Seacoast NRG

As Press Secretary for the Bush Administration, Perino turned in a fine performance at this briefing when responding to reports that the White House “eviscerated” Center for Disease Control director Dr. Julie Gerberding’s Senate testimony on the “Human Impacts of Global Warming.”  Perino was happy to assert that the Administration wanted to focus that testimony on “public health benefits of climate change.”  Asked to explain what some of those benefits are, Perino said that climate change “would help those individuals” who “die from cold-related deaths every winter.”

Of course, Dr. Gerberdings’s original draft for her testimony made no such claims, and focused on the negative public health impacts of a hotter climate.  The original draft, and the Administration’s revision of her draft–which she then presented in testimony to Congress, are available via Science Progress.

Amid the drought baking Georgia, Carlos had no issue using 440,000 gallons of water at his home during the month of September, only 75 times the normal household consumption rate in Cobb County. After much public outrage, Carlos cut his consumption back to a mere 10 times the normal rate.

Satisfied to once again walk away from a leadership opportunity, the US signed on to a water-down accord–with its hard targets for emissions removed–on global warming in Bali, only to later issue a “signing statement” impugning the commitments of developing countries to the negotiating process.  Not exactly leadership by example.

ADM, long a recipient of federal largesse, continues to use its clout to push ethanol production from corn, despite the barely-break-even energy balance, and the increasing costs to those who use corn as a food source.