CT flood home insurance rates increase and you are paying for them.

Is your flood insurance raising in CT?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's new "flood" maps are slowly being rolled out to communities across the state. The changes, which take effect Oct. 1, could mean significant premiums to some property owners.

And you Pay!

Something for the scientists

ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF INCREASING ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCE TO WEATHER OUTAGES

They are burning your food in their cars!

Ethanol quotas pump money from your pocket

Oppose fracking wherever it is.

Are We Trading Our Health For Oil in New, Fracking-Induced California Gold Rush?

 

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World.

40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

What you should do: 1. Do a little reading on climate change. 2. Get in touch with those who represent you.

Climate change: Evidence, Impact and Choices

The cost of solar power is coming down.

Chart of the day: sliding U.S. solar prices

Now is the time we need science if we want a future.

Sequestration Ushers In A Dark Age For Science In America

If climate change is so dangerous and eminent, why aren't people worried?

Why do we worry too much about some environmental risks and not enough about others?

Mental Shortcuts

Big decisions based on little information

Answer the following questions with yes or no:

1. Are pesticides a serious threat to public health?

2. Is genetically modified food a serious threat to public health?

3. Is bisphenol A (a chemical ingredient of plastics, also used to line food cans) a serious threat to public health?

Now, the most important question:

4. Did you have all the facts you needed to make a fully informed, analytical, reasoned decision about any of the first three questions?

Please don't be willfully blind to the dangers of climate change!!

Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness"

But if sea level is capable of rising several feet per century, as Dr. O’Leary’s paper would seem to imply and as many other scientists believe, then babies being born now could live to see the early stages of a global calamity.

The fast-retreating Sheldon Glacier in Antarctica. A collapse of a polar ice sheet could result in a jump in sea level.

It's breathing, he thought. "All of a sudden I see a thing with a heartbeat."

This Pulsing Earth

Climate change affects your family. Your mother needs your help.

Climate Change Indicators in the United States

The Earth's climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events—like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures—are already affecting society and ecosystems. 

Time = Money. Looking at small changes mathematically.

Q&A: Gary Lauder, venture capitalist, on designing the future as if time mattered

Turn up the heat on climate denial - Environmental Action

"A schoolchild can tell that the planet is getting warmer, and that human carbon pollution is the cause. Apparently, that simple truth is too difficult a concept for some members of Congress, like Iowa's Steve King. He recently told a Koch Brothers' group "if sea levels go up 4 or 6 inches, I don’t know if we’d know that.”*

In fact, unless we act now, climate change could cause sea level rise up to 69 FEET,more than enough to be apparent even from Iowa.** Unlike King, actual scientists know that if we do nothing, a 6-foot rise in sea level could put cities from Galveston, Texas, to  Miami, Fla. to Atlantic City, N.J., under water by 2030. ***"

First Sci-fi and now Cli-fi (or "Sci-fi gets hot.)

So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?

Odds is the latest in what seems to be an emerging literary genre. Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.

Protesters Condemn ALEC's Push to Privatize Public Education

Demonstrators crash the ALEC convention in Chicago, a city heavily impacted by the privatization of public schools.

Chemistry class sponsored by Monsanto.