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Key Members of Congress Ring Alarm Bells
In the midst of the House of Representatives efforts to completely gut US international investments in addressing carbon pollution, two leading Members of Congress highlighted how the US would lose out from these draconian cuts. US Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) both raised the alarm bells – and they are ringing […]
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Prank call proves billionaire David Koch owns Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP
The editor of the Buffalo Beast blustered his way into a call with Wisconsin State Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday by claiming that he was billionaire David Koch, sworn enemy of environmentalism and all progressive causes and more or less the Darth Vader of the effort to destroy America’s cleantech competitiveness. Update: It’s been confirmed […]
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Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]
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Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]
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How to be as persuasive as Lincoln, Part 3
Metaphors are the Rolls Royce of figures. Or, to put it more aptly, metaphors are the Toyota Prius of figures because a metaphor is a hybrid, connecting two dissimilar things to achieve a unique turn of phrase. Metaphor, like verbal irony discussed in the previous post, is a trope, because it alters or enhances a […]
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NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
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NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
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Rush Limbaugh opens his fat mouth about Michelle Obama’s fat butt
Photo: Stefan KlooIf you look under “irony” in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Rush Limbaugh calling Michelle Obama fat. But that’s just what he did on Monday on his colonic irrigation of a radio show. Let’s take this piece by piece, because there is too much stupid to swallow without chewing. “The problem is, […]
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BP’s oil: still causing trouble in the Gulf
BP’s vast oil spill may be out of the headlines, but its oil isn’t out of the Gulf. Reports the Associated Press: Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a scientist’s video and slides that demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated […]
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James Fallows discussion and Last Mountain film screening
On February 1, 2011, Grist hosted a screening of the new documentary The Last Mountain—a look at the fight against mountain top coal removal in West Virginia’s Coal River Valley. Prior to the film, Grist founder and head honcho extraordinaire, Chip Giller, sat down with director Bill Haney and James Fallows of The Atlantic for […]
