Discussing the recent Senate hearing on cap & trade, Marlo Lewis cites Myron Ebell’s commentary to say:

There used to be honor among thieves. But everything is changing in this crazy, mixed-up greenhouse planet of ours! As Myron shows, each of the testifying utility CEOs wants the allocation rules to profit his company at the expense of the other guy’s.

Uhh, hello? The saying is “There is no honor among thieves.” Duh!!! This renders the second sentence above incoherent.

I realize this is a small error compared to PG’s typical howlers but then again, they say “God is in the details.” PG is trying to turn a dog-bites-man story into some cynical point about the witnesses — and PG has to savage an old saying to do it. That’s disinfotainment. I’m making this PGDW #36 and #37 for those first two sentences, and #38 on principle for quoting Myron Ebell.

Al Gore has a major op-ed in the New York Times today on global warming. He writes:

This is not a political issue. This is a moral issue, one that affects the survival of human civilization…. Put simply, it is wrong to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every generation that follows ours.

Gore explains that next week’s Live Earth concert — which Climate Progress will blog live on — will focus on action and ask “everyone who attends or listens to the concerts to sign a personal pledge to take specific steps to combat climate change.”

You can read and sign the seven-part pledge at algore.com. Here it is:

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The World Resources Institute (WRI), a well-respected environmental think tank, has made some informative additions to recent conversations about climate change.

Particularly in light of the IPCC’s release on the Mitigation of Climate Change on in May, China and the U.S. have come under fire for their pact against the climate, consisting of greenhouse gas intensity targets rather than absolute emissions reductions. WRI has analyzed both country’s commitments (China, U.S.) to reduce GHG intensity and concludes that it’s almost surely a counterproductive policy.

WRI examines an alternative in one of its recent publications, Scaling Up: Global Technology Deployment to Stabilize Emissions. The report’s synopsis is that it is “an analysis of ways to promote the policy and market structures for deploying low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change.”

And if you haven’t had a chance to check out how they’ve eco- renovated their office space, there’s a PDF report of their design worth exploration.