This Saturday October 24th, Internation day of Climate Action.... Find an action near you - http://www.350.org/map

UK Prime Minister warns of climate 'catastrophe' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8313672.stm
Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse".
He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B".

A new report from the New Rules Project finds that over 60% of all U.S. states have the renewable energy resources to be “energy self-reliant.” (“Energy self-reliance,” as defined in the report, is a measure of how self-sufficient in energy generation a state could be if it relied entirely on its own renewable resources).
- http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/15/new-rul...
31 States can take care of themselves....and still produce energy for the other 19....

Finding Broad Support for Energy Efficiency as a Solution for Climate Change - http://www.reuters.com/article/mnCarbonEmissi...

Sea Snot: Climate Change Gets Gross - http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/1...
What's grosser than gross? Two words: Sea mucus. National Geographic has the scoop on marine mucilages, "jello-like sheets of disease-carrying mucus" that are spreading across the Mediterranean Sea. If you have not eaten in the last hour, check out the video below. A recent study found that sea-snot outbreaks increase when water temperatures rise, making this perhaps the most revolting evidence yet of the unexpected effects of climate change.
It has some competition from the Arctic blob, a "fibrous, hairy" black goo that mysteriously appeared off Alaska this summer. It turned out to be an algae bloom, and one scientist suggested it had something to do with climate change. Global blob takeover—do you really need any more reason to get serious about global warming?
Extinctionists/Deniers/'skeptics' morons in a universe all their own....

EPA Denies Permit for Infamous WV Mountaintop Removal Mine - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/16/...
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finally put an end to the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia... EPA rejected the permit for this mine due to massive water quality impacts that would have resulted from a series of mega-valley fills.

Con-servative Chamber of 'Commerce'/Fascism plays the fool in Yes Men hoax - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-19-chamb...
The Yes Men, enviro pranksters extraordinaire, pulled off another bold stunt on Monday. Posing as a Chamber of Commerce spokesperson, Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum sent out a faux press release and then held an even faux-er press conference promising Chamber support for the Senate climate bill. The real Chamber was not amused.

Obama's 'toughness' on trial - http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/523

White House Turns Its Guns On The con-servative Chamber Of 'Commerce'/Fascism - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/whit...

Race and the Right's Paranoid Obama Conspiracies - http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/19/race-...

White House plan: Neuter the Chamber - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/284...
The White House and congressional Democrats are working to marginalize the con-servative Chamber of 'Commerce'/Fascism — the powerful business lobby opposed to many of President Barack Obama’s first-year priorities — by going around the group and dealing directly with the CEOs of major U.S. corporations.

To Understand Why Americans Are Wary of Taking H1N1 Vaccine, Look Back to the '70s - http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2009/10/to-...

Cluster Fox Noise Isn't Even Pretending Anymore - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/...
Want proof that journalism has devolved into entertainment? Watch "the communications arm of the Republican Party"

Peru struggles with rising temperatures - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
Peruvians seeing increasing instances of drought and disease, linked to warming temperatures.

NYT, Krugman: The Banks Are Not All Right - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/opinion/19k...
We 'bail them out'...err...get held up/our economy gets hijacked and the banks threaten to destroy us all unless we give them 13 Trillion....then after we do that...they 'invest' in other countries, turn their back on their country & the dollar by putting all of our money into other currencies....
It was the final act of sabotage by the Bush Crime Family.....the biggest heist in the history of the world....give us unchecked trillions or else....we should have taken the 'or else'....

This is what the GOP thinks about people out of work....Kyl & Hatch block unemployment aid for tens of thousands of American Jobless - http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/10/16/kyl-and-hat...

Something I was amusing myself with this morning:

What is Truth?

(Proposed definition that Truth is not a Lie).

Truth: A fact that has been verified …
…proved to be true; "a verified claim"
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Verified: proved to be true; "a verified claim..."

Lie: Tell an untruth...
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Petitio Principii: asking a question one presumes to know the answer to.

Tautology:
A statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"
Useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
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Propositional fallacies:

Affirming a disjunct: concluded that one logical disjunction must be false because the other disjunct is true; A or B; A; therefore not B.
Affirming the consequent: the antecedent in an indicative conditional is claimed to be true because the consequent is true; if A, then B; B, therefore A.
Denying the antecedent: the consequent in an indicative conditional is claimed to be false because the antecedent is false; if A, then B; not A, therefore not B.

So in other words Truth can only define itself by it's own presence or absence.

True or False?

And humans are self-deceiving.

And is there no truth for lower orders of life, because they seek no definition?

I won't be on site much today. Meetings and all that.