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Like father, like son: Roger Pielke Sr. also doesn’t understand the science of global warming — or just chooses to willfully misrepresent it.
Posted 8 hours, 42 minutes ago on Climate Progress
RealClimate has just eviscerated Roger Pielke, Sr. in an important post, “More bubkes.”  I am going to excerpt it at length because: It thoroughly debunks some now-stan...

Continue Reading Like father, like son: Roger Pielke Sr. also doesn’t understand the science of global warming — or just chooses to willfully misrepresent it.


The XX in Exxon = “Fingers Crossed”
Posted 9 hours, 42 minutes ago on DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science
The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial.<!--break-->Company records show that E...

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Climate change impacts in our backyards:  the Great Plains
Posted 9 hours, 52 minutes ago on ClimateScienceWatch
How great will the Great Plains still be in the face of global climate disruption?  What can we expect to see in the this vast swath of...

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Another ExxonMobil deceipt: They are still funding climate science deniers despite public pledge
Posted 10 hours, 40 minutes ago on Climate Progress
In its May 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil promised: In 2008, we will discontinue contributions to several public policy research gro...

Continue Reading Another ExxonMobil deceipt: They are still funding climate science deniers despite public pledge


Energy and Global Warming News for July 2nd: Dump the “Saudi Arabia of solar” meme; Environmental toll of plastics
Posted 12 hours, 56 minutes ago on Climate Progress
Contest: Replace the ‘Saudi Arabia’ Trope! On Monday, as I was listening to a news call with Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, and Ken Salazar, the Interior secretary, Mr. Reid spoke some proud words: Nevada, he said, is the “Saudi Arabia of solar ene...

Continue Reading Energy and Global Warming News for July 2nd: Dump the “Saudi Arabia of solar” meme; Environmental toll of plastics


Tom Friedman: Obama “is going to have to mobilize the whole country to pressure the Senate — by educating Americans, with speech after speech, about the opportunities and necessities of a serious climate/energy bill….”
Posted 14 hours, 40 minutes ago on Climate Progress


Honey, I shrunk the GOP, Part 1: Conservatives vow to purge all members who support clean energy or science-based policy
Posted 1 day, 6 hours ago on Climate Progress
Mary Bono Mack Should Be Burned in Effigy and Voted Out of Office That’s the screaming headline at screaming right-wing blog Red State.  The article asserts, “she should ...

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Signs of global warming are everywhere, but if the New York Times can’t tell the story (twice!), how will the public hear it?
Posted 1 day, 7 hours ago on Climate Progress
The signs of global warming are everywhere.  Coming back from my Vail conference to Denver, the driver pointed out to me the shocking devastation th...

Continue Reading Signs of global warming are everywhere, but if the New York Times can’t tell the story (twice!), how will the public hear it?


Chu: U.S. needs to be the Wayne Gretzky of clean energy. Obama: “I hear that the Republicans were shouting ‘BTU’ on the floor…. that tells me those guys are 16 years behind the times.”
Posted 1 day, 9 hours ago on Climate Progress
In the first half of his Sunday interview after the passage of the Waxman-Markey bill, Obama said he was confident the Senate will pass the ...

Continue Reading Chu: U.S. needs to be the Wayne Gretzky of clean energy. Obama: “I hear that the Republicans were shouting ‘BTU’ on the floor…. that tells me those guys are 16 years behind the times.”


Energy and Global Warming News for July 1st: Ontario puts $20B nuclear upgrade plan on ice; ‘Green jobs’ pitch swayed Ohio lawmakers
Posted 1 day, 11 hours ago on Climate Progress
High cost and delays are standard operating procedure for new nukes around the globe (see “Turkey’s only bidder for first nuclear plant offers a price of 21 cents per kilowatt-hour“ and “What do you get...

Continue Reading Energy and Global Warming News for July 1st: Ontario puts $20B nuclear upgrade plan on ice; ‘Green jobs’ pitch swayed Ohio lawmakers

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