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WE … WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective

April 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Tomorrow, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection are launching a $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize American support for serious action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in “one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.” One of the real challenges when it comes to press reporting on […]

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Tags: Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy

Gore: Media, take note, the world is NOT flat!

November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off on Gore: Media, take note, the world is NOT flat!

“There are still people who believe the world is flat … you don’t go and search out people who believe the world is flat and give them equal time.” Al Gore was on NBC yesterday and ripped the media for providing a platform for “outliers”, people who merit being taken as seriously as card-carrying members […]

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Tags: 746 · Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · journalism · media

41.4 tons to make a film?

September 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on 41.4 tons to make a film?

Carbon offset schmes have, well, too often seemed just like that to me.   Having read up on them (too much, I must say), at the end of the day I remained confused, unconvinced, and concerned. There are honest ones out there, I promise, just not sure that I am ready to fully endorse any of […]

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Tags: an inconvenient truth · carbon offsets

An Inconvenient Truth and Yearly Kos …

August 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on An Inconvenient Truth and Yearly Kos …

At the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, four Kossack trainees from The Climate Project took an impromtu opportunity Sunday morning to about 25 conference attendees between the nondenominational prayer service and the Blogger’s Brunch.

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Carbon Neutrality … fraud or fact? — riffing off Al Gore debate

March 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The sound-machine created controversy over Al Gore’s home energy use has brought focus to an issue that merits focus.  Are “Carbon Offsets” simply 21st century indulgences for assuaging the guilt of those living a life at odds with their belief structure (whether real or simply proclaimed) or do they have real meaning?

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