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Get your coal ringtones!
The dirty coal folks are still trying to prove they can be as musical as a Coal Miner’s Daughter. The clean coal carolers got sent home (see “You won’t believe your ears: Frosty the Coalman, Clean Coal Night, Deck the Halls with Clean Coal). Now they are trying again. This post was first published by […]
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Resistance grows to increasing the amount of ethanol in gasoline
The ethanol lobby may still be reeling in the subsidies, but it doesn’t seem to be having any luck dealing with their other obsession, the so-called “blend wall,” i.e. the legally prescribed limit to the amount of ethanol that can be mixed into gasoline. The NYT has a nice summary of the mounting scientific and […]
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A climate-news poem for the week of May 4
Don’t miss last week’s dubious bit of doggerel. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso with Obama earlier this year.White HouseMonday seemed so hopeful, when Aso came out strong: Japan and other powers must act before too long. “Hear, hear!” cried U.S. leaders, “We put it in this draft! To mumblemouth on climate would really be quite […]
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Bolivia’s 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya glacier is gone
”Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists,” said Dr. Edson Ramirez, head of an international team of scientists that has studied the glacier since 1991. Like the Wicked Witch of the West, the world is melting — and fast. The University of Zurich’s World Glacier Monitoring Service reported earlier this year, “The new data continues […]
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Must-read (again) study: How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics
[In January, I blogged on this study by a leading journalist who documented the media’s mistakes and biases during the Lieberman-Warner debate. Yet the media is making the exact same mistakes in the current debate over the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill (see “The New Yorker (!) parrots right-wing talking points” and “David Broder” and […]
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Helping America’s national parks survive climate change
Anyone who’s ever lived in a home with a leaky basement knows that during a rainstorm, preventing a flood is the first order of business. Too often, though, it’s easy to put off until later the investments necessary to protect your home from future storms that are sure to come. The same is true with […]
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Sierra Club parodies the worst song ever recorded about coal
Don’t ever accuse the Sierra Club of being bad sports. After the West Virginia Coal Association released a series of the worst cellphone ringtone songs about coal ever recorded–I mean, as in the worst coal songs ever recorded since Thomas Edison pioneered the first coal-fired plant and phonograph in the late 19th century–the Sierra Club’s […]
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As seen on David Letterman! (In my defense, this is “Odd day”)
If you saw the Late Show with David Letterman last night and are visiting this website for the first time, please click here: “An Introduction to Climate Progress.” For regular readers, yes, this is me with a ventriloquist’s dummy, but I can explain… First off, it is now officially “Odd Day,” and everybody should do […]
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Princes, frogs partner to save rainforests
HRH Prince of Wales (that’s His Royal Highness to you peasants) has launched an international online campaign to save the rainforests, appropriately monikered the Prince’s Rainforests Project. Prince Charles is joined by his sons William and Harry, along with a few non-royal celebs like Daniel Craig, the Dalai Lama, and an animated frog, in connecting […]
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I may be on the David Letterman show tonight
No, I won’t be talking to Dave. Alas. A segment called “Andy Kindler Talks to Climate Change experts” is scheduled to air tonight. Now, I’m told “there is always a small chance that the piece could get edited out between tape and air, but for now it’s in.” Plus, none of the people involved have […]
