the Republican Party? Yet again, a clear example of backpedaling Republican candidates in the face of pressure from Rush Limbaugh: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has canceled the climate change chapter in his upcoming book of environmental essays after Rush Limbaugh and other commentators targeted its author, atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe. For those who don’t […]
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Rush Limbaugh rules …
January 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · republican party · science
“We can’t wait” … President stands up to Big Oil and Big Coal
December 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on “We can’t wait” … President stands up to Big Oil and Big Coal
President Barack Obama might finally have crystalized to a core message that, honestly, should have been core from the election through today. We cannot wait … – To address the health care inequities, costs, and shortfalls – To foster a more honest engagement between the financial community (Wall Street) and the citizenry (Main Street) – […]
Tags: Congress · Obama Administration · pollution · President Barack Obama · republican party
The real energy scandal: Is the media missing the energy fraud forest for the Solyndra scandal tree?”
September 15th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This guest post is from Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog. Original article. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on the ongoing and growing scandal in the wake of the bankruptcy of Solyndra Corporation. Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after laying off over 1,000 workers, is facing […]
Tags: Energy · government energy policy · political symbols · politics · renewable energy · republican party
Reality confronts reality …
September 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Reality confronts reality …
At this time, the Climate Reality program is on a 24-hour long world-wide tour. Organized by (Vice) President Gore, this program moves time-zone by time-zone around the world, laying out the truth of climate science, things that are occurring to help turn the tide on Global Warming’s rising seas, realities of the time zone or […]
Tags: Al Gore · climate change · climate zombies · Energy · Global Warming · republican party · sarah palin · science · skeptic
Creating Scandal: Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal
September 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This guest post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. Dave Johnson is a Fellow with CAF. Well here’s a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President […]
Tags: department of energy · Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · renewable energy · republican party · Right Wing Sound Machine (RWSM) · solar · Solar Energy
America: Welcome to Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
February 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment
For a huge share of Americans, Mr. Rodgers’ singing “won’t you be my neighbor” on their local public television station was a warm welcoming to becoming part of a larger community. Well, in the 21st century, associated with prospects for killing off funding for those public outlets and for creating havoc for years to come […]
Tags: coal · Energy · mountain top removal · politics · pollution · republican party
Generation Hot questions … and gets told “science doesn’t really matter”
February 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Yesterday, Mark Hertsgaard and friends went to confront cranky anti-science climate zombies on Capital Hill. Perhaps my favorite line of all is when the young woman asks Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Exxon) a perplexing question: I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because you don’t like what you’re hearing. There are several striking items […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Energy · environmental · James Inhofe · republican party
Seeking to Put The Nail in The Coffin on America’s Future Prosperity and Security
February 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
With the introduced HR-1, the proposed continuing resolution for the remainder of the U.S. government’s Fiscal Year 2011, the House Republicans seek to defang (via defunding) program and program that work to protect Americans via monitoring and studying risks and threats that require response and to put the breaks on government investment in research and […]
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Confronting Anti-Science Climate Cranky Zombie Politicians
February 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment
A simple truth, anti-science suffering haters of a livable economic system have hindered action to address our mounting resource challenges of our overuse and overabuse of depletable resources. These include oil (Peak Oil), water (depleting fossil acquifers), top soil (with increasingly serious dust storms in many parts of the world hastening creation of new deserts), […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Congress · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · political symbols · politics · republican party
Seeking to Kill The Canary in The Coal Mine
February 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on Seeking to Kill The Canary in The Coal Mine
“We think what we can be is the canary in the coal mine,” Republican Representative Darryl Issa told reporters. Congressman Issa’s words are prophetic — evidently he and his colleagues consider themselves to be the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ since they are taking steps with the newly introduced Continuing Resolution to kill off as […]
Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers · republican party