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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 […]
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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). […]
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Obama takes on the anti-scientific delayers
What is the best way to talk about those who are devoting their efforts to spread disinformation on climate science and/or climate legislation? Recent speeches by President Obama and Australian […]
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Contest: Respond to this uber-lame NY Times op-ed
I could easily spend all my time just responding to every single piece of silliness that appears in the mainstream media on global warming. But not only would that be […]
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Tom Friedman on “What They Really Believe”
If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that […]
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Reid plans debate on bipartisan bill “sometime in the spring”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today confirmed that floor debate on a sweeping energy and global warming bill that will be sold to the American public in part as […]
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Time: “The science of climate change grows more dire.”
“World leaders say Copenhagen to be a steppingstone to final climate deal,” as I wrote on Sunday. Here is an excerpt from Time magazine’s take on the matter, “World Leaders […]
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General Motors to start repaying government loans
The NY Times story has one of the true glass-is-half-full headlines of our times: G.M., Citing Progress, Reports Loss of $1.15 Billion But these days, you take good news where […]
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NASA reports hottest June to October on record
Fast on the heels of the hottest June to September on record*, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reports that last month was tied for the second hottest September on […]