Forward On Climate Blogathon

Today, a new Climate SOS Blogathon starts at the Daily Kos. I'll be contributing a post tomorrow, which I'll let you know about. The other contributors include an amazing list of bloggers, scientists, policy experts, and at least one federal level elected official of which I'm aware.

The first blog posted is: Keystone XL pipeline is not in the U.S. National Interest by A. Siegel who blogs at Get Energy Smart. NOW!!!!.

The list of posts will be managed HERE.

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