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  • I like

    I like.On Umbra on calculating CO2 weight posted 1 year, 3 months ago 19 Responses

  • "Coal Makes Us Sick"

    Reid shouldn't have oversimplified this. It seems like he did it for the sake of a sound bite.

    But, coal very often makes the people who take it out of the ground, sick. He should have mentioned Black Lung.On Harry Reid passionately disses fossil fuels, goes viral on YouTube posted 1 year, 5 months ago 4 Responses

  • Adam Shand

    Adam Shand just lost a lot of credibility. I hope reasonable climate skeptics take this as a sign.On Did I say darndest? I meant stupidest posted 1 year, 5 months ago 26 Responses

  • Forget audiobook, bring a full length movie

    IPCC should be four feature-lengths,not a measly audiobook.

    I have to admit, I torrent audiobooks. But only if the author is dead or the book is a bestseller. With Doug Adams, it's both.

    My college library also contracts with Overdrive.On MP3 players and digital Science posted 1 year, 5 months ago 4 Responses

  • I knew it!

    Of course it was out of context. It's the EDF for god sakes, they're not idiots.On EDF chief rejects oil drilling as response to energy woes posted 1 year, 5 months ago 3 Responses

  • lol

    JfM, I'm  a literal redneck right now...I hope I'm not your target audience. Were you roleplaying?

    "Also, he didn't address abortion, which is mah number one issue.  I think the Prezudent should git them Sawdies to give us more oil because once gas gits above $4 a gallon and the economy dumps, abortion rates will go up, which I em against."On I think Friedman is upset with Bush posted 1 year, 5 months ago 18 Responses

  • Hmm?

    I endorse that statement.

    He never says it can economically be replaced, tomorrow. Is that what you read?

    Solar has everything to do with oil in the sense that they are competing forms of energy. If there's more financial incentive to install solar, of course it would compete better with oil.

    I don't understand your confusion.On I think Friedman is upset with Bush posted 1 year, 5 months ago 18 Responses

  • This is misleading

    If congress were to heed Hansen's call accurately, they would support a "tax and dividend" policy, not a "cap and invest" program, as Markey seems to suggest with all his references to him.

    Hansen wrote about his policy beliefs, recently, where 100% of the money goes to consumers:

    http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080604_TaxAndDiv ...

    Markey says this: "The consumer-focused iCAP reinvests over half the proceeds in American families through tax credits and rebates."

    100% and "over half" are two completely different stories. I don't care how much goes to job training and other gov. ventures.

    Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), Hansen doesn't really believe his policy has a chance in Washington. Andy Revkin at NYT Dot Earth spoke to him about it.

    "Dr. Hansen told me that he considers Mr. Barnes a 'straight shooter' and that the strategy (cap and trade) is the only one that could survive in Washington and actually blunt human impact on the climate."

    So, maybe Hansen would go for Markey's bill, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of support in Washington. Does it have any cosponsors? My Rep recently signed a GHG bill by Rep. Dogget out of Texas. It already has 77 cosponsors!

    Compare the two, here:
    Markey's: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6186/show
    Dogget's:http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6316/showOn Thoughts on the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic Congressional testimony posted 1 year, 5 months ago 2 Responses

  • Very Nice

    It was very nice of you to compile all this.On I think Friedman is upset with Bush posted 1 year, 5 months ago 18 Responses

  • BADASS

    When I read Pieface's article, one thing quickly came to me: this guy is a motherfucking badass.

    One lady on another blog wrote "Friedman for President" as her only commentary. Honestly, I was thinking it for a second, too.On I think Friedman is upset with Bush posted 1 year, 5 months ago 18 Responses

  • More blue than green

    This is a good article. Most blogs I've read failed to mention the nine senators who wrote letters opposing the bill. As a whole, it does a good job of encapsulating what happened.

    But ballmerboy makes a good point about the Blue/Green Alliance. I thought the United Steelworkers were for renewable energy across the board. In fact, they only support it ina few states. And like Maryland, they actually work against their own mission, sometimes. This kind of hypocrisy is probably going to get them in trouble, and I'm grateful for learning about it.

    A simple website detailing their hypocrisy, state-by-state would be great. I wish I knew how to do this effectively...maybe Grist does?On What we learned from the stymied Climate Security Act, and what comes next posted 1 year, 5 months ago 5 Responses

  • The last graph

    The last graph definitely does support that it's warmer now than it's  ever been in the past 100 thousand years, but it also shows that it's been warmer than now at least 3 times in the past 400 thousand years. From my perspective (currently failing college) it would seem that this will happen again, anyway.

    But I guess the implication is that because it's so closely correlated with CO2 and methane, we might have a chance if we reduce the two.

    Am I right? Was there anything notable about the other warm events that isn't happening today?On 'One hundred years is not enough'--Yes it is posted 1 year, 6 months ago 18 Responses