Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Adds 16,000 Jobs and $1.6 Billion in Value to Northeast Economies, Study Finds | ThinkProgress

“We should not ignore the larger lesson — that the bellowing we hear from dinosaurs about how climate protection and clean energy development is bad for jobs and the economy is dead wrong,” says Seth Kaplan, vice president for policy and climate advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation to Climate Progress.

“A well designed greenhouse gas reduction policy like RGGI is a win for just about everybody, and the complaints — amplified by their well-financed megaphone — from the filthy few companies who make their money by extracting and selling coal and oil, should not distract us.”

Remembering the Great Dr. Paul Epstein, Who Helped Warn the World of the Health Impacts of Climate Change | ThinkProgress

He was one of the first people to link extreme weather events with the emergence and spread of human infectious diseases. He was one of the first people to recognize the independent effects of greenhouse gases on the environment and human health, independent of their impact on temperature and precipitation, by looking, for example, at ragweed pollen output. He was one of the first people to involve the financial, insurance, and

reinsurance sectors in addressing climate change, and in helping them understand why they had to be involved.

The Bottomless Well: How Energy Consumption Creates More Energy

The historical trends defy all intuition. It is easy enough to thank human ingenuity for the relatively steady price of a finite and dwindling resource and leave it at that. But there is a second part to this story: it is energy itself that begets more energy. Electrically powered robots pursue new supplies of oil at the bottom of the ocean. Electricity purifies and dopes the silicon that becomes the photovoltaic cell that generates more electricity. Lasers enrich uranium that generates more electricity that powers more lasers. Power pursues the energy that produces the power.

Climate Lessons: Some things to do to help resist CAGW-scaremongering in schools

In case any readers are looking for ideas on what they might do to help with the chores of getting egregious materials on climate out of schools and elsewhere, I've been compiling a little list.

Greenshirts Bully Skeptic Professor Into Silence, Video Taken Down. “Remember, This Is Still Germany”

Some of you may be wondering what happened to the video clip of Prof. Dronskowski which I had put up 2 days ago.

Bill McKibben and Colbert Talk Keystone XL and Climate | ThinkProgress

Colbert is an optimist: He says with the tar sands, the climate would be half full … of carbon.