Would-Be Know-It-All Yale’s Disinformation Fools HuffPost into Regurgitating Greenwash — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

Once again, I beat the drum to rid the body politic of an infected appendage. “An important instance of system change could be the change in the US political system: to eliminate the US Senate which has been standing in the way of progress on every front. The Senate has not even ratified the Kyoto treaty – and never will. Yet this is a measure that would easily have passed in the US House of Representatives, which is the only legislative body the American people need.”

With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning — accept the scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.

There is great concern and potential for action on climate change in the general public. The problem is that most people feel that it’s the government’s job to change things, or that the individual citizen is powerless in the face of such a daunting challenge. With some fresh ideas and renewed efforts at coordination, I hope we can change that.

“Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.”

“the only thing that has actually remotely slowed down the relentless rise of carbon emissions over the last two to three decades is recession.”

– Tim Jackson

When the eighth largest economy in the world establishes a landmark greenhouse gas emissions cap, you can bet oil companies are going to try to find a way to knock it down for one reason: money.

When it comes to the climate change debate, anecdotal evidence is often misused by both sides.

The American public is remarkably unconcerned about climate changed. For several years, attitudes about the climate change have been shifting toward apathy and denial.

The President’s National Oil Spill Commission released preliminary findings from its investigation into BP’s oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read about how the White House hid the truth on the spill.

The Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill was likely the last hope for major climate-change legislation for a number of years. With Obama on the defensive and unwilling to spend political capital on the issue, and with Congress certainly getting more Republican in November, a great window of opportunity has been missed.