# Links: How Many Bloggers and MIT Professors Does It Take to Correct a Number?

*Published:* 2009-04-03
*Author:* Keith Gaby

The House committee’s new draft bill was [big news this week](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2009/03/31/waxman-and-markey-fire-starting-gun/ "earlier post about the waxman-markey draft bill"), but it threatens to be overshadowed by all the posts flying around about the misuse of a number by prominent Congressmen, notably Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Some of our favorite rebuttals:

- EDF’s own Truth Squad gives a brief sketch of [the number and why it was wrong](http://blogs.edf.org/truthsquad/2009/04/01/pants-on-fire-nrcc-gets-it-all-wrong/).
- The Daily Green explains [how Boehner misinterpreted the number](http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/community-news/light-switch-tax-47040202), including a handy chart.
- Grist has [great quotes from the study’s author](http://beta.grist.org/article/2009-04-01-republicans-carbon-lie/), an MIT professor, commenting on the number Boehner used (via PolitiFact). The best: “It’s wrong in so many ways it’s hard to begin.”
- The *Wall Street Journal* included the latest press release from Republican leadership, who are [not backing down](http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/04/02/mit-to-republicans-lay-off-the-scaremongering-on-climate-costs/) in the face of simple math.

And a shout-out to [One Blue Marble](http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/?p=348), spotlighting what EDF’s Fred Krupp says about the costs of climate action, based on Department of Energy data:

> The impact on household utility bills will be about a dime a day, and that dime will be the hardest working dime in America. It will create jobs, reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and protect the climate.