R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post is the second (here is the first and here the second) of RL Miller’s highlighting the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican candidates for Congress. An […]
Entries Tagged as 'climate change'
Stupid Goes Viral: Deep in the Heart of Climate Zombieland
September 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on Stupid Goes Viral: Deep in the Heart of Climate Zombieland
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers
Nissan’s aggressive Leaf campaign sets an example
September 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Last evening, my better 95+% was flipping through the channels and received the rare: stop, go back to that. What was that? A Nissan “innovation” advertisement in which the Nissan Leaf played a prominent roll, “if you never needed to buy another gallon of gas …” Watching this well-done advertisement made me think of Who […]
Tags: advertising · automobiles · clean emissions · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · political symbols
The Republican Migration from Peacock to Zombie
September 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Sadly, with each day, Republican Anti-Science Syndrome suffering is becoming ever more pronounced. While the attacks on science, scientific institutions, and scientific authority go well beyond this, Republican politicians are increasingly divorced from scientific institutions and knowledge in the realm of climate science. There are, it seems, too basic groupings to consider: Climate Zombies and […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party
Stupid Goes Viral: Climate Zombies in IA, MO, UT, VT, and WA
September 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post is the second (here is the first) of RL Miller’s highlighting the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican candidates for Congress. An utter disdain for science, […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party
Unpublished letters: Recognizing Jim Hansen
September 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on Unpublished letters: Recognizing Jim Hansen
WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · unpublished letters · Washington Post
Unpublished letters: Global Warming to boost allergy medicine sales
September 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · pollution · unpublished letters · Washington Post
Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure
September 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Unpublished Letters: Media responsibility for climate legislation failure
WarrenS has taken on an admirable resolution: to send a letter to the editor (LTE) (or, well, a major politician) every single day, on the critical issues of climate change and energy. This discusses his approach and here is an amusing ‘template’ to for rapid letter writing. Now, I have always written letters and even […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · journalism · unpublished letters · Washington Post
Expensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy
September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on Expensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy
Let us face a simple fact: no matter how good we get at mitigating climate change, climate chaos and damage from human-driven global warming will get worse before it gets better. We might have control over how bad and influence on the impacts of the disrupted climate system, but the situation will get worse than […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · guest post
We don’t need your help … we don’t want it …
August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments
When it comes to the necessity of facing down pollution in the nation’s electricity system and other major polluting industries, it is hard to read recent Obama Administration action as anything other than a strong statement to leading environmental organizations: Stay out of our way, we don’t need your help … we don’t need it. […]
Tags: climate change · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · Obama Administration · politics
Senate Climate Change inAction: Postmortem thoughts continued …
August 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on Senate Climate Change inAction: Postmortem thoughts continued …
The abysmal failure for US Senate movement forward on climate change mitigation legislation has many fathers and mothers, many to blame. And, the blame game is moving around … along with lots of CYA discussions. To a certain extent, the pointing fingers and ‘who me’ exercises can get a bit exaggerated because while there is […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming