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Extreme Home Makeover: UK Sustainability Edition

February 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Ed Milibrand, the UK Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced a plan to give the United Kingdom’s 27 million homes a “sustainability makeover”. This 6.5+ billion pounds/year program will operate with three core elements: A universal, street by street, house by house approach with everyone offered comprehensive and free or […]

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

WashPost: Complicit in Disformation (or explicit collaboration)?

February 15th, 2009 · 20 Comments

The Washington Post has a strong history of being “fair and balanced” within its pages when it comes to Global Warming issues, providing column inch after column inch of space to those actively seeking to deceive when it comes to what might (what likely will be) the most critical issue for this century. Without question, […]

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

Scientist’s caution about caution distorted by distorters

February 12th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Dr Vicky Pope, the head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre, wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian. Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy

Chatting with a former blogger: Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist for the Vice President

February 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Just a little while ago, the White House held a ‘progressive media and bloggers teleconference’ with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist for the Vice President. As a quick reminder, Jared is one of the bloggers that have become “former bloggers” by transitioning into the Obama Administration. Not surprisingly, Bernstein’s call focused on the American Recovery and […]

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Tags: Energy

Ignorance on public display: Tupper’s inanity re climate change

February 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Ignorance on public display: Tupper’s inanity re climate change

Joe Romm, in his book Hell and High Water, had this to say about why we should be cautious about meteorologists talking about Global Warming/Catastrophic Climate Change. Asking a meteorologist to explain the cause of recent extreme weather is like asking your family doctor what the chances are for an avian flu pandemic in the […]

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

Coddling Coburn: And sabotaging our future potential …

February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Coddling Coburn: And sabotaging our future potential …

Early this afternoon, the Senate overwhelming passed an amendment to the Stimulus package from Senator Coburn. We need to be Going Green to make green, and improving the stimulus package. Instead, the Republican and conservative D Senate have driven changes that progressively worsened an already not aggressive enough, not as effective economically as it could […]

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Tags: Energy

Thinking CAP? Curse Jar? Let X decide …

February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Thinking CAP? Curse Jar? Let X decide …

The other day, the Environmental Defense Action Fund opened voting for ‘the people’s choice’ as to the best 30-second video to explain how a Cap & Trade program to control carbon dioxide would help cut the nation’s dependence on oil. Putting aside questions as to Environmental Defense’s devotion to a CAP uber all, the best […]

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Tags: advertising · cap and trade · carbon dioxide · carbon tax · climate change · Energy · Global Warming

Ah, the smell of western astroturf …

February 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Sadly, every time that we fill up our gas tank, flip the switch for fossil-foolish electricity, warm ourselves with (high efficiency?) natural gas, we risk sending funding to people dedicated to destroying the potential for fostering paths toward mitigation of global warming and our other serious challenges. Fractions of pennies add up to serious money, […]

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Tags: astroturfing · climate change · climate delayers · Energy

Huffington Post should pay attention to Michael Moore

February 3rd, 2009 · 9 Comments

few know that [Michael] Moore was the editor of the liberal Mother Jones in 1986 — for four short months. He was fired from the publication for refusing to print an article critizing the human rights record of the Sandista government in Nicaragua. Moore didn’t balk because of any solidarity with the communist regime, but […]

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Tags: Energy · global warming deniers

Axis of Perpetuating Pollution: Peabody-Pickens

February 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments

T. Boone Pickens efforts to convince the political leadership to invest heavily in a fundamentally flawed energy concept continue to move apace. Superficially, Pickens’ $10s (likely over $100 now) of millions expended on advertising, web sites, and otherwise provide a superficially appealing concept: Build wind turbines Use wind electricity to displace gas-fired electricity (about 22 […]

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Tags: coal · Energy