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“Coal’s assault on human health”
While the denialosphere is shouting about “ClimateGate” and traditional media turn their attention to SwiftHack, the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that should be on the front page of every newspaper, discussed passionately on every talk show, and be ...
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SwiftHack Scandal: What You Need to Know
This guest post from Josh at Enviroknow is the most comprehensive and organized post about ClimateGATE that has emerged to date. Josh will be updating this excellent reference document here. First of all, this story should never have been called ClimateGate. Given the similarities between this ...
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Tips for the Job Summit: Can we say Clean Energy Jobs?
This guest post comes from Devilstower and is relevant for thinking about Clean Energy Jobs that should result from the Jobs Summit and a coming jobs bill. Meteor Blades has already written a well-researched and authoritative article on the job summit. So consider this one the completely ...
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Large majority of Americans rejecting massively funded disinformation conspiracy
Despite the $100s of millions (and likely more accurately, $billions) of resources expended on disinformation, mediocre reporting by the mass media, and the active embrace of falsehoods as part of political manipulation by many of a political party’s leadership, the vast majority of ...
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Energy Bookshelf: Contemplating A “World Without Ice”
We ever so casually talk of Arctic ice retreats, the potential for Greenland ice meltage, and the implications of Antarctic ice mass falling due to global warming. Centimeters or inches, those 2100 implications seem so remote and, well, insignificant to most. Henry Pollack’s A World ...
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“Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners”
This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners: $50 million per year for 9,000 jobs Coin-operated ...
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“The enemy is physics …”
Courtesy of Grist, Bill McKibben speaks out forcefully.
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Theory, hypotheses, and the like: a scientist’s take
For too many Americans, a ‘theory’ is a casual thing like ‘I have a theory as to where I lost the keys.’ They then translate this casual understanding, mentally, when they hear “Theory” referencing science without truly understanding the import of the word. ...
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Dark, Cold, Wet Copenhagen and Global Warming
There are people who are expert at framing. Put Ronald Reagan (or Barack Obama or any politician) before the flag with an impressive backdrop and the scene amplifies the message. Global Warming … Global Climate Change … The key December meeting is to be held where? Dark, cold, wet, ...
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Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain
This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 5000 ...
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ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy!
ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy!
getenergysmartnow.com — I apologize. This post corrects something written yesterday. ClimateGATE reveals nefarious conspiracy? NOT! asserted that the hacked... emails from a leading global warming (climate change) science center did not reveal some form of conspiracy in the ... (more) ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy!
Clean Energy Jobs Take The PHE-School Bus
This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Take the PHE-School Bus: $100 million per year for 2,000 jobs There are  ...
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ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy? NOT!
Roaring through the denialosphere are claims that “Climategate” somehow represents “the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’”. Sigh. What do we see in these emails? There seem to be some strong anger at those who work hard to distort ...
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Clean Energy Jobs Go To the Market
This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Go the Market: $4 billion year for 80,000 jobs In too many grocery stores across ...
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Clean Energy Jobs Go to School
This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. America’s public schools are, in some cases all too literally, falling apart. Analyses of ...
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George Will will write about this, right? “cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth”
A two degree centigrade warming of the globe above pre-industrial levels would have serious, some might say devastating, effects across the globe, with a range of serious consequences from weather disruptions to increased droughts (and floods) to extinctions to … It is not a pretty ...
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Green Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me
Official unemployment is above 10 percent in America. Real un- and under-employment nears 20 percent. There is a reason that President Obama will hold a jobs summit and there is reason that members of Congress are speaking of a jobs bill. Ealier this year, Congress passed a stimulus package. It ...
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To Twit Claire: We Pay You to Do “Really, Really, Really Hard Things”!
Dear Claire, Perhaps the American public, who are paying your salary (and your health insurance and your retirement), might think that your job is to work on the hard and important problems that require addressing. Emotions can fly high when dealing with hard and important problems. And, hard ...
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“Me too! Me too! ME TOO!” Climate problem, climate solution
1 minute to save the world is a short film competition about climate change that has aimed to create a platform for people all over the world, particularly young people, to get their messages out about climate change and to put those messages directly to the global leaders and decision makers in ...
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Obama Admin looking to Cash for Caulkers?
Alliterative titles often have power. “Cash for Clunkers” just rolled off the tongue and the program helped cars roll off dealers’ lots, providing a tangible economic boost while also (somewhat) providing a bump to automotive fuel efficiency. “Cash for Caulkers” ...
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