For too long, on my “to do” list has been to post on the serious questions related to the booming in America’s natural gas reserves due to the development of “Fracking” (hydraulic fracturing) technology and approaches that have enabled exploitation of the massive amount of carbon atoms in shale natural gas.
We know that “Clean Coal” [...]
Entries Tagged as 'truthiness'
FRACK YOU, Mother Earth …
June 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Energy · astroturfing · truthiness
WashPost, yet again: some true items spun into truthiness
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments
The Washington Post asked the other day “what’s going on” that people are confused about climate and energy issues. Well, today’s The Washington Post provided yet another example, in a distressingly long list of examples, as to why that confusion.
Entitled The Green Jobs Myth, former GE Smart Grid engineer Sunil Sharan argues that (as [...]
Tags: Washington Post · clean energy jobs · truthiness
Washington Post editorial board … confusion is bad (even if we’re at fault)
February 22nd, 2010 · 5 Comments
The Washington Post editorial board came out with a strong statement about climate change that, even with its few errors, would be an important statement if it weren’t such a monumental travesty in the face of actual Washington Post editorial policy and practices.
Entitled Climate Insurance, the editorial begins.
THE EARTH is warming. A chief cause is [...]
Tags: Energy · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · sarah palin · truthiness
Fred Hiatt jumps the shark in dragging Washington Post into the sewers: Publishes Sarah Palin OPED contradicted by links within the OPED
December 8th, 2009 · 14 Comments
As someone weaned on the Watergate-era Washington Post, The Washington Post opinion section has been abysmal in its ‘faux and balanced’ nature in recent years. And, it is sinking to a new low in its fostering of a ClimateGate era.
Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt’s utter disdain for truthful discourse has been evidenced not just [...]
Tags: George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · truthiness
Breaking News: Global Warming Not Occurring — 2009 Likely to Only be 5th Warmest Year on Record
December 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
This guest post from Colt45 is an excellent addition to the discussion of George Will’s serial deceits. (Re The George Will Affair see annotated discussions of dissections of George will-ful deceit Will with my struggling to keep up or Greenfyre’s George Will goes platinum.)
A new report by the UN confirms what many other studies have [...]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming · Washington Post · global warming deniers · truthiness
Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack
December 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Linked from CNN.com’s home page, David Frm weighs in with a disingenuous discussion of ClimateGATE (SwiftHack) with The Distorted Global Warming Debate that is a combination of truthful insight and distorting truthiness.
Frum’s argument that the United States (and, well, likely elsewhere) is descending into self-ghettoization intellectually, with people seeking ‘facts’ that support their beliefs rather [...]
Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · journalism · republican party · skeptic · truthiness
The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments
The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate:
The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.
This is serious, isn’t it? One of the key government institutions, globally, on [...]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming · climate change · environmental · truthiness
Well-worn excuses: ACCCE and others have been practicing
August 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Amid the Bonner & Associates, Hawthorn Group, American Coalition for Clean-Coal Electricity shenanigans of falsified (fraudulent) letters, with all implicated in LetterGate pointing fingers away from themselves, we have to ask: Do these excuses and explanations pass a basic laugh test?
Two quick examples of patterns that suggest some laughter could be in order.
ACCCE aggressively [...]
Tags: truthiness
Blogging about WashPost OPED Editing: Inane or Insane?
August 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
In Sunday’s Washington Post, yet another inane, deceptive, truthiness laden OPED appears on energy issues. Not satisfied with publishing George Will’s Will-ful Deceit, Krauthammer’s fact-free forays into energy analysis, Samuelson’s truthiness, and Sarah Palin’s paltry shallowness, and others, Kathleen Parker has stepped up to the plate for an attack on the American Clean Energy and [...]
Tags: Energy · Washington Post · truthiness
ACES Opposition based on Deception … the Putnam example
June 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
While there are quite serious issues to consider in how ACES was weakened leading to its passage yesterday and serious issues about whether this is the bill that is required, the vast majority of the opposition to the bill relied on deceit and deception. In part, Representative Lloyd Doggett’s decision to flip his vote from [...]
Tags: Congress · truthiness