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Bruce Melton : World Bank on Climate: ‘Turn Down the Heat’
Glacier melt. Photo by Dave Appleby / Flickr / Truthout.Is it really this bad?World Bank on climate:‘Turn down the heat’ Instead of working on climate pollution emissions reductions, we are now emitting more than was imagined in the 1998 worst-case … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : Extreme Weather like Sandy Caused by Arctic Warming
Seaside Heights Amusement Park, Jersey Shore. Image from underthemat.Superstorm Sandy:Research shows how Arctic warmingdirectly causes extreme weather Climate change plain and simple: Arctic Sea ice melt caused Superstorm Sandy. And things are starting to get crazy with this ongoing string … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : The Biggest Misunderstanding About Climate Change
Padre Island National Seashore, four wheel drive only beach. Anyone who has been to the beach knows that warming over land is much greater than warming over water. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.The biggest misunderstanding about climate … Continue reading
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David Morris : Texas Judge Rules Sky Belongs to the People
The sky! Image from Wikimedia Commons.Texas judge rules:‘The sky belongs to everyone’ Is this a ‘shot heard round the world’ for fight against climate change? By David Morris / On the Commons / August 4, 2012 “Texas judge rules atmosphere, … Continue reading
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Marc Estrin : Worstward Ho!
Fail worse What is absolutely clear is that the performance of the United States at the recent Rio+20 conference was intended as an energetic worsening thrust. By Marc Estrin | The Rag Blog | June 27, 2012 In his penultimate … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : The Climate Change Drought Is Over / 3
Wind turbines on the mainland as seen from the backside of Padre Island National Seashore, at mile 25 on the four wheel drive only beach. Photo © Bruce Melton, 2012.The Climate Change awareness drought is overPart Three: It’s only pollution … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : The Climate Change Awareness Drought is Over / 2
Photos by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.The Climate Change awareness drought is overPart Two: Voices tell us ‘the warmists are dead’ Which side is biased and how do we tell with all the noise in the media? By Bruce Melton … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : The Climate Change Awareness Drought is Over / 1
Photo © Bruce Melton, 2012.The climate changeawareness drought is over Part One: It’s time to change the tone The shift in awareness is very encouraging and seems quite likely to be more or less permanent because the number of unprecedented … Continue reading
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Jordan Flaherty : Gulf Residents Fear for the Future
Image from GRIID.Two years after the BP drilling disaster, Gulf residents fear for the future By Jordan Flaherty | The Rag Blog | April 23, 2012 “The Gulf is a robust ecosystem and it’s been dying the death of a … Continue reading
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Jim Hightower : The Keystone XL Flim-Flam
Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Image from Nation of Change.The Keystone XL flim-flam The dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don’t want you to know is that the tar sands oil producers are … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : Climate Change Texas: The Worst-Case Scenario is Happening
Austin, Texas, Late Summer 2011: This is not autumn in Central Texas. These are cedar trees (juniperus Asheii). The fall leaf drop does not begin here until about mid-October and extends through the first of the year. These cedar trees … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : What Can Be Done About Climate Change in Texas?
What a mess. Even without the fires, our natural environment has been devastated by these droughts. This scene was taken in late August just around the corner from my house in southwest Austin. Fortunately I have only lost a handful … Continue reading
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