7 December '09
9:28 AM UTC
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Copenhagen is Like A Bad Relationship…

seal-the-dealThe Copenhagen climate talks are like a bad relationship. First, it’s all euphoria then it’s all, “oh God, she hates me.”

Today, as the talks begin, we’re euphoric.

Let’s review.

U.S. President Barack Obama has committed to going to the end of the conference on Dec. 18, rather than on Dec. 9. This untethering of the conference from his trip to Oslo on Dec. 7 to accept the Nobel Peace Price suggests a new seriousness about the talks that we haven’t yet seen from Obama. Read More »

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3 December '09
9:57 AM UTC
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Jon Stewart on Inhofe and Climategate

inhofeSen. James Inhofe may be wrong, wrong, wrong on climate change but he has a great sense of humor. 

He drives a 1987 Cadillac (that probably gets 15 MPG highway… tops) and the Web page for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is an always entertaining collection of stories — many unflattering — about him. 

To wit: this clip posted on the minority page yesterday in which Jon Stewart bemoans the idiocy of the Climate Research Unit scientists, whose nasty emails and sloppy record keeping have set back public perception of global warming by years. Stewart calls the leaked emails “catnip” to skeptics like Inhofe. See the clip after the jump. Read More »

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