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• On thinner ice

  New photography project provides stark proof of melting glaciers on the roof of the world 0

  Posted 8 hours, 46 minutes agoGlobal warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers. Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears has a new video comparing glacier images from the “roof of the world.”

• “Slicing and dicing isn’t going to work. It’s time to finally have comprehensive energy legislation in this country.”

  Carol Browner strongly backs bipartisan cap-and-trade bill 0

  Posted 11 hours, 9 minutes ago

  A top White House adviser yesterday pushed back against the idea of paring down Senate legislation on energy and global warming and frowned upon emerging talk among some moderates to limit legislative efforts to capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

  “Our position is, let’s do it all,” said Carol Browner, President Obama’s senior aide on climate and energy issues. “Slicing and dicing isn’t going to work. It’s time to finally have comprehensive energy legislation in this country.”

  That’s Greenwire (subs. req’d) reporting today on a panel discussion that included Browner.  She still has her (globally) warm sense of… Read More

• Uber-ironic 1962 ad touts oil’s ability to melt glaciers! 0

  Posted 11 hours, 12 minutes ago

• Australia’s Rudd slams the “deniers” and the “gaggle” of “conspiracy theorists” opposing climate action

  Obama takes on the anti-scientific delayers 0

  Posted 2 days, 6 hours ago

  What is the best way to talk about those who are devoting their efforts to spread disinformation on climate science and/or climate legislation?  Recent speeches by President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Rudd, who represent the two biggest industrialized countries that have so far refused to take action, offer some suggestions.

  Certainly, if you want to hear the best progressive messaging on energy and climate — if you want to know the best phrases and framing — listen to the President.  In two recent speeches Obama has gone out of his way to criticize the disinformers and delayers.

  In Florida… Read More

• Contest: Respond to this uber-lame NY Times op-ed 0

  Posted 2 days, 12 hours ago

  I could easily spend all my time just responding to every single piece of silliness that appears in the mainstream media on global warming.  But not only would that be unproductive and unhelpful for my readers (i.e. you), but heck I have great readers capable of doing such responses themselves.

  The NY Times has just given some of its precious real estate to one of the lamest and most irrelevant op-eds ever published on climate change:  ”Ben Franklin on Global Warming.”  The gist of it seems to be that since weather changes over small parts of the Earth’s land… Read More

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  It's humor, dude

  Lighten up.On Offsets should be the last thing you need to turn to posted 2 years, 4 months ago 31 Responses

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  Romm replies to Odograph

  You write:
  Isn't this like "Imagine buying a Prius.  How do we know that a Hummer H2 will not be bought elsewhere in the country?"

  "Imagine buying a compact fluorescent light bulb.  how do we know that an incandescent won't be sold somewhere else?"

  Precisely.  That's why those aren't offsets.  Didn't say they weren't a good idea.  Just that no one should pay you to buy a Prius -- It's actually worse for a Prius since CAFE means Toyota can sell an extra fuel-inefficient car for every Prius they sell.On A good reason we shouldn't love trees, at least not in this case posted 2 years, 4 months ago 40 Responses