TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History July 15, 1976: At the Democratic National Convention, presidential nominee Jimmy Carter states, We can have an America that has reconciled its economic needs with its desire for an environment that we can pass on with pride to the next generation. (34:46--34:58) c-spanvideo.org/program/Car July 15, 1979: President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a crisis of confidence in America (and urged Americans to embrace energy efficiency). Though he didnt use the word, it became known as the malaise speech. youtu.be/kakFDUeoJKM July 15, 1991: Pioneering climate scientist Roger Revelle passes away at 82. nytimes/1991/07/17/obituaries/roger-revelle-82-early-theorist-in-global-warming-and-geology.html July 15, 2007: The Prince album Planet Earth is released. The title track tackles both climate change and the Iraq War, with Prince pointedly observing: 50 years from now what will they say about us here?/ Did we care for the water and the fragile atmosphere?/ There are only 2 kinds of folk/ And the difference they make/ The ones that give/ And the ones that take. nytimes/2007/07/22/arts/music/22pare.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 July 15, 2009: On MSNBC, David Corn, Rachel Maddow and Ezra Klein spotlight the hypocrisy of Sarah Palins July 14, 2009 article in the Washington Post attacking the American Clean Energy and Security Act. youtu.be/yX2yKHP-lH0 video.msnbc.msn/rachel-maddow/31931699 July 15, 2010: • In the Toronto National Post, Jonathan Kay observes: Conservatives often pride themselves on their hard-headed approach to public-policy — in contradistinction to liberals, who generally are typecast as fuzzy-headed utopians. Yet when it comes to climate change, many conservatives I know will assign credibility to any stray piece of junk science that lands in their inbox … so long as it happens to support their own desired conclusion. (One conservative columnist I know formed her skeptical views on global warming based on testimonials she heard from novelist Michael Crichton.) The result is farcical: Impressionable conservatives who lack the numeracy skills to perform long division or balance their checkbooks feel entitled to spew elaborate proofs purporting to demonstrate how global warming is in fact caused by sunspots or flatulent farm animals. Or they will go on at great length about how Climategate has exposed the whole global-warming phenomenon as a charade — despite the fact that a subsequent investigation exculpated research investigators from the charge that they had suppressed temperature data. (In fact, Climategate was overhyped from the beginning, since the scientific community always had other historical temperature data sets at its disposal — that maintained by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, most notably — entirely independent of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, where the controversy emerged.) fullcomment.nationalpost/2010/07/15/bad-science-global-warming-deniers-are-a-liability-to-the-conservative-cause/ • ABCNews reports: For the first time in 87 days, oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BPs broken well. In a test, BPs new containment cap successfully contained the leak starting at 3:25 p.m. ET today, BP confirmed at an afternoon press conference. Live video of the leak showed no oil at the site where plumes of oil had been seen billowing into the Gulf since the disaster began on April 20th. abcnews.go/WN/gulf-oil-spill-bps-cap-success-oil-stops/story?id=11173330
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