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Barbour compares small animals suffocating from oil to people covered in toothpaste.

On Tuesday, "oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster hit Mississippi shores for the first time," covering about two miles of Petit Bois Island's beach.  And that meant more tone-deaf greenwashing from dirty energy lobbyist-turned-Governor Haley Barbour, as reported in this Think Progress repost.

As ThinkProgress noted, the appearance of oil onshore led Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to shift his upbeat rhetoric about the approaching oil, acknowledging that "this could turn out to be...

Do Americans want Obama to show more "emotion" — or is that just the lust of the drama-driven media?

LARRY KING: I know you appear so calm. Are you angry at BP?

OBAMA: You know, I am furious at this entire situation because this is an example where somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions. It's imperiling not just a handful of people. This is imperiling an entire way of life and an entire region for potentially years… [T:]he one thing that I think is important to underscore is that I would love to just spend a lot of my time venting and yelling at people. But that's not...

Jindal jumps the shark, crashes into oil-spoiled Gulf - Faced with devastating BP disaster, Louisiana's governor demands ... more deepwater drilling ASAP?

A stunning new letter by the oil-addicted governor of Louisiana gives the lie to right-wing claims that environmentalists are to blame for the BP oil disaster.

On Wednesday, Bobby Jindal, who blames everybody but himself for the environmental disaster hitting his state, wrote to President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pleading with them to end the deep water drilling moratorium immediately.

Jindal has been trying to position himself as the can-do guy in the face of the worst...

Energy and Global Warming News for June 3, 2010: Will offshore drilling 'Go the way of nuclear power'? Virginia's religious leaders call on senators to support climate bill; Two climate change experts to sit on BP disaster investigation panel

Will Offshore Drilling 'Go The Way Of Nuclear Power'?

Oil is still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. The feds are looking into criminal charges against BP. And it may take months before the well is capped.

What are the long-term implications for BP, and for the oil industry?

"In the United States, offshore drilling seems set to go the way of nuclear power, with new projects being shelved for decades," Harvard economist Ken Rogoff predicts. "And, as is often the case, a crisis in one...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...