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Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust

March 10, 2010

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The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case–some rather unlikely champions, including GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, have continued pushing for a bill that puts a price on car…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Best to Debate Climate Deniers on TV? Simple: Don’t.

March 10, 2010

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I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that the science supporting climate change is being ‘called into question’. As a result, we’re seeing more calls for televised ‘debate’ than usual, especially from outlets already convinced that global warming is a big hoax. So what’s a climate scientist to do when s/he’s asked by a skeptic to appear on Fox News to defend the <a href="http://www.treehugger.co…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New UN Climate Financing Group Is Another All-Boys Club

March 10, 2010

men only sign photo
photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr.

We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women’s Day and, second, we’ve just been told that in many places women are going to be hit harder than men by climate change. Now, via our friends over at <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-08-why-are-women-being-left-out-of-climate-decision-making-…Read the full story on TreeHugger