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It’s not just #GasStoves, (open) wood fireplaces are an energy, climate, and human-health disaster

February 15th, 2023 · Comments Off on It’s not just #GasStoves, (open) wood fireplaces are an energy, climate, and human-health disaster

There has been quite a furor over gas stoves (how they worsen human health along with cooking (far) less efficiently and safely than magnetic induction stove tops) over the past few months. During cold winter snaps, one can see and smell the signs of yet another indoor air quality disaster: wood-burning fireplaces. ACTION ITEM NOTE: […]

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Tags: analysis · Energy · energy efficiency · Washington Post

In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise

January 7th, 2023 · Comments Off on In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise

In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]

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Tags: climate change · climate crisis · climate disruption · Sea Level Rise · Washington Post

Washington Post’s Snow Job about EVs in the snow is sadly par for the course

January 7th, 2022 · Comments Off on Washington Post’s Snow Job about EVs in the snow is sadly par for the course

Imagine adopting “Democracy dies in darkness” as a motto, and then running opinions echoing those who’ve dedicated their lives to blowing smoke–literally. The DC area, yet again, made global news through a massive traffic clusterf–k during a snowstorm as I-95, in Northern Virginia, got so clogged that drivers were stuck upwards of an entire day. […]

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Tags: electric vehicles · Energy · truthiness · Washington Post

Climate/Energy: Washington Post starts off 2021 on wrong foot

January 5th, 2021 · Comments Off on Climate/Energy: Washington Post starts off 2021 on wrong foot

Following guidance for ‘truth sandwiches’, a simple truth upfront: Scientists have concluded, based on multiple strands of evidence, that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels (including in aviation operations) “damages the climate” system. This is NOT about belief. On the morning of New Year’s day, my heart went with excitement on turning to page […]

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Tags: Energy · journalism · Post Watch · renewable fuel · Washington Post

Horrid @WashingtonPost #Bothsiderism: page A1 to @PostOpinions

February 25th, 2020 · 3 Comments

Media norms and practices (even from serious professionals seeking, in their own way, to achieve excellence) are clearly part of the reason ‘why’ Donald Trump occupies the White House. And, such norms are also clearly part of why it has been so hard to achieve paths to address (mitigation and adaptation) Global Warming over past […]

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Tags: global warming deniers · Heartland · SciComm · science denial · Washington Post

Seriously, what is the @WashingtonPost doing?

February 13th, 2018 · Comments Off on Seriously, what is the @WashingtonPost doing?

Evidently enraptured by the glowing reviews that the New York Times hiring of (climate) science dissembler (amid other problems) columnist Bret Stephens generated, The Washington Post opinion section just added ‘both sides’ specialist Meghan McArdle to their pages.  McArdle often reads as if emergent from Koch Industries public relations. A few quick examples: About London’s Grenfell […]

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Tags: journalism · Right Wing Sound Machine (RWSM) · SciComm · Science Communication · science denial · Washington Post

While enjoying sandals in DC during October or garden salad in January, remaining aware of climate threat

October 19th, 2016 · Comments Off on While enjoying sandals in DC during October or garden salad in January, remaining aware of climate threat

It is mid-October in the Washington, DC, suburbs and like most of the nation — much of the world — we are in a heat wave. Rather than bundling up in sweaters, a more appropriate fashion selection involves shorts and sandals.  It is, to say the least, incredibly pleasant to wander outside in such balmy weather […]

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Tags: Washington Post

Day after blunt takedown of #climate deceivers, @WashingtonPost gives soapbox (again) to one of them

September 19th, 2016 · 1 Comment

The Washington Post devoted a full page of the Sunday Outlook section to Pulitzer winner Tom Toles’ and Nobel Prize (sharer) Dr. Michael Mann’s Deniers club: Meet the people clouding the climate change debate which provides nine clarion examples of people who have “stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation”. One of those nine, ‘The Smiling […]

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Tags: bjorn lomborg · Washington Post

A call to journalists: treat #climate like a #sex scandal

December 30th, 2015 · 1 Comment

This guest post from Dean Baker provides a different perspective on inadequate media discussion and coverage of climate change issues.  In short, Dean reminds us that journalists do know how to dig to the bottom of a story and how to pressure politicians.  He asks media outlets and journalists to treat climate change with, at […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Congress · global warming deniers · guest post · journalism · Washington Post

Shhh … when it comes to #weather/#climate links, nothing to be seen here (@WashingtonPost edition)

December 27th, 2015 · 4 Comments

Shhh … there is nothing to be seen here. Even with perhaps the nation’s top political cartoonist on climate change, Tom Toles, and the excellent climate/energy/science reporting of the likes of Chris Mooney, article after article in The Washington Post discussing ‘weird weather’ in the DC area and elsewhere goes with nary a mention of […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · media · Washington Post · weather