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100 Days of Energy Smart Action

April 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on 100 Days of Energy Smart Action

President Obama's First 100 Days: A Fast Start for Energy and the Environment on Dipity.

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Tags: climate change · Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama

Dueling Newts

April 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Dueling Newts

At some point, you have to wonder whether people realize that the worldwide web exists, that the “tubes” can so easily be followed to place today’s comments within yesterday’s context.  Or, perhaps, if some people are so arrogant that they assume that reporters and others won’t have the ability to navigate those tubes to hold […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Earth (Day) Science: Climate and the energy budget

April 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Earth (Day) Science: Climate and the energy budget

This guest post from alefnot is a useful look at the climate change science. The EPA recently announced that greenhouse gases pose a threat to health and welfare through their role in climate change. Climate change is a complex, nebulous thing that we seem to find difficult to attribute to anything tangible. So what is […]

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Tags: climate change · Congress · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · greenwashing · Hillary Clinton

Forget about Cow Farts — What about Earth Burps?

April 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments

A guess post from Jamess, Global Warming Matters, who takes a different look than I at Boehner’s anti-science syndrome demonstration on TV Sunday. John Boehner dismissed CO2 gas as a pollution concern, by claiming on ABC’s This Week, basically, that Cows release it, so what’s the problem? BOEHNER: George, the idea that carbon dioxide is […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Boehner Flagrantly Flaunts ASS on Broadcast TV

April 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments

In a rather astounding, inappropriate for youth moment, House Minority Leader John Boehner chose to put his ASS on display. Anti-Science Syndrome, that is. Today, on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulus pushed Boehner to speak to Global Warming and the Republican Party’s plans to deal with Climate Change in like of Democratic House leadership (Markey-Waxman […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · republican party

US Chamber of Commerce using tax dollars to undermine energy / climate progress?

April 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on US Chamber of Commerce using tax dollars to undermine energy / climate progress?

The evidence is mounting that the US Chamber of Commerce (USCOC) is mounting its efforts to undermine legislative initiatives from the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party-controlled Congress using funds that, ultimately, come from the US taxpayer’s bailout funding of Wall Street firms. As discussed in Politico , Open Left, and elsewhere, the US Chamber […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · truthiness

For Sanity in an Editorial: A tip of the hat to The Tennessean

April 12th, 2009 · Comments Off on For Sanity in an Editorial: A tip of the hat to The Tennessean

Too much energy has to be expended taking on “faux and balanced” material in the nation’s newspapers of record, striving to foster sanity and truthfulness in the publications, rather than the  insanity and truthiness too often pandered in their pages. Swirling in the miasma of too often shoddy coverage and frequent deceit in the editorial […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy

Listening to a President …

April 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the struggles of the new Administration is adapting to having a US President who is actually worth listening to, for whom it is worth carving time out to watch and listen to public statements and the impressive number of press conferences/availabilities and town halls. Issues of energy and climate change come up in […]

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Tags: barack obama · climate change · Energy · Obama Administration

Bachman-Horner Overdrive of Global Warming Denial

April 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Michele Bachman, (R-MN-6), held a global warming denial promoting townhall without, par for the course for, even taking a question at the “townhall”. This session, which featured a presentation by Global Warming denier Chris Horner is most accurately described, as per the title, as the “Bachman-Horner Overdrive of Global Warming Denial”. Despite an MIT professor’s […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · politics · republican party · truthiness

NY Times: ‘He Says, She Says’ … who are we to judge?

April 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments

The New York Times seems to exude, at times, jealousy for the Washington Post for The Will Affair. Why should The Post be singled out, some at the Gray Lady must be thinking think, for shoddy journalistic approaches when it comes to Global Warming issues? Caught throughout his career at serial deception after serial deception, […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism