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Following fast on the heels of the hottest Jan-May “” and spring — in the temperature record, it’s also the hottest Jan-June on record in the NASA dataset [click on figure to enlarge].
It’s all the more powerful evidence of human-caused warming “because it occurs when the recent minimum of solar irradiance is having its maximum cooling effect,” as a recent must-read NASA paper notes.
Few septics push anti-science disinformation more flagrantly than those at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (see “Santer, Jones, and Schneider respond to CEI’s phony attack on the temperature record“).
But the MSM isn’t filled with experts on science, so most climate falsehoods from the big-oil-funded group go unchallenged, no matter how offensive they are to people’s intelligence. On Thursday, however, CEI made so many bogus claims about the federal response to the BP oil disaster that even CNBC anchor Mark Haines couldn’t stomach it.
Wonk Room has the story and must-see video:
There are over 10,000 Freecycle mailing lists on Yahoo Groups. Freecycle helps users find free alternatives to purchasing new items. Image source: Flickr/ premasagar.
Many people subscribe to the notion that buying certain items while eschewing others is the best way to live an environmentally friendly lifestyle. This logic suggests that you vote with your dollar, and if you buy fuel-efficient, organic, and “green” products you’re contributing to sustainability. But this CAP cross-post asks, “What about simply not buying things at all?”
Johnnie Burton, the director of Bush’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) from 2002 to 2007, has no regrets about her tenure, saying in an interview that she found no problems within the agency, now disbanded in disgrace. Burton “” at 70 now a case worker for Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) “” defended her record to the Caspar, WY, Star-Tribune, as Brad Johnson relates in this Wonk Room cross-post.
Under Burton, the “mismanaged, unaccountable” agency was so corrupt that even pro-drilling Republicans like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) bashed the agency. Burton responded with insouciant calm, telling the Star-Tribune “when I was there it seemed to work well“:
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