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'We don't believe targets and timetables are important' U.S. continues to resist pressure on climate change	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
If I may indulge for a moment in some blogospheric vitriol and vulgarity ... I really can't wait 'til these aholes are gone: The United States will fight climate change by funding clean energy technologies and will continue to reject emissions targets or cap and trade schemes, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said on Thursday. ... 'We don't believe targets and timetables are important, or a global cap and trade system,' Watson told Reuters, speakin ...**
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

New Scientist's troll-b-gone	David Roberts	17 May 2007	Gristmill
If our How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide doesn't whet your appetite for debunkery, head on over to New Scientist, which has a new series taking on 'the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions.' Some are familiar to devotees of our guide -- they predicted global cooling in the '70s! -- but there's plenty of new stuff with which to arm yourself should you, for reasons I fail to understand, feel the desire to continue to engage with the trolls.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Or Are You Just Happy to Sue Me? U.S. prosecutors compare 'eco-terrorists' to KKK		16 May 2007	Daily Grist
Or Are You Just Happy to Sue Me? U.S. prosecutors compare "eco-terrorists" to KKK In its unyielding quest to root out terror at its terror-y roots, the U.S. government is battling to have 10 eco-activists sentenced as terrorists. At a hearing in Eugene, Ore., yesterday, attorneys argued that 10 members of the loosely coalesced Earth Liberation Front and Ani ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, grassroots activism, jackassery, news, politics (all these topics)

Tancredo's fictions	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo was asked, "what's the latest work of fiction you've read?" His answer: An Inconvenient Truth. Guess that goes on his fiction shelf right next to Darwin's Origin of Species. More at Tancredo Watch.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, elections, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

Student forced to complete assignment to graduate Breaking news on Fox	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
This is one of the most torturous cable TV segments I've ever seen: (via Hugg)
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Peak-a-who? Some guy on CNBC	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
There's plenty of oil. We're swimming in it! What I don't get is, why does he think production-capacity limitations and geological limitations are mutually exclusive? (via Hugg)
Topics: energy, oil, jackassery (all these topics)

Pombo continues his Hack Quest Won't run for Congress, but will shill	David Roberts	12 May 2007	Gristmill
It's official: Richard "Dick" Pombo (R-Nowhere) will not be attempting to reclaim the House seat he lost to Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.). The nation may breathe a sigh of relief. (McNerney's probably effed anyway, though -- after all, it's still an extremely conservative district.) You may recall that upon losing Pombo went almost immediately through the revolving door to scummy PR and lobbying firm Pac/West. As that did not satisfy his insatiable hunger ...
Topics: Congress, jackassery, lobbying, politics (all these topics)

Should we keep rebutting skeptics? Vote!	David Roberts	04 May 2007	Gristmill
A little while back, CNN recruited a right-wing talk radio host named Glenn Beck to host one of its prime-time shows. As MediaMatters rather exhaustively reveals, Beck is an unreconstructed racist, sexist, classist, misogynist, authoritarian, xenophobic troglodyte of the old school. He doesn't work particularly hard to conceal his trogloditicism. In fact, one suspects CNN views the trogloditicism as the draw. Beck's latest crusade is -- you guessed it -- global ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, lying liars (all these topics)

TerraCycle sued by Scotts, laughing all the way to the bank A David v. Goliath story	David Roberts	28 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Here's a marketing rule of thumb for the modern age: there's no better advertising for a small company than getting sued by a big company. A little organic plant-food company called TerraCycle (which makes fertilizer out of worm poop) has gotten boatloads of free advertising out of its innovative strategy: rather than creating new bottles for the product, it asks schools and churches to collect used 20-oz. soda bottles. For each bottle collected, the company donates a ...
Topics: business, gardening, green living, green products, jackassery (all these topics)

Parody is so pre-9/11	David Roberts	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I can't do much to improve on the humor of the two lead paragraphs in this AP piece: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the growth of greenhouse gases by less than 1 percent in 2005 shows the administration's program to address global warming 'is delivering real results.' The pronouncement by EPA Administrator Dave Johnson brought a quick response from some environmentalists. 'Things have come to a pretty sad state of affairs when the EPA ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, jackassery, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Newsweek blesses Richard Lindzen, ignores pay-offs from fuel companies For shame!	Kit Stolz	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This Monday, Newsweek will publish an op-ed by well-known climate-change contrarian Richard Lindzen, which concludes that global warming is nothing to worry about and may even be a good thing. 'Why So Gloomy?' he wonders, and adds that 'a warmer climate could be more beneficial than the one we have now.' Nothing new here: Lindzen's been making the same points for years, despite evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that he served on a prestigious panel chosen b ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

White House responds to SCOTUS case So much BS in so few words!	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Here's a bit on the Supreme Court case from a White House briefing today. Marvel, if you will, at the sheer amount of dishonesty and misdirection packed into these few short paragraphs. Virtually every sentence, every word, needs unpacking. It's always been a talent of this White House to use a kind of shock-and-awe bullshitting strategy: lying so much and so fast that it simply overwhelms the ability of critics to keep up. I dearly hope that strategy goes down in f ...
Topics: jackassery, litigation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Travolta: biggest, fattest, hypocritest The latest on this earth-shattering story	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This past Friday, I was once again invited to be on FOX's Hannity & Colmes. Last time, you'll recall, I was to discuss the grave and momentous subject of Al Gore's hypocrisy. This time, the subject was even graver and momentouser: John Travolta's hypocrisy. (Last time I got bumped for Daryl Hannah. This time I was both too busy and too sick. Someday!) Travolta, you see, recently opined on the subject of global warming, just after driving a Harley down the red ...
Topics: celebrity, climate, environmental movement, green living, jackassery, TV (all these topics)

