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Here’s what some of DeSmog’s friends and fellow bloggers had to say thisย week:

Adam@TerraBlog writes:

A grab bag of compact-fluorescent related items this week. First up, the โ€œwife testโ€: it seems women are at least partly to blame for the dismal adoption rate of CFLs in the U.S., despite the fact that women are more likely than men to express a strong willingness to make behavioral changes to fight climate changeโ€ฆโ€

Eli@Rabett Run writes:

In 1997 a mass mailing appeared across the US sent by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, a one barn, no horse outfit that had specialized in curricula for home schoolers of the frum persuasion. The mailing included a letter from Fred Seitz, who signed as the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, neglecting to mention his extremely profitable experience as a front for the tobaccoย industryโ€ฆโ€

Hank@ecogeek writes:

I don’t know how I missed this, but apparantly Jerry Yang and David Filo, the co-founders of Yahoo! recently sumo wrestled for the environmentโ€ฆโ€

Matt@Framing Science writes:

How do you activate an otherwise disinterested Republican base on the issue of globalย warming?โ€

Dave@GristMill writes:

I wonder what would happen if the same amount of skeptical attention paid to global warming science were paid to the other disciplines that inform policymakers: economics, opinion polling, covert intelligence, diplomacy, history, ethics,ย etcโ€ฆโ€

And here’s some link-love for all the hard work everyone did this weekย at:

Stoat

Realย Climate

Maribo

TreeHugger

Ecorazzi

Ecoย Chick

Celsias

Blueย Climate

The Coffeeย House

No Impactย Man

Theย Intersection

The Voltageย Gate

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning. Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea partyย networks. Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on theย political and community organizing platformย NationBuilder. Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health. In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICTย applications. Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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