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Recently, several incongruous stories have crossed the desk (via those Internet tubes). Barbara Boxer hired, into a key counsel position for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, a Republican whose resume includes fighting against stronger acid-rain provisions when Republican counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and employment with that stellar environmental institution, […]

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Joe Romm looks pretty good with that ‘dummy’ in his arms … <object width=’448′ height=’280′><param name=’movie’ value=http://beta.sling.com/v/152458 /><param name=’allowFullScreen’ value=’true’ /><param name=’allowscriptaccess’ value=’always’ /><embed type=’application/x-shockwave-flash’ src=’http://beta.sling.com/v/152458′ height=’280′ width=’448′ allowFullScreen=’true’ allowScriptAccess=’always’></embed></object> At the end of the day, the news from the climate science world is, if one searches for the laughing, most appropriately in the gallows […]

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As regular readers of these pages (these electrons) are aware, there are many , Many, MANY reasons to find frustration in The Washington Post opinion pages which are, on occasion, balanced by sanity in responding letters and OPEDs. There is, however, one quite consistent voice who makes opening those pages worthwhile: the Post’s pulitzer prize-winning […]

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This guest post, courtesy of the ever-brilliant and thoughtful Arthur Smith, looks to the recent CBO report on climate change. Thanks to Michael Tobis I discovered a new report this week from the Congressional Budget Office that has the most dramatic illustration I’ve seen of projections of temperature for the remainder of this century (see […]

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The Minority Staff of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has distributed a “dear colleague” letter from anti-science syndrome suffering Joe Barton arguing, based on this MasterResource analysis, that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would only reduced Global Warming by .09 degree Fahrenheit by 2050. Let us assume, graciously, that […]

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Fred Hiatt has amassed a collection of global warming denying and fossil-foolish columnists for the Washington Post. George F. Will; Charles Krauthammer; Robert J. Samuelson can be counted on to enter the fray with deceit and truthiness to clouden our understanding of energy and climate issues, seeking to undermine the building of consensus toward policies […]

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During the Clinton Administration, Carol Browner and Larry Summers faced off on climate issues. Carol Browner worked with Vice President Gore and others to develop paths for moving forward toward a less carbon intensive economy. Summers undercut momentum forward with strenuous (misguided, poorly informed, stove-piped economic analysis) statements of concern. Summers “argued that the United […]

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Facing dissent from within The Washington Post, dissent that has gone public in many ways, and with the Post editorial board implicitly having rebuked George Will’s repeated Will-ful deceit in multiple ways, Washington Post opinion page editor Fred Hiatt was pitched a softball question in an online chat enabling him to undo some of the […]

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This was Bill Maher’s question last Friday. And, this is both a serious and a sad question.

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One thing seems to be muting the keening cries of newspaper failure and to be boosting the profit sheets of broadcast media: greenwashing advertisements from fossil fools seeking to distort the conversation about the opportunities and benefits of moving to a cleaner energy future. Reading or watching these advertisements would quickly convince you that some […]

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