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Cars won’t get all the love, Ray LaHood says in big bike speech
LaHood steps up at the National Bike Summit on March 11.Courtesy BikePortland via FlickrTwo weeks ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood climbed on a table and told a group of bike advocates that federal transportation planners were finished raising the almighty auto above cyclists and walkers. “I’ve been all over America, and where I’ve been in […]
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Who killed cap-and-trade?
In a recent article in the New York Times, John Broder asks “Why did cap-and-trade die?” and responds that “it was done in by the weak economy, the Wall Street meltdown, determined industry opposition and its own complexity.” Mr. Broder’s analysis is concise and insightful, and I recommend it to readers. But I think there’s […]
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Hits charade: WattsUpWithThat hypes itself with dubious webstats, while lowballing other blogs March
[JR: Thanks to so many Climate Progress “lurkers” for providing comments below!] One thing is very safe to say about any quantitative analysis you see from Anthony Watts: It is probably BS. See, for instance, Wattergate: Tamino debunks “just plain wrong” Anthony Watts. In his latest piece of misinformation, Watts braggs about his WattsUpWithThat webstats […]
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UPDATE: Vote often for Climate Progress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards
Click here to vote. I’m updating this post because I now see you can vote every day (!) for Climate Progress in TreeHugger’s Best of Green Awards. You’ve got a whole ‘nother week (through April 2) to vote for CP in the category of Best Political Website. Sure, you like the insider’s view of climate […]
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“Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up
James Cameron’s eco-pic has become the top grossing film of all time (see “Post-Apocalypse Now“). And that did not endear him to the anti-science crowd. Glenn “brainless frog” Beck said Cameron “is officially running for Antichrist.” Cameron has now responded, as Brad Johnson reports in this repost: Avatar director James Cameron thinks global-warming deniers […]
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Global cooling bites the dust: Hottest January followed by second hottest February.
Last month, NOAA reported the world experienced the warmest January in both satellite records. And NOAA just reported (here) that it was the second warmest February on record in both satellite records. Now the UAH satellite data shows record-smashing temperatures in the first half of March: The yellow line is the 20-year average temperature, the […]
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How export-focused agriculture has failed everyone it was meant to help
A recent Washington Post article documented the stark reality of Haiti’s non-existent agricultural infrastructure: Decades of inexpensive imports –especially rice from the U.S. — punctuated with abundant aid in various crises have destroyed local agriculture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to feed themselves. …Today Haiti depends on the outside world for nearly […]
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Ask Umbra on eyewear, faux eco efforts, and Easter baskets
Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, I need to replace my eyewear—the lenses need updating and the frames are damaged—and I’m wondering what the most sustainable choice is. Frameless seems likely, but if I want to go with a frame (Coke bottle lenses, anyone?) then is metal the way to go? Blindly,Hope K.Providence, […]
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More evidence that Sen. Byrd sees the writing on the wall for coal
Last Friday, the EPA took a significant step toward blocking a Clean Water Act permit for Arch Coal’s Spruce Mine, the largest proposed mountaintop-removal coal mine in West Virginia history. It’s a big deal — see Ken Ward Jr. for more on what it means and what comes next. I just wanted to highlight the […]
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Domesticated Dogs–Mutualists or Parasites?
Photo courtesy of Dog Tag Art via Flickr This thought exercise was motivated in part by my second reading of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (by Matt Ridley) while on a trip to Argentina. The book covers parasitism’s role in evolution. While in Argentina I noticed the stark difference between […]
