Two veterans of the climate wars, John Fleck (a reporter) and William Connolley (a scientist) team up for RealClimate to bring perspective — and data — to the endlessly misleading "How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?" They write:Continue reading “Whack a Climate Mole (killing the global cooling lie)”
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“We’re in the Lead in Global Climate Change”
Addressing a renewable energy conference in Washington today, the Prez said: "America is in the lead when it comes to energy independence; we’re in the lead when it comes to new technologies; we’re in the lead when it comes to global climate change — and we’ll stay that way." Bush threw out some big roundContinue reading ““We’re in the Lead in Global Climate Change””
The Wheel Turns — Against Gasoline
Shocked by high gas prices? You’re not alone: according to the lead story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, prices are at a record high. The gravity-defying price of oil shot through another barrier Monday by briefly touching $103.95 a barrel in New York trading, the highest cost ever for black gold even after adjusting forContinue reading “The Wheel Turns — Against Gasoline”
Neil Young Puts On No Airs
Nice piece in a UK paper on Neil Young at the Berlin Film Fest. The admiring reporter/critic brings out a number of details Young would call "innaresting" — such as the fact that Neil ordered his old pals Crosby, Stills, and Nash around on the last tour. He took that right since he released theContinue reading “Neil Young Puts On No Airs”
Why Limbaugh (Really) Hates McCain
Given that John McCain is universally considered to be the most electable of all Republican candidates this year, a lot of us pinko lefties have been wondering why rightwing radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh hates him so much. I mean, sure, McCain is "soft" on torture, and believes we are changing the climate with greenhouse gases,Continue reading “Why Limbaugh (Really) Hates McCain”
The Politics of Fear: Right vs. Left
Last week Andrew Sullivan gave the mic to a National Review editor named Peter Suderman, among others, who has posted on the petty-minded Planet Gore. (That’s the right-wing website devoted to the proposition that global warming is Al Gore’s doing, and if we can just make enough fun of him personally, the whole problem willContinue reading “The Politics of Fear: Right vs. Left”
Great California Painter Moves On
The Los Angeles Times reports that Milford Zornes, who had a show just last year at age 100, has died. His paintings of grassy landscapes, rugged shorelines and coastal hills recall the time in California before freeways and housing developments. He was one of a group of area watercolorists led by Millard Sheets who becameContinue reading “Great California Painter Moves On”
Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo
Outbids Microsoft for Internet Giant Flush with cash after a deluge of online donations, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) stunned the business world today by outbidding Microsoft for the Internet giant Yahoo. The purchase of Yahoo! is believed to be the largest acquisition of a multibillion-dollar company ever by a Democratic presidential candidate, industryContinue reading “Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo”
Ralph Nader Takes Credit for Al Gore’s Nobel Prize
Believe it or don’t. Here’s the ever-charming Nader, in an interview with the BBC: BBC: A lot of people blame you for allowing George Bush to come in in 2000, because you took a fair number of votes that would have gone to Al Gore for the Democrats. NADER: No, actually the studies show thatContinue reading “Ralph Nader Takes Credit for Al Gore’s Nobel Prize”
There Will Be Blood: A Dramatization of Peak Oil?
In the realm of art, no interpretation of a work can be final, but intriguing hints from no less than the writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson suggest that the stunning movie There Will Be Blood is actually a story not about the rise and fall of a man so much as it is about the riseContinue reading “There Will Be Blood: A Dramatization of Peak Oil?”
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