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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Onwards and Upwards « The Leadership Campaign I will not lie to you. This week has been extremely difficult. We started out this campaign with full force and optimism. It was our assumption everyone had a forest fire under their asses ready to take on global climate disruption at whatever cost. It seems, and correct me if I’m wrong, but most people aren’t there yet. We have so many...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Bo Webb Bo Webb (right) with James Hansen (left) at a Coal River protest last summerPhoto: Antrim CaskeyDear Mr. President: I write to you in a moment of urgency. In your address at MIT last week, you told students that the “Pentagon has declared our dependence on fossil fuels to be a security threat.” Here in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, our mountain communities face a security...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Ian Plimer Audio (1 hour) 10.24.2009 Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
UK congratulates RP on climate change act but... British Embassy Charge d'Affaires Colin Crorkin noted the challenges posed by climate change can be seen in an online map the UK launched. "(Cyclones) Ondoy (Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma) gave us a glimpse of what's in store for us if we neglect climate change," he said. Sanders leads climate change [hoax] meeting U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,...
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Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Legendary author of the Whole Earth Catalog has a new book A radio jingle asks the rhetorical question, “If you remember the 60s, you weren’t there,” which is an inside out joke on the reality altering nature of the decade. Stewart Brand became one of the icons of the era with his ground breaking book ‘The Whole Earth Catalog” which helped readers cope with the ordinary...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Climate Change: The Resilience Option (far better than climate stasis) — MasterResource This focus on creating climate stasis has led to policy proposals that would have been laughed at or dismissed as wacky conspiracy theories in the 1980s. But mainstream anti-climate-change activists are proposing nothing less than the establishment of global weather control through energy rationing, regulations,...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
by Russ Walker Tim Flannery says the U.S. Senate absolutely must pass some form of carbon cap before the Copenhagen talks in December.Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science JournalistsDon’t let the perfect be the enemy of the absolutely essential. That’s the message author and climate campaigner Tim Flannery brought to Grist’s Seattle office today. By that, he means: The U.S....
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
EU plays climate-change [fraud] poker “When the Americans discuss their agreement on Copenhagen or (emissions trading), one big argument is that if they don’t do it fast enough, the EU will continue to have the advantage because we had the prudence to move in this direction,” Dimas said. The Reference Frame: NASA GISS at Tom's diner ...James Hansen's and Gavin Schmidt's offices are...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy 350reasons.org350.org is taking a big-tent approach to activism on its International Day of Climate Action this Saturday, inviting anyone who wants to help to join a climate-change demonstration, or create one of their own. That open invitation means not everyone will be pushing the same message. In fact, a trio of groups will use the day, and the number 350, to highlight...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Early freeze puts winemakers in rush to crush | Spokesman.com | Oct 16, 2009 Greg Lipsker, co-founder of Barrister Winery in Spokane , found himself in a cold vineyard near Pasco just after midnight Tuesday waiting to rescue wine grapes from last weekend’s freeze. He was part of a frenzy that overtook the wine-growing region of Washington this week as growers and wine makers hustled to harvest...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
by Andrée Zaleska On a recent work day at the JP Green House, volunteers came out of the woodwork.Leise JonesOne of the early effects of climate change was the demise of my marriage. I was living a comfortable, middle-class life that was all wrong for my politics, and my essential devotion to simplicity. At some point in my mid-twenties I had gotten nervous, and opted for the safety of a life...
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greenormal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Numbers are important in creating climates for change. Especially countdowns and the notion of approaching limits. For instance the Y2K bug meme persuaded governments and businesses to take urgent action because of a countdown to 00:00:00:2000. There was a common understanding that at this time, if urgent precautions were not taken, computer clocks resetting could trigger effects in critical applications...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Nebraska: Coldest early October ever in Lincoln Oct. 1-11 was the coldest Oct. 1-11 period on record for Lincoln, with records going back 123 years to 1887. Record cold hits region; snow on the way WENATCHEE — Long-standing records were shattered as temperatures plummeted around North Central Washington on Sunday and into today. The Wenatchee Valley set two record lows for Oct. 11: 23 at Pangborn...
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Australian Climate Madness (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The voters have had enough of the hysteria and alarmism peddled to them by the government and an obliging media. The greatest threat to humanity since the dawn of time (© Al Gore, James Hansen etc etc) is slipping steadily down the list as we collectively wake up to the dodgy science and the huge costs of an ETS: AUSTRALIANS' anxiety about climate change is falling substantially , even as the...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
California to Charge Fee for [Climate Hoax] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com The statewide fee — believed to be the first in the country — will help California pay for the monitoring and regulation of its carbon emissions required by its climate change law. ... “This takes us off borrowed money, and makes us self-supporting ,” said Jon Costantino, climate change planning manager...