This New York Times article talks about a few exagerations or distortions in Al Gore’s famous film. I still haven’t seen it all, but I did see about half an hour of it the other day.
Frankly, I was surprised by they ‘martyr persona’ that Al Gore projects in this movie. There was a lot in […]
New York Times
American Electric Power, a major electric utility, is planning the largest demonstration yet of capturing carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant and pumping it deep underground.
Various experts consider that approach, known as sequestration, essential to reining in climate change by preventing the gas from being added to the atmospheric blanket that promotes […]
Jeff Goldstein looks at differing naratives for the Libby verdict:
Two commentators, two different sets of “facts.”
I have also noted this dissonance, and in more then just the Libby trial and it is worrying to me. While I think it pretty clear that in this case it is ‘the left’ that is distanced from reality, […]
Al Jazeera English - News
A senior Taliban commander has been captured by Afghan troops in the southern province of Kandahar as he tried to escape a Nato manhunt disguised as a woman in a burqa.The man was identified by Nato on Wednesday as Mullah Mahmood and described as an “extremist commander and suicide attack facilitator” […]
Reuters.co.uk
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former senior aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty on Tuesday of four of five counts of obstructing justice, lying and perjury during an investigation tied to the Iraq war.Libby was found innocent of one count of lying to the FBI in the probe surrounding who leaked the […]
