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Palin energy deception on national TV … again

October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

During the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah “Energy Expert” Palin continued to demonstrate either her fundamental ignorance about energy realities or her fervent desire to mislead as many American voters as possible with half-truths and un-truths. We’ll put aside the whole question of Sarah’s dealings with oil companies and the national gas pipeline and the problems […]

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Tags: Energy

Why not 435? Or, even 535? And, that’s just voting members …

October 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Why not 435? Or, even 535? And, that’s just voting members …

Yesterday, 152 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on climate principles. The elevator speech: create jobs clean energy reduce pollution protect consumers With four key goals, 1. Reduce emissions to avoid dangerous global warming; 2. Transition America to a clean energy society; 3. Recognize and […]

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Tags: climate change · Congress · Energy · Global Warming · politics

The Lomborg chill effect hits again

October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Bjorn Lomborg is eloquent, articulate, suave, debonair and recklessly dangerous. Lomborg’s disingenous truthiness provides a fourth category to “lies, damned lies, and statistics” which might referred to “Lomborg statistics“. He struck again with a Times opinion piece calling into question UK investment plans to fight global warming. It is hard, almost, to account for all […]

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Tags: analysis · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · truthiness