Bob Lutz needs a vacation Read his cranky email to a consumer	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
A reader wrote in to share this email exchange. This is the email she sent to GM -- as I understand, it's a form letter you can sign and send from the Plugin America website. Dear Sir, I am tired of being held by the throat by oil companies and I want to buy a car that uses cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity for even a part of its overall range. Saturn used to lease the most efficient vehicle ever built. Since GM destroyed all EV1s, GM has not shown ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, jackassery (all these topics)

More Inhofian troglodyticism The man blocks Gore's concert on the Capitol steps	David Roberts	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
One of the many stories I missed today: Sen. James Inhofe, in a characteristically petty display of foot-stomping, is blocking Al Gore's efforts to have one of his Live Earth concerts on the Capitol steps. Inhofe says it's partisan. Guess it is now. Some good quotes: Noting that many political events -- including the 1990 Earth Day celebration -- have been held on the Capitol steps, [Republican Sen. Olympia] Snowe was, her spokesman said, 'genuinely disappointed' ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, Congress, jackassery, James Inhofe, music, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe hates the rock music Climate contrarian blocks Gore concert plans	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
If climate change is the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,' then an all-star climate concert on the Capitol lawn has got to be some kind of descent into madness. So sayeth Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who's vowing to indefinitely block a resolution allowing Al Gore's Live Earth concert to rock the Capitol grounds in July because the event is 'partisan.' Said Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), who co-sponsored the resolution with Sen. Harr ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Harry Reid, jackassery, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Fred Thompson Will he run?	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
A while back, certain ... sources of mine in Tennessee (hi Amanda!) let me in on what was back then still a quiet rumor: a Republican savior is on the way. Soon to be riding to the rescue of downtrodden Republicans, burdened with a weak field of presidential candidates, is Fred Thompson, lawyer, actor, and former U.S. Senator from Tenn. He is the silver bullet Republicans have been waiting for -- smart, folksy, hawkish, impeccably conservative, morally upright, and ...
Topics: jackassery, local politics, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

'Supporting global warming initiatives is tantamount to endorsing communism and the one world order'	David Roberts	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task Remember when U.S. agencies used to be able to get away with their nefarious eco-deeds? Like, for the last seven years or so? The times might just be changing. Deed one: the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management decided, after 20 years, to reactivate 23 drilling leases in areas of U ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Interior, jackassery, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, Utah (all these topics)

The 'two sides' of the climate debate One of them is missing	David Roberts	05 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Bad Actors and their enablers have been pushing a particular spin on the climate debate: it has "two sides," the denialists and the alarmists. What can wise people above it all in the center do but roll their eyes at the grubbiness of it all? I'd like to introduce you to one side of the debate: Only 13 percent of congressional Republicans say they believe that human activity is causing global warming, compared to 95 percent of congressional Democrats. Mor ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, jackassery, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

We're all green now It's time for enviros to adjust to winning	David Roberts	29 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I had hoped to leave my ill-tempered rant behind, since the subject obviously irritates the hell out of me, my irritation obviously irritates the hell out of everyone else, and as was pointed out, the whole subject is something of a distraction. But as I'm now being compared to (called?) a rapist, I suppose I should chime back in. First, my writing must have been opaque, since interpretations ran all over the place, mostly wrong. It was not my intention to defend c ...
Topics: environmental movement, jackassery, messaging (all these topics)

What I learned from environmentalists this week Everything is lame	David Roberts	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The people at Living Homes are totally lame and hypocritical for designing a modular LEED platinum house, but making it too big. And putting too much glass on it. The Prius is totally lame because it gets worse gas mileage than it says, and also because it's not public transit. The Super Bowl is totally lame for offsetting all its carbon emissions in part by planting trees, which everybody knows aren't going to solve global warming. Tesco is totally lame for labeling ...
Topics: environmental movement, jackassery, messaging (all these topics)

Sundance: Stepping up and out Utah middle schoolers send message to world	Kate Sheppard	24 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Almost two years ago, aerial artist John Quigley brought more than 500 community residents and several movie stars together to spell out the words 'Arctic Warning' way up in the Arctic Circle. The event was documented by Everything's Cool co-director Daniel B. Gold, and makes an appearance in the film. On Monday, Quigley arranged nearly 1,000 Utah middle schoolers to send a response to the Arctic and the rest of the world: 'Step it up -- go carbon neutral.'In an event ...
Topics: grassroots activism, jackassery, Utah (all these topics)

'Eco-terrorism': On the scale of jackassery It's pretty low-end	David Roberts	22 Jan 2006	Gristmill
I would hope it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: I do not condone the acts of the ALF or, to the extent it's extant, the ELF. Arson is a crime and should be prosecuted. Flooding, vandalism -- not cool. Graffiti, well, it's a menace. To deem one's cause more worthy than a living, breathing human being is the ultimate in jackassery. As yet, ELF has not gone there. But destroying people's stuff is also jackassery. A distinctly lower-order form of jackas ...
Topics: eco-terrorism, jackassery (all these topics)

Jackassery	David Roberts	06 Aug 2005	Gristmill
John Tierney doesn't have the stones to come out and say that global warming will be a good thing, so instead he just dances around it with innuendo and anecdotes.
Topics: jackassery (all these topics)

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