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Annotating Advocacy Journalism – Episode #1

Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News

Let’s look at two April 2024 examples of misleading journalism. On April 12, 2024 the Daily Caller ran a piece entitled “Electricity Prices Have Risen Seven Times Faster Under Biden Than Trump.” It began with this: Electricity prices have experienced a significant...

Why state, local and private initiatives are second best

Apr 10, 2024 | Blog

Paralyzed by negative partisanship, Congress is unable to craft regulatory legislation to tackle climate change by limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the costs of climate change grow larger with increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon, and become more...

“It’s the Voters, Stupid”

Apr 1, 2024 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition

The transition to a much lower carbon energy system will (eventually) require congressional legislation. That implies a significant change in the positions of existing members of Congress and/or change in the composition of Congress. Both types of change depend, in...

Why This Blog?

Mar 12, 2024 | Blog

I intend for this blog to serve as a continuing resource for students, journalists and others who are interested in avoiding the distorted picture of the energy transition – and its politics – that online news and information presents to each of us. As with the rest...

Moral Ambiguity and John Muir’s Human Ecology

Feb 5, 2024 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition

In Climate of Contempt I argue that, in politics, we are too casual about developing negative judgments of others in the absence of complete information about what drives their choices. This pops up in various ways throughout the book, one of which is the introductory...

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