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Is global warming a black swan? Is the Japanese nuclear disaster?
Year after year the worriers and fretters would come to me with awful predictions of the outbreak of war. I denied it each time. I was only wrong twice. -Senior […]
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Stopping Congressional Attacks on the Clean Air Act
It’s a shame that so many in Congress are more concerned about Big Oil and King Coal than they are about public health and our children’s future – sadly, that’s […]
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Clean Energy: It’s Complicated
“American ingenuity” is the key to developing renewable energy resources, said President Obama last week, in his address on energy policy. That is surely true, and here in San Francisco, […]
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2012 Election: Newt Gingrich Talks Energy in New Hampshire
Cross posted from New Hampshire Primary 2012: Green Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was back in New Hampshire on Monday, where he shared his views on cellulosic biofuels and oil […]
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Climate change breaks NASA temperature chart
The temperature anomaly in the Arctic — the amount that current temperatures differ from historical norms — is now so severe that NASA's James Hansen had to add a new […]
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Why does Washington DC have so many more deficit hawks than climate hawks?
The GOP is launching yet another massive assault on future generations today, proposing deep cuts in the clean energy solutions that are central to averting catastrophic climate change. Many of […]
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Yes, wind and wave power are renewable; New Scientist pulls a Charlie Sheen
In the annals of absurdly sexed up science stories crying for attention like, oh, some addled TV star, we have a new contender. The once-excellent New Scientist, which has started […]
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Salazar blasts Gulf disaster company Transocean for touting “best year in safety”
On Friday, Transocean, the company that operated the infamous Deepwater Horizon oil rig, told its shareholders that it gave its executives multi-million-dollar bonuses based on the company’s “best year in […]
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Like a magnifying glass to ants, concentrating PV a cost-effective distributed solar option
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Concentrating solar typical fills people energy nerds with visions of large […]
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WattsUpWithThat: Psychic seals have evolved ability to predict future climate
On March 21, the ’science’ blogger Anthony Watts actually published the following headline story and lede: Canadian Harp Seals In New England (“prediction” of cooling?) Yes, Watts is suggesting that Canadian […]
