[DK GreenRoots] New York Times joins the bumbling Keystone XL Cops
Climate Brad has this worthwhile post up:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/26/1294677/-New-York-Times-Joins-the-Bumbling-Keystone-XL-Cops
Interviewing Washington insiders who have offered various forms of support for the Keystone XL project, Davenport claims instead that "Keystone's political symbolism vastly outweighs its policy substance." To support the claim, Davenport then erroneously underestimates the global warming footprint of the pipeline by a factor of ten. Davenport's crucial error is to contrast the actual carbon footprint of existing fossil-fuel projects — such as US electric power plants (2.8 billion tons) and tailpipe emissions (1.9 billion) — to the impact of the pipeline's oil being dirtier than traditional petroleum, without explaining that she was switching measurements.
Also, this New Yorker piece by Elizabeth Kolbert:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/04/obama-prolongs-keystone-xl-pipeline-fight.html
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