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Vinod Khosla Nonesense

Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense.  I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who […]

AP: Since 1997 “climate change has worsened and accelerated"

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland […]

In other UK news: “Rain like this happens once every 1,000 years”

A bunch of illegally hacked UK e-mails storm the anti-scientific side of the blogosphere at the same time as an uber-extreme weather event hits Britain.  I guess when it rains, […]

Inhofe to Boxer: “We Won, You Lost, Now Get a Life!”

I had previously blogged on the anti-mature (ante-mature?) antics of the Senator from Oklahoma (see Sen. Inhofe explains he’s going to Copenhagen so that when Sen. Kerry says “Yes. We’re […]

Toward a medically defensible energy policy

Pollution from coal is not only unhealthy for the environment — it also hurts the human body and contributes to four of the five leading causes of death in the […]

Let’s look at one of the illegally hacked emails in more detail

The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of […]

Here’s what we know so far

NOTE:  This post will be continually updated to cover things like the NYT’s misdirected (front page!) reporting. As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from […]

Friday music blogging: Harper Simon

I have a huge, huge soft spot for Paul Simon. Simon & Garfunkel was one of the first bands I ever got into (like when I was eight) and I […]

Carol Browner strongly backs bipartisan cap-and-trade bill

A top White House adviser yesterday pushed back against the idea of paring down Senate legislation on energy and global warming and frowned upon emerging talk among some moderates to […]

Uber-ironic 1962 ad touts oil’s ability to melt glaciers!

David Roberts at Grist has the winner of the irony-can-be-so-ironic award: From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). […]