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The Republican Migration from Peacock to Zombie

September 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Sadly, with each day, Republican Anti-Science Syndrome suffering is becoming ever more pronounced. While the attacks on science, scientific institutions, and scientific authority go well beyond this, Republican politicians are increasingly divorced from scientific institutions and knowledge in the realm of climate science. There are, it seems, too basic groupings to consider: Climate Zombies and […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party

Unpublished letters: Wrong facts supporting wrong conclusions

September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Unpublished letters: Wrong facts supporting wrong conclusions

WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]

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Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · unpublished letters

Does HOA stand for Hatred of America?

September 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Does HOA stand for Hatred of America?

The United States faces many challenges in setting a path forward to a prosperous and sustainable future.  Among the most intractable are semi-hidden rule sets that inhibit people and institutions from making the Energy Smart choice.  To be able to move forward to a lower-polluting, healthier, sustainable, and more prosperous path, those Energy Smart choices […]

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Tags: energy smart · environmental

Line dry clothing: an “uncivilized” energy smart choice?

September 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Amid their enthusiastic embrace of western consumer technologies, increasingly affluent Chinese are leaving one appliance behind: clothes dryers.  According to Washington Post front-page reporting, For reasons practical as well as cultural, most Chinese consumers simply don’t like clothes dryers. Don’t want them. Don’t trust them. Won’t buy them. And even when they have them around, […]

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Tags: China · clothing · eco-friendly · Energy · environmental · Washington Post

Unpublished letters: Recognizing Jim Hansen

September 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on Unpublished letters: Recognizing Jim Hansen

WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · unpublished letters · Washington Post

Stupid Goes Viral: The Climate Zombies of the New GOP

September 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments

R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post highlights the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican candidates for Congress. An utter disdain for science, openly using truthiness-laden talking points that are simply false. To […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party

Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure

September 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure

WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · journalism · unpublished letters · Washington Post

Expensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy

September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on Expensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy

Let us face a simple fact: no matter how good we get at mitigating climate change, climate chaos and damage from human-driven global warming will get worse before it gets better.  We might have control over how bad and influence on the impacts of the disrupted climate system, but the situation will get worse than […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · guest post

A window on France: The World’s Planet Page

August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This summer represented the longest vacation in over a decade, three weeks spent in the homes of relatives and friends in France driven, in part, by a serious illness in the family. This time, often with (extremely) limited web access, provided some breathing space, too much weight gain with excellent food, and provided some windows […]

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Tags: environmental · EU · France · journalism

Senate Climate Change inAction: Postmortem thoughts continued …

August 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on Senate Climate Change inAction: Postmortem thoughts continued …

The abysmal failure for US Senate movement forward on climate change mitigation legislation has many fathers and mothers, many to blame. And, the blame game is moving around … along with lots of CYA discussions. To a certain extent, the pointing fingers and ‘who me’ exercises can get a bit exaggerated because while there is […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

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