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Can Sarah Palin see PV panels from her porch?

February 22nd, 2016 · Comments Off on Can Sarah Palin see PV panels from her porch?

The Department of Energy just released a study that sparked this question: Can @SarahPalinUSA see #pv panels from her porch? https://t.co/if4vJ2080g For rural #Alaska, #solar is low cost path to reliable energy — A Siegel (@A_Siegel) February 22, 2016 Entitled Solar Prospecting in Rural Alaska, the study examines the return on investment for installing solar […]

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Tags: sarah palin · solar

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 […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · climate zombies · Energy · Global Warming · republican party · sarah palin · science · skeptic

“The chant is Drill, Baby, Drill …” vs “The answer is blowing in the wind …”

May 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on “The chant is Drill, Baby, Drill …” vs “The answer is blowing in the wind …”

The contrasts are stark. The week when Deepwater Horizon blew was also the week in which Interior Secretary released the (hopefully) decisive decision to give the go-ahead to Cape Wind. Stark choice: do we want to drill aggressively, increasing the risks of massive oil damages to our oceans and costs or do we want to […]

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Tags: Energy · Gulf Oil Spill · OilApocalypse · political symbols · politics · pollution · sarah palin

Washington Post editorial board … confusion is bad (even if we’re at fault)

February 22nd, 2010 · 7 Comments

The Washington Post editorial board came out with a strong statement about climate change that, even with its few errors, would be an important statement if it weren’t such a monumental travesty in the face of actual Washington Post editorial policy and practices. Entitled Climate Insurance, the editorial begins. THE EARTH is warming. A chief […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy efficiency · George Will · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · sarah palin · truthiness · Washington Post

Palin-McCain: Can’t get energy facts right

September 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Palin-McCain: Can’t get energy facts right

Amid the absurdities of trying to pawn Sarah “Pit Bull with Lipstick” Palin off as the nation’s top energy expert (http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/03/note-to-media-pork-queen-palin-is-earmark-expert-not-energy-expert/, here, or here) the simple reality is that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin can get their energy facts right. The latest: John McCain stated that “the world’s largest oil reserves are in the […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · oil · sarah palin

Morphing from Denialist to Skeptic?

September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Morphing from Denialist to Skeptic?

In her ABC interview, Sarah Palin has tried to morph herself from Global Warming denialist to simply being a Global Warming skeptic.

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · sarah palin