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Most thoroughly debunked premise: "The Death of Environmentalism"
Amusingest photo op: President Bush in a white lab coat, squinting vacantly at a vial of biofuel-bound liquid
Most overused headline gimmick: any variant of "inconvenient" or "truth" (just stop it!)
Goodest riddance: Richard "Dick" Pombo
Second-goodest riddance: Conrad Burns
Refreshingest return from the dead: congressional oversight
Greenest mayor: Rocky Anderson
Driest report we actually read: IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report
Slogan most likely to sweep the nation: "Coal is the enemy of the human race."
Company we least expected to beg for carbon caps: ConocoPhillips
Adorablest new eco-heroes: the fourth-grade class at Park School in Massachusetts
Tie: Knut
Hottest conservative: David Cameron
Hottest Canadian: Stephane Dion
Longest-running federal boneheadedness: Interior Department's failure to collect royalties from oil companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
Hottest peak: peak oil peak coal peak soil peak chances in hell
Biggest beneficiary of the corn ethanol boom: Archer Daniels Midland
Second biggest: politicians in need of something green-sounding to say
Third: nope, just the two
Least likely climate champion: U.S. Supreme Court
Worst substitute for reducing carbon emissions: reducing "carbon intensity"
Awkwardest incorporation of eco-theme into a sitcom: My Name Is Earl's "Robbed a Stoner Blind" episode
Depressingest study in Science: seafood to be wiped out by mid-century
Second depressingest: Greenland melting fast
Third depressingest: Melting Siberian permafrost packed with CO2
Weakest attempt by Science to cheer us back up: Land corridors encourage biodiversity
Sexiest congressional clean-energy champion: Jay Inslee
Curmudgeonliest: Bernie Sanders
Most aptly named: Barbara Boxer
Most unexpected: Ted Stevens
Most improved: John Dingell
Saddest potential species extinction: Tasmanian devil
Happiest: climate-change skeptics
Hottest concert ticket on earth: Live Earth Antarctica
Eco-issue most likely to be declared "the new black" this coming year: placemaking
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