The White House's Rooftop Solar Challenge - NYTimes.com

As you know by now, I sometimes differ with my friend Bill McKibben on pathways to energy progress. But I think he’s made a valid point in criticizing President Obama for not living up to the pledge his administration made last fall to install solar hot water and photovoltaic systems on the White House by the start of summer (that would be today).
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A prime directive in politics is not to make pledges you can’t meet.

Peer review denial and the abuse of science « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Can someone get Stephan Lewandowsky his medication? His new marketing message is that “deniers” don’t do peer review papers. There’s a curious case of acute-peer-review-blindness (APRB) occurring. It doesn’t matter that there are literally thousands of pages of skeptical information on the web, quoting hundreds of peer reviewed papers, by people far more qualified than a cognitive-psychologist, yet he won’t even admit they exist.

McCain blames illegal immigrants for AZ wildfires — 4 years after saying CA wildfires were ‘symptoms’ of climate change | ThinkProgress

[2007] uh, I’m not saying that these forest fires that you all are hearing about in California are a direct result of climate change, but I will say to you that we are experiencing weather and conditions such as severe droughts all across the Southwest, such as all the sudden and torrential rains that are symptoms, that are symptoms, of the violent climate conditions that result from climate change.