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Gene Wilder Has Died

by EusebiaBailey Posted on August 29, 2016

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This is really sad.

Gene Wilder always reminded me of the opening line of the Rafael Sabatini novel Scaramoush: “He was born with a gift for laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” No one captured that madness better than he.

RIP.

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Gene Wilder Has Died

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This could be the hottest year on record, again

by LilySSHLikup Posted on October 21, 2014

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Hold onto your hats. Or parasols. It’s getting warmer.

The land and sea temperatures are in for last month, and it was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. May, June, and August also set records.

That means 2014 has tied 1998 for the warmest first nine months on record — and it will likely surpass 2010 for warmest year on record. In fact, there’s been a lot of record breaking these last few years. The AP’s Seth Borenstein reports:

If 2014 breaks the record for hottest year, that also should sound familiar: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2010 all broke NOAA records for the hottest years since records started being kept in 1880.

“This is one of many indicators that climate change has not stopped and that it continues to be one of the most important issues facing humanity,” said University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles.

Some people, mostly non-scientists, have been claiming that the world has not warmed in 18 years, but “no one’s told the globe that,” [NOAA climate scientist Jessica] Blunden said. She said NOAA records show no pause in warming.

In North America, temperatures were all over the map in the first nine months of this year. In the contiguous U.S., it was only 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit over the 20th century average. The West, however, was much warmer; California was a record-breaking 4.1 degrees above average.

So if your neighbor, or uncle, or hairdresser, or senatorial candidate doubts that the world is warming — because, hey, it was cold in some states this year, it even snowed! — here’s a chart with the latest data you can direct him or her to:

Temperature anomalies (or variations from average) for the first nine months of each of the last 135 years.

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Off the Shelf: Review of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

by Myrna Posted on June 7, 2014

A new book by a “climate agnostic” offers contrarian views on energy policies, arguing that the world needs a revival of nuclear power. View this article: Off the Shelf: Review of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Roundup: Can New E.P.A. CO2 Rules Have a Climate Impact?In Some States, Emissions Cuts Defy SkepticsGermany Leans Toward Allowing Fracking

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Cluefulness on climate change is on the rise, even among Republicans

by Michalak876 Posted on March 8, 2013

Cluefulness on climate change is on the rise, even among Republicans

By John Upton

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Republicans who accept climate change needn’t feel so alone any more.

Awareness of global warming among Americans is shooting up faster than the mercury in a drought-ravaged cornfield.

According to two major surveys published this week, most people in the U.S. now know that climate change is the reason the weather is being so weird. Acceptance of climate science has almost climbed back to its 2008 levels, following a depressing propaganda-powered dip that hit a low point in 2010.

University of Michigan researchers asked about 1,000 people [PDF] this past fall whether there is solid evidence that the world has been warming during the past four decades, and 67 percent said “yes.” That’s down from the 72 percent that responded affirmatively in the fall of 2008, but up from just 52 percent in the spring of 2010. Of those who agree that the world is warming, just 19 percent attribute the change to natural patterns. The rest say humanity shoulders some or all of the blame.

Even 51 percent of Republicans agree that global warming is happening, according to the U of M poll, up from 33 percent in 2010.

Meanwhile, Global Warming’s Six Americas, an ongoing joint project of Yale University and George Mason University, reported a similar trend from its own survey of 1,000 people. The project puts Americans into one of six categories based on their climate-change views: alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged, doubtful, or dismissive. From that report’s findings:

We observed a sharp decline in public engagement from the fall of 2008 to January 2010, and a gradual rebound starting in June 2010. In our most recent survey in September 2012, we found that the rebound in public engagement has continued: the Alarmed, Concerned and Cautious audience segments once again comprise 70 percent of the American public, as they did in the fall of 2008.

Enough words. Here’s a nice graph from the Six Americas report that shows where Americans stand on the issue, with bigger bubbles representing more people:

Global Warming’s Six Americas

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