December 08, 2009 05:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
No More Mister Nice Blog: Things that normal people are opposed to on principle, conservatives are opposed to only when they are happening to the "wrong people" or done for the "wrong reasons."
Washington's Blog: The woman who invented credit default swaps is one of the key architects of carbon derivatives, which would be at the very center of cap and trade
The Liberal OC: Stay classy, wingnut
Bitter Lawyer: The Profane, Pornographic, Anti-Glenn Beck World of Marc Randazza
his vorpal sword: Pearl Harbor Day + 68
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: BTC News, plain view, Petulant Rumblings, bastard.logic
If the country had listened to Jimmy Carter in 1977 about his energy plan and then balanced it with appropriate components to save the ecology we could be where we need to be today.
In 1977 it would have been a glide path away from fossil fuels.
Unfortunately the country didn't listen.
Today, to get to where we need to be is no longer a glide path, it is a full crash into the mountain.
Cap and trade will do for us what listening to Ronald Reagan did for us.
Carbon derivatives will make someone at Goldman Sachs much richer than they already are.
They will not save us.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
The following companies contributed money to Sen. Ben Nelson. Call Sen. Nelson at 1-202-224-6551 and tell him that until he requests and gets his antiabortion amendment out of the health care bill you refuse to do business with the following Nelson contributors.
Home Depot
Omaha Steaks
Nebraska Beef
Mutual of Omaha Insurance
Keith said last night that Beck lost one third of his audience of young people last month. I'm guessing that's because they were busy writing their letters to Santa Claus.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
'Christmas Sweater' shtick...
Honestly...how can one count all the holes in the heads' of his viewers????
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
They were all seeing Twilight?
He'll insist it was only 2/6ths of them.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Unfortunately, I'm agreeing more and more with James Hansen's fight against it...there's too much that can go wrong. What's more unfortunate is the alternative of taxing pollution, which con-servatives around the world will claim will bring about the second coming...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Copenhagen climate conference opens to dire warnings - http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/...
Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_bi_...
FINALLY!!! EPA declares greenhouse gases a threat, paves way for regulation - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-07-epa-d...
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday declared carbon blamed for global warming a public health threat, paving the way to regulate the emissions for the first time.
White House says leaked email story "silly" - the science is clear - http://www.desmogblog.com/white-house-says-le...
According to an AFP story out today, the Obama White House has dismissed as "silly" the idea that climate science is in jeopardy over the Climate Research Unit leaked emails.
"I think everybody is clear on the science," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. "I think scientists are clear on the science. I think many on Capitol Hill are clear on the science. I think that this notion that there is some debate ... on the science is kind of silly."
Of course it is, but it hasn't stopped Republicans, their friends in the 'free-market' think tanks and Cluster Fox Noise from trying to make this minor controversy into some kind of worldwide conspiracy.
I wonder if 100 years from now, the textbooks will talk about how the 21st century equivalent of the flat-earth society that tried and failed to keep the human-race stuck on fossil fuels?
Earth's Temperature 30-50% More Sensitive to CO2 than Previously Thought - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/earth...
Hansen Was Right: Cap and Trade Isn't the Solution - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/nasa-...
Senate Dems May Open Up Medicare. Now that's an Option that would benefit the Public.
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/sena...
Senate Democrats are discussing the idea of expanding Medicare by lowering the age at which the elderly could enter the government-run insurance program. The proposal would lower the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 55, though an age limit of 60 has also been suggested. Crucial details -- such as the timing of the implementation of such a reform -- were not provided due to the sensitivity and ongoing nature of the deliberations.
A high-ranking Democratic source off the Hill confirmed that such discussions are taking place.
Godspeed with that....
Right-Wingnut Billionaire David Koch Funding SwiftBoat Campaign Against Global Warming Science - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/07/koch-swif...
Umm...right wingnuts...just because you have a 'trophy wife'...it doesn't make you look younger or more vibrant/virile, instead it says you don't mind her and the gardener as long as she shows up at public events with you...
U.S. Still #1 "Most Attractive" for Renewable Energy, But China is Catching Up - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/most-...
Ex-KGB Officers May Be the Hackers Behind 'ClimateGate' - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/ex-kg...
Cluster Fox Noise...they love them some communism....
COP15 in Pictures - Day One (Slideshow) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/cop15...
In 'Crude' Exploitation of Ecuador's Amazon, Chevron-Texaco Leaves a Toxic, Deadly Legacy -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/952
WTF? This is Change?? Obama Administration OKs oil drilling in Arctic off Alaska - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/80196.html
U.S. moves to curb emissions, aids U.N. climate talks - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
5 Things to Watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/ar...
Al Franken Double-Dares Tom Coburn On Public Option; As long as it works - http://airamerica.com/politics/12-05-2009/fra...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
The Profane, Pornographic, Anti-Glenn Beck World of Marc Randazza
http://www.partystuffonline.co.uk/Thumbnails/...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
On the bright side, it looks like the Washington Times may finally be folding.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200912080004
The second post lays out the case against credit default swaps well, and aimai's post is a keeper.
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