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Everyone knows that sea otters are adorable (just look at that picture). But now it turns out they can also play a huge role in pulling carbon-dioxide out of the air

Could Renewables Be The Backstop For A Climate Change Bill? - Politics - The Atlantic

Smarten up on the climate change debate by learning this acronym: CEPS-ALL.It stands for Clean Energy Portfolio Standards.

It's a catch-all term that refers to your basic renewable energy standard -- 25% of all energy coming from non-coal sources by 2025, but it adds to this target other "clean" fuel sources like nuclear power, natural gas and coal plants that can successfully capture carbon, and applies the target to hydroelectric and municipal waste plants.

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iowahawk: The Two Randy Vicars

The mad-house in those times was inhabited by soothsayers and astrologers and alchemists, all in accord that the Lord's apocalypse was nigh and that man's carbon wickedness had made it so. Whether in their peculiar benedictions Vicar Albert [Gore] found a new and true faith is known only to his heart; but it is manifest that in its preaching he found his true earthly calling, and a wellspring of riches even beyond the imaginings of His Majesty's explorers in the East Indies.

Subsequent to his release from the mad-house, Vicar Albert returned to the pulpit with an evangelical fury not seen since John the Baptist himself. "Sinners!" he cried from the alter, to the astonished flock. "Behold the picto-gram of the hockey stick divine! By thy carbon ethers thou hast brought great righteous anger to the Lord God and his holy mother Gaia! Repent now, lest ye be damned to an eternity of summers most uncomfortable!" Upon which he presented for sale to the duly frightened parishioners the only two true paths to their salvation: Vicar Albert carbon indulgences and Vicar Albert arse-corks.

In due time Vicar Albert's curious wares found great favour in the royal courts of Europe, and soon vast pilgrimages of dandy-men and gentlewomen arrived at his worship house, begging from him the latest carbon forgiveness parchments and fine porcelain arse-corks, by which they could better display their fashionable piety to nature. In consequence Vicar Albert found himself with five fine manses, each more elaborate than the last, and for each a stately mews filled with a gilded coach and a twelve-stallion team.