nytimes.com - 7/1/2009
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There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy bill that just passed that I absolutely hate. It is too weak in key areas and way too complicated in others. A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg contraption. It is pathetic that we couldn’t ...
nytimes.com - 6/29/2009
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So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill.
In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But
212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Betraying the Planet
nytimes.com - 7/5/2009
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Over the past decade, whenever I went to
China and engaged Chinese on their pollution and energy
problems, inevitably some young Chinese would say: “Hey, you Americans got to grow dirty for 150 years, using cheap coal and oil. Now it is our turn.” ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Can I Clean Your Clock?
nytimes.com - 7/2/2009
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Some of the first eerie signs of a
potential health catastrophe came as bizarre deformities in water
animals, often in their sexual organs. Frogs, salamanders and other amphibians began to sprout extra legs. In heavily polluted Lake Apopka , one of ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - It’s Time to Learn From Frogs
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Attention Tom Friedman: We The People Includes You
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... Tom Friedman’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times gets a few things right: Waxman-Markey (ACES) is disappointingly weak thanks to the GOP’s unwillingness to find solutions, we must strengthen and pass it through the Senate, “We The People” owe it to the future to rise up like never before to make this happen. ...
Tom Friedman: Obama “is going to have to mobilize the whole country to pressure the Senate — by educating Americans, with speech after speech, about the opportunities and necessities of a serious climate/energy bill….”
Climate Progress —
“… If he is not ready to risk failure by going all out, failure will be the most likely result.“
If Obama wants the Senate to pass Waxman-Markey — preferably strengthened — then he needs to put the same effort into it that he has begun for health care. And you, the informed public, must get more involved.
The NYT reported lasted month, “Obama to Forge a Greater Role on Health Care“:
After months of insisting he would leave the details to ...
Tom Friedman: Obama “is going to have to mobilize the whole country…”
The Energy Collective —
“… If he is not ready to risk failure by going all out, failure will be the most likely result.“
If Obama wants the Senate to pass Waxman-Markey — preferably strengthened — then he needs to put the same effort into it that he has begun for health care. And you, the informed public, must get more involved.
The NYT reported lasted month, “Obama to Forge a Greater Role on Health Care“:
After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President ...
Memo to Post: If George Will quotes a lie, it’s still a lie
Climate Progress —
... When New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called upon “young Americans” to “get a million people on the Washington Mall calling for a price on carbon,” another columnist, Mark Steyn, responded: “If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade.” ...
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