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Granholm: Limbaugh's attacks on American-made electric vehicles are 'un-American'

This is a Think Progress cross post.

Last Friday, President Obama visited General Motors and Chrysler plants in Detroit, MI to resoundingly reaffirm the administration's decision last year "to rescue the ailing auto industry." While visiting the GM plant, the President test drove Chevrolet's highly touted electric car, the Volt. In anticipation of Obama's visit to Detroit, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh launched a campaign to deride Chevrolet's electric vehicle, attacking "everything from...

Energy and Global Warming News for August 6th: Climate change could destroy 80% of rainforest by 2100 - Scientist: "Conservation of the world's biota, as we know it, will depend upon rapid, steep declines in greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate change could destroy 80 per cent of rainforest by next century:  Fewer than one in five of the plants and animals which currently live in the world's rainforests will still be here in 90 years time, a study predicts.

Rainforests currently hold more than half of all the plant and animal species on Earth.

However, scientists say the combined effects of climate change and deforestation may force them to adapt, move, or die.

By 2100, this could have altered two-thirds of the rainforests...

What you need the next time you're talking to a doubter: Skeptical Science's Android or iPhone app

One of the best climate websites is SkepticalScience.com run by physicist John Cook.

The goal of SkepticalScience is to "explain what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming" and answer the most common questions and objections raised both by the well-meaning doubters and the not-well-meaning disinformers.

Fortunately for all of us, Cook is blogging more now.  He has agreed to let me repost some of his best stuff now that I am going on "vacation" for two weeks.  Of course, as I s...

Tesoro is recruiting other Big Oil companies, including BP, to repeal California climate and clean energy laws

This exclusive report by Wonk Room is part of a Progressive Media blogging series on the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California's clean energy climate law. Read more on Prop 23's economic impact, national repercussions, and funding from Texas oil companies.

Working with veteran tobacco lobbyists in Sacramento, Texan oil companies are orchestrating a campaign to roll back California's landmark clean energy climate change law, AB 32. So far, the largest donations have came...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...

Russian President Medvedev: "What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past." - NYT: "Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels C

Russia is being devastated by extreme weather  — and their leaders aren't silent on what they think the cause is.  On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke to a Russian Security Council meeting on the ongoing threat of wildfires associated with the country's heatwave and drought:

"…our country has not experienced such a heat wave in the last 50 or even 100 years… I want to say that this is, of course, a severe trial for our country, a great trial indeed. But at the same...