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Dear Senator Webb: It isn’t the “Murky Air Act”

January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Dear Senator Webb,
I have been extremely disappointed in your stances on energy and environmental issues, especially when it comes to climate change.
Let me provide background for a moment. I have long respected you, your thoughtfulness, and your career achievements. I was involved with the Draft Webb movement. During the general election race, I created a [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · clean energy jobs · climate change · government energy policy · politics

To Twit Lisa: It isn’t the “Murky Air Act”!

January 13th, 2010 · Comments Off

Senator Lisa Murkowski has been conniving with fossil-fuel lobbyists for a long time, seeking out paths to strip the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Alaska has been called the poster state for global warming. Winter temperatures have already risen 6 degrees. Sea ice that protects [...]

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Tags: Al Gore · Congress · Energy · Global Warming · carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions

Whole Foods’ CEO vs Whole Foods’ Values?

January 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Whole Foods’ CEO, John Mackey, has made news with a New Yorker profile quoting him promoting the rejection of climate change science. (See Whole Paycheck’s “Crazy Uncle”’s crazed global warming ignorance.) When it came to his climate science ignorance, the article’s author commented
One would imagine that, on this score, many of his customers, to say [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · business practice · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers

Typing out loud about China’s climate … revisited / expanded …

December 27th, 2009 · No Comments

This is an expanded discussion, with some revisiting, of something written a week ago trying to step back and consider the Chinese approach to climate negotiations in Copenhagen and elsewhere. I have, since reading it, been “assured” that Copenhagen failure was China’s fault. That “assurance” and assessing of “blame”, in my opinion, glosses over [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · carbon dioxide · climate change

Barton can’t see Arctic or Himalayas from his porch

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

While Sarah Palin might be able to see Russia from her front porch, evidently Representative Joe Barton can’t see the polar ice cap from his.  Throwing aside the adage that politics ends at the water’s edge, Barton and some Republican global warming denying colleagues traveled to Copenhagen to try to undermine the COP15 talks.
As reported, [...]

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Tags: Congress · Global Warming · carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy

“Coal’s assault on human health”

November 25th, 2009 · Comments Off

While the denialosphere is shouting about “ClimateGate” and traditional media turn their attention to SwiftHack, the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that should be on the front page of every newspaper, discussed passionately on every talk show, and be heard about by every adult American. While aware of the impacts of [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · carbon dioxide · coal · environmental · pollution

Energy Bookshelf: A Super Ten more worth your time and money than Freaked-out Freakonomics

November 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Sad-to-say, the air waves and oped pages and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics.   The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors’ Super(freaky)star status has the problem of giving it credence due to non-truthful truthiness [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · building green · carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · conservation · eco-friendly · energy bookshelf · environmental · global warming deniers

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kerry (D-MA): “Yes, We Can”

October 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, and Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts, have joined forces in what might be one of the most important single opinion pieces published in a newspaper so far in 2009. Published in The New York Times, Yes, We Can (Pass Climate Legislation), provides an indication of a [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate legislation · environmental · government energy policy

Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Republican Party of Virginia

October 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments

The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) (or, perhaps, simply staff) has embraced anti-science syndrome with a fervor that should astound anyone with the slightest regard for the scientific method and for the scientific community (communities). .  Here is an excerpt from an RPV-email attacking Democratic Party candidate for Attorney General Steve Shannon:
In Shannon’s only opportunity [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate legislation · global warming deniers · politics · republican party

A cap with a collar …

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Well designed, a cap with a collar can be a truly gorgeous thing.
To spark movement away from our carbon addiction, for business (financial) planning, and to gain enough support to pass climate legislation, any “Cap and Trade” structure almost certainly will have to have a “collar” to go with its “cap” on carbon emissions.
To be [...]

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Tags: business practice · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · climate legislation