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In discussion of one of my recent posts, Kyril reacted to a questionable question from another commentator with perhaps the clearest differentiation between a science skeptic and denier that I have ever seen. As we seek to inform others about the perils of anti-science syndrome, such a clear (if perhaps sophomoric) differentiation might have value. Kyril’s […]

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This guest post from eOz derived from a response to something that I wrote commenting about how the fires in Colorado and heat records falling across the country seemed to have people thinking climate change. eOz’s thoughts merits a posting of its own. I also work with a variety of clients, many of whom buy […]

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Have humanity driven the climate system beyond the tipping point beyond which preventing catastrophic climate chaos is no longer a viable option? Have emergent catastrophic climate chaos, as evidenced in US wildfires and high temperature records falling like bowling pins, created a tipping point in American public opinion that might enable a movement toward actual […]

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This guest post comes from Magnifico. Shell Oil is on its way right now to a location less than 15 miles from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. “Shell has proposed drilling up to four shallow water exploration wells in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea this summer, beginning on July 1,” Subsea World News reported last month. […]

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This guest post from James Wells provides thinking about islanding and sustainability sparked by a trip to ‘the’ Islands. On the way to catch up with my family on the island, I met Kai, who was the last of the siblings gathering for the imminent end of their father’s voyage.  Although for the most difficult […]

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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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This guest post from the accurately named Magnifico looks at the new USDA map on gardening / planting zones. An updated map that will likely be familiar to anyone who has planted a packet of seeds was presented today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is the first new version of Plant Hardiness […]

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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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