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Just Prove It

How do we know humans are heating up the planet? This excellent, easy to understand explanation, demonstrates how climatologists study and analyze global warming. It is not magic, sleight of hand or wishful thinking. Our rapidly warming planet is not due to a "natural" increase. See Global Warming.

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Submitted by walteraw on October 14, 2009 - 7:01am.
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Denial Gives Birth

Another reason why a literate society is important and has some understanding of basic science.


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Submitted by walteraw on October 8, 2009 - 6:09am.
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Conflicting Temperature Data


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Submitted by walteraw on October 6, 2009 - 11:29am.
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Plants Need It

Yes, of course, it's a manipulation of facts. In this case it is brought to you by a couple of well-heeled fossil fuel executives that wish to prevent the arrival of the 21st century.

It's not the general public they really hope to enlighten but to remind our elected representatives where their money comes from.

Granted, some of our politicians don't understand climate change or realize how greenhouse gases work in the atmosphere and these folks won't need a lot of convincing. All in all it is merely a couple of American patriots expressing their right to "free speech."

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Submitted by walteraw on October 3, 2009 - 6:00am.
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Rising Sea Levels

Myth, fantasy, denial--what is it? This video offers some specifics.


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Submitted by walteraw on September 30, 2009 - 10:47am.
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Making the Invisible Visible

If we think health care reform is hard … we ain't seen anything yet. President Obama and Chinese president Hu Juntao gave their “climate change” speeches at the U.N. on Tuesday.

China and the United States account for 40 percent of carbon emissions on this planet yet, while acknowledging the seriousness of climate change, both leaders really offered very few concrete proposals.

The Chinese president talked about reducing “carbon intensity” and said his country would slash future emissions by a “notable” margin. So what did he specifically promise?

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Submitted by walteraw on September 26, 2009 - 8:38am.
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A Dastardly Conspiracy

Some people may not have seen this particular video before, but climate denialist Anthony Watts has been "investigating" weather stations in the U.S. You just never know where the conspirators come from.

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Submitted by walteraw on September 25, 2009 - 7:59am.
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Gathering Climate Pieces

Tomorrow many of the major industrialized countries are meeting in New York to discuss climate change. This is of course leading up to a new climate change agreement to be signed in Copenhagen, Denmark in December.

At this point there are numerous reasons to be pessimistic about the world community coming together to sign any substantive agreement this December.

Seemingly no country wants to be the first to implement the actual plan that addresses the targeted greenhouse gas reduction goals, goals which certainly many European countries have strongly supported.

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Submitted by walteraw on September 21, 2009 - 6:38am.
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Pluto is Warming!

Traveling down the climate denial yellow-brick road, we learn about our "warming" solar system. Yes, understanding is one footstep at a time. Go to Denial Gobbledygook.

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Submitted by walteraw on September 20, 2009 - 6:56am.
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Not 100 Percent

What innovations will appear? What likely technology will drive the future? Ultimately, what might mobilize the broad mass of humanity to actually change behavior within the next 10 years? Go to Green Technologies.

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Submitted by walteraw on September 18, 2009 - 5:49am.
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