IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Water, water everywhere --- but doooon't drink it!; Countdown to Copenhagen ... PLUS: The media and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce get totally punk'd and we love it!... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': 'Freakonomics' Sequel gets panned & slammed for climate change denial chapter; Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier; US agriculture department confirms H1N1 virus found in pig; Gizmag Explainer: What is an LED TV?; An H1N1 "Swine Flu" Story: A Pregnant Woman’s Ordeal; Australians to fortify coast homes against climate change, rising seas ... PLUS: Rebranding, and the Idea of America....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Bush Administration smacked down (again); Critics of mountaintop removal coal mining shouted down; GOP complaints shut down a hearing on forged letters ... PLUS: One airline's novel idea for "lightening the load" to save fuel ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': How CBO budget scoring devalues efficiency ... WITH PUPPIES!; What the hell is a 'Smart Grid' and why should you care?; Surprisingly, banks are a roadblock to walkable development; Scientist says Arctic Ocean to be ice-free in summer; Aspen trees die across the West; Gut Check: Warmer planet, fewer crops?; Austin sees huge potential for solar power, thanks to satellites ... PLUS: Project Censored 2010: U.S. consumers exposed to toxic chemicals banned in Europe ....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Rising waters, shrinking glaciers; Slouching to Copenhagen; A Republican breaks ranks? ... PLUS: Even energy companies are taking on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate legislation ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Columbia Journalism Review: Environmental Journalists accused of protecting Gore --- but filmmaker’s criticism is self-serving and wrong; George Soros to Invest $1 Billion in Green Energy; Is UK decision to scuttle new coal plant a blow against coal?; Marcellus Shale water quality: Who will pay to monitor gas drilling?; Solar Living, Without Compromising on Lifestyle ... PLUS: What lessons can be learned from the Spanish solar market collapse?....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Climate slugfest in D.C. and Bangkok; Saving money by reducing emissions; How much weed killer is safe in your drinking water? ... PLUS: Lighting up the solar market and the National Mall ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Canada's "most disgusting export"; NIMBYism and the future of "Clean" Coal; In Michigan, a yellow light for green jobs; Converting greasy, dirty wastewater into fuel; Chamber of Commerce to Apple: You Don’t Understand Our '21st Century Approach To Climate Change'; DDT deposit off Southern California will be capped ... PLUS: What is BPA, and do I really need a new water bottle?....

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We closed yesterday's Green News Report, with a new tune from They Might Be Giants called "Science is Real". The song was written for children, but seems to work as aptly for today's wingnut denialists, such as the embarrassing George Will, who, again, as we noted in the report, used his Washington Post column last week to make a fool of himself by ignoring and/or misunderstanding and/or misusing actual science when making his "scientifically illiterate" case that the world is cooling down, rather than heating up.

As Des noted during our report, which you can listen to here...

'Green News Report' w/ Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
October 6, 2009

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More info on today's report here...

...using the last ten years of "relatively stable" temperatures, the hottest years on record, and the "absence of significant warming since 1998" as evidence that the earth is cooling, versus the very clear evidence from the last several hundred thousand years showing that it's rapidly warming, is akin to using "one day on the stock market and calling it a trend."

Will's use of quotation marks around the word "scientists" is also rather telling.

To make matters even more embarrassing from him, his column, titled "Cooling Down the Cassandras," also misuses mythology, in that Cassandra was the prophetess who was actually always correct in sounding her alarms in hopes of avoiding disaster, but was never believed by those in power until it was too late.

Anyway, while I'm working a deadline in the background, I thought you guys might appreciate the light-hearted video for the awesome They Might Be Giants tune as a short respite from our heavy-ish coverage of late. Hopefully your kids will appreciate it. And perhaps even the wingnuts who chance across The BRAD BLOG today might end up learning something they should have picked up in 2nd grade...

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The planet strikes back; Mountaintop removal stalled again; San Francisco goes for scraps; Apple takes another bite out of the Chamber of Commerce... PLUS: where there’s a Will, there’s a denial ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Malawian boy uses wind to power hope, electrify village; Supreme Court rules against U.S. on offshore drilling royalties; China says rich nations need to honor climate commitments; Obama orders agencies to reduce emissions; EPA announces Toxics Reform; "Smart" Clothes Dryers could reduce electricity demand by the equivalent of 6 coal power plants ... PLUS: The Copenhagen Wrangling, Explained ....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their predictions --- again ... PLUS: Mutiny at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans; EPA to review ALL pending Mountaintop Removal Permits, while Big Coal fumes; Yikes: New California rules allow timber firms to sell carbon credits while continuing logging practices; Australian town become first in the world to ban plastic bottles ... PLUS: Green Building takes off: Engineering giants follow the money to green power ....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The long, long, LONG road to Copenhagen; An end to government support for fossil fuels?... PLUS: YOUR national parks, 'America's Best Idea' ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs; Solar power stocks set to take off; Nation's largest electric utility ditches U.S. Chamber Of Commerce over climate denial; California's 'green' ink-cartridge recycling fails to cut pollution, or costs; India to launch energy-efficiency trading ... PLUS: Brad Pitt Receives Award From US Green Building Council For Making It Right!

