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Palin in debate STILL gets global warming backwards and repeats Big Energy Lie twice
Palin had told Katie Couric “I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate.”
The debate transcript reveals she still can’t get her talking points straight on this issue:
NSIDC stunner: Arctic ice at “Likely Record-Low Volume”
Looks like the Arctic may have set a record this year after all. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said today that Arctic sea ice volume likely hit a record low in 2008. They reconfirmed that the sea ice extent (or area) “dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979″ and that “Despite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term decline continues.”
Q: What is the difference between carbon offsets and mortgage-backed securites?
A: Lipstick.
Carbon offsets and mortgage-backed securities are quite similar in that is impossible for the vast majority of people, even experts, to know what value they have, if any.
» Cheney still pushing hard to gut our energy and environmental regulations
Even with only a few months to go in his reign of terror, Darth Vader never phones it in. He just keeps blasting away.
Mayors report: 4.2 million new green jobs possible
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just released a Green Jobs report establishing a national Green Jobs Index that finds
[T]he U.S. economy currently generates more than 750,000 green jobs–a number that is projected to grow five-fold to more than 4.2 million jobs over the next three decades. The report … is the first calculation of its kind to measure how many direct and indirect jobs are in the new and emerging U.S. green economy.
“We have argued for five years now that efforts to build the clean energy economy needed to be centrally defined around energy i
[Those who have had enough of CP vs. Shellenberger & Norhaus can skip this post, but I think this is a very important messaging discussion.]
My critique of S&N has elicited from Nordhaus a sentence that encapsulates our differences, cuts through all the “barbs,” and makes clear just how dangerously wrong they are. Ted wrote here yesterday:
The scariest thing John McCain has ever said
John McCain told NPR this morning that, regarding Governor Palin, he has “turned to her advice many times in the past … particularly on energy issues.” Many?
This would be especially scary when you consider that few people in the country are more misinformed on energy than Sarah Palin, the fungible candidate, a woman
Senate adds energy tax package to bailout bill
Will the Senate really revive the renewable tax credit package back from its House-induced coma? [And by “House” I mean the House of Representatives, not the brilliant but irascible Dr. Gregory House, who certainly might put a patient into a coma to save him or her — indeed, he himself was put into an induced coma…. But I digress.]
