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Unpublished letters: “What is the long run?”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Tags: Energy · Washington Post · lighting · unpublished letters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Unpublished letters: A helicopter drone exists …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Tags: Energy · Washington Post · unpublished letters

Unpublished letters: On cool roofing, Lomborg ain’t so cool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

A WashPost heaping of garbage

September 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This past Saturday, I opened the Washington Post editorial page and saw the following title:
Could the garbage heap help save us from global warming?
This title and quick glance talking about agricultural waste caught my attention, making me think that The Washington Post was publishing an OPED about one of my favorite win-win-win-win climate change mitigation/geoengineering  [...]

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Tags: Energy · Washington Post

Line dry clothing: an “uncivilized” energy smart choice?

September 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Amid their enthusiastic embrace of western consumer technologies, increasingly affluent Chinese are leaving one appliance behind: clothes dryers.  According to Washington Post front-page reporting,
For reasons practical as well as cultural, most Chinese consumers simply don’t like clothes dryers. Don’t want them. Don’t trust them. Won’t buy them. And even when they have [...]

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Tags: China · Energy · Washington Post · clothing · eco-friendly · environmental

Unpublished letters: Recognizing Jim Hansen

September 6th, 2010 · 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 [...]

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Tags: Washington Post · climate change · environmental · journalism · unpublished letters

Unpublished letters: Global Warming to boost allergy medicine sales

September 4th, 2010 · 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 [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · pollution · unpublished letters

Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure

September 2nd, 2010 · 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 [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · environmental · journalism · unpublished letters

Two out of three ain’t bad …

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

When it comes to environmental and energy cartooning, there is no other major outlet’s cartoonists who comes close to matching the knowledgeable and insightful cartooning that Tom Toles brings to the pages of The Washington Post. As commented before,
With Toles, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But, he last won the Pulitzer [...]

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Tags: President Barack Obama · Washington Post · political symbols