unprecedented one year jump in sea level to cause a wave of destruction […]

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JamesS had an interesting turn of phrase amid a discussion of the need for a national smart grid with significant change to management of our electrical system. Patch work is great for quilts and old jeans — not so great for a 21st century Electric Utility system. This caught my attention, the word paints a […]

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Ever had late night urges that your fuel simply isn’t dirty enough to penetrate into your darkest corners? If so, Canada has the fuel for you. And, recognizing the lure of dirty energy, there is now a number to call: the Tar Sands hotline. Did you know that unextracted tar sands, just like unmarried single […]

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Last week, the Climate Reality Project (Al Gore) ran a 24 event on “Dirty Weather”. Here, in a few minutes, is a foot-tapping musical outline of why climate change is such a challenge and what we must do in the face of climate reality. It is the only Earth that we’ll ever have … This […]

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This evening, PBS will start broadcasting the latest of film documentarian Ken Burns’ treatises on significant periods and issues of American history. THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away […]

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While there are many celebratory discussions and pronouncements about reduced U.S. emissions due to natural gas displacing coal, some voices caution that all may not be as it seems.  There is a hidden problem that may — or may not — be within the accounting.  Errant methane may blow away the claimed greenhouse gains from […]

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This guest post comes from Muskegon Critic. Put away the shine and the polish. Put away the talking heads and their excellent hair and confidence opining with a certainty that is inversely proportional to their accuracy. Give me a guy with callouses on his hands speaking from the heart, a woman speaking from experience, the […]

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In his 14 November press conference, President Obama took a serious question about climate change. Amid his response, So what I’m going to be doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a conversation, a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can […]

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