Headups.......Bill Moyers........

[RedEarth]

Global warming will be discussed....

[babylonsister]

1. That poor man has gotten a lot of flack for telling the truth. Here's the latest:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/27/national-review-hansen/

National Review Falsely Accuses NASA Scientist James Hansen Of Violating The Hatch Act»


On Monday, NASA scientist James Hansen commemorated the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking testimony declaring that “the greenhouse effect is here” by again speaking on Capitol Hill. Though he reiterated much of what he’s said many times before about climate change, Hansen sparked controversy when he said that if CEOs of fossil fuel companies “don’t change their tactics they’re guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.”

In an article for National Review Online today, Cato Institute Senior Fellow and prominent climate change skeptic Patrick J. Michaels attacks “Inquisitor Hansen” and accuses him of “terrorizing the American people.” Pivoting off of Hansen’s CEO comment, Michaels also explicitly accuses Hansen of breaking federal law:

Speaking of crimes, what about the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from electioneering? In the hotly contested state of Iowa, on October 26, 2004, Hansen gave a public speech in which he stated that “John Kerry has a far better grasp than President Bush on the important issues that we face.” Kerry lost Iowa by a mere 10,000 votes.

Michaels’s claim is flagrantly false. The Hatch Act, which restricts the political activity of executive branch employees of the federal government, specifically allows federal employees to “express opinions about candidates and issues” and even “make campaign speeches for candidates in partisan elections.”

But Hansen’s speech wasn’t even a campaign speech. It was a lecture on “Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference.” In fact, after Hansen gave the speech in which he did acknowledge he would vote for Kerry, he specifically told the AP that he was “speaking as a private citizen” and that he had “paid his own way for the Iowa appearance.”

Update: In 2006, the state of Virginia sent a letter to Michaels asking him to stop referring to himself as the “state climatologist" because it isn't a legitimate state position.

[Shoelace]

2. go figure, Patrick Michaels and Cato Institute

calls him an "expert"! He's connected with several right wing think tanks including the Heartland Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Cato and others as well.
Here's a quote about him from Sourcewatch:

Writing in Harpers Magazine in 1995, author Ross Gelbspan noted that "Michaels has received more than $115,000 over the last four years from coal and energy interests. World Climate Review, a quarterly he founded that routinely debunks climate concerns, was funded by Western Fuels."<3>

A furor was raised when it was revealed in 2006 that, at customer expense, Patrick Michaels was quietly paid $100,000 by an electric utility, Intermountain Rural Electric Association, which burns coal to help confuse the issue of global warming <4><5>.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Michaels


More on this guy at ExxonSecrets:
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=4

Here's a picture of a couple of global warming skeptics:

[malaise]

3. Excellent program tonight

as usual

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/article135582.ece

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[Shoelace]

4. one thing is good; today I heard alot of news about the disappearing Arctic ice

that I think you posted a couple of days ago. It was on CNN, and CBS Nightly news, our local news, etc. And the reports were all well done.
Hey and thanks for the reminder, I love Moyers. He'll tell it like it is.