As the masquerade ball of phony scientists talks to itself (and of course the assembled media) in New York this week, a very different conference is happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Hundreds of the worlds leading climate researchers are gathering at the International Scientific Congress ...

Believe it or not, the term “muddling through” comes from none other than ultra-Keynesian Paul Krugman, who kicked off today’s column by saying, “The Obama administration’s economic policy is already falling behind the curve, and there’s a real, growing danger that it wil...

I just got off the phone from an interview with Bob Carson from FM 107.7 in New Jersey--I think it's a college radio station (Rider University), but hey, it's FM and I'm a publicity whore.  Talked mostly gas tax, carbon tax and cap and trade.  I hammered away at t...

Desmog Blog readers know how much cyber-ink we have spilled trying to save the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) . Our work may finally be over.   The Omnibus Appropriations Bill 1105, just passed yesterday by the US Congress contains the following fateful statement on page 141 : "The bil...

Yesterday, Dave Roberts at Grist posted his strong (extreme?) views on economists' influence on public policy--environmental policy in particular.  Rather than resort to my usual sarcastic responses, I'm going to try to put together a cohesive substance-filled argument as to why this g...

I received an email with an opinion from an insider. I thought you might find it interesting amazing alarming. His email goes like this: With all the talk about nationalizing Citibank, or B of A, many are failing to understand that the government has effectively nationalized most banks to begin with...

Obama-mania hit Canada’s capital hard today but there was much more at play than photo ops during the President’s five-hour visit. Harper and Obama announced a “clean energy dialogue” focusing on “carbon capture and storage” technology (CCS) – a stash-the-em...

Evidently, the following passage from this story, is supposed to terrify me: As head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, [Cass] Sunstein, a Harvard Law School professor, would be the arbiter of debates on rules for auto safety, environmental protection, union organizing and dozens o...

Grist, making my case: This may piss off some people I respect a great deal. Nonetheless, after hearing it in several off-the-record conversations in D.C. last week, I believe it's something that needs to be said publicly: The 111th U.S. Congress is not going to pass a carbon tax. Calls for a ca...

The new face of the European Union also happens to be the old face of global warming skepticism. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic and, since January 1, the rotating president of the European Union, will give a keynote speech at the second annual International Conference on Climate C...