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Would we be doing more to save the planet from global warming if we had better phrasing? Jonathan Watts asks that question at The Guardian when he notes that the only time that governments have been able to overcome their pettiness was when scientists warned about an unexpected “hole in the ozone layer.”
It seemed [...]

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This video explains why scientifically-illiterate scallywags* like Anthony Watts don’t understand climate science and never will. I could include links to dozens sites like CO2 Sceptic, the Global Warming Hoax, but I’d prefer not to give them the traffic.
This fantastic video was created by Theramin Trees!

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* I’m one day late for Talk Like A Pirate [...]

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God bless Greenpeace.
Faced with a multimillion dollar media juggernaut devised by the American Petroleum Institute (API), Greenpeace countered with simplicity and honesty: A grassroots campaign that speaks the truth to power, and turns up the heat on oil executives.
To cut to the chase, last week Greenpeace came to possess an API memo that described an [...]

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All I can think of is that old line from Get Smart, the classic television series.
If only he had used his powers for niceness instead of evil.
This story is about the hardest working man (or woman) in DC. It’s none other than that single employee at Bonner & Associates who was deemed too sleezy [...]

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Imagine our world without literature.
Whenever I can cobble moments together, I write. It’s my first, best thing. I have a middle reader under development that will be a pretty good book once I commit the final chapter to paper. It’s what I do with every stolen minute as we struggle through bankruptcy.
I write because [...]

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I often write that the science supporting global warming is every bit as strong as the science that proves smoking causes cancer. But I then go even further by linking the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, suggesting deeper sins, claiming that oil companies actually stole a page from the tobacco industry by hiring right-wing and [...]

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Don’t forget. Earth Hour is Saturday, March 28, 2009 — between 8:30 and 9:30 pm in your time zone.
Turn out the lights, shut off the power. Light candles. Be quiet and still. Spend the hour with your family. Connect with each other, share stories. Talk.
And then get angry. Get informed. We are staring at [...]

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A few months ago, I was debating Canada’s sorry record on global warming on a CBC message board with dozens of people from across the country. As I wrote, a hurricane was bearing down on Nova Scotia. Several people raged at me, arguing that I was way off topic; I was told that this [...]

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Every so often at One Blue Marble, we’re going to present the Climate Change Double Dumb Ass Award to the man or woman who does something really moronic during the previous week.
Truth to tell, every seven days brings dozens of potential winners… Politicians who put personal gain before the welfare of their constituents… Columnists who [...]

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