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On 18 October, Politco published a Darren Samuelson article entitled “Liberals unhappy with Solyndra focus“.
Environmental groups are desperate to shift media attention away from Solyndra’s collapse and toward allegations of Obama administration favoritism to the Keystone XL pipeline, and they’re willing to throw the White House under the bus to do it.
This article comes amid [...]

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This guest post from DWG provides a perspective on “Climate Shift”, questioning Google’s intentions with the climate communicators’ program.
In addition to the items cited below, see Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374)

Several months ago, Google announced with some fanfare the creation of a new Science Communication Fellowship program with [...]

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The release of Matt Nisbet’s Climate Shift report (and the opening of the Climate Shift Project website) has been surrounded by a storm of controversy, opened by Joe Romm’s critique of Nisbet’s financial analysis (follow up here and here; Chris Mooney on science ‘balance’, and Media Matters’ critique of Nisbet’s media analysis).     I read a [...]

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Today, 15 representatives of America’s impassioned, engaged, and concerned youth met with the President. How many Americans know that the President met with them?
One of the realities of American politics is that the paid machine of distorting anti-science syndrome suffering haters of a livable economic system works the interpreters, HARD!  When the Tea Party [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
Suppose that you wanted to inject a framing into a purely political strategy which also happened to involve sabotaging the future of the nation’s economy?
“We sabotaged the future economy.”
Hmmm, that would be a bad talking point there.
How [...]

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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 and [...]

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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 and [...]

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This summer represented the longest vacation in over a decade, three weeks spent in the homes of relatives and friends in France driven, in part, by a serious illness in the family. This time, often with (extremely) limited web access, provided some breathing space, too much weight gain with excellent food, and provided some windows [...]

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Few people earn a living (or even make money) running a blog site — especially not one that focuses on issues of substance.  People do it for passion, love, ego, boredom, concern for public service … any number of reasons. And, in almost all cases, doing this costs money from indirect (opportunity costs) to direct [...]

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Like composting, newspaper reading was something absorbed while is in the womb. For much of my childhood, the Siegel clan had a morning and afternoon paper along with several local weeklies and national magazines. (Yes, college marketing matters: pa Siegel is still subscribing to Newsweek, come hell and high water, more than 50 years [...]

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