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Energy Dumb Dana Rohrbacher showed his face on the House floor with a studied effort at willful ignorance a year ago several weeks before Senate Republicans stooped to the lowest forms of obstructionism to avoid having to have a substantive and meaningful debate about Global Warming legislation. Rohrbacher’s speech is worth a few [...]

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Dow Jones put up a story, and the Associate Press cribbed from the reporting, suggesting that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had some serious heartburn with the EPA’s conclusion that motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.
How accurate was that reporting?
Media reports today are suggesting that OMB has found fault [...]

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There are a number of fast, win-win-win paths for making real dents to turn the tide on Global Warming’s rising tide. A quick win-win-win, for example, would be ‘white-roofing’ (increasing the albedo) as much of the urban (man-made) landscape as possible. This can save energy, reduce the urban heat island impact, and cut into [...]

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Recently, several incongruous stories have crossed the desk (via those Internet tubes).

Barbara Boxer hired, into a key counsel position for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, a Republican whose resume includes fighting against stronger acid-rain provisions when Republican counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and employment with that stellar environmental institution, Peabody [...]

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Joe Romm looks pretty good with that ‘dummy’ in his arms …
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At the end of the day, the news from the climate science world is, if one searches for the laughing, most appropriately in the gallows humor zone.

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“We’re excluding the young, minorities, environmentalists, pro-choice — the list goes on,” says Olympia Snowe of Maine, one of two moderate Republicans left in the Senate after Specter’s switch. “Ideological purity is not the ticket to the promised land.”
From Time magazine’s look at the Republicans in Distress, questioning: Is the Party Over?

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As regular readers of these pages (these electrons) are aware, there are many , Many, MANY reasons to find frustration in The Washington Post opinion pages which are, on occasion, balanced by sanity in responding letters and OPEDs. There is, however, one quite consistent voice who makes opening those pages worthwhile: the [...]

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A beautifully illustrated guest post from alefnot, providing education about the carbon cycle.

A few days earlier this was air and water (and a trace bit of dirt). Is that amazing or what?!?

A couple of weeks earlier, so was most of this (except the woody bits). You can almost see CO2 being drawn down.

Young leaves have [...]

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With ever-more attention being given to Black Carbon, ’simple’ technology solutions like solar cookers and more efficient stoves have ever more appeal.  In the same realm of ’small’ can make a great difference, providing just a low level of lighting for the night can provide tremendous economic boosts in developing countries. Think one efficient light [...]

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This guest post, courtesy of the ever-brilliant and thoughtful Arthur Smith, looks to the recent CBO report on climate change.

Thanks to Michael Tobis I discovered a new report this week from the Congressional Budget Office that has the most dramatic illustration I’ve seen of projections of temperature for the remainder of this century (see immediately [...]

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