Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Seeking answers about a czar's powers - The Hill's E2-Wire
Just what does a czar do anyway?

Judicial Watch, a public interest group, is suing the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to get documents that may suggest what role Carol Browner has played in developing climate change and other energy policies in the administration.
Al's Journal : Repower America Reports the Facts
With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it's vital we arm ourselves with the facts. Thankfully, Repower America put together a great fact sheet explaining the relationship between the climate crisis and extreme weather:
Richard Littlemore | Denial Campaign's Success Evident in Two New Polls
New polls in the U.S. and in the U.K. show a continuing collapse in public conviction that climate change is a serious and urgent issue - a result that can only be interpreted as an unprecedented measure of success for the campaign to deny global warming.

A poll by Anthony Leiserowitz Climate Project at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies shows that the number of people who are "dismissive" of climate change has doubled and the number of people who are "alarmed" has dropped by half in the last two years.
...the change in the public conversation must be tracked back to the pointed and persistent attacks on the scientists who work in the climate change field. Whether they are mischievous hobbyists or paid lobbyists, a large and suspiciously well-funded group of climate change deniers have been having a field day - with the stolen East Anglia emails and with a small number of actual (and embarrassing) errors in the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Blackboard » New HadCRU? Who’s funding it?
Where is the money coming to pay people’s salaries? The UK? France? The US DOE? PIIGS? Everyone?
YouTube - Sen. Inhofe on FOX News - Neil Cavuto - Inhofe Wants Gore to Testify

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