The Most Sexiest Greenest Unlikely Story of the Year

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from Alternet via Grist Magazine, 4/21.

An Earth Day list of the year's goodies, oddities, and inanities.


Most thoroughly debunked premise: "The Death of Environmentalism"

Amusingest photo op: President Bush in a white lab coat, squinting vacantly at a vial of biofuel-bound liquid

Most overused headline gimmick: any variant of "inconvenient" or "truth" (just stop it!)
it's a big list, here are some of them:

Goodest riddance: Richard "Dick" Pombo

Second-goodest riddance: Conrad Burns

Refreshingest return from the dead: congressional oversight

Greenest mayor: Rocky Anderson

Driest report we actually read: IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report

Slogan most likely to sweep the nation: "Coal is the enemy of the human race."

Company we least expected to beg for carbon caps: ConocoPhillips

Longest-running federal boneheadedness: Interior Department's failure to collect royalties from oil companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

Hottest peak: peak oil peak coal peak soil peak chances in hell

Biggest beneficiary of the corn ethanol boom: Archer Daniels Midland

Second biggest: politicians in need of something green-sounding to say

Third: nope, just the two

Least likely climate champion: U.S. Supreme Court

Depressingest study in Science: seafood to be wiped out by mid-century

Second depressingest: Greenland melting fast

Third depressingest: Melting Siberian permafrost packed with CO2

Weakest attempt by Science to cheer us back up: Land corridors encourage biodiversity

Sexiest congressional clean-energy champion: Jay Inslee

Curmudgeonliest: Bernie Sanders

Most aptly named: Barbara Boxer

Most unexpected: Ted Stevens

Most improved: John Dingell


(lots more at link)
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