A (sometimes too) calm of voice of sanity has been silenced before his time. Martin Bosworth has passed away, a victim in the nation’s health care wars, the perfect patient for the health care system: he worked mightedly to keep himself healthy and away from doctors’ offices, a strategy that worked well when he was […]
Entries Tagged as 'climate legislation'
A voice of sanity silenced …
February 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on A voice of sanity silenced …
Tags: climate delayers · climate legislation · Energy · Global Warming · global warming deniers
POSTal Schizophrenia re Climate Science strikes again
February 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post has an incredibly uneven nature when it comes to the science related to Climate Change. The editorial page will publish an absolutely dishonest piece, be challenged to such an extent that they will publish multiple letters (including from misquoted scientists/scientific institutions) calling out the fraudulent material, and then give George “Will-ful Deceit” […]
Tags: Bill McKibben · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · democrats · Energy · environmental · George Will · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Washington Post
Messaging Can Become Reality: Abandoning a Carbon Cap?
December 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This is a guest post from R L Miller looking at messaging against potential climate action in Congress … The healthcare bill isn’t close to ready for a signature yet, and already concern trolls Senators have started trolling expressing concern for getting a climate bill through the Senate. Politico has a roundup: moderate Senate Democrats […]
Tags: climate change · climate legislation · Energy · government energy policy
Barton can’t see Arctic or Himalayas from his porch
December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Barton can’t see Arctic or Himalayas from his porch
While Sarah Palin might be able to see Russia from her front porch, evidently Representative Joe Barton can’t see the polar ice cap from his. Throwing aside the adage that politics ends at the water’s edge, Barton and some Republican global warming denying colleagues traveled to Copenhagen to try to undermine the COP15 talks. As […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · Congress · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
To Twit Claire: We Pay You to Do “Really, Really, Really Hard Things”!
November 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Dear Claire, Perhaps the American public, who are paying your salary (and your health insurance and your retirement), might think that your job is to work on the hard and important problems that require addressing. Emotions can fly high when dealing with hard and important problems. And, hard and important problems often have people with […]
Tags: climate change · climate legislation · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · politics
Republican Hero votes for Health Care Reform: Will he get the climate catastrophe treatment?
November 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on Republican Hero votes for Health Care Reform: Will he get the climate catastrophe treatment?
Yesterday, a lone Republican, Representative Ahn Cao, voted for the (very weak) House health care reform bill. I read the versions of the House [health reform] bill. I listened to the countless stories of Orleans and Jefferson Parish citizens whose health care costs are exploding – if they are able to obtain health care at […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · climate legislation · Congress · politics · republican party
Valuing demand destruction … critical to understanding value of clean energy action
October 28th, 2009 · 8 Comments
There are many things being lost in the discussion of the cost-benefit equation when it comes to mitigating global warming. When doing cost-benefit analyses, organizations like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are constrained to consider just one quadrant of what could be considered (in simplified form) the four-quadrant cost-benefit analysis […]
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EPA fails to think in four quadrants: Valuing Climate Legislation
October 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Much noise is made over varying calculations associated with climate legislation. There is the disinformation fed from fossil foolish interests misrepresenting the situation. And, there are official studies from government institutions like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that seek to do honest analysis but which are working within financial and […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · climate legislation · Energy · Global Warming · government energy policy
Chamber of Commerce’s About Face: Good News for America
October 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments
This morning, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom J. Donahue will make a statement regarding the Chamber’s stance on pending climate legislation in Congress. Mr. Donahue will be available to answer questions regarding the Chamber’s position on the bill, as well as the recent departure of several prominent members of the Chamber. So started the […]
Tags: business practice · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · Energy
CBO, Media in Need of Remedial Science Classes
October 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The incisive Natasha Chart of Campaign for America’s Future has a must read discussion of the standard economist’s failures when considering large scale, complex social and environmental issues like climate change. It’s remarkable how often economists ignore physical reality. Whether they’re suggesting that economies can act as perpetual motion machines or suggesting that resource availability […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · climate legislation · Congress · financial policy · Global Warming