If you want a stirring stemwinder on climate action, here it is.

The speaker is my good friend Drew Jones, coauthor of this guest blog post (“Only the most ambitious emissions reductions under discussion within UNFCCC can achieve climate goals“).

As you’ll see, Drew took to heart my earlier “Advice to a young climate blogger [and public speaker]: Always use WWII metaphors.

*Technically, this can’t be the world premiere since the video is online.  But Drew has withheld posting it anywhere else so this is the official non-YouTube world premiere.

I’m not quite as optimistic as Drew is in this talk, but more good news keeps coming from key countries like China, India, and Japan.  I am going to launch a multipart series on this important topic this week.

For more of Drew’s work, click here.

Part 1 looked at how, conservatives vowed to purge all members who support clean energy or science-based policy following the House vote on the climate bill.

That anti-climate litmus test threatens the health and well-being of our children and grandchildren — and will ultimately prove self-destructive for conservatives, too, as noted in Part 2: Opposing clean energy hurts GOP “” Mellman.  More recent polling further underscores the danger of opposing the clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill (see Swing state poll finds 60% “would be more likely to vote for their senator if he or she supported the bill” and Independents support the bill 2-to-1).

Now Think Progress reports on another striking GOP effort to purge a member who failed the litmus test:

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Global warming is “capable of wrecking the marine ecosystem and depriving future generations of the harvest of the seas” (see Ocean dead zones to expand, “remain for thousands of years”).

A new documentary on ocean acidification is airing tonight (Saturday) on Planet Green at 8 pm.  (You can find your Planet Green channel on their website.)  Here’s the trailer:

For more on the subject with links to primary sources and recent studies, see “Imagine a World without Fish: Deadly ocean acidification “” hard to deny, harder to geo-engineer, but not hard to stop “” is subject of documentary.”