A simple fact: Andrew Breitbart has been incredibly effective. With material that legal investigations, reviews by traditional journalism institutions, and other inspections have shown to be “severely edited” material utterly misrepresenting actual events, Breitbart provided the ammunition that enabled the takedown of an organization (ACORN) that had helped — quite literally — 100,000s of people […]
Entries Tagged as 'Global Warming'
The Breitbart of the Climate Change World?
July 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy efficiency · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics
Regular Post Columnist Rejects Paper’s Climate Denial Party Line
July 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Regular Post Columnist Rejects Paper’s Climate Denial Party Line
Canada’s version of Faux News and the Washington Times, The National Post, has been a fountain of misinformation and deceit when it comes to climate science. The National Post‘s pages have been filled with truthiness dribble from those rejecting science and seeking to distort the science into the public discussion. Last week, The National Post […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy
News from the Arctic: 27 June 2010
June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments
This guest post comes from Bill in Laurel, Maryland, who has been doing occasional posts highlighting changes in the Arctic. Okay, now on to this week’s news. The international study of the Arctic still goes on, despite our economic troubles. At the North Pole in April 2010, two buoys with weather instruments were launched. They’re […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
George Will’s next column won’t deal with a simple reality: Washington is wilting while the Arctic is melting
June 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Simply put, Washington, DC, weather is miserable at this time. It feels like the middle of August, at the moment, with temperatures nearing 100 degree with very high humidity. Life for many: air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office, with too much sweat in the seconds moving from one air-conditioned space […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post
“All costs, no benefits …”
June 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The EPA has issued its analysis of the financial and economic impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act. The bumper sticker summary of their (fundamentally flawed) analysis: action to mitigate climate change is affordable. Sadly, however, the EPA has continued the strong economic tradition of robust analysis of costs of action with dramatic understating of […]
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BP calls for a gas tax!
June 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on BP calls for a gas tax!
A very simple point, brought home to more Americans every day due to the disaster that British Petroleum arrogance and potential criminal negligence has wrought in the Gulf of Mexico: If we are going to move Beyond Petroleum, it is time to start bringing “externalities” into the cost of fuel. These externalities include: Paying for […]
Tags: Energy · gasoline · Global Warming
Fiorina Flagrant Flip-Flopping Flippantly Favors Falsehoods
June 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Carly Fiorina has entered the California general election cycle with an ad that attacks Barbara Boxer for taking climate change issues seriously. Barbara Boxer seems to think that climate change is the real threat to our national security. Yes, how dare Senator Barbara Boxer pay attention to left-wing, radical, anti-military institutions like the Central Intelligence […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming
80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss
June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on 80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss
Looking 40 years out is difficult for most of us and developing effective policy taking 40 years in the future seriously is difficult for most political institutions. Manana … demain … tomorrow … later … putting off action is natural for us procrastinators. (Note: roughly 20 percent of Americans self-identify as “chronic procrastinators and it […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · politics
Stealing The Work Of A Better Blogger & Calling It My Own
May 18th, 2010 · 7 Comments
This guest post from WarrenS provides a template for the commendable work that he has been doing to seek to illuminate climate and energy issues for newspaper readers across the country. One of the things, by the way, that WarrenS doesn’t mention is that his pieces fall into a context: even if he is not […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · journalism
Missing the menacing clouds in the raindrops
May 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The obliviousness about humanity’s impact on weather patterns due to climate change continues for all too many in the media. The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz provides today’s example. Kurtz reports on the near media blackout when it comes to the recent (massive) Nashville floods. Kurtz, just like the Post’s reprinting of the weak AP coverage, […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · journalism