This guest post comes from the very thoughtful Alan Drake, who has done some of the best work related to the value of electrifying the national rail system. This fits with the clean energy jobs series. The 30% Energy Tax Credit has been quite useful in creating installation jobs for construction workers and for domestic […]
Make $3 create $10 worth of Clean Energy Jobs
December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Make $3 create $10 worth of Clean Energy Jobs
Tags: clean energy jobs · Energy · energy efficiency
Blockbuster breakthrough from MIT … yet again … huh?
December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blockbuster breakthrough from MIT … yet again … huh?
MIT is one of the nation’s leading sources for technological innovation with amazing faculty, amazing students, and often amazing output. Sometimes, however, it seems that their press releases are a good example of that amazing output in terms of their ability to make noise when noise might (MIGHT!) not be merited. More than one person […]
Tags: Energy
Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack
December 7th, 2009 · 5 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 […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism · republican party · skeptic · truthiness
The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE
December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE
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, […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · truthiness
Things fall apart as we slouch toward Copenhagen
December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Over recent months, R L Miller has increasingly impressed me with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post, on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit, is visually and intellectually a piece of beauty and pain. Turning and turning in the widening gyre the spin machine twirls and curls: E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers
Enemies of Green: Faux & Balanced in the Washington Post
December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post has a sad record of Faux and Balanced when it comes to Global Warming. Sunday’s opinion pieces provided yet another textbook example. Today’s paper has two authors, both enemies of ‘green’ … from utterly different angles.
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy efficiency · George Will · global cooling · politics · Washington Post