Russ McBee

Contempt seems to be a common theme in today's news cycle: Josh Bolten and Karl Rove have been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the US attorney firing scandal. The White House and the obstructionist Senate Republicans are showing nothing but contempt for renewable energy; they're also showing contempt toward ...

Two mostly unrelated things struck me today. First, of course, was the news of Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Any man who can push right wing zealots and their libertarian enablers to extremes of rage merely by winning an award is OK in my book. The fact that he's doing so by promoting science over greed and fact over dogma ...

In today's NYT, Al Gore says: Our home — Earth — is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings. [...] If we don’t stop doing this pretty quickly, the average temperature will increase to levels humans have never known and put an end to the ...