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“We’re screwed” is the banner headline in today’s New York Post focused on Climate Change, highlighting the risks that study (74 page pdf) after study after study show New York faces in coming years and decades in the face of unchecked catastrophic climate change. The New York City Panel on Climate Change, led by an […]

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The falsehoods, errors, and misrepresentations in discussions of climate change and energy issues within the US debate are almost too numerous to count. They range from the most shallow (“CO2 is necessary for life, how can you call it to pollution.”) to “reports” and books of 100s of pages which require close reading of the […]

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What follows is a guest post (the quotation material), with some commentary, from Stranded Wind who has a major focus on finding routes for solutions and opportunities amid the perfect storm of economic problems, peak oil (and other resource constraints), and global warming.  One of the streams of discussion, with various degrees of urgency and […]

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A guest post from Warren Senders, providing a window on how one man is taking his own skills to help raise awareness about Global Warming and why 350 is the most important number in the world. If you’re in the Boston, MA, area come 24 October, perhaps this is an event that might interest you. […]

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Carbon offsets should trouble anyone concerned about climate change.  Whether on a personal, business, or community/nation level, even when they work, they act almost as a form of indulgence: paying someone else resources as a means to make up for your own failures and problem creation.  As we consider climate change challenges, this sort of […]

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The world is at 390 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 and 430+ CO2 equivalent. The IPCC has concluded, in what might actually be an optimistic assessment, that we can limit temperature growth to 2 degrees if we cap CO2 levels at 450 ppm. That is, limiting to 450 ppm would give us a 50% […]

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The news in France: a 14 Euro (about $19.90 at current exchange rates) tax per ton of carbon to go into effect in 2010. While discussion of a carbon tax has been an item of debate within French society, Prime Minister Fillon’s announcement of the actual amount and the parameters of the coming have created […]

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We live in a “time of consequences.” We, as individuals and collectively, are setting the path which will determine the living conditions for millenia to come.  This time of consequences is both long term and quite immediate. This is true for the individual. Do you invest in an energy efficient future life? Will you unplug […]

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This is a guest post from Kate Horner, international climate and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, taking a look at the oft-used line “China pollutes more than the U.S.” and “if we act, it will give China an advantage” and … Well, go ahead and read it … International negotiators are in Germany […]

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Shocklingly unreported by most of the nation’s media, easily 100 people collapsed outside Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center.  Exact numbers are hard to come by,  but this tragic moment sends a signal of a much larger catastrophe that will kill millions and, without action, billions in the years to come.  The bodies on the ground […]

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