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Pres Obama steps out to wave down the run-a-way climate train!

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It was a little bit of a surprise that Obama stepped up as forcefully about taking on climate change as he did. Check out this post by Peterman at Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-peterman/state-of-the-union_b_2674448.html Many environmentalists are going to complain that this is not enough, but it really is better to start late than even much much later. As Peterman shows, it looks like we are aiming for 6+ degrees C, not the 2+C that many people were…

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Better BTU Blog: Global Climate Change Summit Brings Questions of America’s Role in Reversing Carbon Trends

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Better BTU Blog: Global Climate Change Summit Brings Questions of America’s Role in Reversing Carbon Trends: Great article on the point that no government is leading on sustainability, at least in terms of those countries that count, namely the US, China and maybe India. It is amazing and surprising that conservation and energy efficiency (EE) efforts don’t move forward even without any government assistance or encouragement. A kilowatt or gallon never used is one that…

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Rising ocean acidity tips delicate balance | TBO.com

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Rising ocean acidity tips delicate balance | TBO.com: There are lots of reasons to be concerned about rising ocean acidity. If it kills one year’s generation of oysters, that is disquieting. If it starts to kill of the next year, and the next year, that is a disaster. The kill off of the ocean reefs, pretty much world-wide, is in part because of ocean acidifciation. An estimate of 10% of ocean reefs are dead with…

Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped… Ice cold debate

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Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped | Environment | guardian.co.uk: The Guardian comes back with a strong argument against the David Rose article in the Daily Mail on Oct 20, 2012.  David argues that there has been only a very small increase in global surface temperatures for the 16 years ending in 2011. Not as much, certainly, as expected, by forecasts. First, no one anywhere can deny climate…

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’