From the industry global-warming denial mouthpiece Competitive Enterprise Institute to CBS News to Faux News (with a guest ranting by James Inhofe (R-Exxon calling for a criminal investigation), the Global Warming denial “news of the day” is about supposed suppression of a “report” ‘proving’ that global warming isn’t real by EPA economist Alan Carlin. Carlin’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'Global Warming'
On the Public Dime, A Very Public Whine … on a very false note
June 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers
Setting a limit … and fighting for it: 350.org and an October engagement
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Setting a limit … and fighting for it: 350.org and an October engagement
350 … it is the most important number … Book yourself, your friends, your neighbors, your community for 24 October.
Tags: Bill McKibben · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Not even a rubber mallet? Do “Climate Change Leaders” know how to play hardball?
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
When contemplating the path of climate legislation over the past several years, we must address a continual question and challenge for those (which should be all of us) concerned that our political system is proving unable to come up with a policy and regulatory framework that provides any real hope for putting us (the United […]
Tags: Al Gore · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · Congress · democrats · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring
June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring
Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) release their financial “scoring” of the draft Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act (note: pdf). CBO’s analysis projects, through its first decade, that the Federal Government will bring in $845.6 billion in revenue with $821.2 billion in additional expenditures, meaning that the US Treasury would see […]
Tags: analysis · cap and trade · Congress · emissions · environmental · Global Warming
Ocean Acidification Dangerous: World’s science academies
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This is a critically important item that I will be writing on, as well, but mwmwm has written a good piece that merits reading. Simply put, we can put warming aside and acidification of the oceans provides more than enough reason for acting with alacrity to cut CO2 emissions and to begin to look for […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Where are Progressives on Climate Change?
June 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Where are Progressives on Climate Change?
In the health care debate, progressives are calling for single payer and made it quite clear, in a united fashion, that a (good) public option is an absolute minimum requirement. They’ve put a public bottom line front and center. And they appear to be making progress on it. Where is that similar call when it […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · climate legislation · ed markey · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
The Strawman Deceit of “CO2 lags warming by 800 years”
June 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments
With new videos uploaded every second, one can lose one’s life within Youtube and constantly be falling behind. It is hard to find the wheat amid all that chaff. Perhaps this can help: Greenman3610 (Peter Sinclair) provides some pretty high-quality wheat. Now at 13 videos, Sinclair has taken it on himself to produce “The Climate […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers
Making Global Warming Controversial in Public School Classrooms
May 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments
A guest post from “loblolly” in which “A retired science teacher looks at subtle and not so subtle efforts by the oil and coal industry and global warming deniers to subvert environmental education in the public schools, by spreading doubt and making teaching about global warming a controversial topic in public school classrooms.” Received from […]
Tags: bjorn lomborg · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers
Time for the Bully Pupit
May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Mr. President: The time has come. You have spoken, eloquently and frequently and powerfully, about clean energy, energy efficiency, about climate change. You have stated the necessity and opportunity before us, as individuals and nation and global community, with addressing Climate Change. In the House of Representatives, two Committee chairs, Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · waxman-markey
Energy Dumb Dana Shows His Face
May 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Energy Dumb Dana Shows His Face
Energy Dumb Dana Rohrbacher showed his face on the House floor with a studied effort at willful ignorance a year ago several weeks before Senate Republicans stooped to the lowest forms of obstructionism to avoid having to have a substantive and meaningful debate about Global Warming legislation. Rohrbacher’s speech is worth a few minutes of […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party