This year’s event took place directly across the street from Occupy San Francisco – and from the welcome by BSR’s head, Aaron Cramer – through the passionate call to action of Al Gore and finally to the insights of Civicus’ Ingrid Srinath – the presence of Occupy was a constant message and the attendees were listening carefully.

Al Gore’s indictment of politics and the media fiddling (and lying) while the world’s environment falls apart.

More information on the rapid decline of the arctic…for most of us to ignore.

The War on Christmas will be televised.

Witches! Bloody altars! Aqua Buddha! Andy Cuomo’s lesions! All in a day’s Tea Party campaign.

Warmest June EVAH! Must have been those “climate-gate” emails.

In addition to deciding whether or not to legalize marijuana, California voters will decide whether or not to abolish AB 32, the state’s tough climate-change legislation. The abolition measure just qualified for the November ballot. Two big oil companies, Valero Energy Inc. and Tesoro Corp., invested heavily in gathering the signatures needed to get it on the ballot and will probably spend millions on the ensuing campaign.

So rumors abound that Al Gore did some extra-marital global warming. Gore and the most-likely lady–Laurie David, who produced An Inconvenient Truth (can you hear the jokes now?)–both deny having an incandescent liaison.

Way to jump on the extra-marital bandwagon, Al. Actually if the affair story is true, Gore handled it with far more discretion than Edwards, Ensign, Sanford…But still, extra-marital affairs just seem so de riguer nowadays.

The facts about human-caused global climate change have not changed: it’s real, it’s happening, and it’s a bitch. Also, because we are collectively burdened with an utterly dysfunctional political system which allows undue influence to liars, fools, cowards, weenies, loudmouths, hacks, charlatans, and absolute dickweeds, the chances of the American government taking positive action to [...]

There may, theoretically, exist “conservatives” who have sober, principled reasons for doubting the reality of human-caused global climate change, and perhaps one day diligent researchers may encounter one of these specimens in the wild. However, as of this writing, without exception, the “conservatives” denying climate change are doing so solely because they are willfully ignorant [...]