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Just got an email from the fine folks over at the Encyclopedia of Earth. They have launched their eagerly awaited Climate Change Collection. If you have not yet visited the Encyclopedia of Earth you should check out this new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The [...]

The State Department released a new issue of their Green Diplomacy newsletter. I was reading it and felt like I was reading something from some alternate universe in which climate and the environment held a higher priority than say, subsidies and the highest profits in human history for the Bush administration ’s cronies in the [...]

The Doors to Diplomacy Award, created by the United States Department of State and Global SchoolNet for CyberFair, is a contest that encourages students and educators to join together to build high-quality, educational websites on a variety of topics.

Ideas Matter! - Volume 4

I wasn’t sure I would have time or the inclination to do today’s Ideas Matter! post because of the Super Tuesday primaries yesterday.  But someone directed me to what may be one of the most important documents ever released by a major energy company.  Every three years or so The [...]

James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has published a 110 page report titled “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007“.
The report is introduced with:
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects [...]

‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban: Bush blinks, Bali succeeds!:

Climate change is one crucial arena– along with nuclear weapons– in which the wellbeing and survival of US citizens are seen as very clearly inter-reliant with the survival and wellbeing of the rest of the world’s 6 billion people. We are all in this frail boat [...]

Taipei Times - archives:
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: We are much better off reducing carbon dioxide emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
Two factors differentiate global climate change from other environmental problems.
First, whereas most environmental insults — [...]

Angry Bear:
And after the Seventh Great Extinction….
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There is little doubt in my mind that we are set on a path that will require geo-engineering and bioengineering on a scale that only gods should contemplate.
I am not interested in the moral dilemma of Faust or the hubris in creating our own Tower of Babel. My [...]

More on that post I made the other day qabout the edited CDC report.

Full Version of White House "Edited" CDC Climate Report - with highlights! | DeSmogBlog
"Edits" does not even come close to describing the grammatical massacre the White House undertook with CDC Director Julie Gerberding’s Senate testimony on the public health effects of climate [...]

I  came across this earlier and it just reminded me of the Fox News claims of being "Fair and Balanced".

Heavy Editing Is Alleged In Climate Testimony - washingtonpost.com:
Testimony that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to give yesterday to a Senate committee about the impact of climate change on health [...]