(warning lots of rant-y swearing NSFW) While this young man makes his point using a whole slew of profanity, he is 100% right. I honestly can not believe we are having this debate in 2010, I mean come on! It makes a certain kind of cynical political sense, I mean the gays and abortion [...]

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In a long line of victories Cape Wind has won yet another legal battle. Just build the damn thing already, its been almost ten years and a million hearings and legal battles, all of which have favored Cape Wind, this has got to be the silliest example in history of a couple rich folks [...]

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Very nice talk, well worth a watch. The politics and chemistry of oil and why this summer is so important.

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If you are on the right or the left, unlimited anonymous spending on campaigns is a bad idea. Every dirty trick you think you might get away with because of this, the other side can do as well. It eventually will destroy our democracy. Contact your senator now and tell them you are [...]

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The new yorker published a great article on how one family of rich industrialists have built an empire of bad science and climate change denial. a bad bad bad bad man With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are [...]

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Scientists at the University of Oregon have determined the fine-scale genetic structure of the first animal to show an evolutionary response to rapid climate change. They used a high-throughput sequencing technique called Restriction-site Associated DNA (RAD) tagging to make the discovery. Their results, which focus on the pitcher plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii, are published this week in [...]

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Or rather energy wasted, holy crap we waste most of the energy produced in this country! Full report here. We really need to reduce that big black line in the middle (coal), and that big green line at the bottom (oil), but as you can see the biggest share of our energy goes to waste. [...]

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Water is also needed to grow plants, but that doesn’t mean you want your garden under a foot of water. Too much of something good can be a bad thing. Duh.

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Before (Aug 14 2009) Full image After (Aug 15 2010) Full image About 20% of the entire country is currently under water. Events like this are almost surly made worse by global warming, and combined with the Russian fires, and the other severe weather effects around the earth we are forced to face head on the [...]

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Interesting video from Sweden. How to build a life that makes you happy, even if it doesn’t follow “the rules.” Read the full report here.

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Gay people can get married in California again, however some people think the judge was biased because he was gay. You can read the full decision here, its an amazing feat of logical rational reasoning. America was built on the idea that all people are equal, its just taken a couple hundred years for reality [...]

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A University of Delaware researcher reports that an “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962. “In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was [...]

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Sulfur Hexafluoride is a very very dense gas, how dense, so dense you can float a boat on it (made of foil). You know how when you inhale helium it makes your voice higher (because helium is less dense than air), well check what happens when you inhale sulfur hexafluoride science is awesome.

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I am really impressed with Peter Sinclair and his excellent video series, I think I have posted about all of them on this site, but you can find them all here.

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Record high temps in Russia have lead to a lot of forest fires. (warning, lots of swearing in Russian) Global warming will affect us all in different ways, for instance Russia is one of the worlds largest wheat exporter, the recent heat waves have caused the price of wheat to go up. Will these higher wheat [...]

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Just because you can’t see the oil, doesn’t mean that it just vanished. Dumping a couple million gallons of dispersant will make the oil break up into little bits, but that just means it will spread it out more. Oh yea, its also toxic as hell.

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I would say so, but if you are having doubts watch this, or you know go outside and experience the hottest year on record (so far).

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Long time author and contributor to The Sietch Keith, has landed himself in a very nice video. Check it out. From the video description: Peak Moment 175: What kind of life do you want, and what are you willing to do to get it? Author Keith Farnish sees industrial civilization as the most destructive way [...]

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For all you looking to buy gold as a hedge against the coming economic apocalypse…you might not want to allow crazy conspiracy theorists and scamy TV marketers to sell it to you. The thing I find most crazy about these people, is that they are so quick to just give up and drop out of society. [...]

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