New Candidates, 'Climategate' Redux, & Top Turkeys of 2019

<p>This week: our pre-thanksgiving intellectual feast. It’s a four-course meal as usual.</p><p>For the hors d’oeuvres, we’re serving up something new: a roundup of the new entrants into the presidential race, and how they stack up on environmental issues.</p><p>For the side dishes, we’ll reheat some leftovers. We’ll look at the climategate debacle 10 years later.</p><p>And for the main course. What people or companies will we choose as the top turkeys of the year?</p><p>We’ll end with a little aperitif — our free electrons.&nbsp;</p><p>Read along with us:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/18/warren-sanders-establishment-plot-2020-071322" target="_blank">POLITICO</a>: The Left Smells a Rat in Bloomberg, Patrick Bids</li><li><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1061549097/feed" target="_blank">Greenwire</a>: As Mass. Governor, Deval Patrick Promoted RGGI, Clean Power</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-48925015/climategate-10-years-on-what-s-changed" target="_blank">BBC Documentary</a>: Climategate 10 Years Later</li><li><a href="https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/michael-mann-climategate-franzen.php" target="_blank">Columbia Journalism Review</a>: Michael Mann on Coverage Since ‘Climategate’</li><li>Our top Turkeys: Andrew Wheeler's <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/andrew-wheeler-decimated-epa" target="_blank">plan to dismantle EPA</a>; Saudi Aramco's <a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Is-The-Aramco-IPO-The-Ultimate-Pump-And-Dump.html" target="_blank">lagging IPO</a>; and Elon Musk's <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/elon-musk-s-solar-deal-has-become-top-threat-to-tesla-s-future" target="_blank">lies about solar.</a></li></ul><p><em>Support for this podcast is brought to you by&nbsp;</em><a href="https://en.sungrowpower.com/" target="_blank"><em>Sungrow</em></a><em>. With the world’s most powerful 250-kilowatt, 1,500-volt string inverter, Sungrow is providing disruptive technolo