The Washington Nationals have a beautiful new stadium. A tax-payer paid stadium. A stadium padded itself on the back for its green attributes. This beautifully green stadium is plastered with: advertisements for that every so environmentally friendly Exxon-Mobil. Yes, that Exxon-Mobil that has so happily (and generously) supported global warming denialists as a path to […]
Entries Tagged as 'climate delayers'
Oily Green: Time for Washing up Some Washington Greenwashing
June 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Faux News: “Most Republicans crazy like a man stuck in a toilet”
June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Faux News: “Most Republicans crazy like a man stuck in a toilet”
Truth be told, the title isn’t an exact quote, but it isn’t far off. Yesterday on Fox News, anchor Shep Smith was recounting the story of a man in Pennsylvania who was stuck in a port-a-potty. According to the York Daily Record (PA), the man was “drunk, naked and wedged up to his waist […]
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A pause re profitability …
June 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on A pause re profitability …
The Lieberman-Warner Climate inSecurity Act (CISA) can accurately be described as the Coal Subsidy Act. With all the embedded subsidies and support for the coal industry, why is the coal industry fighting the Coal Subsidy Act? In short: not enough.
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Truthiness into the inbox …
June 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments
It had seemed that ABEC had bit the dust, having been transformed into ACCCE. But, it seems that obituary might have been a bit too soon as my in-box just was filled with truthiness and deception from the astroturfing Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Let’s take a brief look at this material from America’s coal […]
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Waving a white flag … Samuelson and Global Warming
June 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Robert J. Samuelson simply doesn’t believe in America, in American ingenuity, in Americans ability to rise to challenges and solve problems. From an acquaintance, This week’s Newsweek magazine carries a column by Robert Samuelson, titled Just-Call It Cap-and-Tax. Samuelson likes to say he’s not an economist. In this column, he certainly showed that to be […]
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The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
May 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
Next week, Senator Harry Reid is going to bring the Lieberman-Warner Coal-Subsidy Act to the Senate floor for debate and votes. Even after modification by Senator Boxer, Lieberman-Warner remains grossly inadequate in face of the challenges we face. Even so, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and global warming deniers are […]
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Alaska as a State in Denial?
May 22nd, 2008 · 10 Comments
Forget Katrina and Louisiana (where there are many other man-made factors, such as bad river management/flood protection), Alaska is the state most affected by Global Warming. It is also on the front lines of continued Republican efforts to confront reality directly … and deny it! Several Republican members of the Alaska State Legislature drove through, […]
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Chambering a round against future commerce
May 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues its deceptive campaign tour to fight any meaningful efforts to deal with Global Warming. Last week, the USCOC joined up with Senator George Voinovich in Columbus, Ohio, for the session deceptively entitled “Comprehensive Approach to Energy and Climate Change“. From the speech by USCOC President Thomas J. Donohue, he […]
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Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …
April 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …
Being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics’ arguments has proven, to date, to be a healthy and sensible way to deal with their truthiness claims and arguments. The Heartland Institute‘s distribution of a list of scientist supposedly doubting Global Warming yet again verifies the value of being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics. DeSmogBlog decided to take a look […]
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Dominion CEO Disconnected from Reality
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Dominion CEO Disconnected from Reality
“Those who seek to demonize coal or eliminate its use are, quite honestly, disconnected from reality.” Dominion Resources CEO Thomas F Farrell, II What is the reality that we are disconnected from? The 3.5 million tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxide, 10 million tons of sulfur dioxide, 48 tons of mercury, 56 tons of arsenic, 134,000 […]
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