Last week I was deluged with tweets and Facebook posts discussing our heat wave (and, yes, @billmckibben, that means you) as a sign of global warming.But any given heat wave is weather, not climate, as McKibben certainly knows. A big part of fighting global climate change is educating the general public about the issues. One… Continue reading Global cooling?
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Irene may be first of many
There's an important news article on the web this morning about climate change ... including important for Vermont. The Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change is warning that "extreme" weather events could become much more common. Among the effects seen worldwide is a shifting northward of hurricane tracks; Tropical Storm Irene was just one example, having been… Continue reading Irene may be first of many