Politico: “Signs of life” for climate bill – Murkowski “dirty air” Amendment vote June 10 will be a key test May 28, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
MN professor eviscerates Monckton in must-see video – TVMOB’s talk proves “how easy it is to fabricate data.” May 27, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
NOAA expects “active to extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season – 95% of above normal seasons have 2 Gulf hurricanes, 50% have at least one in June-July May 27, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Obama: “Climate change poses a threat to our way of life.” – Starts the pivot from spill to bill: “I’m going to keep fighting to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation” May 27, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Vote Vets ad ties BP disaster with national security – In must-see video, Vet who served in clean-up with LA National Guard, explains “When I signed on with the National Guard, I did it to help protect America from our enemies… Not to clean up an oil company’s mess here in the Gulf of Mexico.” May 27, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Stunning NOAA map of Tennessee’s 1000-year deluge – 15 sites had rainfall exceeding maximum associated with Hurricane Katrina landfall May 26, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Obama: BP disaster tells us we must pass a “long-term energy strategy” – Reid: “This is an opportunity for us as a country to move away from fossil fuel, to do a better job of looking at renewable energies that are available to us all over this country.” May 26, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Brulle: “The NY Times doesn’t need to go to European conferences to find out why public opinion on climate change has shifted…. Just look in the mirror.” May 26, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
JP Morgan invented credit-default swaps to give Exxon credit line for Valdez liability May 26, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Stunning video makes clear prevention is the only cure: What dispersants have really done to Gulf – BP’s name being dragged ‘literally through the muck.’ May 25, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
As Arctic sea ice shrinks faster than 2007, NSIDC director Serreze says, “I think it’s quite possible” we could “break another record this year.” – Watts and Goddard seem in denial: “We are still about six weeks away from anything interesting happening in the Arctic.” May 24, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Axelrod: Oil spill adds urgency to passing energy and climate bill – Reid: “Weaning ourselves off of oil is a hard fact for us to face.” May 24, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Bingaman slams Graham’s climate bill incoherence: “I can’t keep up with his various conditions.” – Lost: Graham will vote for Dirty Air amendment, wants more drilling May 24, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
The non-hype about climate change (and malaria) – A look at two new studies and how the media has misled both the public and the sloppy authors of the Nature study May 23, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
The climate bill version of “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough” May 23, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
President’s weekly address: “First and foremost, what led to this disaster was a breakdown of responsibility on the part of BP and perhaps others, including Transocean and Halliburton.” – Obama misses another chance to reframe the debate May 22, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Arctic double stunner: Sea ice extent is now below 2007 levels, while volume hit record low for March – Summer poised to set new record May 21, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Rand Paul calls White House pressure on British Petroleum “un-American,” defends BP’s recklessness: “sometimes accidents happen” – Asserts “I don’t think Washington should have anything to do with the mining” of coal: “My energy policy is let the marketplace decide through capitalism.” May 21, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Canadian tar sands set to be top U.S. oil import – Let’s not forget that other risky, dirty oil business BP is part of May 20, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Video: Robert Redford tells President Obama it’s time to lead “America on a path to cleaner, safer energy” May 19, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as “settled facts” that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” – New report confirms failure to act poses “significant risks” May 19, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
House hearing at 2 pm on “Sizing up the BP Oil Spill: Science and Engineering Measuring Methods” May 19, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Video: As BP’s recklessness ruins the Gulf Coast, CEO Tony ‘Soprano’ Hayward calls oil disaster’s impact “very, very modest” – Expert says spill rate definitely much more than 70,000 barrels a day; BP and Goldman Sachs sued for oil fraud! May 18, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Rep. Graves (R-MO) flees reality: BP oil disaster could have been averted if we were drilling in ANWR May 18, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
National Academy to release 3 major climate studies – Webcast Wednesday, 10 am EDT May 18, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Toles on BP’s oil disaster response strategies – Plus a climate cartoon May 18, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Breaking: Obama to establish “presidential commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico” May 17, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
NOAA: Hottest April and hottest Jan-April on record – Masters: Record Atlantic sea surface temps in hurricane development region, “The three past seasons with record warm April SST anomalies all had abnormally high numbers of intense hurricanes” May 17, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Should you believe anything BP says? – As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists’ pleas: “We’re not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It’s not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort.” May 17, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Looks like BP stands for Burning Petroleum; worst spill since ExxonValdez heads for LA coast – I’ll be on MSNBC’s Countdown at 8:35 edt April 29, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Lindsey Graham says, “yeah,” there’s a chance for climate to move forward this year – On the bipartisan bill he wrote with Kerry and Lieberman: “I really believe in this product. I think it’s a damn good solution.” April 29, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
Senior military leaders announce support for climate bill – 33 generals, admirals: “Climate change is making the world a more dangerous place” and “threatening America’s security” April 29, 2010October 4, 2026Joe
