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How bad is it?  Well, we don’t know but Cyclone Sidr has hit Bangladesh hard. 

Let me put it clearly, as per Chris Mooney,  Bangladesh needs our help.

Now, this is the immediacy of the problem of in Bangladesh. But, in addition, there are the long-term threats related to Global Warming in Bangladesh which, among other things, increase the vulnerability of this country to cyclones (which Global Warming might worsen/increase).  Bangladesh is, well, perhaps the canary in the coalmine in terms of nations that will be devastated by Global Warming.

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Environmental Defense is calling on us (US) to write to Congress to demand legislative action on Global Warming.

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The saga continues. 

As it stands now, the Liberman-Warner Climate Security Act provides a secure financial environment for historic polluters and secures little else. It has inadequate targets to prevent catastrophic climate change.  It hands away $100s of billions, impoverishing the average American for the favor of giving handouts to polluters. And, in giving away that money, it empties the bank of funds that could be used to achieve a better future.

And, well, Environmental Defense is going to the mat, going to bat with millions of dollars to secure passage of this inadequate bill.  As per NY Times reporting, ED is going to get Gov Ahnold (R-CA), Gov Huntsman (R-Utah) and Gov Brian Schweitzer (D-Montana) on airwaves across the country to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans to support this inadequate answer to the challenges facing the nation and the globe.

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A research team at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara is conducting a survey about buying habits, focusing on questions related to environmentally friendly products. …

to help understand consumer preferences and behaviors regarding environmentally-friendly product selection.

Well, time to go take that survey and put my five cents into the discussion 

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Senator Sanders has provided a strong statement about Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act’s lack of security for the climate.

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Well, just by the picture, I thought it was a stylish way to cool myself at the old ball game. Instead, Hymini is a way to power up my Blackberry when riding my bike or otherwise off-grid.

The Hymini is micro-wind universal charger/adapter for recharging ‘digital gadgets’.   The Hymini stores the power collected, which can also be from a wall plug or solar power.

And, well, you can make it work when skiing, biking, sailing, running, or simply sitting enjoying an evening breeze. 

Cool, truly Energy Cool.

Hat tip to .

Andrew Revkin, at the New York Times, who I generally find very much worth reading, has a dousy today.  In a review of three global warming books, Revkin speaks of Bjorn Lomborg as a “centrist” and discusses his book without suggesting that there any factual errors or how truthiness runs roughshod over the truth. He similarly glosses over the serious problems with Newt Gingrich’s Contract on the Earth.  Nordhaus and Shellenberger (Breakthrough) are discussed between Newt and Lomborg, and thrown into the same camp with Lomborg.

Revkin seems caught into a journalistic model of balancing, of having the right and the left, and if, well, writers are somewhere between these “poles”, they are centrist — irregardless of minor little issues like fidelity to facts and representing truth, rather than pandering truthiness.

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For nearly a month, a group of bloggers (including, in a minor way, me) have sought to brought visibility to the havoc and pain that mountain top removal are causing through much of the Appalachians in 30 Days to Save the Mountains. Havoc and pain that is not justifiable on energy requirements, economic, social, health, environmenal nor any other grounds other than raw greed by those seeking as much cash, as soon as possible, heedless of the long-term impacts and blind (in many cases) to the viable (and lucrative) options already available on the table.

 In the latest installment, I highly recommend Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse‘s Bush’s Appalachian War.

Andrew Revkin, at the New York Times, who I generally find very much worth reading, has a dousy today.  In a review of three global warming books, Revkin speaks of Bjorn Lomborg as a “centrist” and discusses his book without suggesting that there any factual errors or how truthiness runs roughshod over the truth. He similarly glosses over the serious problems with Newt Gingrich’s Contract on the Earth.  Nordhaus and Shellenberger are discussed between Newt and Lomborg, and thrown into the same camp with Lomborg. 

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The train is bearing down.

The pluming smoke.

The threat is real.

But the threat is for tomorrow.

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