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What’s the Difference between Global Warming and Climate Change?

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Re-blogged from The Climate Reality Project. Climate Change is one of my long term concerns and I have not written much about it  lately. So I thought I’d share this with you. You can call it global warming or climate change, but it’s the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. The Internet is full of references to global warming. But we don’t use the term “global warming” much here at Climate Reality. Instead, we prefer to use “climate change.”Why?  Global warming and climate change – while closely related and sometimes used interchangeably – technically refer to two different things: “Global … Continue reading What’s the Difference between Global Warming and Climate Change?

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No Dumb Blond: Interview with an Environmental Campaigner

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I first became aware of Theresa several years ago when I came across her website dedicated to sustainable development. Some time later I received a telephone call from her after the County Arts Office had given her my name as a contact for the Laois Writers’ Group. Theresa became a regular attender at the group’s meetings, where she shared with us her poems and other writings in which she expressed her concerns about the environment, and about what she sees as widespread economic injustice, exacerbated as it was by the political response to the banking collapse. As time passed it … Continue reading No Dumb Blond: Interview with an Environmental Campaigner