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Thinking post-Lisa

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Global Warming concern troll Senator Lisa Murkowski has fallen in the Republican primary to a anti-science syndrome suffering hater of a livable economic system, who despises government, and represents fringe extreme views that simply don’t meet basic American ideals or the understanding/beliefs of most Americans. If Murkowski had prevailed in the primary, she almost [...]

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Tags: Energy · politics

We don’t need your help … we don’t want it …

August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments

When it comes to the necessity of facing down pollution in the nation’s electricity system and other major polluting industries, it is hard to read recent Obama Administration action as anything other than a strong statement to leading environmental organizations:
Stay out of our way, we don’t need your help … we don’t need it.
With monumental [...]

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Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · climate change · emissions · energy efficiency · politics

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

Delivering the post mortem on climate legislation’s failure …

July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

If the US Senate has, collectively, any substantive understanding of science, concern about American security, and desire for American prosperity into the future, there will be climate legislation. Sadly, with Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Haters Of a Livable Economic Society dominating one of America’s two major political parties and with Climate Peacocks mewing [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · cap and trade · climate change · climate legislation · energy efficiency · politics

JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!

July 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Since before the 2008 election, the core challenge for the incoming President was clear: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, we were amid a collapse of the economic system, it required stabilization. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, our energy situation was (is) a mess and the climate is boiling. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, our political system is [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama · clean energy jobs · climate change · climate legislation · environmental · politics

Are Natural Gas Vehicles destined to be the next ‘ethanol’-like boondoggle?

July 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off

Despite all the green washing out there (and there is lots of it, lets be clear), corn-based ethanol is far from a panacea in terms of reducing America’s dependence on imported oil, dependency on fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gases and representing a good investment for the taxpayer. While supporting corn ethanol is, it seems, [...]

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Tags: Energy · climate delayers · politics · t boone pickens

Energy Home: Composting with a Cone

July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Every day, I strive to Make Energy CENTS from the Home to the Globe. Whether programming the thermostat to low temperatures overnight to providing comments on national energy policy drafts to opening discussions as to Energy COOL technologies and concepts, my efforts to Energize America to a prosperous, climate friendly future cross a broad [...]

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Tags: Energy · energy home · politics · product review

Don’t forget your own words, Harry, “Coal makes us sick!”

July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Two years ago, Harry Reid stared into Faux and Balanced cameras square on and spoke truth:
Coal makes us sick …

Whether particulates driving asthma, black lung afflicting miners, diseases due to polluted waters from mountain top removal and coal waste, mercury in our food stream reducing IQs, or otherwise, burning “coal makes us sick“.
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Tags: Energy · carbon dioxide · coal · electricity · environmental · politics · pollution

Energy COOL Roofing is Cool: Secretary Chu takes action

July 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has advocated cool roofing as a very high payoff tool to improving energy efficiency in the built environment, reducing heat island impacts, and helping to move us forward in climate change mitigation. Yesterday, Secretary Chu announced a series of initiatives to spur cool roof deployment in (on) Department of [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · department of energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics

Will capping the well “put an end to the environmental disaster”?

July 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Words and framing matter.
When we consider the situation in the Gulf of Mexico, with the disastrous gushing of oil due to the (seemingly) criminal negligence of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling, moving forward to ending the flow of oil into the Gulf would be a significant move forward and something that we want to happen.
However, how [...]

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Tags: BP · Energy · OilApocalypse · Washington Post · oilpocalyse · politics