If only team Obama had a powerful metaphor to undercut Romney's effort to Etch-A-Sketch himself into a middle-class-loving moderate.

Oh wait, they do. But even though the Romney campaign has apparently changed its losing strategy of being an "extreme conservative," team Obama has so far failed to respond with the...

President Obama's failure to speak out repeatedly on the urgency of climate action is his biggest communications mistake. If our leaders don't talk about an issue, it generally won't become sufficiently salient for either the media or the public.

But Obama's statement at the Democratic convention -- responding to Romney's mockery of...

Everyone would like to be as memorable and effective a speaker as Barack Obama or Bill Clinton. And the fact is that anyone can because there is really just one big secret to being a memorable speaker -- knowing how to use the figures of speech.

Here is one of...

On Saturday, Team Obama put out an email slamming Mitt Romney and the GOP for making fun of climate action at their convention:

It is nothing short of terrifying to imagine a party that openly mocks climate change taking back the White House.

There is no excuse for even one major political speech to be poorly written. But three? Romney should fire his entire team for having the three most important speeches of the GOP convention so poorly written and poorly framed.

Ann Romney, "failed to make it real," as former Reagan speechwriter...

Mitt Romney is about to deliver the most important speech of his life, at the GOP convention in Tampa. What's fascinating is that Romney is one of the worst communicators to win any party's presidential nomination in recent memory.

Although Romney has been running for President for almost a decade, he...

Romney Can Create Jobs: Etch A Sketch Sales Jump 1500%.

The political gaffe of the year is now the gift that keeps giving, literally.

On Wednesday, Romney strategist Eric Fehrnstrom was asked about how his boss's politics might change after he gets the nomination. "I think you hit a reset...

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:

1. The environmental movement outspent opponents during the climate bill debate.
2. Media...

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.

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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 "

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 "

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...

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 "

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...

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...