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The disappearing Great Lakes Ice

March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on The disappearing Great Lakes Ice

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · guest post

Bipartisan understanding of basic climate reality

February 28th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Despite the panoply of Republican political elite suffering from acute anti-science syndrome (Santorum, Gingrich, Inhofe), a basic reality: A majority of Americans (including a plurality of Republicans) understand that climate deniers are deceivers and disconnected from reality. Earlier today, the Brookings Institution released Belief in Global Warming on the Rebound: National Survey of American Public […]

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Tags: 746 · energy efficiency · Global Warming

Breaking Heartless-news for Valentine’s Day: “Dissuading teachers from teaching science …”

February 15th, 2012 · 20 Comments

An anonymous leaker sent a number of climate-science related bloggers/blog sites a trove of internal documents from libertarian Heartland Institute. While the material points to many nefarious Heartland Institute efforts, such as supporting undermining of Wisconsin’s public education, the most extensive material is about Heartland’s heartless efforts to foster disinformation about climate science, to undermine […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · 2012 Presidential Election · 746 · Abu Dhabi · advertising · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · skeptic

The WSJ 16’s “usual techniques” of vague, disingenuous climate denial arguments

February 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment

This guest post comes from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor of geological sciences at Cornell University.  It was originally posted as a comment to a post at the Dot Earth blog of The New York Times which discussed one angle of The WSJ 16’s climate disinformation OPED.  RE that monstrocity, see Whacking 16 Moles […]

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Tags: analysis · anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · guest post · science · truthiness

Whacking Moles: A Smörgåsbord of Sanity About “The WSJ 16”:

February 5th, 2012 · 3 Comments

As noted in Whacking 16 Moles, flaring anti-science syndrome suffering climate denier and delayer inanities often divert people from valuable and productive activities. Prominent eruptions of this malady, however, drive white-cell like effort to respond and dampen the damage. With the publication of “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”, “The Wall Street Journal 16” […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · science

Progressivism and Ecological Limits

February 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on Progressivism and Ecological Limits

Barath’s guest post provides another way of looking at the reality that Peak Oil and Climate Change are THE Progressive Crises. What is progressivism?  What is it to be a progressive? The history of the concept goes back a few hundred years to the enlightenment, and in one reasonable definition: …the Idea of Progress is […]

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Tags: analysis · environmental · Global Warming

Climate Change info for low info environments

February 2nd, 2012 · 1 Comment

A guest post from James Wells providing some useful ‘basic’ talking points. Sometimes when the topic isn’t overtly about climate change, it really is about climate change, or it should be. Much of the information which influences public opinion appears in connection with articles, discussion threads, tv shows, newspapers, and other media where the headline […]

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Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers · guest post

Sea Ice Death Spiral Driving Atlantic Water into Arctic Causing Wild Weather

January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on Sea Ice Death Spiral Driving Atlantic Water into Arctic Causing Wild Weather

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Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · science

@JonCarson44 responded to my tweets

January 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on @JonCarson44 responded to my tweets

I received a couple notes from Twitter. The official White House blogger, Jon Carson, is now following me and responded to one of my messages. JonCarson44 @A_Siegel thanks for helping me hear from folks about SOTU, getting lots of people talking about clean energy jobs  Jan 09, 8:50 AM via web In reply to… A_Siegel […]

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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · media · Obama Administration · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · republican party · science

Climate Change Goes Away

January 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Global Warming · guest post · journalism · media · weather