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The Tennessee deluge of 2010: Nashville's 'Katrina' and the dawn of the superflood

One of the epic extreme weather events in U.S. recorded history devastated one of America's great cities this month.   But the status quo media has barely told the story of Nashville's Katrina (let alone its link to human-caused climate change).

Since the great Tennessee deluge of 2010 foreshadows the shape of things to come for many of the world's great cities if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path, I'm going to begin a multipart series on it.  Uber-meteorologist Dr. Jeff...

Review of Bill Mckibben's must-read book "Eaarth"

You had to wonder when it would happen.  That moment when someone would take us from talk of how to prevent climate change to acknowledging that it was here already, here to stay, and that it had — and would continue — to irrevocably foreclose on many of the opportunities humanity has taken for granted for millennia.

Figures it would be Bill McKibben. His first book, The End of Nature was one of the earliest to introduce global warming into popular culture. His latest book, Eaarth: Making a...

Review of Mckibben's must-read "Eaarth"

You had to wonder when it would happen.  That moment when someone would take us from talk of how to prevent climate change to acknowledging that it was here already, here to stay, and that it had — and would continue — to irrevocably foreclose on many of the opportunities humanity has taken for granted for millennia.

Figures it would be Bill McKibben. His first book, The End of Nature was one of the earliest to introduce global warming into popular culture. His latest book, Eaarth: Making a...

Obama proposal on truck efficiency would cut oil use (and CO2 emissions) beyond the 1.8 billion barrels (and nearly one billion tons) of his car standards - President: "I intend to work with members of both parties to pass a [climate] bill this year."

Today Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the EPA and Department of Transportation to reduce U.S. oil use and greenhouse gas pollution by developing more efficient fuel economy standards.

The President directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to create a first-ever National Policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks for Model Years 2014-2018.  Currently trucks ...

Obama proposal on truck and car efficiency to cut oil use 1.8 billion barrels and CO2 by nearly a billion tons - President: "I intend to work with members of both parties to pass a [climate] bill this year."

Today Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the EPA and Department of Transportation to reduce U.S. oil use and greenhouse gas pollution by developing more efficient fuel economy standards.

The President directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to create a first-ever National Policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks for Model Years 2014-2018.  Currently trucks ...

Arctic double stunner: Sea ice extent is now below 2007 levels, while volume hit record low for March - Summer poised to set new record

While the anti-science crowd scours the globe desperately looking for any indication of their imaginary cooling, reality has intruded again.

Because they and the media — and even some scientists who don't follow the subject closely — tend to take a two-dimensional view of the Arctic, they along with much of the public have been fooled into thinking the Arctic "recovered" in the past two years because sea ice extent appeared to recover.  Heck, some even claimed last month the Arctic ice was...

Rand Paul calls White House pressure on British Petroleum "un-American," defends BP's recklessness: "sometimes accidents happen" - Asserts "I don't think Washington should have anything to do with the mining" of coal: "My energy policy is let the marketp

Such are the joys of listening to a true libertarian unfiltered.

The Tea Party crowd may get GOP voters to go ga ga over the likes of Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul — son of Ron (but named after Ayn).   But that's only because the "mainstream" GOP is so extreme that they barely noticed how anarchical a pure libertarian is.

Fundamentally, libertarians think the government should be out of the civil rights and regulation business entirely.  Environmental harm should be dealt with...

Rand Paul calls White House pressure on British Petroleum "un-American," defends BP's recklessness: "sometimes accidents happen" - Asserts "I don't think Washington should have anything to do with the mining" of coal: "My energy policy is let the marketp

Such are the joys of listening to a true libertarian unfiltered.

The Tea Party crowd may get GOP voters to go ga ga over the likes of Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul — son of Ron (but named after Ayn).   But that's only because the "mainstream" GOP is so extreme that they barely noticed how anarchical a pure libertarian is.

Fundamentally, libertarians think the government should be out of the civil rights and regulation business entirely.  Environmental harm should be dealt with...

Rand Paul calls White House pressure on British Petroleum "un-American," defends BP's recklessness: "sometimes accidents happen" - Asserts "I don't think Washington should have anything to do with the mining" of coal: "My energy policy is let the marketp

Such are the joys of listening to a true libertarian unfiltered.

The Tea Party crowd may get GOP voters to go ga ga over the likes of Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul — son of Ron (but named after Ayn).   But that's only because the "mainstream" GOP is so extreme that they barely noticed how anarchical a pure libertarian is.

Fundamentally, libertarians think the government should be out of the civil rights and regulation business entirely.  Environmental harm should be dealt with...

Rand Paul calls White House pressure on British Petroleum "un-American," defends BP's recklessness: "sometimes accidents happen" - Asserts "I don't think Washington should have anything to do with the mining" of coal: "My energy policy is let the marketp

Such are the joys of listening to a true libertarian unfiltered.

The Tea Party crowd may get GOP voters to go ga ga over the likes of Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul — son of Ron (but named after Ayn).   But that's only because the "mainstream" GOP is so extreme that they barely noticed how anarchical a pure libertarian is.

Fundamentally, libertarians think the government should be out of the civil rights and regulation business entirely.  Environmental harm should be dealt with...