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Prominent elements Republican Party and associated anti-science syndrome sufferers are gleefully (and ignorantly) making jokes about the Washington, DC, area’s record snow levels, using this to confuse people about the realities of Global Warming. The reality of Global Warming is that “warmth” isn’t what all of us will feel with each moment, after all that […]

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The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recently released an informative video: The Power of Scale. What fleet efficiency can do for your company and the planet This video seeks to provide a path to understand that individual actions can add up, inexorably, to something much larger. Just like millions of SUV tailpipes are contributing to driving […]

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This guest post comes from The Green Miles who, with reason, is appalled at the Virginia GOP’s determination to display its anti-science syndrome credentials for all the world to see. [Note: for a related, background, post, see: Cold Weather … the glaring need for context You just had to do it, didn’t you, Republican Party […]

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Recently, I realized that one of the reasons why it is so interesting to focus on energy and climate change issues is the incredibly complexity of issues, interconnections, and feedback patterns/cycles in these interactions. If one is serious in these domains and is even slightly curious in nature, it is essentially impossible to learn something […]

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This guest post from tboggia expresses an outrage over some of President Obama’s words shared by many fighting for a clean-energy future. Right after the State of the Union, young climate activists submitted a question about the President’s remarks on clean energy and crossed their fingers hoping that it would get asked. The smiling faces […]

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Evidently, Osama bin Laden has released his second message in as many weeks. And, this time, bin Laden’s 12th century lens turns, reportedly, to a real 21st century challenge. Osama bin Laden has accustomed us to wacky, destructive, and immoral approaches to the world. When it comes to climate change, bin Laden doesn’t disappoint — […]

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Seeing this makes me think of Frank Luntz and how he worked so hard to twist words into meaningless. From the White House blog: A vision for a clean energy economy “…to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, and more incentives.” We will build on the historic $80 […]

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The “dial” tracking of speeches can be fascinating to watch, seeing how people react in real time to the words, emotions, and themes of a speech or event.  Presidential debates and speeches, the “dial” tracking is an ever-more frequently part of the experience. MoveOn chose to provide real-time web access to a membership ‘dial’. The […]

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From the State of the Union speech, two questions we should ask: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold? The President is challenging Congress to act how Americans expect, that they act to create a structure for tomorrow. You see, Washington has been telling us to wait for […]

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This guest post by the very thoughtful BruceMcF focuses on the public transit / rail version of the need to look beyond stove-pipes to full values for a true cost-benefit analysis. Just like so many fossil fuel costs are externalized (pollution, whether causing cancers or climate change), so too are many transit benefits. Those investing […]

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