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Don Blankenship’s record of profits over safety: ‘Coal pays the bills’
Cross-posted from The Wonk Room. Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.After the worst coal mining disaster in at least 25 years, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is facing long-overdue scrutiny for his record of putting coal profits over fundamental safety and health concerns. Blankenship, a right-wing activist millionaire who sits on the boards of the U.S. […]
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Hansen calls climate change "predominant moral issue of the 21st century," slams Congress
UPDATE: Hansen just won The Sophie Prize (see below). The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel […]
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Larry Summers and Carol Browner say Obama won't budge on placing a price on global warming pollution
UPDATE: Summers entire, amazing speech, “The Economic Case for Comprehensive Energy Reform,” is reposted below. White House aides Larry Summers and Carol Browner insisted that the administration was willing to bend on several key issues, including the mechanism for pricing carbon and increased domestic energy exploration. But both said the president would not budge when it […]
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Irony-gate 2: Modern day Tea Partiers outsource denial to Lord Monckton – a British peer!
No, really you can’t make this stuff up — unless you are an anti-science disinformer like Monckton. Straight from “FreedomWorks” Tabitha Hale: As you have probably surmised, there will be a large round of Tea Parties coming up on April 15th. There will be large names, even larger crowds — and honestly, organizers would be unable to […]
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Exxon Mobil paid no federal income tax in 2009!
The joke goes, The economy is so bad Exxon Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. If only. Turns out the economy is never really bad for the oil giant, and the last thing they would want to do is cut off support to members of Congress who allow them to pull off the remarkable trick of […]
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The war against carbon starts now
Readers are always asking what can been done to cut carbon beyond pushing for the bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill. I’m launching a new series aimed at the kind of serious action people can push for at a local and state level — and even at a national and global level — […]
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What would Reagan do about climate change?
You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live…. This is what we leave […]
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Contest: Rename the Scandal Formerly Known as Climategate
So, no conspiracy, no collusion, no manipulation of data, no corruption of the peer-review process, no scandal; just an understandable reluctance to hand over data to dishonest people with a history of misrepresenting it. Squibs don’t get much damper than “Climategate”. The most worrying aspect of the drama was the way in which most of […]
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How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm: The full global warming solution
In this post I will lay out “the solution” to global warming. I have argued that stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or lower is not politically possible today, but that it is certainly achievable from an economic and technological perspective (see Part 1). I do, however, believe humanity will do it […]
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An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water
In this post, I will summarize what the recent scientific literature says are the key impacts we face in the second half of the century if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path. I will focus primarily on: Staggeringly high temperature rise, especially over land — some 10°F over much of the United States […]
