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The flaccid mind of Stephen Johnson National Journal on the EPA tailspin	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been failing spectacularly to do what the law requires, as determined by numerous federal judges (including the Supreme Court). For a more in-depth look, consider a pair of articles by Margaret Kriz in the National Journal. 'Vanishing Act' looks at many of the failures of the EPA. 'The President's Man' presents an interview with EPA Administrat ...
Topics: climate, climate science, dumbassery, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'So what can one conclude from environmentalists' insistence that coal be removed from the country's energy portfolio? That their focus has moved from reducing pollution to abolishing human development and prosperity.' -- the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board, exposing the conspiracy once and for all
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, environmental movement, quotables (all these topics)

Joe Barton: Pork lover	Sean Casten	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Joe Barton (R-Texas) spoke to the U.S. Energy Association yesterday and made it clear ($ub req'd) that he's going to do everything he can to block cap-and-trade legislation from coming out of Congress:As the Democrats move to pass climate change legislation this year, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, will be there to fight them, he told the U.S. Energy Assn's annual membership meeting yesterday. As a senior member of the House Energy Committee, that's not a threat to be taken l ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, Congress, dumbassery, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Déjà nuke	David Roberts	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This lede made me laugh out loud: As concerns about greenhouse gases and global warming mount, nuclear energy is getting a second look in California, with supporters ranging from the governor to at least one environmental activist. Oh goodie! Who's the token "at least one environmental activist" this time? Is it Patrick Moore, 20-year industry shill co-founder of Greenpeace? Is it James Lovelock, fearful and panicked dystopian author of the Gaia hypo ...
Topics: California, dumbassery, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, nuclear power (all these topics)

For the last time, switch to CFLs Please don't use incandescent bulbs for heating	Joseph Romm	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Please. As Andrew Leonard writes in his 'How the World Works' blog, this all began with a column by ... Toronto Star energy reporter Tyler Hamilton that itself had summarized the conclusions of a study raising questions about whether it always makes sense to replace incandescent light bulbs with CFLs. The nub of the argument was that in some cases the heat generated by the incandescent light bulbs could be useful. Tyler is a friend of mine and a great reporter, so I ...
Topics: dumbassery, energy at home, green living, green products (all these topics)

'Paign, Management Industry launches campaign against Lieberman-Warner climate bill		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:05 AM on 20 Mar 2008 Energy industry and business trade groups have launched a concerted campaign against the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. The bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, is much less stringent than some other climate bills in Congress, but Lieberman-Warner is so far the only one to pass out of committee; it's scheduled for a Senate vo ...
Topics: business, climate, dumbassery , legislation, news (all these topics)

Trading off jobs and lives for the 'economic necessity' of coal Hillary Clinton gives tepid response on question about mountaintop-removal mining	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton was asked about mountaintop-removal mining in an interview on West Virginia public radio (mp3 link) this morning. Her answer was, in my eyes, terribly disappointing. Here it is: I am concerned about it for all the reasons people state, but I think it's a difficult question because of the conflict between the economic and environmental trade-off that you have here. I'm not an expert. I don't know enough to have an independent opinion, but I sure ...
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A dry eye in the House Why Bush's water-bill veto was actually a good idea	Grist	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent for Time Magazine and noted critic of the Army Corps of Engineers, says yesterday's historic override of President Bush's water-bill veto isn't worth celebrating -- despite what many environmental activists think. He was the toast of Congress earlier this year, but yesterday Bush was less popular. Photo: whitehouse.gov Hooray! The Everglades and coastal Louisana have been rescued! Activists and politicians alike are giddy o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, dumbassery, Florida, George Bush, legislation, Louisiana, water conflicts (all these topics)

Shell Game Misleading Shell Oil ads removed from British media		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:51 PM on 07 Nov 2007 Shell Oil has removed ads from Britain's media after the country's Advertising Standards Authority criticized the company's claim to consumers that "we use our waste CO2 to grow flowers." A complaint from activist groups estimated that perhaps 0.325 percent of Shell's emission of poor, misunderstood CO2 emissions are used to grow flowers. sources: Associated Press, Reuters < Previous \| ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, dumbassery , greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

What You Talkin' 'Bout, Dana? White House spokesfolks play up health benefits of climate change		26 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 26 Oct 2007 Recent Senate testimony on the public-health impacts of climate change by the director of the Centers for Disease Control was watered down because the White House wanted "to focus that testimony on public health benefits," White House spokesperson Dana Perino said this week. She went on to state that U.S. experts are attempting to determine "what are go ...
Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery , health, news, White House (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Well, there are public health benefits to climate change, as well, both benefits and concerns ...'-- White House spokeswoman Dana Perino
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery, health, quotables (all these topics)

Quote of the day	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
On the heavily polluted town of Port Arthur, Tex.: "This city is not going to change. It is a refinery town tomorrow, next year, 100 years from now. It will always be a petrochemical area," says Ortiz. And if its residents are getting sick from the pollution? Well, says Ortiz: "We've all got to die of something."
Topics: dumbassery, quotables, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Lyin' and Steven Fox pundit blames wildfires on federal government	Kit Stolz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
60 Minutes ran a spectacularly well-timed feature this past Sunday on wildfires in the Western states, entitled "Expert: Warming Climate Fuels Mega-Fires." Predictably, climate change denier Steven Milloy, who runs a website and serves as a pundit for Fox News, was quick to criticize the news report. His press agent at Advocacy Ink issued a release for him, in which Milloy claimed that, "There's no evidence that man-made climate change is playing any rol ...
Topics: California, climate, dumbassery, severe weather (all these topics)

