The Woody Guthrie Award for A Thinking Blogger

BPSDBIt has been almost a month since Honestpoet did me the singular honour of making me the recipient of the Woody Guthrie Award (presented to A Thinking Blogger). I am very late in acknowledging this honour and making the presentation to another blog for several reasons, one of them being the timing of my absence discussed under Houskeeping).

Another reason would be that I am a social coward. When asked to pick between two people I have been known to feign death rather than admit to a preference.  Receiving the award was humbling, but it also threw me into a panic. The third, related reason is that

I am in Awe of you

All of you who blog for climate and social justice. Your passion, commitment, knowledge, insight, creativity and basic insanity humbles me every day.

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Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow

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“Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.”

A couplet from the poem “Call Me by My True Names” by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

The poem appears in a blog post “Why Call it “Climaticide”? The Power of True Names” by Johnny Rook.

“They avoid calling things by their true names because they know that if we do not know the true names we will not be wise enough to act.“

If you have not read it, you should.

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Vox Populi: Blogs II

BPSDBAs threatened earlier it is time for Vox Populi again, more blog rating and classifying. The reasons for doing this are explained in Vox Populi I so I won’t belabour that.

What is new is the ‘new and improved’ is the Blogroll page, the place to keep all of these rated/sorted blogs. OK then, get voting, and remember:

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Vox Populi: Blogs I

Personally I do not find many blogrolls and link lists are as helpful as I think they are intended to be. In most cases they have too many links with no indication of how to distinguish them. Moreover, they almost inevitably reward “Aaron’s Aardvark” Blog by being alphabetical.

And of course now I am falling into the same trap, and I am doing so for the same reasons everyone else does, viz you want people to know about the good blogs, but there’s just too damn many of them (or not enough, depending on your point of view).

One solution would be to just pick the

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Bytes and Blogs IV

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• Lots of bad news
• Where we are, a summary
• Some Good news
• Denier Watch
• Some Debunking
• The solution

Lots of bad news

Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting speaks for itself in terms of ‘what’. The ‘why’ it matters is that a billion people from China to Afghanistan depend on the melt waters to feed themselves for at least part of the year. Factor in  “China’s crops at risk from massive erosion” “Over a third of China’s land is being scoured by serious erosion that is putting its crops and water supply a risk.”

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Bytes and Blogs III

Climate change has real impacts today

Greenfyre’s

• was right about “The data is all corrupt!” meme
• was right about Richard Keen
• has more on ‘the global warming has stopped’ meme
• has been following Hansen’s ferret
• wonders if the Denier’s will report these …

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Bytes and Blogs II

The Coming Ice Age

Notes from the blogosphere

• New Denier¹ Memes
• One Dead Meme (we hope)
• More ‘Global Cooling’ debunked (and quantifying crackpots)
• Confusing the Global Warming Signal

New Denier Memes

1)  “We prevented the next ice age”

The Way Things Break barely got the prediction posted and the meme was already taking off.  This one springs from a new study that the earth was headed for a new ice age … in 10,000 years. Luckily climate change may save us.

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Bytes and Blogs I

Just a short note to share a few of the days finds.

Johnny Rook over a Climaticide Chronicles has what he aptly called “Stunning Photos of Retreating Glaciers.”

“Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born”

W.B. Yeats Easter 1916

Lord knows how I missed this one “The narrow temperature window that gave us modern human civilization” at Climate Progress, but it really is a “must read.”

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