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Let’s call setting a price on carbon “puppies”
The Hill’s blog has a post, “Why kill cap-and-trade? Because it’s there.” The NYT’s John Broder had a piece, ” ‘Cap and Trade’ Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice.” CBS reports of the forthcoming Graham, Kerry and Lieberman bill, “notably missing from it will likely be the cap-and-trade system that had not long ago been expected […]
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IPCC’s Pachauri cleared of financial wrongdoing
The embattled head of the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change has been cleared of allegations of financial irregularity by an independently conducted review. So the Financial Times reported Sunday in its piece, “Climate chief cleared over payments” (reg. req’d). Here’s more: KPMG, the professional services company, examined the personal finances of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman […]
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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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Pledge to End Mountaintop Removal in 2010
From Nell Greenberg. I have spent the last two years working to end the devastating, unjust practice of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). This is a practice that requires dynamiting the tops off of ancient Appalachian Mountains and contaminating families’ drinking water for a tiny tiny amount of our nation’s coal. I don’t live in […]
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Popular thoughts about climate change
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How Energy Efficient is a Doublewide? (Not very)
Have you ever stopped to think about the energy efficiency of a doublewide? DOE is about to do just that, having initiated a rulemaking to develop mandatory standards for manufactured homes (basically a building code) under order from Congress to finish by 2011. I just drafted and submitted NRDC’s comments to the docket. Most people […]
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How the West is Winning Against Coal
There is so much good news coming out of the western U.S. these days on coal and clean energy. First up – another domino fell for the Blackstone Group. Blackstone had been funding the construction of three new coal-fired power plants in the U.S. (I’ve written about them before). Last month the River Hill plant […]
