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	<title>ThinkOrSwim (the Climatechange.ie Blog)</title>
	
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		<title>Ecological Ponzi scheme ignores natural capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, my article, as it appears in today&#8217;s Irish Times: AT THE weekend, I took a load of junk from the garden shed up to the local recycling centre. Use of the Ballyogan facility costs €30 per car. Of course, &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/ecological-ponzi-scheme-ignores-natural-capital/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>World’s oceans drowning in plastic sludge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, my piece from the latest edition of &#8216;Village&#8217; magazine. If you haven&#8217;t done so yet, dash out and buy it. Village is among the last vestiges of the non-corporatised media still standing in Ireland. It deserves, demands, our support. &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/worlds-oceans-drowning-in-plastic-sludge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Anthropocene – Age of the Sociopath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkorswim.ie/?p=1860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, this quite wonderful short animated piece by Steve Cutts. I showed it on a large screen by way of a little, ahem, light relief during a meeting earlier this week and it went down a storm, so here, &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/the-anthropocene-age-of-the-sociopath/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How climate change is destroying the Earth</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/how-climate-change-is-destroying-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thinkorswim.ie/?p=1855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A picture, they say, can be worth a thousand words. I was contacted recently by a group of volunteers who design and research material to help communicate climate change to the general public. They suggested the infographic below might be &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/how-climate-change-is-destroying-the-earth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The psychology of bracing for very bad news</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is my second article from Village magazine&#8217;s special issue on climate change: Once upon a time the people wearing the sandwich boards proclaiming that ‘The End is Nigh’ were a reassuringly small, fringe group of individuals, many clearly suffering from &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/the-psychology-of-bracing-for-very-bad-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The human race is almost run</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, one of my articles from the current edition of &#8216;Village&#8217; magazine&#8230;. ‘Insanity in individuals is something rare &#8211; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule’ – Friedrich Nietzsche I like people; indeed, some of my best friends &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/the-human-race-is-almost-run/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Safe bet that this year will be one of the hottest yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, my article from today&#8217;s Irish Times, where I took a slightly different tack and asked the &#8216;real experts&#8217; on risk, i.e. the bookies, to give the odds on 2013 being yet another year for the record books. The results &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/safe-bet-that-this-year-will-be-one-of-the-hottest-yet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You must feel vindicated, what with Hurricane Sandy and the way the weather and climate change has gone this year”. That’s how a business acquaintance of mine put it the other day during a pre-Christmas lunch. Her point was that &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Steady as she goes: global climatic denial guarantees chaotic future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the full, 800-word version of my article, a compressed version of same appears in this morning&#8217;s Irish Times, which runs to just 600 words, so a quarter of the original piece fell under the subs&#8217; desk knife. This &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/steady-as-she-goes-global-climatic-denial-guarantees-chaotic-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity’s killing spree about to come full circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies for an uncharacteristic outbreak of navel-gazing, below, my article as it appears in the current issue of &#8216;Village&#8217; magazine&#8230; My interest in environmentalism is barely 10 years old. For the bulk of my adult life, far meatier concerns &#8230; <a href="http://www.thinkorswim.ie/index.php/humanitys-killing-spree-about-to-come-full-circle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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