The Climate Minute - Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

It's been an exhausting week here in New England with a certain local team made good while depriving the entire region of sleep for about two weeks, but we're here bright and early with this week's edition of The Climate Minute.   This week Ted and Rob talk carbon bubbles, wonder if we've learned anything since Superstorm Sandy, and even talk about revolutionary scientists plotting the overthrow of capitalism.   Well, not quite... Now, the links First tulips, then housing, and now carbon.  For more discussion of the coming "carbon bubble," check out Bloomberg's report here (how apropos that the writer of that one is Justin Doom - you can't make this stuff up), and for Al Gore's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, check this link. While we're talking bubbles and stock values, the stock market provides an instructive analog to climate change and temperature.  Remember - we're talking trends, not fluctuations. Several sites have done Sandy Anniversary stories.  Tom Ashbrook did an On Point episode you can listen to here, and continuing our public radio obsessions, here's a piece from the Bill Moyers & Friends site. For a nifty tool to assess your community's energy efficiency, download the ACEEE tool here. Finally, Ted's favorite Naomi Klein, is causing trouble again -- or more accurately talking with scientists who are causing trouble -- suggesting that science is telling us it's time to revolt against the dominant capitalistic paradigm! Things to do The "Playing for the Planet" world music benefit will be taking place tomorrow, November 2nd, at 7pm at Emmanual Church in Boston.  The concert benefits our good friends at 350Massachusetts.  For more information, go here. The EPA is taking “their show on the road” and is doing a “public listening tour” taking public input on their newly announced powerplant co2 rules.  They will be coming to Boston on November 4th, you can sign up to testify here. "You Had Me at Pigovian..." is the alluring tagline of an event being held Tuesday, November 19th, at Babson University discussing the importance of a carbon tax.  See more information here. Remember, for more climate activities near you check out our MCAN climate action calendar.  You can enter events as well as browse for interesting things to do. As always, it’s been a pleasure sharing climate news and views with you.  You know, you can subscribe to our iTunes feed and get our podcasts automatically here.  Feel free to give us your thoughts on our Facebook page, or through old-fashioned email.  You can even follow us on twitter @MassClimate , so there are lots of ways for you to listen and participate in the dialog. When you are on the website, please contribute to MCAN. Every dollar you give will be doubled by a generous backer, so long as we reach our fundraising goal.   So we will close the way we always close, by saying that because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions,  because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is a patriotic duty as citizens, we insist that the US put a price on carbon. Good bye and see you next week…