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One of Climate Deniers favorite dodges is Water Vapor

Climate Denial Crock of the Week: The big mist take 1
Posted 2 days, 5 hours ago One of the most contentious of climate crocks is the role of water vapor in climate change. And climate deniers are always trying to fog the issue. But don't be scared, Crock of the Week is here, to help make sure you don't get sucked in.
The U.S. Chamber needs to get its story straight 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago The U.S. Chamber seems to be going to great lengths these days persuade Congress that it really wants to help pass climate legislation. But a very different message is coming through its blogs, tweets, and unscripted comments.
survey says!

Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago Adding a bit more data to food system reformers' arguments, a new study led by Germany's prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research takes on the question of whether we can "feed the world" while preserving the planet come 2050.
The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising sea level. For countries of East Asia and the Caribbean, more powerful storms and storm surges are a growing worry. This climate change conference is about all these things, and many more, but in a very fundamental sense, it is a conference about food security.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) [UPDATED] 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Sen. Carl Levin is a Midwest, industrial-state Democrat who has concerns about the economic impacts of climate legislation, but thinks something needs to be done about global warming.
Is the U.S. Chamber changing its tune on climate, or just its tone? 1
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago On Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber sent a letter to Sens. Boxer and Inhofe about the climate bill. It seemed to be singing a new tune on climate policy, leading Sen. Kerry to wonder whether the letter reflects a real change in the Chamber's position.
MORE FALSE SOLUTIONS! OH MY!

Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails? eek! 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Climate Denial Crock of the Week

2009 polar melt season: The stats are in 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago The 2009 ice melt season has just been completed at the northern polar cap, and observations confirm that the decay of the arctic ocean ice cover is continuing a steady decline.
GMO wishes, geo-engineering dreams

Save us, [insert techno-fix here], you’re our only hope! 7
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Watching SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt sitting next to Jon Stewart as they shook their heads in disbelief that everyone wasn't on the climate change/geo-engineering bandwagon depressed me to no end. Techno-fixes--you gotta love 'em. Or not.
the roadmap is paved with gold

A solar energy future: Maybe you can get there from here 2
Posted 1 month ago Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Solar Technology Roadmap Act has drawn enthusiastic support from the business community and the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, can it lure reluctant Senators to support the Kerry-Boxer bill?
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] 1
Posted 1 month ago Sen. Robert Byrd hated the climate bill that passed the House in June, but he seems a little more open to the Kerry-Boxer bill being considered in the Senate.
Climate walks

More Climate Action Day action from Umbra Fisk 0
Posted 1 month ago Grist's Umbra Fisk talks International Climate Action Day with Peter Singer, Bat Man, Robert Swan and the climate-conscious denizens of New York.
NOAA - Second hottest September on record 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Local fetishists still wrong

We need transmission to solve global warming 15
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The new version of Energy Self-Reliant States manages to duplicate the fallacies of their previous reports, and adds new ones.
Every corner of the globe 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
lies, damn lies, and baseball caps

The American Farm Bureau goes all in 29
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Agribiz lobbying group AFB's new pitch: "Don't CAP Our Future."
Downright Paltry Private Spending

National Institutes of Energy needed to fill energy research and development gap 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in research and development (R&D) and new product development, spending $58.8 billion on R&D in 2007. The U.S. government adds an additional $30 billion per year investment in biomedical R&D through the National Institutes of Health. In contrast, the U.S. energy sector invests well below $3 billion annually in R&D in an industry with well over a trillion dollars in annual revenue.
CLIMATE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Bangkok: rich countries try to kill Kyoto, youth declare 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cap-and-Trade versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Most Climate Crocks are a decade old. Here's a shiny new one!

Climate Denial Crock of the Week/Birth of a Crock 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago