Archive for June 2009

CBS news flagrantly suppressed actual climate science when "reporting" on the supposedly suppressed EPA document

Reporting on possibly "suppressed" EPA document, CBSNews.com suppressed actual climate science From mediamatters.org, June 29, 2009 8:29 pm ET

Climate Pinata

This particular blogger has a few comments on the so called climate bill passed through the house this past week. I cannot get too worked up about it since I am sure this stack of self serving political hooey will never get past the Senate and is really

Waste Water Concerns

A lot has been said of safe waste water disposal and recently I have seen more items in which annoying organics have slipped through and affected fish populations. The reality is that we lack a bullet proof system.The difficulty starts with the fact

Depression Looms

What is disheartening here is that this could be fixed, perhaps even today by the method I proposed back in September.When a market that operates on margin which is certainly the housing market enters a collapse mode, the big and immediate losers are

Joseph Romm: George Will and WattsUpWithThat embrace a proud former shill for Ken Lay of Enron, a man convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges

George Will and WattsUpWithThat embrace a proud former shill for a man convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges by Joseph Romm, Climate Progress, June 28th, 2009 Denial makes strange bedfellows. Two of the leading sources of anti-scientific disinformation

Paul Krugman: Treason Against the Planet

Betraying the Planetby PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times, June 28, 2009 Credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Timesif (acm.rc) acm.rc.write(); So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms,

Opening Obama's Eyes

This is a commentary on Obama’s handling of the Iranian situation It is hard to fault the comments and he is showing little leadership on the issue at this time. Whether that is good or bad remains to be seen. My problem here is that we are been confronted

Chris Nelder on Seven Energy Futures

Chris Nelder outlines his take on our options for energy production and conversion over the next few years. Take a look at the chart linked a couple of paragraphs into the article.However we wish it to be anything but, that is the shape of global fossil