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Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing.
Now, I have always written letters [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · environmental · journalism

Expensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Let us face a simple fact: no matter how good we get at mitigating climate change, climate chaos and damage from human-driven global warming will get worse before it gets better.  We might have control over how bad and influence on the impacts of the disrupted climate system, but the situation will get worse than [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · environmental · guest post

Senate Climate Change inAction: Postmortem thoughts continued …

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments

The abysmal failure for US Senate movement forward on climate change mitigation legislation has many fathers and mothers, many to blame. And, the blame game is moving around … along with lots of CYA discussions. To a certain extent, the pointing fingers and ‘who me’ exercises can get a bit exaggerated because while there [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · climate change · environmental

The Darker Side of Lexus’ “Darker Side of Green”?

July 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Under the title The Darker Side of Green, Lexus (e.g., Toyota) has chosen to host a series of “debates” on climate change as part of its roll-out of hybrid Lexus CT200h. These events are hosted by a celebrity, with an environmentalist journalist and prominent skeptic ‘debating’ climate-change issues.
To debate or not to debate: that [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · advertising · anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · greenwashing

An Ecosystem View of Climate Change

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Take a moment to read this thoughtful guest post from matching mole.

This may not be exactly what some people might expect from the title.  I’m not going to include a lot of alarming facts and figures or dire predictions.  Instead I’m going to introduce the basics of ecosystem ecology and show how [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · environmental

The Breitbart of the Climate Change World?

July 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments

A simple fact: Andrew Breitbart has been incredibly effective.
With material that legal investigations, reviews by traditional journalism institutions, and other inspections have shown to be “severely edited” material utterly misrepresenting actual events, Breitbart provided the ammunition that enabled the takedown of an organization (ACORN) that had helped — quite literally — 100,000s of people (if [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics

Regular Post Columnist Rejects Paper’s Climate Denial Party Line

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Canada’s version of Faux News and the Washington Times, The National Post, has been a fountain of misinformation and deceit when it comes to climate science. The National Post’s pages have been filled with truthiness dribble from those rejecting science and seeking to distort the science into the public discussion. Last week, [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy

News from the Arctic: 27 June 2010

June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments

This guest post comes from Bill in Laurel, Maryland, who has been doing occasional posts highlighting changes in the Arctic.

Okay, now on to this week’s news.  The international study of the Arctic still goes on, despite our economic troubles.  At the North Pole in April 2010, two buoys with weather instruments were launched. [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · analysis · climate change · environmental

George Will’s next column won’t deal with a simple reality: Washington is wilting while the Arctic is melting

June 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Simply put, Washington, DC, weather is miserable at this time.  It feels like the middle of August, at the moment, with temperatures nearing 100 degree with very high humidity. Life for many: air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office, with too much sweat in the seconds moving from one air-conditioned space [...]

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Tags: George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · environmental

“All costs, no benefits …”

June 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The EPA has issued its analysis of the financial and economic impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act.  The bumper sticker summary of their (fundamentally flawed) analysis: action to mitigate climate change is affordable.  Sadly, however, the EPA has continued the strong economic tradition of robust analysis of costs of action with dramatic understating of [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · analysis · climate change · environmental