Amazing footage of a cloud burst over Montgomery Alabama at the end of April:
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Cowichan Conversations: Climate Change is Here Now
Richard Hughes-Political as hell! Climate change is happening and has been happening for some considerable time. The Climate Deniers have gone to great lengths attempting to convince us that it is not true. In spite of their efforts it is now a part of our consciousness and although we know
Continue reading350 or bust: Neil DeGrasse Tyson On Climate Change, Humans, & Dinosaurs
* Fox vs. FOX: Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks Out On Climate Change On Cosmos, Tyson Makes Climate Connections That Fox News Mocks
Continue reading350 or bust: John Oliver & Bill Nye The Science Guy on Climate Change “Debate”
John Oliver is hilarious and informative, as usual. Here’s a clip of brilliant satire from Last Week Tonight on the climate change “debate”. * Mother Jones: Watch John Oliver and Bill Nye Show Why Cable News Climate “Debates” Are So Ridiculous
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Don’t Worry; Be Happy
Apparently those of us who fret about the ever-growing magnitude of climate change effects are just not grasping the truth. As The National Post’s Peter Foster recently explained at a gathering of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the oil industry just isn’t adequately communicating why climate change skeptics are
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Statistically Fair Climate Change Debate
John Oliver has it right. Who “gives a shit” if 1 in 4 Americans are wrong about a fact? The “news” should stop polling to find out what proportion of Americans are wrong, unless they want the rest of the world to laugh harder at them. Do owls exist? Are
Continue reading350 or bust: Amory Lovins: It’s Time For Humans To Reinvent Fire
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Today’s featured presenter is Amory Lovins is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. In this intimate talk filmed at TED’s offices, energy theorist Amory Lovins lays out the steps we must take to end the world’s
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The Choice.
Continue reading350 or bust: The Real TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Commercial
* Finally, ‘Cosmos’ Takes On Climate Change
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Hiltzik points out new research showing that business-focused policies do nothing at all to encourage any positive economic outcomes: in fact, a higher rating from ALEC for low-tax, low-regulation government correlates to less economic growth. But Kevin Drum highlights what the
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change Impacts Hit Florida
* Record floods and extreme weather: Florida’s floods are linked to climate change
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change: Look At The Big Picture Or Nothing
For this TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, climatologist and climate modeler Gavin Schmidt from NASA’s Goddard Institute For Space Sciences discusses climate modeling. You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies
Continue readingLeDaro: Climate change is real
The world must pay attention. The erratic weather is one indication. The U.S. faced some severe weather – tornadoes, heavy snow and rain, drought in California. More tornadoes to come. Please watch the video here
Continue reading350 or bust: Archbishop Desmond Tutu: No Excuse For Climate Ignorance
* The Guardian: We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
Nature is kinda powerful, something that we industrialized humans seem to have forgotten. Nature, however, bats last. This video from Baltimore was posted May 1st and a day later it had almost five million views. * Lethal Storms Flood Eastern, Central US; Heat Scorches West Climate Change May Make Lethal
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Edward Greenspon’s report on the Keystone XL review process is well worth a read – particularly in exposing how the Harper Cons have handled their U.S. relations (along with many other policy areas) based on the presumption that nobody will ever see fit
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