Much is being made of Obama’s ‘moderate’ cabinet which is, somehow the middle-of-the-roaders’ dream. President-elect Barack Obama spent the campaign fighting the notion that he’s an unabashed liberal. Now he can point to Exhibit A: a Cabinet that’s a middle-of-the-roader’s dream In fact, as that Politico article discusses, the mix is more complex, with some […]
Entries Tagged as 'environmental'
Obama Administration: Moderate or Reality Based (thus “progressive” or ‘radical’) re climate change
December 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Obama Administration: Moderate or Reality Based (thus “progressive” or ‘radical’) re climate change
Tags: analysis · Bill Richardson · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · Hillary Clinton · Obama Administration
Elation to Confusion to Elation Again: The Obama Appointments roller-coaster when it comes to energy and environmental issues
December 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Elation to Confusion to Elation Again: The Obama Appointments roller-coaster when it comes to energy and environmental issues
Watching Barack Obama and the appointments since the election has created the foundation for an emotional roller coaster while been a serious one for those concerned about energy and environmental issues. When it comes to Obama’s own actions, elation that his first major policy statement/engagement after the election was a strong statement on the need for action […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · Obama Administration · political symbols
Good, bad, indifferent GW impacts … when did they begin?
December 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Good, bad, indifferent GW impacts … when did they begin?
Anyone who suggests that Global Warming is a straightforward issue is either selling you a bill a goods or doesn’t know what they’re talking about. (They don’t know what they don’t know.) While, it is clear that current, rapid shifts to the atmosphere are drving change that, writ large, will be catastrophic without major shifts […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Plugging in for a better tomorrow: the school bus ‘solution’
December 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they […]
Tags: analysis · automobiles · bus · business practice · emissions · Energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · oil · peak oil · PHEV · political symbols · politics
Revisiting Inhofian Deception
December 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments
It must be that time of year again. [DIGG this story.] Just like last year, the Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R-Exxon)) has just released another “report” somehow proving that the globe isn’t warming or, if that fails, that humanity has nothing to do with the warming […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · James Inhofe · journalism · politics · republican party · skeptic · truthiness
Massively Efficient Path to Stimulate the Economy
December 11th, 2008 · 9 Comments
The incoming US Congress will be running full out in January to develop a stimulus package to have ready, potentially, for signature by President Barack Hussein Obama minutes into his Presidency. Organization after organization, business after business, motivated citizen after motivated citizen are knocking on every door conceivable with ideas for funding that range from […]
Tags: architecture · architecture2030 · building green · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy · Global Warming · government energy policy · green
Change. Obama can change the path of Climate Change!
December 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Change. Climate Change. That is change that we don’t want to believe we face, that many refuse to face, but it is change that is occurring, driving many through the stages from denial to determination. In the face of Climate Change, how much Change can Barack Obama deliver? And, in fact, does he and the […]
Tags: analysis · catastrophic climate change · climate change · emissions · Energy · environmental · sequestration · urban heat island
Lovley Display of Scientific Ignorance
November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Politico published a science story by Erika Lovley so bad that, well, there is no legitimate reason to post directly to it directly as opposed to Joe Romm with New media same as the old media. Politico pimps global cooling for Hill deniers, David Roberts with Politico’s journalist malpractice, The Way Things Break with “Scientists” […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · environmental · global cooling · Global Warming · global warming deniers · James Inhofe · journalism
Warming Summers …
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Larry Summers is now officially part of the senior Obama Administration team on economic issues. Let us be clear, energy and global warming are cross-cutting issues, so cross-cutting that stances on views on these issues should be examined against essentially all appointees. While Summers has the shadow of a controversial early 1990s World Bank memo […]
Tags: cap and trade · carbon tax · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy
Shaving away at the oil addiction
November 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Shaving away at the oil addiction
Oil prices are down, in no small part because oil demand has dropped. Yeah! Oops, maybe not. Let us be clear, recession and depression do not represent good energy policy. And, recession and depression do not — unless we act sensibly and seriously — set a path toward long-term change toward good energy policy. Clearly, […]
Tags: Energize America · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · government energy policy