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Make $3 create $10 worth of Clean Energy Jobs

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

This guest post comes from the very thoughtful Alan Drake, who has done some of the best work related to the value of electrifying the national rail system.
This fits with the clean energy jobs series.
The 30% Energy Tax Credit has been quite useful in creating installation jobs for construction workers and for domestic suppliers of [...]

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Tags: Energy · clean energy jobs · energy efficiency

Blockbuster breakthrough from MIT … yet again … huh?

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

MIT is one of the nation’s leading sources for technological innovation with amazing faculty, amazing students, and often amazing output.  Sometimes, however, it seems that their press releases are a good example of that amazing output in terms of their ability to make noise when noise might (MIGHT!) not be merited.
More than one person sent [...]

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Tags: Energy

Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack

December 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Linked from CNN.com’s home page, David Frm weighs in with a disingenuous discussion of ClimateGATE (SwiftHack) with The Distorted Global Warming Debate that is a combination of truthful insight and distorting truthiness.
Frum’s argument that the United States (and, well, likely elsewhere) is descending into self-ghettoization intellectually, with people seeking ‘facts’ that support their beliefs rather [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · journalism · republican party · skeptic · truthiness

The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate:
The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.
This is serious, isn’t it? One of the key government institutions, globally, on [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · climate change · environmental · truthiness

Things fall apart as we slouch toward Copenhagen

December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Over recent months, R L Miller has increasingly impressed me with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post, on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit, is visually and intellectually a piece of beauty and pain.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
the spin machine twirls and curls:
E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers

Enemies of Green: Faux & Balanced in the Washington Post

December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Washington Post has a sad record of Faux and Balanced when it comes to Global Warming. Sunday’s opinion pieces provided yet another textbook example. Today’s paper has two authors, both enemies of ‘green’ … from utterly different angles.

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Tags: Energy · George Will · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global cooling · politics