Prof. Matthew Nisbet of American University has written an error-riddled, self-contradictory, demonstrable false report, Climate Shift: Clear Vision for the Next Decade of Public Debate [big PDF here]. The 99-page report's two central, but ridiculous, claims are:
Posted March 22, 2010 | 15:22:12 (EST)
Once again Democrats waste time talking about process, while Republicans spin their lies about supposedly bad outcomes.
I sat through the House debate on CSPAN on the health care security bill yesterday. Democrats repeated the phrase "health care reform" dozens and dozens of times, thereby missing a real messaging opportunity.
...Posted February 15, 2010 | 11:38:14 (EST)
To preserve a livable climate, we need technology deployment. That's what drives innovation, as Bill Gates Gates used to argue.
So I listened to Gates' TED speech a few hours after he gave it in Long Beach, CA. Let's just call that an IT miracle.
The good news is...
Posted November 3, 2009 | 12:27:00 (EST)
Arianna asserts Obama has shown "timidity" in governing. On climate and clean energy policy, he has been anything but!
Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn't stop catastrophic climate change -- Hell...
Posted August 26, 2009 | 17:58:48 (EST)
A guy who has been wrong on oil prices longer than most has managed to convince the New York Times to give him some of its precious Op-ed space to issue yet another sure-to-be-wrong prediction. That would be energy consultant Michael Lynch, with his remarkably content-free piece, "'Peak Oil'...
Posted August 7, 2009 | 12:14:48 (EST)
The people who refuse to accept the reality that President Obama was born in the United States share much in common with those who refuse to accept the reality that humans are dramatically changing the climate.
5. Both groups are impervious to the evidence. During the campaign, "Obama released a...
Posted July 27, 2009 | 14:52:56 (EST)
The radioactive disinformers of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) have broken through to the MSM again. This time they got The San Francisco Chronicle to print their willfully misleading op-ed attacking "Obama and Democratic leaders" for supposedly failing to deliver on clean energy promises. As we'll see, this TBI article...
Posted July 21, 2009 | 11:48:12 (EST)
The lead story in the WashPost today is "GOP Focuses Effort To Kill Health-Care Bills." But really, the story could be about climate and clean energy (see "
Posted July 10, 2009 | 12:31:24 (EST)
Much as I am happy to publicize Hansen's leading edge climate science (see links below), I am unhappy to have to waste any time debunking his bleeding edge climate policy analysis (see "
Posted May 26, 2009 | 17:17:45 (EST)
I can't imagine why any serious journalist would cite the work of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) -- except to debunk it. As we'll see once again, they constantly misstate and misrepresent what others say, and generally put out very bad analysis designed to push their anti-climate-action, anti-environmental agenda.
So why...
Posted May 8, 2009 | 11:40:49 (EST)
One of the country's leading journalists has written a searing critique of the media's coverage of global warming, especially climate economics.
The study deserves attention because the media is making the same mistakes in reporting on the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill that the author warns against (see "
Posted May 4, 2009 | 20:50:00 (EST)
Nobel prize-winning NYT columnist Paul Krugman has an excellent piece on climate economics 101, "An Affordable Salvation." It follows an economic lesson he gave on his blog to anti-green Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson. Krugman explains:
It's important to understand that just as denials that climate change...
Posted April 29, 2009 | 09:25:26 (EST)
The media just keeps missing -- or messing up -- the story of the century.
Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn't stop catastrophic climate change -- Hell and High Water -- then...
Posted February 2, 2009 | 10:52:29 (EST)
A radioactive dirty bomb has been dropped on the Senate stimulus package.
On Wednesday, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to add $50 billion in nuclear loan guarantees to the economic recovery package (S. 336). This "would more than double the current loan guarantee cap of $38 billion" for...
Posted January 1, 2009 | 14:19:03 (EST)
What events, actions, and findings had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming?
Since the #1 story is way too obvious to generate any drama, I will start there and then go back and...
Posted December 19, 2008 | 19:22:00 (EST)
Science magazine is reported Thursday that "Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser."
I have known Holdren for over a decade and have discussed energy/climate issues with him many times....
Posted November 28, 2008 | 00:22:02 (EST)
10. Tina Palin [Sarah Fey?]. Palin helped ruin John McCain's chances by turning off independents and in general being emblematic of his erratic approach to decision-making. Plus she is the gift that keeps on giving as "
Posted November 25, 2008 | 12:36:11 (EST)
If you like the old media's misreporting on climate (see "The NYT blows the bark beetle story" and so does NBC), then you'll love this whopper from the Politico, "Scientists urge caution on global...
Posted November 4, 2008 | 12:23:51 (EST)
Posted October 29, 2008 | 13:31:23 (EST)
Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin.
It's time to stop trying to guess whether the latest McCain campaign gaffe revision on global warming means the Arizonan has...

Posted April 18, 2011 | 17:41:23 (EST)