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Spin me baby one more time

On “climategate” 17
Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago By David Roberts The Manufactured Doubt industry has been around for decades, working to thwart regulatory constraints on large corporations that make dangerous products. Not only are all the same techniques being used in the same way on climate change, in many cases they're being used by the same people and institutions that fought against tobacco, CFC, asbestos, and auto safety regulations.
Don't mess with Texas (Ranger)

Chuck Norris on Copenhagen 16
Posted 4 days, 14 hours ago By Tom Athanasiou A lot of dreck comes across my desktop. I'm even on a list called "ennui mail," and some of it is utterly irredeemable. But still I took notice when Chuck Norris: Copenhagen Talks To Forge "One World Order" blew in.
The U.S.-India climate ‘partnership’ 0
Posted 4 days, 16 hours ago By Jonathan Zasloff At least that’s what the White House is calling it. Does it mean anything? Maybe.
No More Communiques

Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 39
Posted 4 days, 19 hours ago By Bill Scher President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent (from 2005) by 2020.
Obama going to Copenhagen 0
Posted 4 days, 19 hours ago By Agence France-Presse President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, officials said Wednesday.
Singin' in the rain

What to make of the new climate poll 41
Posted 5 days, 4 hours ago By David Roberts There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story.
Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989

Learning how to count to 350 0
Posted 5 days, 11 hours ago By Rebecca Solnit Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Activists -- farmers, environmentalists, island-dwellers -- around the world will try to write a different future, a bolder one, and if anniversaries are an omen, then they have history on their side.
Notable Quotable

Obama administration officials grateful for early spring 10
Posted 5 days, 12 hours ago By Ashley Braun When a bill to address climate change gets put off, be grateful that climate change itself pitches in to help.
Oh, SNAP!

More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 1
Posted 5 days, 15 hours ago By Tom Laskawy The NYT's Cityroom blog offers some hopeful news on getting more healthy food into low-income neighborhoods.
The Kids Are Alright. Not So Sure About the Adults.

Kids just say no—to fossil fuels 0
Posted 5 days, 21 hours ago By Osha Gray Davidson See how one young activist is rallying his fellow teens to fight climate change -- and what happened when he took his message to D.C.