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Big Oil Bought Congress for $53 Million

From Bill McKibben for 350.org Hey everyone, Yesterday was one of the truly fun... more

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FUELISHNESS

Is fear of the "Dirty Oil" label behind Canada's tarring of... more

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Sampling of Media Coverage of California Climate Crisis & Conversion Congressional Candidate Andy Caffrey 1987-2011

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Why it's So Important to Support Andy Caffrey's Climate Crisis & Conversion Campaign for Congress in 2012

Hi everybody! Please check out: "Why it's So Important to Support Andy... more

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Romney Flips To Denial: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Causing Climate Change’

Speaking at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Republican... more

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Chem-Trails: They Do Exist, but Why?

http://rtruth.blog.com/2011/09/10/chem-trails-they-do-exist-but-why/... more

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Al Gore's Public Meltdown

A man who has spent a lifetime in politics should have learned more about how one... more

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July 2011 Global Weather Extremes Summary

July was yet another busy month for global weather extremes. Highlights included... more

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Exploding Pavement From Heat Wave

Pavement blowups in Iowa have the state Department of Transportation urging motorists... more

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What Do the Debt Ceiling and Climate Crisis Have in Common?

One of the problems that the Congress is encountering as it tries to raise the debt ceiling is that a significant number of Republican and Tea Party Members of Congress apparently hold the view that there actually would not be consequences for global markets or the US economy if we defaulted. This view is, of course, absurd -- but it illustrates a larger problem. Dramatic changes in the way we communicate with one another about issues affecting the common good have diminished the role of reason and fact-based analysis, encouraging ideological extremists to construct their own alternative version of reality and defend it against fact-based reasoning.

The same problem is found in the debate over the climate crisis. Notwithstanding the unanimous opinion of every National Academy of Science in every major country in the world, every professional scientific society in fields related to the study of the climate crisis and 97 percent of climate scientists in the world, many ideologues cling to the view that these facts are wrong, that scientists are perpetrating a hoax, that they are either greedy for more research dollars or secretly promoting the expansion of government, and that authorities such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are more reliable than the global scientific community in analyzing the impact of global warming pollution.

Two months ago, I wrote an article in Rolling Stone, linked here, that dealt with this issue. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622?page=1

In the same way, because the banks had their way with Congress when it came to gambling on unregulated derivatives and recklessly endangering credit markets with subprime mortgages, we still have almost double-digit unemployment, historic deficits, Greece and possibly other European countries teetering on the edge of default, and the threat of a double-dip recession. Even the potential default of the United States of America is now being treated by many politicians and too many in the media as yet another phony wrestling match, a political game. Are the potential economic consequences of a U.S. default "real"? Of course they are! Have we gone completely nuts?

We haven't gone nuts -- but the "conversation of democracy" has become so deeply dysfunctional that our ability to make intelligent collective decisions has been seriously impaired. Throughout American history, we relied on the vibrancy of our public square -- and the quality of our democratic discourse -- to make better decisions than most nations in the history of the world. But we are now routinely making really bad decisions that completely ignore the best available evidence of what is true and what is false. When the distinction between truth and falsehood is systematically attacked without shame or consequence -- when a great nation makes crucially important decisions on the basis of completely false information that is no longer adequately filtered through the fact-checking function of a healthy and honest public discussion -- the public interest is severely damaged.

"That is exactly what is happening with U.S. decisions regarding the climate crisis. The best available evidence demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the reckless spewing of global-warming pollution in obscene quantities into the atmospheric commons is having exactly the consequences long predicted by scientists who have analyzed the known facts according to the laws of physics."

Cross-posted from Al's Journal http://blog.algore.com/One of the problems that the Congress is encountering as it tries to raise the debt... more

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Mother Nature Raises Hell this Summer - Liberal Propaganda

The North-American heatwave has made many cities more hellish than usual. Whether it's Pennsylvania roadways turning into bubbling tar pits, or ozone-smog choking people in DC, the last two weeks of summer have been a little challenging.

"In this heat, it's not just about discomfort," said Latoya White, a health worker in the capital. "For many people it's about survival." Indeed, besides heat stroke and dehydration, Harvard recently published research showing hot weather raises the danger of heart attack.

Air conditioning is one way to escape the heat. But what do you do when your AC fails? Many units in Oklahoma have stopped working because "the units aren't really built to handle this kind of heat for this prolonged period of time." I've seen units failing in New York for the same reason. My parent's compressor actually burst even though they only cool to a modest 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

Don't try to flee to Canada either, because their central countryside is being ravaged by hundreds of wildfires:

These fires are being caused by increasingly hot weather, drier conditions and DAILY LIGHTNING STRIKES. These fires are so bad, they're polluting the air across the Great Lakes in Minnesota.

As if that's not scary enough, this heatwave actually gets worse at night. "While the current heat wave has recorded 12 all-time daily highs so far this month, it also has registered 98 all-time overnight highs," said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA went on to report that "when temperatures overnight do not cool to levels that provide relief, it increases the stress on people without air conditioning, on livestock and on crops" and that this is "consistent with what we would expect in a greenhouse-warmed world."

Given all of the above, it's very hard to accept this weather as "normal climate progression." Instead, it really feels more like Hell-On-Earth.

(all facts are cited with links in the original post at http://liberal-propaganda.blogspot.com/2011/07/super-congress.html)The North-American heatwave has made many cities more hellish than usual. Whether... more

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Climate Reality. by Al Gore

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Article: Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse

how about 225,000 people added to the planet everyday and no chance for changing that

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Caffrey pledges civil disobedience in Congress for pot legalization

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Zombie Apocalypse

What would you do in the event of a zombie invasion? A social experiment that asks... more

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Rod Mast | Conservation International

A true hero of the environment, Rod Mast works tirelessly in countries all around the... more

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Current Cause: EO Products co-founder Brad Black.

Common personal care products like shampoos, lotions, and soaps have a tremendous... more

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This is the Future

They don't realize that their small actions make a big difference!

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Solutions to Climate Crisis by James Hansen

The Science: 350 ppm Some scientists claim that if we keep the amount of... more

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Something to Do

Meet Bill, who has for the last 3 years has gonne to the same spot in Central Florida,... more

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