Political Irony

© Ben Sargent Shouldn’t that building also hold the “Association of Small Government Advocates”?

Or, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. © Matt Bors We could be creating jobs finding alternatives to greenhouse-gas-producing fossil fuels, and eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Or we can spend our time and money cleaning up after the mess we are creating.

© Adam Zyglis Here’s the problem with ideology. Especially the ideology of thinking that it is a good idea to starve the federal government until you can drown it in the bathtub. It sounds appealing … until it runs into real life. As they say, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, [...]

© Ben Sargent Richard Muller, one of the most widely quoted climate change deniers, who even directed a climate change project funded by the Koch brothers, has done what he calls a “total turnaround”. In an editorial in the NY Times, Muller calls himself a converted skeptic. Muller now says that global warming is real, [...]

Just a quick note about a really good article in Rolling Stone about the math of climate change. Don’t let the word “math” in the title scare you — this is a really easy to understand explanation of what is happening. And what we need to do about it — before it is too late. [...]

© Clay Bennett Every time it snows, I hear some politician make fun of global warming. But for some reason they are being awfully quiet now. The point is that specific events of unusually warm or cold weather are not necessarily a symptom of climate change (weather is not the same as climate). But the [...]