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Post Watch: Encouraging Addiction(s)

January 19th, 2012 · No Comments

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Tags: Energy · Post Watch · Washington Post

Unpublished Letters: Fact Checker’s Partial Facts On Pipeline Employment Implications

December 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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 even had [...]

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Tags: Energy · Post Watch · Washington Post · media

Unpublished Letters: Green is more than tacking on renewable energy

December 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Washington Post · green · green schools · media · unpublished letters

Post Watch: An airy (eerie) hole in wind coverage

December 4th, 2011 · No Comments

The Washington Post, for too many decades, has been the ‘home-town’ paper.  With the dead-tree edition at the breakfast table, the gaps and failures in coverage (and skewed editorial section) are too evident.  Thus, many — many — posts re The Post leading to a decision to begin/maintain a “Post Watch” series when frustration (or, [...]

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Tags: Post Watch · Washington Post · journalism · media

Post Watch: Balance and Absence aren’t top-flight journalism …

December 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments

As a native Washingtonian, weaned on morning and evening newspapers, The Washington Post is my hometown journal and has been (for too many decades) a key part of my window on the world.  Over the decades, however, that window has dirtied and darkened to distortion on critical issues to the point that I (and, well, [...]

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Tags: Post Watch · Washington Post · journalism · research · science

Washington Post advocated practicing journalism: Did they fulfill the mandate?

June 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment

A month ago, a forceful Washington Post editorial advocated that the media practice journalism when it comes to political candidates and climate change. The editorial began:

“CLIMATE CHANGE is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”

So says — in response to a [...]

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Tags: Energy · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies

Unpublished letters: “What is the long run?”

April 21st, 2011 · 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 and even had [...]

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Tags: Energy · Washington Post · lighting · unpublished letters

Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374)

April 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: George Will · Washington Post · analysis · climate change · environmental · journalism

Unpublished letters: A helicopter drone exists …

April 8th, 2011 · 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 [...]

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Tags: Energy · Washington Post · unpublished letters

Unpublished letters: On cool roofing, Lomborg ain’t so cool

November 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Washington Post · bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · environmental