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This is another guest post from BruceMcF, whose ideas on transportation (mainly, but not solely rail) merit heeding. See Burning the Midnight Oil. Well how the frack d’ya like me now? I’m not going to say “toldya so”, since many who will be reading this diary said much the same during the “Drill, Baby, Drill” […]

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A guest post from Mark Louis who has begun a very useful habit of preparing Alternative Energy Roundups on a roughly weekly basis. Lamar Advertising Co. in Florida is making advertising a green enterprise: Lamar Advertising Co. will start retrofitting all billboards across Florida with wind and solar energy systems. The company intends to complete […]

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This guest post comes from the thoughtful, passionate, and eloquent Sara Robinson, who blogs at Campaign for America’s Future. Sara lays out passionately and strongly why we must seize the moment to tackle our carbon addiction. George W. Bush — who knew a thing or two about addiction — was right about one thing: America […]

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AENN’s correspondent Rei reports from AE New Orleans about a disastrous event in the AE Gulf of Mexico. AE Lousiana residents are bracing today for the arrival of an electricity slick spreading across the Alternate Gulf of Mexico after efforts to hold it at bay proved largely unsuccessful.

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While remaining uncertain as to just how bad it is, the concerns that KGL will cross the line from mediocrity to counterproductive are increasing. Here is a guest post from Craig Altemose laying out how he sees that line having already passed. For the past year and a half or so, I have been largely […]

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This guest post comes from DCoronata covering a quite important set of issues on feedback systems, starting off with some basic education and ending with basic (and critical) questions.    There are so many tangible and complicated parameters to our planet’s climate that after centuries of examination and decades of high-level accurate predictions about what […]

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This guest post from chparadise provides some important information about the climate ‘state of play’. While the focus has (rightfully) been on HCR, climate change news hasn’t been fully dead. In fact, it may have been easy to miss a couple notes: 2010 is very likely to be the hottest year on record. This was […]

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This guest post from Patriot News Daily Clearinghouse turns a critical eye toward Senator Feinstein’s efforts to rewrite long-standing California water policy.  It then turns to some great links re climate and environmental issues. The only benefit to Sen. Feinstein’s new measure to unilaterally rewrite California water policy might be to galvanize enough Democrats to […]

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This guest post comes from The Green Miles who, with reason, is appalled at the Virginia GOP’s determination to display its anti-science syndrome credentials for all the world to see. [Note: for a related, background, post, see: Cold Weather … the glaring need for context You just had to do it, didn’t you, Republican Party […]

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This guest post by the very thoughtful BruceMcF focuses on the public transit / rail version of the need to look beyond stove-pipes to full values for a true cost-benefit analysis. Just like so many fossil fuel costs are externalized (pollution, whether causing cancers or climate change), so too are many transit benefits. Those investing […]

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