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		<title>Sports reporting so often fails to &#8220;Connect the Dots&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/10/13/sports-reporting-so-often-fails-to-connect-the-dots/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[catastrophic climate change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around the globe, from little kids playing with friends to premier professional athletes battling for prize money, climate change is increasingly impacting the sports world. Even so, most sports reporting continues to fail to connect the dots between a warming planet and worsening conditions for sports events. Here are several recent examples. PRC Tennis Tournaments [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Energy Bookshelf:  Here Comes the Sun!</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/09/10/energy-bookshelf-here-comes-the-sun/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[catastrophic climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy bookshelf]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unless you have been in a coma for several decades or living in Donald Trump&#8217;s dystopian mind, these two things are quite evident truths: Confronting these two realities feeds into a long-described self-description as a pessimistic optimist. The reality is that humanity has already created significant disruption to the earth&#8217;s system with serious and mounting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Confronting Trump&#8217;s Department of Energy Climate Deceit (action item w/deadline)</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/09/02/confronting-trumps-department-of-energy-climate-deceit-action-item-w-deadline/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate delayers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SciComm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sea Level Rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump 2.0]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On July 29, the Trump Department of Energy released a deceitful, truthiness-laden broadsheet at odds with basic climate science with significant distortion of what has and is happening in the real-world. This fossil-foolish screed, written by five-handpicked credential climate-science deceivers and deniers, is clearly designed to facilitate the Trump EPA&#8217;s July 29th (yes, same day) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Speak to Climate / Clean Energy in campaigns: It matters (Abigail Spanberger edition)</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/08/13/speak-to-climate-clean-energy-in-campaigns-it-matters-abigail-spanberger-edition/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2023 Virginia Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political symbols]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate change policy and politics has long faced a Catch 22: One of the (many) reasons why &#8220;Energy Smart Jeff&#8221; Merkley gained my enthusiastic support and fundraising when running (successfully) for Senate in 2008 was his recognition of that Catch 22 and determination to confront it head on. In one conversation (paraphrasing, don&#8217;t have the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Blame it on the weather …&#8221; Band cancels tour due to worsening climate chaos</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/07/17/blame-it-on-the-weather-band-cancels-tour-due-to-worsening-climate-chaos/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[catastrophic climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate crisis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Steve Miller Band announced yesterday that it has “cancelled all …&#160;upcoming tour dates”: &#8220;The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires &#8230;&#8221; That list certainly seems a smorgasbord of climate crisis fossil-fueled extreme weather events.&#160;&#160; The band has assessed the danger &#8220;risks for you our audience, the band and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WFA (Waste, Fraud &#038; Abuse) Exemplified:  GSA devastation of EV infrastructure</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2025/03/02/wfa-waste-fraud-abuse-exemplified-gsa-devastation-of-ev-infrastructure/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric of the Trump-Vance-Musk (TVM) Administration is that dodgy DOGE is focused on eliminating government Waste, Fraud and Abuse (WFA). Putting aside the Madoff-like accounting fraud of DOGE claims, the true Waste, Fraud and Abuse is the Musk-Trump Cabal&#8217;s actions. The General Service Administration&#8217;s (GSA&#8217;s) announcement of shutting down the GSA&#8217;s electric charger infrastructure [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hurricane Helene: Deploy the Sharpies &#038; Nuclear Weapons (and don&#8217;t say climate change)</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2024/09/27/hurricane-helene-deploy-the-sharpies-nuclear-weapons-and-dont-say-climate-change/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sea Level Rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Hurricane Helene devastates much of the Southeast, hitting hard a state whose governor (and government) has banned the words &#8220;climate change&#8221; from most official documents, some might be wondering when President Biden will pull out a sharpie and whether nuclear weapons are being discussed in the White House Situation Room. For any failing to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Energy Cool (or, well, hot) SSS: Systems of Systems Stovetops</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2023/03/17/energy-cool-or-well-hot-sss-systems-of-systems-stovetops/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[batteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy cool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation Reduction Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitchen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I pride myself on striving to think systems-of-systems, seeking to understand co-benefits and multi-solving along with potential negative impacts. Sometimes, however, I find myself strikingly (and, even, pleasantly) surprised when I fail to do so as was the case when first reading of induction stove-tops with built-in battery systems (about Impulse Labs&#8216; stovetop). Honestly, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">11080</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Reinforcing Climate Truths, dismissing fictions: reminders from the Debunking Handbook</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2023/02/16/reinforcing-climate-truths-dismissing-fictions-reminders-from-the-debunking-handbook/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[#AlternativeFacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myth Busting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my inbox this morning, an email from The Climate Capitalist promoting a debunking post The Six Great Climate Fictions. Putting aside whether these are the right &#8220;six great&#8221;, this otherwise thoughtful post is yet another example where reality-based thinkers, seeking to support accelerated moves to climate action, think like a scientist (rather than following [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s not just #GasStoves, (open) wood fireplaces are an energy, climate, and human-health disaster</title>
		<link>https://getenergysmartnow.com/2023/02/15/its-not-just-gasstoves-open-wood-fireplaces-are-an-energy-climate-and-human-health-disaster/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireplace]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There has been quite a furor over gas stoves (how they worsen human health along with cooking (far) less efficiently and safely than magnetic induction stove tops) over the past few months. During cold winter snaps, one can see and smell the signs of yet another indoor air quality disaster: wood-burning fireplaces. ACTION ITEM NOTE: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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