Fareed Zaharia was on with Anderson Cooper in what is an informative and interesting interview which CNN has entitled: Zakaria: Republicans are pandering on gas prices. Zakaria lays out numerous ways in which Newt Gingrich’s “$2.50 gallon of gas” and Republican attacks on President Obama re gas prices are at odds with reality. (Although, Zakaria […]
Entries from March 2012
Zakaria error tweets its way around the world …
March 18th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Me and my Master Metered Condo….more
March 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
I’ve written, previously, about how difficult it is to get people who live in master metered communities to care about efficient use of water, gas and electricity when they never see a utility bill. It can be done but it’s a hard slog. The most effective way to reduce consumption in these buildings is to […]
Tags: Energy
Shallow deception in anti-Millenial study?
March 16th, 2012 · Comments Off on Shallow deception in anti-Millenial study?
Making the rounds of the nation’s ‘traditional media’, a “study” proving that America’s youth care less about the environment and ecology than their parents at the same age. Have to say, when I first saw the news headlines, I had an ‘aw s..t’ moment. Really not the best way to wake up in the morning. […]
Tags: environmental
The Republican Agenda To Raise America’s Gas Prices
March 16th, 2012 · 3 Comments
While Newt Gingrich travels the country extolling the power of a magical plan to lower gasoline prices (perhaps revolving around unicorns towing our cars), a simple fact: The Republican policy agenda will lead to increased gasoline prices at the pump in the short, near, mid, and long term while undermining the American economy and American […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · Energy · oil · republican party
TPM Mangles Reporting on Presidential Comments
March 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Earlier today, at Talking Points Memo, Benjy Sarlin authored Obama Mangles U.S., World History In Energy Speech. While Sarlin’s article provides some interesting nitpicking about President Obama’s excellent speech, a basic point: Sarlin mangled the reporting in a way that boosts the strength of his points via rather questionable journalism.
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · President Barack Obama · truthiness
President equates Republican clean-energy opponents to Flat Earth Society
March 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Today, President Obama game a speech (text and comments after the fold) on energy issues. The takeaway line when it comes to clean energy: “If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They would not believe that the world was […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · Energy · Obama Administration · oil · peak oil · President Barack Obama
Cherry Blossoms: Another Global Warming Canary …
March 15th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming’s increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the ‘luxury’ symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions. Global Warming’s threat to skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to wine making and bourbon and beer and chocolate and maple syrup and […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · science · Washington Post
The disappearing Great Lakes Ice
March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on The disappearing Great Lakes Ice
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · guest post
A Conversation with Herman Daly
March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on A Conversation with Herman Daly
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According to Joe Bastardi, humanity must live in the mountains?
March 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on According to Joe Bastardi, humanity must live in the mountains?
Joe Bastardi, who has a long record of dissembling truthiness and truthlessness when it comes to climate science issues, appeared on Fox News (yet again). Of of his comments has received much attention: BASTARDI: CO2 cannot cause global warming. I’ll tell you why. It doesn’t mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its […]
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate delayers · climate zombies · global warming deniers · truthiness