IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Aspens dying in the West; Republicans dying on the energy vine; Solar power not dying in DC and California ... PLUS: Rush Limbaugh calls for the death of a NY Times columnist ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Old Energy Interests Try Hand at 'New Media' to Defeat Climate Bill; Shell wins federal approval to drill for oil off Alaska coast; Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None; Obama Plants Monsanto And CropLife Officials In Key Agriculture Posts; Why the Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Be a Bust; Hunters and Anglers Rally for Climate Bill ... PLUS: Super Freaking Wrong: "Superfreakonomics" gets its badly wrong on climate science ....

Info/links on those stories and all the ones we talked about on today's episode follow below...

• HOW'S YOUR ASPEN? ASPENS DYING IN THE WEST:
• Global warming blamed for aspen die-off across the West: The trees, which were already under duress, are being killed by insects that thrive as the climate changes. Scientists call it Sudden Aspen Decline. (LA Times)
• Experts pin hopes on cutting, burning to save West's dying aspen (E&E News)
• Aspen Trees Die Across the West (Wall St. Journal)
• GOP's ENERGY PLAN --- MORE OF THE SAME:
• Sen. Graham: ‘We need to use the coal that God has given us’ (RawStory):
  
• WE HAVE A WINNER! SOLAR DECATHLON 2009:
• U.S. Dept. of Energy's Solar Decathlon 2009 Home Page (US DOE)
• German Students Win 2nd Straight Solar Decathlon (Reuters)
• Solar Decathlon 2009 stretches imagination to a solar powered future (The Daily Tell)
• German team shines in Solar Decathlon (USA Today)
• Team California shine in Solar Decathlon (CNN)
• DOE Used Solar Contest as 'Smart Grid' Proving Ground (Greenwire)
• HEY RUSH, WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO BUY A FOOTBALL TEAM?:
• Limbaugh advanced IBD editorial's false claim about NY Times' Revkin, suggested he should "go kill" himself; IBD cropped Revkin's comments to falsely suggest he "proposed" carbon credits for having fewer children (Media Matters):
• Andrew Revkin responds: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death (Dot Earth)
• JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION THIS SATURDAY:
• How will you stand up for climate on Oct 24? (Grist)
• FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU: 350.org International Day of Climate Action (350.org)
• WATCH IT: Where will you be on October 24th?; (Greenpeace):

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': More green news not covered in today's audio report...

• Old Energy Interests Try Hand at 'New Media' to Defeat Climate Bill (Mother Jones)
• Shell wins federal approval to drill for oil off Alaska coast (Washington Post)
• A New Recycling Strategy Catches On: Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None (NY Times)
• Obama Plants Monsanto And CropLife Officials In Key Agriculture Posts (Wonk Room)
• Why the Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Be a Bust (Wall St. Journal)
• Hunters and Anglers Rally for Climate Bill (Green Inc.)
• Super Freaking Wrong: How "SuperFreakonomics" Gets it Wrong on Climate Science:
• "SuperFreakonomics Gets it Really Wrong: Uncertainty, Climate Models, And Geoengineering (The New Republic)
• Answers For DeLong About The SuperFreaks, Part One (Wonk Room)
• Answers For Delong About The SuperFreaks, Part Two: ‘Global Cooling’ And ‘Economic Suicide’ (Wonk Room)