Yet another major poll finds strong public support for global warming action, “even if it means an increase in the cost of energy”
The drumbeat of public support for comprehensive clean energy and global warming policies beats louder every day. The latest Wall Street Journal-NBC Poll found overwhelming support for comprehensive clean energy legislation that includes carbon pollution reductions. It also registered that cleaning up the BP oil disaster and energy reform is the number two priority of [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, June 24
Step right up for the top 5 coolest, greenest links around:
- If you’ve already conquered the 100-mile diet, now try the 150-mile wardrobe. (Treehugger)
- Monsanto versus alfalfa farmers – who won? (Grist)
- Concord, MA: home to Walden Pond and the country’s first ban on the sale of bottled water. (The New York Times)
- The departing UN chief climate negotiator says he’s still optimistic. (Yale Environment 360)
- Will removing a ban on commercial fishing spell doomsday for abalone in South Africa? (Extinction Countdown)
Tea Party favorite for OK Governor: BP oil disaster proves government should “never be involved in the private sector”
Rep. Joe Barton’s (GOBP-TX) apology to embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward for the government’s efforts to ensure compensation for Gulf coast residents last week highlighted two competing visions of government. The first is the progressive vision, that says government should aggressively champion the public interest, holding massive corporations accountable. The [...]
Peak readership for anti-science blogs? – Tobis: Denyosphere Jumps the Shark
Comparative traffic rankings are always dicey — certainly Alexa.com is unreliable. Compete.com is considered perhaps the best available. Click on image for larger figure of ranking over 12 months, which shows the rise and fall of the anti-science crowd.
Back on March 26, Watts wrote, “Traffic has slowed from about half of what it was during [...]
Joe Barton is the sorriest man in town. He retracts the retraction of the apology for his apology to BP.
The above tweet appeared from Joe Barton (GOBP-TX) today. It seemed to retract the apology for Barton’s apology to BP, which had saved Barton’s job (see “Who’s sorry now?“). It was quickly removed and then Barton’s press secretary fell on his sword to protect his boss. TP has the story:
Shortly after Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) [...]
Podesta: Canada’s “green tar sands” like our “error-free deepwater drilling” and “clean coal”
John Podesta, the head of an influential center-left think tank here in DC, whose many alumni populate the Obama administration, gave a keynote speech at a forum this morning about the “Greening the Oil Sands” put on by Canada 2020. Podesta said that he didn’t want to be the “skunk” at [...]
Obama shows backbone in the lithium war, will he show it in the carbon war?
TP reports, “Speaking from the White House Rose Garden this afternoon, President Obama announced that he has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal resignation as head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, following the four-star general’s unprofessional remarks in a Rolling Stone interview.”
Okay, this decision is only indirectly connected to clean energy, although the [...]
Facilitating Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Communicating Climate Change Impacts
For more information, see the full solicitation at http://www.epa.gov/air/grants/ccd_tribalrfp_6.2_final.pdf
DATES: The closing date and time for receipt of proposal submissions, regardless of mode of submission, is July 30, 2010, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT). All hard copies of proposal packages must be received by Lesley Jantarasami by July 30, 2010, 4:00 p.m. EDT in [...]
As Maine goes so goes the climate bill: Olympia Snowe is open to cap on utility emissions, while Susan Collins is as incoherent as Lindesy Graham
Where will Republican votes for an energy bill that contains some carbon pricing mechanism come from?
Lindsey Graham remains as incoherent as ever. On the one hand he has said he is open to a cap on emissions from utilities (see “It’s alive!“), but on the other he has said he wants to push it [...]
For birds and turtles, BP’s oil looms like a disease
Guest blogger Shirley Siluk Gregory, who lives on Florida’s Gulf coast, shares her findings from conversations with officials in the National Park Service in Pensacola, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Alabama. This is a repost from the Gulf Oil Monitor.
For the folks in charge of protecting the wildlife and natural [...]
