PE Obama's Message to Governor's Climate Summit [Update 1]

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 11:14 AM PST

2008/11/18 · 11:14

President-elect Obama made a surprise "appearance" via video during Governor Schwarzenegger's Welcome Speech at the Governor's Climate Summit, being held today (Nov 18) and tomorrow at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. PE Obama repeated his pledge to combat global warming, to create green jobs, and to improve national security by reducing our dependence on foreign oil. He also extended his support to states, corporations, and nations that wish to join the fight against anthropogenic climate change.

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 10:41 AM PST

2008/11/08 · 10:41

Call me crazy, but it just seems a shame to let the Obama campaign ground effort fade away when there are so many good uses to which it could be applied. At the same time, keeping the ground campaign alive and active on issues of national importance means it will be ship-shape and ready to go in 2012 when Obama runs for re-election.

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 10:24 AM PDT

2008/09/09 · 10:24

While it’s hard to avoid flying into the flame of firebrand politics, I try to remember that this election is about issues, not personalities. It’s about judgment, not rhetoric. It’s about deciding who can lead and govern in a way that solves our most urgent problems, as opposed to pandering to the worst inclinations in all of us. So it’s refreshing, indeed, delightful, to come across a group of people who are attempting to define important national issues and to provide a forum for the Presidential candidates to express their views on those issues.The Science Debate 2008 grassroots initiative is dedicated to defining science and technology issues that pose challenges to our nation’s future. The group just released the responses of Barack Obama to their questionnaire. It’s well worth reading and referring to as a source of detailed and informed statements about Barack Obama’s views on not only science and technology, but issues such as stem cell research, nuclear technology, climate change, science education, space exploration, and scientific freedom. More after the jump.

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 11:01 AM PDT

2008/08/22 · 11:01

In these excruciatingly tense, nerve-tingling moments before the One announces the Two, I just had to join the wolf-pack chorus of howls about Housegate. It’s not a particularly insightful howl, nor very loud, but you know how it is. Once one Kos gets to barking, the rest just have to chime in...

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Is the One waiting for the right moment to announce the Two?

22 votes Vote Now!

Is the One waiting for the right moment to announce the Two?

Hell yes!

12 votes

Doubt it.

0 votes

That's dumb.

0 votes

I don't care, I'd rather be body surfing.

5 votes

Text me and I'll tell you.

5 votes

In defense of the tire gauge

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Monday August 04, 2008 · 11:01 PM PDT

2008/08/04 · 23:01

The tire gauge was invented in 1915 by Seaman P. Noe, a sailor from Ocean Grove, New Jersey (New York Times Archive). Born of practicality in the emerging age of the automobile, the tire gauge quickly gained popularity for its ability to rapidly measure tire pressure and determine the under- or overinflation of an auto's tires. Armed with such knowledge, the automobile's owner could maintain optimal tire pressure, and, thereby, insure the economy and safety of the automobile. Little did Seaman Noe know that 93 years later, his tire gauge would play a central role in a fiercely contested Presidential debate about energy policy in the United States.

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 12:19 PM PDT

2008/08/02 · 12:19

Obama’s "shift" on offshore drilling has the potential to generate yet another round of accusations of flip-flopping, caving in, calling uncle, having no spine, etc., etc., on an issue that’s near and dear to ocean lovers, environmentalists, and otherwise sensible people with a concern for the future of our planet. Yet I think this "shift" offers an important insight to the way that Obama would lead our country. As an oceanographer who opposes offshore oil drilling more on the grounds that it perpetuates bad social-economic-environmental policy than its long-term harm to ocean ecosystems (though I am not willing to concede that it’s completely harmless), I do see benefits to Obama’s drilling-with-conditions approach. It’s a bit of the "carrot and stick" for oil companies or a "halfway house" measure for American’s oil addiction. While there are excellent arguments against offshore drilling (indeed, anything that feeds our reckless use of fossil fuels), I think a compromise approach is essential as a first-step towards alternative energy development and reductions in greenhouse gases.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 4:41 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 16:41

Paul Krugman struck paydirt today in his Op-Ed piece on offshore drilling and John McCain's political gimmickry. He exposes McCain’s offshore drilling scheme as "junk economics" that, as we well know, will do nothing to lower gas prices. Krugman also points out that McCain once opposed offshore drilling. Of course, there’s nothing like a million dollars in campaign donations from oil companies to help you conveniently change your mind. (I will admit it’s possible McCain has forgotten his previous positions, but I don’t want to play the age card here...). McCain's flip-flop on offshore drilling stands at odds with legislation he co-sponsored to limit greenhouse emissions. As Krugman puts it, the once cap-and-trade maverick is now a die-hard "drill-and burn" Republican. Beyond his exposure of McCain's political slipperiness, Krugman raises a most serious issue: how can we expect to fight global warming if we fold at the first skirmish? If Americans flock to the idea that drilling is the answer to high gas prices, then we have little chance of passing carbon tax legislation. More after the fold...

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Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 8:00 PM PDT

2008/07/15 · 20:00

After watching Gore's TED lecture (ted.com), a then global-warming-depressed student e-mailed me today to ask what I thought we could do to fight global warming. He's in Iceland right now and he said he could imagine the disappearance of the small islands surrounding the mainland. He said he's recycling, planting trees, and riding his bike, but it all seems so little compared to the magnitude of the problem. Johnnyrook's book review (Right and Wrong in a Warming World) reminded me of the moral dimensions of the issue, so it seemed worth repeating here what I wrote to him...

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 9:53 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 09:53

This Hell-No-I-Won't-Go Hillary-thing got me to thinking about the scene from the Wizard of Oz where the Wicked Witch of the West flies across the sky in the Land of Oz on her smoking broom and scribes the words "Surrender, Dorothy." Down below, Dorothy and her crew are being all scrubbed and trimmed, shined and polished, and generally just having a ball. There's joy, hope, positive vibes, and glamour in the air. And it all gets ruined when the persnickety, persistent, pain-in-the-ass, power-obsessed sourpuss insists on getting hold of those Ruby slippers, come hell or high water!

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