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Climate Bill Not Dead
The Weekly Standard ran a cover story this week called, “In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign.” Despite the cute play on words about who is denying what, the article got it all wrong. Climate change legislation is not dead--not as long as publications like this keep putting it on its cover. More...
Why Young People Need To Call Congress About Climate - Repeatedly
I grew up in the rural parts of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, two relatively conservative areas. Most of my friends and family are tried-and-true Republicans so it was assumed that I would follow suit. More...
DC Hubbub and What it Means For the Climate Bill
As I sit here writing, I have the White House Health Care Summit running in the background. This is the meeting where President Obama invited Congressional leaders to sit down at the table in front of the American public and talk about how to find common ground over what has become a very divisive, political debate about healthcare. More...
Comments: 2 comment(s)Why Climate Change Deniers Should Still Support Green Energy
Last week, two conservative Republican Senators, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming, called for an independent probe of the IPCC – the international scientific body that summarizes the latest climate science – and asked the Senate to halt all climate action until that happens. More...
Comments: 3 comment(s)The Climate Bullies
When I was in 6th grade, I fell victim to the school bully. I was new to the school and became an easy target for an 8th grade girl with a bad attitude. She picked on me endlessly while other kids stood by and watched. I was humiliated, scared and completely at a loss about what I should do. More...
Comments: 3 comment(s)THE PENTAGON? A LIBERAL HOTBED?
This week, the Pentagon called climate change a threat to national security that “may spark or exacerbate future conflicts.” The assessment was part of the Pentagon’s official review of military risks, and labeled global warming “an accelerant of instability.” More...
Comments: 2 comment(s)Senators, If You Want the Youth Vote, Provide a Cleaner Energy Future
This week, NRDC’s Action Fund launched a web-based video in which Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Forest Whitaker, Jason Bateman, Chace Crawford, Felicity Huffman, and Cornell West urge people to tell their senators to support clean energy and climate legislation. More...
Comments: 20 comment(s)POTUS SPEAK UP - Five Things to Say about Clean Energy in Your Address
It is that time of year again. This Wednesday, January 27, 2010, the President will glide down the aisle in the House of Representatives, greeted by thunderous applause, and encounter the usually more dignified elected officials in a slightly teen-bopper, Beatles-esque-frenzy, practically climbing over each other to shake his hand. More...
Comments: 15 comment(s)Brown's Win and the Climate Vote
As we all drink our morning coffee and digest what this latest change-up means for the Senate, let me be the first to say - I continue to be hopeful that the Senate will take action on climate change. More...
Comments: 9 comment(s)Tell POTUS That This Is Our Moment
In case you are tired of making your own New Year’s resolutions, President Obama would like you to help him set his. He is inviting Americans to tell him what we think the administration’s priorities should be for 2010. More...
Comments: 4 comment(s)Global Warming Denier’s Get Spooked
Things must be getting desperate these days for the well-oiled dirty energy crowd. After it’s failed campaign to vilify the world’s top climate scientists over a few stolen emails on the truth about that), the global warming deniers had to eat crow when President Obama pulled a rabbit out his hat in Copenhagen and got the world’s top carbon emitters to agree to a serious effort to reduce CO2 pollution. More...
Comments: 10 comment(s)Rubber Boots to Combat Boots: Time to Tackle Climate Crisis
Do yourself a favor and tune out the shrill cries of the global warming deniers. The fact is, there are lots of sound reasons for Congress to tune out that clamor and act swiftly to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. The severity of the climate crisis is impossible to dismiss – and we do so at our own peril. Anyone who is opposing this course of action is just blowing smoke. More...
Comments: 6 comment(s)The Politics Back Home
The climate talks in Copenhagen are in danger of stalling, but Pres. Obama has the power to push them forward. If he commits giving real money to help developing nations address climate change, we could reach a meaningful agreement on Friday. That could mean many things: a cleaner world, a more stable global economy and a safer place for future generations. There is just one problem: the politics back home. More...
Comments: 1 comment(s)Going Rogue
Many years ago when Congress took its first vote about going into Iraq, I was on the Hill. What a stressful day it was. In the end, there was only one single vote agains that resolution- from Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA). Her fundamental disagreement with war and her manifest opposition to the resolution led many to brand her as an unpatriotic traitor to her country. Was it Ibsen who said, "The strongest man (in this case woman) stands alone?" Yes hindsight is 20/20, for today we all know that Congresswoman Lee was perhaps the most patriotic of all. More...
Comments: 4 comment(s)The Politics of Danger
On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency has determined global warming pollution is a danger to human health. President Obama will be arriving at the international climate talks in Copenhagen with this EPA statement in tow to remind everyone he is serious about reducing U.S. carbon emissions. But the EPA decision does much more than simply influence perceptions abroad. It should also grab the attention of Congress. The message it is sending is clear: It’s your turn to act offensively on global warming. More...
Comments: 1 comment(s)Senator McCaskill Is Tired
For those who missed this lovely tidbit in Wednesday’s Bloomberg story: Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill questioned whether the Senate would have anything left for the global warming debate after it is finished with health care. "I've not been around here a long time; I'm pretty new," McCaskill said. "But I've got to tell you, after you do one really, really big, really, really hard thing that makes everybody mad, I don't think anybody is excited about doing another really, really big thing that's really, really hard, that makes everybody mad." More...
Comments: 1 comment(s)What the Healthcare Vote Means for Climate Change
The pig has hit the fan in our household. My poor husband is laid up with H1N1 and I am playing both nursemaid and quarantine agent as my currently-well children are desperately trying to get to daddy so they can help him with his “owies.” All of this sickness and the recent flush of press have got me thinking about healthcare. The successful healthcare vote by the House on Saturday is probably a good sign for climate change legislation if you are prone to reading the political tea leaves. More...
Comments: 5 comment(s)Fix the Problem: What Tuesday's Election Means for Climate Legislation
I am a big fan of Sunday afternoon naps. They very rarely happen in the chaos of our household but when they do, you know it is a great day. My husband and I put the kids down to rest, turn on an old movie, and settle in for a much-appreciated, always too-short slumber. The movie we turned on this week was called "Disclosure." It is about a female in power making a pass at her male subordinate in the middle of a merger with another company. The man scurried around trying to prove his innocence when the female claimed the aggression was actually the other way around. Meanwhile, the merger was falling apart. More...
Comments: 1 comment(s)Who is the Traitor?
I am a Mom of two lovely kids and the job of raising them is the hardest, most rewarding experience that I have ever had. One of the toughest parts of being a Mommy is instilling the right kind of values in hopes that my children will turn out to be assets to the human race. We are a pretty traditional household so that means loving the Lord, loving your neighbor, and loving your country (and cleaning up your dinner dishes). Basically, be a good person! So, when adults fall down – as we all often do – I inevitably get questions from my inquisitive little boy about what is going on More...
Comments: 3 comment(s)Crooked Climate
A couple of weeks ago mainstream news channels started to run stories about a new generation of thieves who are forgoing the usual dime store robberies in favor of stealing solar panels. Green websites and magazines have been reporting this phenom for a while now and have even written articles about protecting panels from these high-tech hungry burglars. But, now the national and international press is catching on as more panels are swiped off of the rooftops of businesses and homes alike. More...
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