NASA GISS: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming. (It’s perception, Toto)

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NASA GISS: Research News: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming: Op Ed: We must stop rolling the dice on Global Warming.  (1 page) Full Paper/Presentation: Perception of climate change. (5.8 mb, PDF) James Hansen (& Soto & Ruedy, 2012) from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Exploration just completed a big study on world temperature change. This research uses simple, straight forward stats, and our friendly bell-shaped curve from elementary statistics. (It doesn’t use…

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Advocacy: Sustainability a 3 part harmony series

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Advocacy: Sustainability: Check out this 3 part series on Sustainability. Part 1 talks about “What if they are right?” Part 2 addresses “How we liver our lives?” Part 3 takes on “A plan for the interim period?” Basically, what are we gonna do right here, right now. These are pretty long articles so sit back with a good late’ and let it rip. ‘via Blog this’

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“Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause Of Climate Change” Richard Muller Former Climate Change Denier – YouTube

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“Humans Are Almost Entirely The Cause Of Climate Change” Richard Muller Former Climate Change Denier – YouTube: This is a very interesting video/news from MoxNews. The Exxon Valdez has an oil spill, has a name change, has a name change, has a shipwreck, has a name change, and is now being dismantled/retired. The wreck, by any other name, is still Valdez. NatGas +/-  . . . Not so sure about the Frac’ng story… But hang in…

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Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store… If Idea can do it…?

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Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store | TBO.com: Well, if Ikea can do it, why can the rest of us. Solar on the roof-tops of buildings (stores and homes) seems like a great way to start cutting back on traditional electricity (~45% coal). It shouldn’t take a Swedish company to tell us (show us, really) what we should be doing to become more sustainable. Check out their 2011 Sustainability Report.  They are doing…

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DOW’s Solutionism. !:-)

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Dow Solutionism: This is a very cool concept from DOW. Solutionism… Kinda a cure for consumerism, where it’s all about how much you can consume in your lifetime. Maybe this should be one of the cures for consumerism, one of the great Social Irresponsibilities? Interesting idea. Work backwards from each problem — and the associated solutions to them — into helping address the root cause of the original problem. Generally we tend to symptom solutions, not real…

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Social Irresponsibility: Energy and the cost of carbon

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These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. There are three things that are prominently in the news about carbon emissions and addressing them in June of 2012. These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. Australia is opening up a Carbon Tax at $23 per ton. They are adjusting from the mistakes of Europe when they started cap and trade at…