The video below—"Fossil Fuel: A Risky Business"—was released Monday by
Carbon Tracker along with this statement:
The fossil fuel industry is inflating a ‘carbon bubble’ based on risky demand & price assumptions.
Already under current climate policy settings, companies risk wasting over $1 trillion over the next decade.
If the policy settings are ratcheted up to reflect a 2 degrees [Celsius] target then the amount at risk rise dramatically to $20 trillion plus.
Did you know that your money could be at risk too?
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Bush Justice Department politicizes absolutely everything:
Two reports today confirm that under Bush the Justice Department has politicized everything it touches, even programs for the young.
Not that we should have needed any further proof of the obvious after AG Gonzales' deputy, Monica Goodling, confessed last May to illegally discriminating in hiring along partisan lines. But now it's official: DOJ hiring committees went to great lengths to exclude Democratic, liberal, and activist job applicants under both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. A new report (PDF) investigates Republican manipulation of the Honors and Interns programs, which together bring new lawyers into DOJ. Ashcroft restructured the programs in 2002 specifically to ensure that more conservatives and fewer liberals were hired. He removed career officials from the hiring committees and replaced them with highly partisan political appointees.
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today's Kagro in the Morning show, it's the 6/26/14 episode.
Greg Dworkin's morning roundup focuses on the MS run-off.
Vox = "the left," apparently. Todd Akin's back. Plan B on the IRS "scandal": missing e-mails they hope you won't notice don't actually bear on the first "scandal." Never mind that lost e-mails didn't bother them before. Likewise, what the U.S. Archivist has to say interests them now, but didn't then.
Armando joins in for a quick update and discussion of the day's SCOTUS rulings on recess appointments and abortion clinic buffer zones. Catching up on the "no-fly list" ruling, and common threads it shares on modern technology with yesterday's cell phone search decision.
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