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Colorado incinerates, DC blows out: Is it climate disruption?
Did climate disruption cause that particular mess? We have been fiddle-farting around with this wrong question to the point of distraction, if not lunacy. So thank you David Roberts for grabbing the...
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Frog soup
Reality may not be a fashionable messenger. But it is extremely patient. “Still don’t believe in climate change? Then you’re either deep in denial or delirious from the heat,” said Eugene Robinson in...
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Yale says it’s okay: talk about climate.
As I have harangued, it’s wrong and self-defeating to back down from talking about climate. Political candidates and leaders need to level with us. Climate advocates should be explicit about it,...
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Romney and Obama spar for denialist-in-chief
“I had that question for all of you climate change people,” said Candy Crowley, in the post-debate coverage last night. But she didn’t ask it because, “you know, again, we knew that the economy was...
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Frankenstorm: What kind of god?
When his monster came to life, Dr. Frankenstein said in manic derangement: “In the name of God, now I know what it feels like to be a God!” Now, in the wake of Frankenstorm, we know what it feels...
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Fresh hot reality: acid and ice
“This is not speculation,” said Bill Ruckelshaus. “This is chemistry.” Yesterday, a blue ribbon panel appointed by Governor Chris Gregoire and co-chaired by Ruckelshaus and Jay Manning released a...
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“Rethinking wedges”: R.I.P. “BAU”
Wedges speak to me. I bought the original stabilization wedge format for presenting climate solutions hook, line and sinker. At the slightest provocation, I will administer a “wedgie” – or as my...
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The Keystone Principle
The big President’s Day rally on the National Mall is more than a Keystone pipeline protest. It’s a statement of principle for climate action. After a year of unprecedented destruction due to weather...
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Wyoming Governor to White House: Do coal export in the dark
Coal export is kind of like the swimming pool game “Marco Polo”: if you open your eyes, it ruins the whole game. Wyoming Governor Matt Mead emerged as a stalwart defender of the eyes-closed rule last...
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Dear John: Don’t make it worse
Talk swirls about some kind of “deal” for the Keystone XL Pipeline. I don’t see it. Political “realists” say Congress is incapable of passing a serious climate policy, period. That assessment becomes...
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“We can stop this madness”: Philippines climate negotiator begins hunger strike
You can donate to relief efforts for the victims of Haiyan here. And you can do something for the prospective victims of still-preventable climate disasters here. And here.
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Go figure: Giant dirty oil pipeline is a climate problem
Keystone XL could dramatically increase climate pollution. So suggests an important new study from the Stockholm Environment Institute, available here. The authors have identified and fixed a critical...
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Seeing red: temperature change over time and by region
Yap yap yap, it’s what a blog is for I guess. But a good climate science picture is worth at least 997 more yaps. And an animated longitudinal data set, well, there just aren’t enough yaps to compare....
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Rise. Shine. Truth. Jail.
1. 398 young people were arrested yesterday at the White House, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. Jamie Henn of 350.org has a quick dispatch here. “An entire movement has thrown itself into in this...
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Up4Climate#: Senators pull all nighter to talk reality
In a frontal assault on the ecosystem of denial, at least 28 Senators will be up all night tonight, talking about climate. Up4Climate Yakkity-yak, you say, why don’t they do something about it?...
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Why, oming, Why? The “Equality State” goes reality-free
Has truth met its match in the Wyoming Legislature? The State of Wyoming has blocked adoption of the new science standards contained in the national “Common Core” curriculum. The Star-Tribune reports:...
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Must-read landmark in psychology of climate
“What were they thinking?” We invoke this question on behalf of our descendants to shine a certain unforgiving light on the dissonance between our “understanding” of the climate crisis and our...
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