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Entries from May 2010

WashPost editorial board calls out Kook-inelli

May 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Washington Post lead editorial this morning strongly rebukes the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, for seeking to repudiate reality and to throw out the concept of academic freedom. They highlight that Cuccinelli’s witch hunt could cost Virginia dearly, undermining the reputation of Virginia’s excellent universities while risking real falls in […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · virginia · Washington Post

Scientists issue powerful statement

May 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Perhaps you’ve missed it (that is if you haven’t been connected to the world for a few decades are so), but there is a full-throated attack under way against the integrity of the scientific process, scientists and the scientific community. While climate skepticism / denial has many motivations, the simple fact: with each passing day, […]

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Tags: Energy

America’s Carbon Addiction: This Is An Intervention

May 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments

This guest post comes from the thoughtful, passionate, and eloquent Sara Robinson, who blogs at Campaign for America’s Future. Sara lays out passionately and strongly why we must seize the moment to tackle our carbon addiction. George W. Bush — who knew a thing or two about addiction — was right about one thing: America […]

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Tags: Energy

Five Percent a Year is all we ask …

May 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues. Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all. Clarity of targets matter. Ever more experts are endorsing the call to create a path to return the atmospheric […]

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Tags: carbon dioxide · climate legislation · Energy · environmental

What’s in a name?

May 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments

No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Did you chant “Drill, Baby, Drill”?

May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The choice is rather stark … Do we follow the voices chanting in the below or do we listen to The Bear and pay attention to the Friends of the Earth? This Friends of the Earth ad should strike us all hard in the face.

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Tags: Energy

Drive, Baby, Drive Less … Drill, Baby, Drill Less …

May 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on Drive, Baby, Drive Less … Drill, Baby, Drill Less …

Courtesy of The Bear Party.

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Tags: Energy · politics

Drill, Baby, Drill: Drill the bottomless well

May 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Paul Krugman’s Drilling, Disaster, Denial is both a great OPED piece to see in the traditional media and, well, a troubling read. Great because of its focus on how one of environmentalism greatest problems might, in fact, have been its successes which could have helped lead to complacency in the public, undermining efforts to build […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · journalism

Massive Electricity Slick Spreads Across Gulf Of Mexico

May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

AENN’s correspondent Rei reports from AE New Orleans about a disastrous event in the AE Gulf of Mexico. AE Lousiana residents are bracing today for the arrival of an electricity slick spreading across the Alternate Gulf of Mexico after efforts to hold it at bay proved largely unsuccessful.

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Tags: Energy

The dangers of listening to Bobby Jindal

May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Louisiana’s governor Bobby Jindal (R) seems to be a dangerous man to listen to …

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Tags: Energy · politics