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From John Cook at Skeptical Science.com

John Cook, who runs SkepticalScience.com, published this very telling cartoon on his blog recently.

Who are the alarmists now? Ah, yes…

Check out John’s site, he does a good job of examining the most ubiquitous “skeptical” arguments against climate change, then has the audacity to apply those arguments to real science.

Continue Reading Global Warming Alarmism!

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How Big Are Your Feet? Use the Ecological Footprint Calculator from Refinding Progress to find out.Waiting for someone else to do something about climate change is one way to help insure that nothing gets done. All the way from the Bush Administration saying the U.S. can’t do anything to curb its emissions until China and India do something (with China and India pointing the finger right back at us) right down to my own feeling of powerlessness to make any positive change in the face of climate change – my daily life is part of the problem more than it is a cure – and I’m an avowed tree-hugger. Optimism is not always easy.

Continue Reading Carbon Footprints in the Sand…

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Al Gore deputed his new slide show at the TED Conference in Monterey California.

Gore calls for a “generational mission” inspired by the “globally strategic” nature of the climate crises and the urgency of an effective response.

Continue Reading Al Gore: The Audacity of Optimism and Defining a Generation’s Challenge

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Cambridge Energy Alliance - a model of the futureThe discussion of solutions to climate change often turns toward cutting-edge renewable energy technology, hybrids cars, and solar panels, but one of the easiest, most cost effective, and quickest ways to reduce our carbon footprint is simply through greater efficiency of the energy we now use. Much of that energy is used in lighting, heating, and cooling the buildings in which we live and work.

Continue Reading The Cambridge Energy Alliance: Addressing Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, and Jobs for the 21st Century

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On Saturday, March 29 between the hours of 8 and 9PM (local time), individuals, businesses, and local governments will turn off the lights in a global event called Earth Hour. Sponsored by the WWF, Earth Hour is a means of showing global unity toward a common goal of addressing climate change. 

Continue Reading Earth Hour – Climate Change and Global Awareness

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Honestly, if it’s 3 o’clock in the morning at the White House (and the phone isn’t ringing), I hope the next president is getting some sleep. We need a well-rested president.

Continue Reading It’s 3AM in the Whitehouse – What is the Next President Doing About Climate Change and Energy?

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Today I leave to join an Earthwatch team at the Churchill, Manitoba Northern Studies Centre in support of a research project called Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge.

Dr. Peter Kershaw of the University of Alberta is the principal investigator of the project. His research involves monitoring the condition of permafrost and peatland along the arctic treeline where forest transitions into tundra.

Continue Reading Earthwatch: Monitoring Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic

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I posted on James Inhofe’s Senate report listing 400 “prominent” scientists last month. Since then I’ve seen the link to the report (go to my original post for that) posted around on various comments, as if to say “see, global warming isn’t real. James Inhofe (and his gang) say so”.

Continue Reading More on the “James Gang” and his Inhofe 400 List of Climate “Skeptics”

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Amory Lovins is the co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent non-profit organization involved in research and advocacy of market-based solutions to sustainable use of resources and environmental stewardship, best described from their missions statement: “We foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.“

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