Get Energy Smart! NOW!

Blogging for a sustainable energy future.

Get Energy Smart!  NOW! header image 4

Entries from February 2010

Dear GOP: Please Stop “Bring ‘Em On”ing Mother Nature

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This guest post comes from The Green Miles who, with reason, is appalled at the Virginia GOP’s determination to display its anti-science syndrome credentials for all the world to see. [Note: for a related, background, post, see: Cold Weather … the glaring need for context You just had to do it, didn’t you, Republican Party […]

[Read more →]

Tags: anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · Energy · Global Warming · global warming deniers · virginia

Considering Institutional Authorities and Climate Change.

February 9th, 2010 · 11 Comments

Recently, I realized that one of the reasons why it is so interesting to focus on energy and climate change issues is the incredibly complexity of issues, interconnections, and feedback patterns/cycles in these interactions. If one is serious in these domains and is even slightly curious in nature, it is essentially impossible to learn something […]

[Read more →]

Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming

The Most Environmentally Unfriendly Super Bowl Ad

February 7th, 2010 · 47 Comments

The $millions put into Super Bowl advertising cannot, in general, be seen as anything approaching environmentally friendly considering what is core to most of the messages: consume and, well, consume more. There are, of course, some advertisements that are wrapped in “green” and which have at least a (debatable) case to made that they are […]

[Read more →]

Tags: advertising

Obama’s Missing The Boat on Clean Energy Will Turn Off Voters

February 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on Obama’s Missing The Boat on Clean Energy Will Turn Off Voters

This guest post from tboggia expresses an outrage over some of President Obama’s words shared by many fighting for a clean-energy future. Right after the State of the Union, young climate activists submitted a question about the President’s remarks on clean energy and crossed their fingers hoping that it would get asked. The smiling faces […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama

Now we know the problem … scientists need to caveat more …

February 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Now we know the problem … scientists need to caveat more …

John Beddington, the UK government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, evidently thinks the key challenge in the global discussion of climate change is that scientists don’t caveat their work extensively enough and that scientists speak too forcefully. According to reporting in the Guardian, [Beddington] said the false claim in the IPCC’s report was symptomatic of a wider […]

[Read more →]

Tags: climate change · Global Warming