TagsTagsThis is excellent - so many of the things Charles and other LGF members have been saying for two years, and backed up by boots-on-the-ground investigative journalism: Heads in the Sand. The entire piece is so good, I had a hard time choosing which sections to excerpt: But it's rare to ...
Bob Inglis, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Climate Science, Fossil-fuel Industry, GOP Science Denial, Koch Industries, Republican Party, Tea Party, Americans For Prosperity, Tim Phillips, AGW, Global Warming, Climate Change Deniers, John Boehner, Eric Cantor
Finally, someone other than LGF is paying attention to the GOP's criminally stupid anti-science attitudes and their media enablers. Thank you, Jon Stewart: Video You can find a full transcript of the above segment here. Also a must-see is this Aasif Mandvi piece from the same show in which he interviews disgustingly ...
Aasif Mandvi, Jon Stewart, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Denial, Fox News
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, CERN, Cosmic Rays
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Michael Mann
The world's plants and animals are migrating as the climate changes. “The more warming there’s been in an area, the more you would expect a species to move, and the more they have moved,” said Chris D. Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of York in England, who led ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
One of the latest front groups organized by the Koch Brothers has the lofty-yet-innocuous sounding name, "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," and Think Progress has a photo of the ugly anti-scientific literature they're distributing: At Koch’s ALEC Conference: ‘The Many Benefits Of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment’. Also see: VIDEO: Security Guards At ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Koch Brothers
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Monty Python
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Al Gore's piece for Rolling Stone has already provoked a chorus of ignorant derision from the bleachers, but I recommend it as a call to action while we still have time, in the face of the Republican Party and the right wing's Climate of Denial. ... Scientists have been warning ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
In Australia, climate scientists are being targeted with a rabid hate mail campaign and death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety. Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Death Threats
A fatuous post by the anonymous blogger "Allahpundit" full of debunked right wing tropes (Climategate? he must be kidding) leads to a deluge of stunningly ignorant, hateful comments directed toward Mitt Romney for stating that he accepts the science of climate change: Romney: Sure, I believe in man-made global warming ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Hot Air, Idiocy
DERPIn a congressional hearing this week titled "UN Climate Talks and Power Politics — It's Not About the Temperature," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came up with one of the more bizarre right wing climate change denial fantasies in recent memory; Rohrabacher says scientists need to start addressing the greenhouse gases emitted ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Dana Rohrabacher
President Obama kicked the right wing hornet's nest again today, with a long overdue jab at 'climate change deniers'. "There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama continued, speaking at the home of Salesforce.com CEO Marc ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, President Obama
Al Gore gave a speech at Power Shift 2011, a conference for student activists, and stated some powerful truths that will now be mocked and derided by the ignorant, anti-science right wing: Gore to young advocates: Battle industry lobbyists to turn the tide on climate. “It’s true that governments by ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
Here's Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) with a terrific mockery of the GOP's proudly ignorant war on science.
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
On February 18, the Department of Commerce released the results of yet another independent investigation into the "Climategate" nontroversy, and again (as in the previous four investigations by various agencies) the climate scientists involved were totally cleared of wrongdoing. The latest redundant investigation was requested by arch climate denier Sen. James ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Denial, Fraud, Climategate, Right Wing, James Inhofe
In our third story of the day about the Republican Party's big push to destroy America's ability to deal with climate change, Climate Science Watch's Alexa Jay reports that the GOP is also attempting to de-fund the CIA's climate monitoring and analysis program. The CIA Center on Climate Change and ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Republican Party, CIA, MEDEA
The Republican Party isn't only planning to block climate change rules put into effect by the Obama administration; they're also targeting the 40-year old Clean Air Act. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) thinks that some dirty air is okay and is not afraid to say so. In a recent interview with National ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Energy Lobby, Clean Air Act
You'll never see a more blatant expression of the Republican Party's servitude to the energy industries than this. No, the title is not an exaggeration. Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Energy Lobby
The audio gets out of sync, but Isaac Asimov's words of warning from 1989 are chilling, 22 years later, with a Republican House that just killed the committee devoted to climate change and energy issues. (h/t Peter Sinclair.) [Video]
Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, AGW, Isaac Asimov, CO2
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair posted this enlightening excerpt from a speech by NASA chief atmospheric scientist James Hansen, discussing the reasons why the Earth was much warmer 65 million years ago. It all comes down to the CO2. [Video]
Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, AGW, Ice Caps, James Hansen, Video, CO2
A horrifying poll from the Pew Research Center shows that the energy lobbies, fundamentalists, and corrupt Republican mouthpieces have done an appallingly good job of brainwashing their followers into denying the science of global warming. Pew's headline for their article is "Majority of Republicans No Longer See Evidence of Global Warming," ...
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A PBS NewsHour photo essay on the differences between 2000 and 2010 includes this picture of the shrinking polar ice cap, with the 2010 version in bright yellow overlaid on the 2000 version. This is what Fox News and the entire Republican Party want to deny is happening. Credit: National Snow and ...
Fox News continues promoting anti-science rubbish to the rubes, with an article about Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts. What do you notice about these "botched forecasts?" The most recent one they could find dates back to 2000, and all the others are much older. Here are the dates of these 8 "mistaken" ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Fox News
Here's some very troubling news from the world of climate science: there is evidence that the deep oceans may have been "warehousing" large amounts of excess heat -- and now they're beginning to release it: Antarctic Melting as Deep Ocean Heat Rises. And if it's true, we may be locked into ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Antarctica, glaciers, ICE, Oceanography