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Hurricane Ike created significant damage ashore, disrupted oil production and refining, caused gasoline shortages in areas of the southeast, and there are still many missing people. A not much reported, amid the financial meltdown, are the quite significant Hurricane Ike’s environmental impact, sadly, damage that will be around for years to come. Remember how those […]

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T Boone Pickens continues his hard sell efforts when it comes to the flawed Pickens’ Plan. Yesterday, a bipartisan group of bloggers had a teleconference with T Boone. (Notably, this is just when a rush of advertisements are appearing across the blogosphere from T Boone.) If one listens through ‘the call’, several points might jump […]

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While much of the nation will be glued to their televisions for the second debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, other things will be happening. For example, in McLean, Virginia, there will be an open house about “Green Choice$”. This informational session will give local residents a chance to learn about how they “can […]

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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what is the value of these eight images when pieced together?

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A Virginia Republican leader and member of the McCain Virginia leadership team recently wrote an ugly OPED seeking to link every shallow form of ignorant bias in the direction of hating Barack Obama and, well, black Americans. Bobby May, treasurer of Buchanan County Republicans, wrote that he is listing for your consideration the platform of […]

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During the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah “Energy Expert” Palin continued to demonstrate either her fundamental ignorance about energy realities or her fervent desire to mislead as many American voters as possible with half-truths and un-truths. We’ll put aside the whole question of Sarah’s dealings with oil companies and the national gas pipeline and the problems […]

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Yesterday, 152 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on climate principles. The elevator speech: create jobs clean energy reduce pollution protect consumers With four key goals, 1. Reduce emissions to avoid dangerous global warming; 2. Transition America to a clean energy society; 3. Recognize and […]

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Bjorn Lomborg is eloquent, articulate, suave, debonair and recklessly dangerous. Lomborg’s disingenous truthiness provides a fourth category to “lies, damned lies, and statistics” which might referred to “Lomborg statistics“. He struck again with a Times opinion piece calling into question UK investment plans to fight global warming. It is hard, almost, to account for all […]

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If we are going to take serious steps to change our reckless drive over the cliffs, in a sad version of Thelma & Louise but in a belching hummer rather than sexy convertible, we have to get serious about facts. And, well, the fact is that “Clean Coal” is not fact , it is powerpoint […]

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A month ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech outlining a plan for (nearly) eliminating fossil fuels from the US electrical grid in 20 years, stating that it would be a $2.7 trillion dollar effort. Anyone interested in a better energy future would like to hear Eric give this talk in person. (Another slide […]

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