A. Siegel
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A. Siegel blogs in the domains of energy and environmental implications in a number of communities. His work can be found at Get Energy Smart! NOW!!!. He is a founding board member of The Energy Consensus (a non-profit focused on enhancing the policy dialogue related to energy issues) and Energize America (focused on developing energy concepts for potential legislative action using the blogosphere as a developmental platform).

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March Heat Wave Reason for Panic Buying?

0 Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 3:23 PM

When the tiniest bit of snow hits Washington, DC, area grocery stores can suddenly find their shelves (especially milk... ) depleted with the hordes of panic buyers terrified of being caught without the liquid for their morning cereal. Amid March Madness, with "mind-boggling" high temperature records outpacing...

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DC's Cherry Blossoms as Climate Change Canary...

27 Comments | Posted March 15, 2012 | 3:49 PM

Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming's increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the 'luxury' symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions. Global Warming's threat to skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to...

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The Washington Post's Triple Fail

5 Comments | Posted March 12, 2012 | 2:52 PM

The Washington Post's front page March 9 of this year featured an article entitled "Affordability award goes to $50 light bulb" (and the online title: Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag). Reading like a partisan hit job against the Department of Energy's efforts to use 'prizes' to...

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Major Romney Contributor Believes Romney Will Flip-Flop

3 Comments | Posted March 6, 2012 | 4:28 PM

Some of the people pumping serious money into the Romney campaign believe, fundamentally, that Mitt Romney is lying (or, to be polite, misrepresenting himself) to Republican Party primary voters.

Simply put, there is no other reasonable conclusion to take from today's Politico article entitled "Green donors bet on Mitt...

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A Bipartisan Understanding of Basic Climate Reality?

472 Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 12:46 PM

Despite the panoply of Republican political elite suffering from acute anti-science syndrome (Santorum, Gingrich, Inhofe), a basic reality:

A majority of Americans (including a plurality of Republicans) understand that climate deniers are deceivers and disconnected from reality.

Earlier today, the Brookings...

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Climate Change Consensus: A Simple Table for Comprehension

132 Comments | Posted February 23, 2012 | 11:30 AM

There is a strong scientific consensus supporting the scientific Theory of Global Warming and these key points:

  • There is warming.
  • Humanity is contributing to that warming.
  • This warming will create significant harm if left unchecked.

While scientific "debate" always continues and there are debates over many elements within and...

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Heartland Republicans: Investigate Heartland

72 Comments | Posted February 20, 2012 | 3:02 PM

From the heartland, a group of Republicans have made an open call for a serious investigation of the leaked heartless Heartland Institute documents. In the press release (reproduced in full, absent specific contact information, here), they emphasize the need for conservatives and conservative institutions to engage in...

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Whacking 16 Moles

23 Comments | Posted February 1, 2012 | 4:00 PM

A major challenge exists: it is far easier to dispense truthiness (and outright deceit) than it is to Whack A Mole Fever have to run after and rebut it. When it comes to anti-science...

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Citizens Against Government Waste Promotes Waste

0 Comments | Posted December 21, 2011 | 4:00 PM

An oft-heard element of political debate is horror at government standard setting and regulations ... even if leads to an CFL Light Bulb improved marketplace. Whether seatbelts for cars or speed limits or building standards or...

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Debunk Me! Debunk Me! "Lean, Mean, and Easy to Read..."

0 Comments | Posted December 8, 2011 | 2:03 PM

Human society being what it is, we live in a world filled with myths.

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Musings About a "Colossal Commute"

0 Comments | Posted December 2, 2011 | 8:13 AM

As the carbon count goes higher, inexorably, globally and the world community suffers from mounting challenges due to climate chaos, the value of incrementalPrius MFD (2004) individual change can seem meaningless. So what if a household...

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Male and <40? Time to Thank the EPA?

0 Comments | Posted November 8, 2011 | 12:04 PM

We know that the regulation leads to a safer society and that regulatory paths toward reducing pollution loads leads to a healthier society. These are simply facts. Those facts, however, can be difficult to translate from larger statistics to our personal lives. A new research paper from Nicholas...

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Solyndra Technology Powers Washington, D.C.

0 Comments | Posted September 23, 2011 | 6:31 PM

While Assembly team with the complete Living Light house members of Congress are raising h-ll about the Solyndra bankruptcy along with many who are forgetting that they once touted Solyndra...

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Sunshine Hits D.C.: A Peview of the Solar Decathlon

0 Comments | Posted September 20, 2011 | 3:27 PM

One of the nation's most important (and sadly too little discussed) intercollegiate competitions is about to open in Washington, DC: the biennial Solar Decathlon. For two weeks, 19 university teams from around the globe will compete across ten categories (thus, "decathlon") that show the house works (can they...

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Some Sunshine Hits Washington, DC

0 Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 8:59 AM

As the sun bursts through weeks of massive rain, the Seagulls on Decathlete WayWashington, DC, area is entering into several hot solar weeks.


1. The Washington Redskins and

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Don't 'Bag It': Get to the DC Environmental Film Festival

0 Comments | Posted March 23, 2011 | 12:29 PM

The DC Environmental Film Festival has, yet again, managed to pull together an impressive collection of films (documentaries, animated, archival, children's, etc.) looking at our energy, climate and environmental challenges and opportunities. From astoundingly beautiful vistas (how about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (America's Wildest Refuge) to the...

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Deceit on Texas Blackouts Threatens American Prosperity and Security

0 Comments | Posted February 7, 2011 | 3:06 PM

In the face of the winter storm that hit the nation, Texans suffered a series of rolling blackouts as some 50 fossil-fueled power plants (coal and natural gas) shut down due to frozen pipes and other problems. In the face of readily available information, including from Texas' own grid-managers...

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Five Percent ... just Five Percent per Year

0 Comments | Posted May 10, 2010 | 5:34 PM

Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues.

Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all.

Clarity of targets matter.

Ever more experts are endorsing the call to...

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Scientific Society Revises Climate Change Statement; Science Advances

0 Comments | Posted April 26, 2010 | 10:42 AM

While falsehoods about "Climategate" -- supposedly undermining the scientific theory of global warming -- make headlines globally, it seems doubtful that too many of us will see the following on the front page of our local newspapers.

The Geological Society of America (GSA) has revised its 2006 statement on...

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Not Great News for the Allergy Sufferers Among Us...

0 Comments | Posted April 14, 2010 | 3:01 PM

In the search for that silver lining, it turns out that global warming might boost drug company stock prices.

The National Wildlife Federation released Extreme Allergies and Global Warming earlier today. This (extremely) well documented summary report (pdf) starkly lays out the facts: global warming will make...

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