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Tom Friedman IS right …

March 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Should we put aside the “Friedman unit” and the certainty that things will be magical six months for now? Should Tom Friedman ever be enabled to live down his rampant cheerleading for unchecked globalization? The answer, to be clear, to these and other questions is “NO!!” Yet, when it comes to the questions of energy, […]

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Tags: climate change

Glenn Beck = Stalin: Assassination of a Climate Scientist

March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A guest post from the ever-insightful and passionate about science APSmith. That would be character assassination of course – we’re talking about wingers here. So, this past Wednesday morning on Glenn Beck’s TV show, he bizarrely focuses on a climate blogger and scientist, Michael Tobis of Only In It For The Gold. Beck claims that […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · skeptic

The Will Affair … struggling to keep up

March 4th, 2009 · 31 Comments

This post is an effort to provide some links and some of the quotes of the massive number of blog posts calling out George Will and The Washington Post in The Will Affair.

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

“You just don’t seem to think the times have changed …

March 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

This clip from last week’s Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works (EPW) hearing for an Update on the Latest Global Warming Science is, well, breathtaking. While the world is seeing real impacts (from ice retreats to changing weather patterns) from heating, which science links to CO2 (and other) emisssions. With CO2 levels soon to […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming

What’s in a name? Warming; Change; Chaos; Disruption; Catastrophe; Climaticide

March 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Tributes to Johnny Rook & Climaticide Chronicles

March 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments

To honor Johnny Rook (nee Steven Kimball), his family has asked for contributions to The 350.org Johnny Rook / Steven Kimball fund. There have been moving posts about Johnny Rook’s and the Climaticide Chronicles. Here are links to and extracts from a number of them. A Siegel, Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! Homage to a hero: […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · journalism

Some columnists get it: climate realism in the OPED section

March 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Some columnists get it: climate realism in the OPED section

With the visibility of The Will Affair (and George Will’s serial distortions), problems with John Tierney distortions at the New York Times, Krauthammer, Samuelson, etc …, sometimes it can seem that columnists throughout the traditional media simply don’t get climate crisis reality and are unable to communicate science to a broader community. Outrage over these […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Fire and Ice …

March 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments

10,000+ people are descending on Congress to lobby on climate change as part of Powershift 09. And, many of those will participate in what might be the largest climate change disobedience action in history: the Capitol Climate Action to seek to shut down the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant. Meanwhile, the DC area (along with much […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · journalism

And, they sat waiting. Sadly, idling …

March 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on And, they sat waiting. Sadly, idling …

Powershift 09 is an empowering environment. 11,000+ dedicated (principally) young people, all working in their own ways to help carve a better future not just for themselves, but for their communities, their fellow citizens and, literally, the rest of humanity. It is hard to imagine another environment where the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming

WashPost Ombudsman steps up and steps in it … Plus another Will fabrication …

February 28th, 2009 · 12 Comments

Andrew Alexander, The Washington Post‘s new Ombudsman, has really stepped into it big time with the mounting Will scandal due to his distortions, deceptions, and dishonesties when it comes to Global Warming columns. Alexander sought, it seems, to calm the raging seas by stepping up with a piece that will appear in tomorrow’ Post but […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers