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Senate GOP propose 25% ‘Do-Nothing’ energy tax

  MEMO TO THE MEDIA:  The nation’s energy and climate problems have reached the point where obstructionist politicians cannot be given a free pass to simply criticize those attempting to solve those problems while offering no credible alternatives or business-as-usual policies. At 11:30 ET, Senators Boxer and Kerry (and others) will introduce the Clean Energy […]

Kerry-Boxer clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill sharply departs from House

The final bill will not be unveiled until tomorrow, but Senators Kerry and Boxer (and their cosponsers) have managed to put together a bill that I believe is environmentally, economically and politically stronger than the House bill. The Washington Post reports: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will unveil a bill Wednesday that aims […]

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change

Finally, some of the top climate modelers in the world have done a “plausible worst case scenario,” as Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, put it today in a terrific and terrifying talk (audio here, PPT here). No, I’m not taking about a simple analysis of what happens […]

WashPost recycles another denier WSJ op-ed, this time from coal apologist Bjorn Lomborg

Questions of the Day:  Is this just a desperate attempt by The Washington Post to drive traffic to its website, by publishing outrageous crap designed to stir controversy?  Is it just a coincidence that Marcus Brauchli, the Post’s new executive editor (as of September 2008), had been the WSJ’s editor, and that Raju Narisetti, who […]

Markey spokesman questions Breakthrough Institute

“Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Those words, “attributed” to the 18th century English essayist Samuel Johnson, are a perfect summation of the oeuvre of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI).  So it is with their latest attack […]

Obama is going to Copenhagen to push Chicago’s Olympic bid this week

  President Barack Obama, who initially planned to let First Lady Michelle Obama represent the United States in Copenhagen this week, when the International Olympic Committee chooses a site for the 2016 summer games, plans to travel there too…. “There is no greater expression of the support our bid enjoys, from the highest levels of […]

Inhofe on why global warming isn’t real: “God’s still up there.”

CALLER: Yes, I agree with the Senator on what he says about the climate change. I believe that the world is just changing like it usually does…. INHOFE: I think he’s right. I think what he’s saying is God’s still up there. We’re going through these cycles. … I really believe that a lot of […]

Corn Ethanol Hoses Police Fleet

According to Green Inc., lab tests have confirmed that a high ethanol blend was to blame for taking about 70 police cars out of service in Baltimore. At first it was suspected that diesel had contaminated the fuel. Here is a video of the mechanics flushing out the fuel injectors. According to the maintenance supervisor […]

Friday music blogging: Monsters of Folk

Several years ago — I think around 2004 or 2005 — I caught a show in Seattle that I figured was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes), Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), M. Ward (solo artist and She & Him), and Mike Mogis (who played on and helped produce records from all […]

Electric car sells out in Japan. It's downhill from here.

According to the Edmunds Green Car Advisor blog, Mitsubishi has already sold out the first production run of it’s electric car, the i-MiEV. Here’s the real deal. The i-MiEV is based on the Mitsubishi i. It’s expensive and will therefore have limited mass appeal. But envy, as is always the case, will drive a demand […]