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A Mormon's Lament: Church Is On the Wrong Side of History Again With Proposition 8 - "So here we are, in 2008, and now the threat is gay people who are already gay, who love each other and in many cases live together, and want to get married. How does this hurt the average Mormon family?"

Al Gore gave a speech yesterday asking for a dramatic and complete shift away from carbon-based energy. Here is a 5 minute summary of his speech. Please watch.

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I wasn't sure if I would post the video of Matt Harding dancing badly until I read his answer to the last question in his interview today with NPR:

What do you hope people come away with after watching your video? 
"A wildly exaggerated view of the natural joyfulness and goodwill of our species. I make humanist propaganda. I try to trick people into ( Read more... )

Solar Paralysis - NPR
U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects - NY Times

I was just commenting to David the other day that Arizona should be making a huge effort to farm solar energy. Apparently a lot of people agree, as solar companies have filed proposals covering over 1 million acres of federally controlled land to the Bureau of Land Management since ( Read more... )

Bush advisers agree fossil fuel causes warming

President Bush's top science advisers on Thursday issued a comprehensive report that for the first time endorses what most scientific experts have long asserted: that greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel combustion "are very likely the single largest cause" of the Earth's warming...

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[When Obama was asked today] if elected president would he consider tapping [Al Gore] for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming, [he responded] "I would. Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm still not following the news enough. It took Google's black homepage to alert me that today major cities around the world are turning out the lights from 8p-9p tonight in support of Earth Hour. And Phoenix is one of the flagship cities.

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RealClimate.org posted about an upcoming event called "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" which is rather upsetting.

The purpose of the conference is to generate media attention to "scientists" that believe "forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to ( Read more... )