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WIN to the Sixth Power

November 16th, 2009 · 10 Comments

With our ever mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, enviornmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos , we are in a very serious situation. Our serious challenges are, as the previous sentence suggests, […]

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Tags: algae · architecture · architecture2030 · building green · climate change · electricity · Energize America · Energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy

Palin goes rogue with counter-factual statements

November 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

We should acknowledge benefits to Sarah Palin’s continued prominence in American society and political discussion. If nothing else, Palin opening her mouth is a jobs program to keep fact checkers busy at work. Her truthiness-laden Going Rogue should have us all going rouge (red) faced with frustration at the her page-after-page liberties with truth and […]

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Tags: Energy · energy bookshelf · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics

Will George Will’s next column highlight this?

November 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Will George Will’s next column highlight this?

Earlier this year, columnist George Will sparked controversy with claims that global ice levels were the same as (if not greater than) 30 years earlier. This was part of George Will’s retread truthiness and deception in his widely syndicated columns falsely asserting that global warming is not happening. With his Will-ful Deceit, Will spun this […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · George Will · Global Warming