The New Year began with a bang over at the Huffington Post: the explosion of a new poster with a diatribe meriting a solid 100 on the Inhofe scale.
As a reminder, thoughtful energy blogger Lou Grinzo (Cost of Energy) developed the concept of The Inhofe Scale.
The Inhofe Scale will be used to measure [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Al Gore'
HuffPost scores a 100 on the Inhofe Scale
January 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Al Gore · Energy · Global Warming · James Inhofe · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness
Al: It is time to pick up the phone …
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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The VP rumors are running hot and heavy. Kaine? Bayh? Sibelius? Clark? Clinton? Biden? Every direction one looks, a different name.
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This choice will say something serious about Barack Obama’s commitment to taking action on the greatest challenge that this nation, that humanity might ever have faced.
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This choice matters. And you [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2008 presidential campaign · Al Gore · Energy · barack obama
Throw off complacency: 100% renewable electricity
July 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%! Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal. And, determine to do this within a decade.
People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong. This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but possible.
They will, as [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Energy · carbon dioxide · carbon neutral · environmental · government energy policy · green · politics · pollution · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy
Deniers Descend to Outright Deceit
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Global Warming Deniers (and their extreme right-wing enablers) are showing their desperation. Rather than continue with simply confusing people with distortion of data (lies, damn lies, statistics, and statistics from Global Warming deniers), we have before us a case of deliberate doctoring of evidence to distort events. For too many in the American right wing, [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming · climate change · environmental · global warming deniers · politics · truthiness
WE … WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective
April 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tomorrow, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection are launching a $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize American support for serious action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in “one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.”
One of the real challenges when it comes to press reporting on Global [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Congress · Energy · Global Warming · an inconvenient truth · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · coal · emissions · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy
CEI: Truthiness, rather than truth, to destroy the future
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is launching a national advertising campaign attacking Al Gore. And, via the attacks on Gore, seeking to undermine a growing understanding by Americans that we must act in face of global warming or face quite serious consequences.
CEI is focusing on attacking the messenger, rather than the message, since it (and other [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming · astroturfing · global warming deniers
Talking Environment to America’s Baptists
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Al Gore talked to the Southern Baptist Convention with a somewhat unheralded talk that, reportedly, went over strongly. From Robert Parham’s editorial at Ethics Daily.COM, Gore Delivers Most Important Baptist Address in 30 years
Former Vice President Al Gore delivered the most energetic, substantive and potentially transformative speech made by a Baptist to a Baptist audience [...]
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49 People to Save the Planet? And, one to kill it?
January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The Guardian’s 50 People who could save the planet is an interesting mix. There are some that I’ve heard of and admire. Many that I’ve never heard of and now admire. And some who I’ve heard of and ‘admire’ is far from a word that I would use for them.
What was their guiding principle?
50 people [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming
Talking to Kerry post vote
December 14th, 2007 · No Comments
We went backwards today on the Energy Bill. While, perhaps, this is better than the 2005 Energy Bill, the air has been drained out of my (and many others’) enthusiasm for the bill. Better than nothing. Probably. Guess what, Senator Kerry would have supported a much better energy bill, without a doubt. He wants a (far) better energy [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Energy · Global Warming · democrats · government energy policy · politics
Gore’s new venture … clean energy tech
November 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Well, Al Gore is taking on another venture. As Fortune phrased it,
The recovering politician, environmental activist, and Nobel laureate is adding another title to his résumé: venture capitalist.
Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming · business practice · carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions · investing
