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Category: politics
My fellow climate bloggers over at Desmog Blog have notified me and asked me to pass it on to AFTIC readers that there is a very cool new online push by former Vice-President Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate...
Posted by coby at 7:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: editorial
There is an overwhelming consensus supporting the basic tenets of anthropogenic global warming theory. Those tenets are that CO2 levels are rising, this rise is caused by human activity, this rise is causing a rapid warming trend and this trend...
Posted by coby at 6:35 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: politics
Sorry, I generally like the guy, and I can't quite yet let go of all my hopes, audacious or not, but Barak Obama has not done anything to deserve that yet....
Posted by coby at 7:18 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
(The following is offered as an amusing example of how reality sometimes seems to have a sense of homour:) My wife is from the Czech Republic and was mentioning to me her family's worries about the recent flooding (they are...
Posted by coby at 9:55 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Announcements
James Hansen was arrested today for trespassing at a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. Today Top Climate Scientist James Hansen and Actress Daryl Hannah were Arrested in Effort to Stop Mountaintop Removal Also...
Posted by coby at 1:48 PM • 29 Comments •
Category: Announcements
By the by, I have another post up on The Energy Grid called The Blame Game. This week's question is one of finding fault. What brought us to the current confluence of crises? Was it a failure of the political,...
Posted by coby at 10:30 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: politics
I get tons of drive by attacks on the HTTTACS articles and most are pretty thoughtless repetitions of everything we've heard a hundred times before, and often posted directly underneath their own refutations. But occasionally there are seemingly very sincere...
Posted by coby at 8:56 AM • 122 Comments •
Category: Announcements
It seems that the HTTTACS was referred to by a parlimentary member in the Scottish Parliment, so it is now part of the official record! The link there was to the version on Grist.org, which last I checked is a...
Posted by coby at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: humour
Okay, so this is way off the general climate topic, but I really got a kick out of this article from Bill Maher published in the LA Times....
Posted by coby at 3:08 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: editorial
I'm sure most of us remember how incoherent Sarah Palin was about climate change (well, okay, about most things), but John Boehner seems to have his sights set on out doing the master!...
Posted by coby at 12:15 PM • 16 Comments •
