Next week, Senator Harry Reid is going to bring the Lieberman-Warner Coal-Subsidy Act to the Senate floor for debate and votes. Even after modification by Senator Boxer, Lieberman-Warner remains grossly inadequate in face of the challenges we face. Even so, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and global warming deniers are […]
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The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
May 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Shocking Analysis of Lie-berman-Warner
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · James Inhofe · lieberman-warner · politics
One hand clapping: Coal Subsidy Act to fail?
May 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The latest news suggests that the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (the Climate InSecurity Act, CISA) has moved from critical condition to the morgue. As it will require 60 votes to get past any threatened filibuster (not that the Senate Democratic Party leadership could force a filibuster on anyone other than their own Senators fighting for […]
Tags: cap and trade · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · James Inhofe · lieberman-warner
Boxer reacts to FoE’s left hook
January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
The situation is moving from sparring to some serious boxing when it comes to the Lieberman-Warner Climate (in)Security Act (CISA) . Friends of the Earth (FoE) has launched an advertising campaign voicing reason re Lieberman-Warner, pointing out that the CiSA (the Coal-Subsidy Act) is not just inadequate, but also is far weaker than the energy and […]
Tags: cap and trade · climate change · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · James Inhofe · lieberman-warner · politics
Debunking Inhofe’s 413 …
January 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As discussed at Get Energy Smart! NOW! (GESN) in Inhofian Reporting: Peerless Work, Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Exxon) certainly has staff who understand how to play the media and influence game. On the eve of the Senate recess for Christmas, out went a truthiness (disingenuous, misleading, etc) “report” about “over 400 prominent scientists from more than […]
Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers · James Inhofe · politics
Another notch in the “Inhofe Scale”
December 21st, 2007 · 7 Comments
Giving credit where credit is due is, to me, a quite pleasurable task. Lou Grinzo’s Inhofe Scale captures the delusional nature of the Senator from Exxon. The Inhofe Scale will be used to measure statements (but most definitely not the speakers who make them) that exhibit a noticeable and willing detachment from reality. The scale […]
Tags: Global Warming · James Inhofe · skeptic · truthiness
Inhofe’s Gotcha Moment — Absurdity of the Pledge, and the person calling for it …
March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon) played a “gotcha” moment with Al Gore as part of his rambling opening statement. The pledge plays to the smear campaign about Gore’s home energy use. This pledge — which is shooting around the denialist community — is faulty on so many levels. And, not surprisingly, Inhofe staff are crowing about […]
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