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More BP humor: Toles on Barton apology

Uber-cartoonist Tom Toles offers a cartoon he headlines "Ever so sorry":

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Greentech strategic 'investment' in a plutocracy

In a plutocracy like America, the corporations with the most money to bribe the government get to dictate government policies. The five richest corporations in the world are the dirty energy companies: so they dictate energy policy in the US.

We may find this distasteful, but there is little Americans in the new clean energy industry can do other than try to better focus our more puny government bribes to better compete with the dirty energy bribes. A few key votes should be ...

Greentech stategic 'investment' in a plutocracy

In a plutocracy like America, the corporations with the most money to bribe the government get to dictate government policies. The five richest corporations in the world are the dirty energy companies: so they dictate energy policy in the US.

We may find this distasteful, but there is little Americans in the new clean energy industry can do other than try to better focus our more puny government bribes to better compete with the dirty energy bribes. A few key votes should be ...

Energy and Global Warming News for June 22: Solar energy offers a vast supply of power, carbon nanotubes could be secret to greater EV range

Solar energy offers a vast supply of power, but harnessing it is a challenge

We have a solar-based economy, whether or not we realize it. Ninety-four percent of the world's energy comes from the sun, even energy that doesn't at first glance seem solar. Coal, oil and natural gas are mostly the products of ancient plants that grew with the sun's help. The sun drives hydroelectric power by evaporating low-lying water, then dumping it at higher altitudes. Windmills turn because the sun warms the...

China's clean energy push - Evaluating the implications for American competitiveness

Fresh from releasing "Out of the Running?," a report that compares clean energy investments in China, Germany, and Spain, senior staff including Kate Gordon and Julian Wong, from the Center for American Progress brought a select group of Senate staffers to visit China in April to meet with policymakers, academics, and companies to better understand China's clean energy economic development strategy. The visit provided convincing evidence to those involved that China has made...

Public support for offshore drilling continues to plummet, despite GOP scare tactics - Overwhelming majority support strong action to cut fossil fuel use, advance clean energy

As we enter the 64th day of the nation's worst environmental disaster, Americans' opposition to offshore oil drilling continues to grow.  CAP's Daniel J. Weiss has the details.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll of adults taken on June 16th, the day after President Obama's Oval Office energy address, found an 18% swing towards opposition to increased drilling compared to a similar poll taken three wakes ago.   The survey of 534 adults had a margin of error or +/- 4.2%

Conducted 6/16...

Public support for offshore drilling continues to plummet, despite Republican scare tactics - Overwhelming majority support strong action to cut fossil fuel use, advance clean energy

As we enter the 64th day of the nation's worst environmental disaster, Americans' opposition to offshore oil drilling continues to grow.  CAP's Daniel J. Weiss has the details.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll of adults taken on June 16th, the day after President Obama's Oval Office energy address, found an 18% swing towards opposition to increased drilling compared to a similar poll taken three wakes ago.   The survey of 534 adults had a margin of error or +/- 4.2%

Conducted 6/16...

New study reaffirms broad scientific understanding of climate change, questions media's reliance on tiny group of less-credibile scientists for "balance"

Here, we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that 1) 97-98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and 2) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.

That is the conclusion of an important first-of-its-kind...

It's alive! An energy bill that puts a price on carbon is now officially undead.

It's trendy to be undead these days.  Sure sexy teenage vampires get all the media attention.  But don't forget those mad (political) scientists who toil tirelessly in their labs, assembling the best (worst?) parts of corpses, mixing in 100 million gallons of oil, and zapping the finished product with, say, the enormous power furnished by an electric (utility) cap.

I think we might call the resulting assemblage Lugar-Kerry-Lieberman-Graham-Cantwell-Collins-Waxman-Markey-Bingaman.  The...

Fact-checking Sarah 'The Qwitterer' Palin: Joe Barton reflects the philosophy of over 115 Republicans

Think Progress debunks the Qwitterer in this repost.

When asked yesterday on ABC's This Week about Rep. Joe Barton's (R-TX) accusation that the White House engaged in a "shakedown" of BP, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel noted the remark was "not a political gaffe," but rather a statement based on "prepared remarks." He linked Barton's comments to the GOP's "larger philosophy," saying it "is an approach to what they see. They see the aggrieved party here is BP, not the fisherman. And...