Thursday, August 19, 2010

[Obama continues to overpromise and underdeliver]: Unfulfilled Promises on Clean Energy Technology?
White House removes $150 billion clean energy R&D investment pledge from Obama Administration website
Climate [Scam] on the Campaign Trail: 5 Races to Watch - Politics - The Atlantic
Here's a preview of five races in which environmental issues are playing a leading role...
Twitter / Andy Revkin [Even Revkin doesn't really believe that we have overwhelming evidence that carbon dioxide causes droughts]
Rare weather events + spotty old records + mix of influences = no statistically valid way to prove cause/effect.
[Funny stuff from Dave "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts: Both burning coal *and* not burning coal may bring on the apocalypse]: What if there’s much less coal than we think? | Grist
There's almost certainly enough coal left for us to do the atmosphere (and by extension, ourselves) serious damage. But the really epic crash may not be in the climate, it may be in human civilization, which is by now entirely dependent for its growth and complexity on relatively cheap, relatively abundant fossil fuels. The absence of extreme global warming will be of little comfort if we end up in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape.
WisPolitics.com: WisPolitics: Feingold rips Johnson on climate change comments, defends NYC mosque
Feingold said he is confident that there is a man-made element to climate change and says he wants to pass climate change legislation.

But he said he did not support a version passed by the House that seemed tilted against coal and had concerns about the effect it would have on ratepayers.

"We are going to need some kind of climate change legislation but not necessarily cap and trade," Feingold said.

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