Get Energy Smart! NOW!!!

Politico published a science story by Erika Lovley so bad that, well, there is no legitimate reason to post directly to it directly as opposed to Joe Romm with New media same as the old media. Politico pimps global cooling for Hill deniers, David Roberts with Politico’s journalist malpractice, The Way Things Break with [...]

[Read more →]

Larry Summers is now officially part of the senior Obama Administration team on economic issues. Let us be clear, energy and global warming are cross-cutting issues, so cross-cutting that stances on views on these issues should be examined against essentially all appointees. While Summers has the shadow of a controversial early 1990s World [...]

[Read more →]

In his second substantive, issue-focused discussion since the election, President-elect Barack Obama spoke to the bipartisan governors’ meeting on climate change, with an extensive international audience. I recommend reading the speech (after the fold) and watching the video, but there are some key points worth calling out and perhaps just one important issue to raise.
This [...]

[Read more →]

We see this in blogging spaces, in coffee pot conversations, from right-wing talk show hosts to any conversation in the Senate including Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon), the ever increasing frustration of those speaking with science and fact in their efforts to speak with, to engage, to convince those rejecting the science in relation to Global [...]

[Read more →]

Tomorrow night, Frontline will broadcast Heat, a result of some 18 months of work …

[Read more →]

In South Carolina, the “Democratic Party” candidate is Bob Conley, who must be mentioned was recently a Republican, on a county GOP committee until winning the Democratic Party primay, and Ron Paul supporter. On the Repulbican side, Lindsey Graham. In this race, Saturday’s debate could well be a telling one for anyone who [...]

[Read more →]

The various fossil fuel industries have been spending hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars to influence the national discussion this year, from campaign contributions to Santa Claus giving out ‘clean coal’ at the Metro exits closest to Congressional offices to sponsoring presidential debates throughout the election cycle. This fossil foolish promotion [...]

[Read more →]

Jill Richardson is an extremely interesting, provocative, and fresh voice on the web in the arenas of food and agriclture. She is a founder of La Vica Locavore. This is, with permission, a cross-post of her latest piece.
Last weekend, I visited the Rodale Institute as part of the 2008 Community Food Security Coalition Conference. [...]

[Read more →]

Yesterday, 152 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on climate principles. The elevator speech:
create jobs
clean energy
reduce pollution
protect consumers
With four key goals,
1. Reduce emissions to avoid dangerous global warming;
2. Transition America to a clean energy society;
3. Recognize and minimize any economic impacts from global [...]

[Read more →]

Grimly he watched America walk by.
A precipice that we might have already passed.
Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis.
Permafrost bubbling methane.
Experts at denial.
Acidification of the oceans.
Experts at filtering their informatioon to hear only what made it seem sensible to behave as they behaved.
Ever [...]

[Read more →]