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Will Obama end fossil fuel subsidies?; Will the Senate block Clean Air & climate protection... PLUS: The World talks climate change ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': California Unveils TV Efficiency Standards; Wind Power Could Supply All of China's Electricity by 2030, Harvard Study Says; Organic Farming Yields Far Better Crop Resistance and Resilience; Oklahoma river heals as lawsuit against Big Poultry looms; Georgia sewage plants swamped by flooding; Fish and Paint Chips (yummy!)... PLUS: A new survey reveals just how far and how fast global warming is altering the Arctic ...

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: NYPost & Rupert Murdoch get punked!; Global recession --- bad for your wallet, good for the environment; Former Bush Interior Secretary under investigation; Grizzlies get protection --- but Tuna, not so much ... PLUS: The President talks climate at the U.N. ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': A new way to turn plastic into fuel?; Another false conservative attack on clean energy reform; Court: States may sue utilities over climate; Solar power plant on landfill could benefit thousands; No More Sex and Drugs in the Interior Department; Flu Readiness Check Finds Gaps In Care, Coverage ... PLUS: Op-Ed Columnist Says Real Men Tax Gas...

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Interior Dept. kicks oil industry out of bed --- literally!; EPA to start regulating toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants; Fastest electric motorcycle in the world breaks speed record... PLUS: Corporate "free speech" could get even worse...much... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Clean energy to create more jobs than coal; Nestle Gives Up on McCloud Water Bottling Plant; Antibiotic resistance clue found; Google says We're Going into the Solar Mirror Business; UN: Gaza water supplies in danger of ‘collapse,’; Solar Filling Stations: On-Demand Fuel for Electric Cars and Bikes ... PLUS: A message from Van Jones...

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Good news for the U.S. auto industry? Obama says 'YES'!; Good news for opponents of mountaintop removal? EPA says 'YES'! Good news for fans of clean water? The New York Times says 'NO'! Can't win 'em all... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Geothermal-rich Iceland Fast-Tracks Electric Car Charging; Nuclear plant monitoring finds small amounts of radioactive isotope in water; Hawaii Tries Green Tools in Remaking Power Grids; Panasonic introduces new LED bulbs that shine for 19 years ... PLUS: Concept City of the Future: A Desert Oasis for a Drought-Stricken Future...

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Who will build the World's Largest Solar Farm? Right. China!; Air pollution is bad for you. Who knew? ... PLUS: Oil, Oil, Toil and Trouble ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Are blackboards more environmentally friendly than whiteboards?; Waste Not, Watt Not: Energy efficiency cuts pollution while lowering energy bills; World's first off-shore floating wind turbine opens in Norway; ‘Once in a century’ downpour kills 20 in Turkey ... PLUS: The least sustainable seafood in the world, and why you should avoid it ....

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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The rising cost of fighting wildfires; JAWS is back?!?; Back to school with swine flu... PLUS: Van Jones, an advocate for green jobs, loses his own ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Why not spend $21 billion on solar power from space?; Dams, water conservation at issue in water reform; NBC explores 'toxic town' where residents were paid to pack and leave; Innovation in energy efficient lighting with Organic Light Emitting Diodes; Wind Energy "NIMBY Backlash?"; Lithium shortage to short out electric cars? Not so much ... PLUS: Big Oil creates phony climate denial site, then lies about it!....

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I will have more to say --- much more, I suspect --- tomorrow night (Monday) on the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show, where I'll be guest hosting again all this week from 6p-9p PT (9-Midnight ET).

For now then, just the basic report that the Fox "News" Thought Police, now under the ironic leadership of Glenn Beck, have won a victory in securing their first pound of flesh --- dare I say, first pound of black flesh? --- by forcing the resignation of a great public servant and a hero to many, as well as one of the very few actual progressives in the Obama Administration, his green jobs adviser Van Jones:

As mentioned, much more on this tomorrow night. Suffice to say, today I'm just trying to contain my anger...at a lot of folks here. More tomorrow night. Please tune in.

Recommended related reads elsewhere...

• Hamsher @ FDL: Van Jones: A Moment of Truth For Liberal Institutions in the Veal Pen [Particularly recommended!]
• Blue Texan @ FDL: Is There Anything More Ridiculous Than Republicans Complaining about “Extremist Views and Coarse Rhetoric”?
• Scahill @ RebelReports: Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1000s From Extremist Erik Prince
• David Roberts @ Grist.org: Thoughts on Van Jones’ resignation
• Carl Pope @ Sierra Club: We All Blew It [ed note: Whaddaya mean "we", white man?]
• Sirota @ HuffPo: Obama Sells Us Out to Political Terrorist Glenn Beck & His Lynch Mob
• [And for a somewhat contrarian view] Hazen @ AlterNet: 5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House