Earlier today, at Talking Points Memo, Benjy Sarlin authored Obama Mangles U.S., World History In Energy Speech. While Sarlin’s article provides some interesting nitpicking about President Obama’s excellent speech, a basic point: Sarlin mangled the reporting in a way that boosts the strength of his points via rather questionable journalism.
TPM Mangles Reporting on Presidential Comments
March 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · President Barack Obama · truthiness
President equates Republican clean-energy opponents to Flat Earth Society
March 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Today, President Obama game a speech (text and comments after the fold) on energy issues. The takeaway line when it comes to clean energy: “If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They would not believe that the world was […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · Energy · Obama Administration · oil · peak oil · President Barack Obama
Cherry Blossoms: Another Global Warming Canary …
March 15th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming’s increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the ‘luxury’ symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions. Global Warming’s threat to skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to wine making and bourbon and beer and chocolate and maple syrup and […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · science · Washington Post