Man on Emissions U.S. summit concludes with no progress to speak of		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:47 PM on 28 Sep 2007 At the conclusion of a two-day U.S.-hosted climate summit of the world's major emitters, George W. Bush announced that he's been faking his climate-change laggardness all along, and signed on to reduce greenhouse gases in various planet-saving-while-still-economy-boosting ways. Ha ha ha! Sob. No, just as expected, Bush said what he always says -- voluntary measures will save the world! goals are ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Well, Where Else Are They Going to Get Them? Feds apologize for encouraging employees to buy fuel-efficient Japanese cars		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 21 Sep 2007 A Bush administration official has apologized for encouraging government employees to consider buying fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Which is why we have a "dumbassery" tag. source: Associated Press From the Archives Electronic Boogie. Greenpeace releases another ranking of tech companies' environmental rec ...
Topics: cars, dumbassery , fuel efficiency, news, politics (all these topics)

We'd Blame Jet Lag, But ... Bush makes gaffes at APEC gathering, forum may set weak voluntary targets		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 07 Sep 2007 In Sydney, Australia, today at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, U.S. President George Bush referred to APEC as OPEC, then tried to cover up his gaffe by explaining that Australia's prime minister had invited him to a summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries next year. Unfortunately, Australia has never been part of OPEC. Bush also ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Dropping Trout Feds trying to boost native fish populations stock Colorado waterways with wrong fish		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:57 AM on 06 Sep 2007 A 20-year effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore endangered native trout populations in Colorado would be commendable -- if they hadn't stocked some of the waterways with the wrong fish. sources: Associated Press, Rocky Mountain News From the Archives EEStor Money. Startup says new technology will make gasoline obsolete ...
Topics: Colorado, dumbassery , news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Atomic Wrongs U.S. nuclear weapons program killed over 4,000 Americans, analysis shows		31 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 7:17 AM on 31 Aug 2007 The U.S. nuclear weapons program has sickened an estimated 36,500 Americans and killed over 4,000, according to an analysis of government figures by the Rocky Mountain News. The newspaper's estimates may be lower than actual numbers because it only counted people who have been approved for government compensation and not those who were sickened or killed but denied aid. The nu ...
Topics: dumbassery , news, United States (all these topics)

McHenry thinks bikes, unlike sexual harassment, voter fraud, and war with Iran, are worth condemning Congress' dimmest bulb laughs at bikes	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The energy bill just passed by the House contains a provision that would offer a $20 monthly tax rebate to bicycle commuters. When Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) found out, he took to the floor of the House to deliver this speech (via Streetsblog): A major component of the Democrats' energy legislation and the Democrats' answer to our energy crisis is, hold on, wait one minute, wait one minute, it is promoting the use of the bicycle. Oh, I cannot make this s ...
Topics: bikes, dumbassery, energy, politics (all these topics)

The snowman More on the dumbest video from the YouTube debate	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The Wall Street Journal brings you more than you ever wanted to know about that stupid snowman who asked the question about global warming in the Democratic debate. Kill me.
Topics: climate, dumbassery, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The stupid! It burns! Tom DeLay crawls out from under his rock	David Roberts	28 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Soon-to-be-felon Tom DeLay writes the dumbest thing I've ever read on climate change. Sir Oolius takes one for the team and smacks it about. It's hard to believe someone as dumb as a box of rocks was running the House for so many years. Or I guess maybe it ought to be hard to believe.
Topics: climate, dumbassery (all these topics)

NASA administrator says stupid things Hard to believe he's part of the Bush administration!	David Roberts	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Everybody and their cousin has already posted on this, so I won't spend a lot of time on it, but yesterday on NPR, NASA administrator Michael Griffin said some extraordinarily stupid things. To wit: I'm aware that global warming exists. ... Whether that is a longterm concern or not, I can't say. ... ... I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate t ...
Topics: climate, climate science, dumbassery, James Hansen (all these topics)

Gurls R Dum Oklahoma senator vows to block Rachel Carson centennial resolution		23 May 2007	Daily Grist
Gurls R Dum Oklahoma senator vows to block Rachel Carson centennial resolution A resolution honoring this weekend's 100th birthday of the late Rachel Carson will be blocked if Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has his way. Why? Because the "now-debunked Silent Spring" was "the catalyst in the deadly worldwide stigmatization against insecticides, especially DDT," he says. Yes, damn her for pointing out tha ...
Topics: Congress, dumbassery , news, politics (all these topics)

From Esquire Are hybrids for men?	biodiversivist	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
You could not pay me to write drivel like this. Conspicuous in its absence is the Prius. Chickenshit editor took it out fearing a backlash from the many subscribers who drive them. This article is so bad I'm embarrassed for the author. Don't bust your gut laughing:YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTIENT: You're still losing sleep over the Kyoto treaty. You obey the speed limit because you think it saves gas. Your wife left you. YOUR HYBRID: The Honda Civic. About as boring as it ...
Topics: cars, dumbassery, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids (all these topics)

I just cringed so hard I threw my shoulder out	David Roberts	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Luvagod.
Topics: dumbassery, green living, music (all these topics)

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