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Goreapalooza

The coverage (much of it attacks and distortions) of Gore and his movie is coming fast and furious -- too much for this over-worked blogger to keep up with. Here's a random round-up of stuff I've come across (and not yet linked to):

• A long, fascinating, and complimentary cover story in New York Magazine. If you read one thing, this should be it. (The mag also has a review of the movie by David Edelstein.)
• A flattering write-up in USA Today in which Gore denies he's running.
• Tech Central Station -- shill-factory non-pareil -- posts a purported fact check of Gore's movie. An Andrew Sullivan reader smacked it down. The editor of TCS replies and, unbelievably, uses the same twisted quote from my interview with Gore, which, as I've pointed out, means exactly the opposite of what he says it means.
• The cover story in National Review is a hack job on Gore's movie. ThinkProgress fact checks it, to devastating effect.
• Rotten Tomatoes has links to about a zillion more reviews of the movie.
• Judith Lewis from LA Weekly interviews Gore.
• The Nation's David Corn converses with Gore, mostly about politics.
• Over at TAPPED, Ezra Klein's been running a Gore Watch, keeping up with the press. Read the two latest here and here.
• Shakespeare's Sister eviscerates Howard Fineman (and by implication the whole clubby Beltway punditariat) for his treatment of Gore. (via Ezra)

Other stuff I've missed? Leave links in comments.

Inhofe coming around?

From a press release out of Joe Lieberman's office:

WASHINGTON -- Today, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), congratulated EPW Committee Chairman, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), for taking a long-overdue, yet significant step toward tackling Global Warming by hosting a roundtable discussion entitled, "Exploring Greenhouse Gas Technologies." The Roundtable consisted of business leaders, environmental technology experts, and a representative of the U.S. Department of Energy.

"Many thought we would never see Senator Inhofe participate in, much less convene, a discussion of technologies for reducing global warming pollution. Clearly, something has changed. Longstanding opponents of reducing global warming pollution are finally getting the message that the American public understands the stakes and will no longer tolerate inaction in the face of the ever-growing evidence that the climate is changing. The American forces of reason and can-do spirit are starting to overwhelm the last bastion of denial and pessimism on climate change, namely, the U.S. Congress, which, I hope, will soon adopt the comprehensive climate legislation that I have been pushing with Senator McCain since 2003."

Inhofe's probably just nuke-boosting and "clean coal"-shilling, but at least it's something.

Americans and Climate Change: The risks of packaging climate change as an energy issue

"Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action" (PDF) is a report synthesizing the insights of 110 leading thinkers on how to educate and motivate the American public on the subject of global warming. Background on the report here. I'll be posting a series of excerpts (citations have been removed; see original report). If you'd like to be involved in implementing the report's recommendations, or learn more, visit the Yale Project on Climate Change website.

Below the fold is the last bit of the report's third chapter, "Packaging climate change as an energy issue." It's quite short! It discusses the risks of tying climate change too closely to energy concerns.

Why green-group canvassing operations need an overhaul

It’s that time of year again on college campuses: final exams have given way to Frisbee on the quad, boxes are packed, and every telephone pole bears a bright yellow poster that says, “Summer Jobs with the Campaign to Save the Environment!” There must be a better way. Many a student has torn off that […]

Fuel Me Once, Shame on You

GM promotion will cap gas at $1.99 a gallon for SUV buyers In a promotion that begins today, General Motors promised to cap gasoline prices at $1.99 a gallon for a year for customers in California and Florida who purchase certain new full-size SUVs or midsize cars. That’s right: if you buy a gas-guzzler from […]

A Twist of Organophosphate

EPA scientists say they’re being pressured on pesticide studies U.S. EPA managers and pesticide-industry officials have been pressuring agency scientists to skip steps in pesticide testing and allow continued use of some potentially harmful pesticides, says a letter sent to EPA chief Stephen Johnson by union leaders representing agency employees. The “integrity of the science […]

We’ve Been Cartwheeling to Work

Gas prices spur Americans to change behavior Americans hit in the pocketbook by high gas prices are, shockingly, changing their consumptive behavior. A survey by Consumer Reports found that over a third of American drivers are pondering getting a more fuel-efficient vehicle in place of their current one; half of those are considering a hybrid, […]

Nuke Skytalker

Bush pushes nuclear power at home and abroad President Bush has embraced nuclear power with a vengeance (on us?). On a tour of a nucular … er, nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania yesterday, Bush called for the construction of new nuke plants to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. “Let’s quit the debate about whether greenhouse gases […]

Umbra on canola oil

Dear Umbra, I recently saw “organic canola oil” on a salad dressing bottle. I looked up the origin of canola oil, and it looks like it is a genetic modification of rapeseed. I thought organic certification disallowed genetically modified foods. What’s the scoop? Tom Grundy Nevada City, Calif. Dearest Tom, Have you noticed yet that […]

Gore’s new flick, An Inconvenient Truth, improbably succeeds

It’s something of a miracle that An Inconvenient Truth, the chronicle of Al Gore’s quest to raise alarm about “climate chaos,” exists at all. A movie with a scantily clad Jessica Alba presenting a computer slideshow on climate science is implausible enough. Al Gore doing it, well … even C-SPAN could be forgiven for having […]