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Will and Watts embrace a proud former shill for a man convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges
Denial makes strange bedfellows. Two of the leading sources of anti-scientific disinformation on global warming – George Will and Anthony Watts’ blog WattsUpWithThat – have embraced a man, Robert Bradley, who proudly shilled for Enron CEO Ken Lay, who was convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in 2006. Watts and I, you may recall, got […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives approves landmark (bipartisan!) climate bill, 219 – 212.
UPDATE: My Salon piece, “One brief shining moment for clean energy” is up. We do need to savor moments like these, since, as I note in that article, given modern conservative ideology, which is 100% anti-conservation, “the country can only contemplate serious environmental legislation when we have the unique constellation of a Democratic president and […]
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House GOP still repeats petroleum industry falsehood about CBO findings on gas prices
The House GOP loves to repeat falsehoods about climate and clean energy action (see “MIT Professor tells GOP to stop ‘misrepresenting’ his work and inflating the cost to families of cap-and-trade by a factor of 10” and then again three weeks later, MIT Professor says GOP “misrepresentation” of his April 2007 study to project costs […]
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Big media beats it from clean energy bill and even Farrah’s death gets bigger play
The U.S. House of representatives is debating landmark climate and clean energy legislation now – starting with the debate on the rule which limits total debate on Waxman-Markey bill to 3 hours, which means we should get a final vote by the end of the day. The Waxman-Markey bill would dramatically shift the direction of […]
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Obama: Let’s “spark a clean energy transformation… Make no mistake: This is a jobs bill.”
… in a decade, the price to the average American will be just about a postage stamp a day…. There is no longer a debate about whether carbon pollution is placing our planet in jeopardy. It’s happening. Memo to Obama speechwriters: The price to the average American household will be about a postage stamp a […]
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U.S. Open at Bethpage Black hit by “global warming type” of record rainfall
They called this year’s U.S. Open “Bathpage.” And yes, Tiger Woods lost, even though I called him an “all-climate player” after he won “the brown British Open” at drought-stricken Royal Liverpool in 2006 and the “Hottest Major of All Time.” In fact, I had predicted “No doubt he’ll some day win the ‘wettest major of […]
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Sierra Club and 28 other NGOs weigh in on the house; LCV puts it foot down
The League of Conservation Voters has sent an “unprecedented letter” to House members stating (emphasis in original): In light of the tremendous importance of this legislation, LCV has made the unprecedented decision that we will not endorse any member of the House of Representatives in 2010 election cycle who votes against final passage of this […]
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Health care reform is tougher than climate action
I realize that in the blogging world you get no credit for claiming things after-the-fact. But what has been obvious to some of us for a while is now I think becoming painfully obvious to the White House and Congressional Democrats: A serious climate bill is politically easier than a serious health care bill. The […]
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Waxman, Peterson announce agreement on cap-and-trade bill paving way for final vote this week
From a scientific perspective, the deal Waxman made with the aggies is not optimal. From the perspective of consequences in the real world, however, I just don’t see how this deal changes any of the major outcomes of the bill much, if at all. UPDATE: I’ve added comments on the deal from Dr. Michael MacCracken, […]
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NASA’s James Hansen arrested in protest on mountaintop removal
Two years ago, the nation’s top climate scientist wrote, “It seems to me that, as yet, it is difficult to use actions of our government as grounds for civil disobedience, however egregiously stupid those actions are” (see Hansen on “civil disobedience”). But like all of us, his positions have evolved over time. Author Jeff Biggers […]
