TagsTagsMeanwhile in Tennessee, Republican Governor Bill Haslam has announced that he'll "probably" sign a right wing bill protecting teachers who tell their students that evolution and global warming are not real: Anti-Evolution 'Monkey Bill' Poised to Become Law in Tennessee. Although the bill is written to seem benign, as it ...
Evolution, Global Warming, Climate Change, discovery institute, academic freedom, Creationism, Republican Party
Again, religious fanatic, creationist, and climate change denier Rick Santorum provides the best measure of the dangerously irresponsible disconnect between the American right wing and reality. "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is," said Rick Santorum. Santorum is sneering at a physical ...
Republican Party, Anti-Science, Rick Santorum, Election 2012, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Denial
Worried penguins via Shutterstock Right Wing Watch posted this last week, and I should have mentioned it before because it really is remarkable. One of the main Republican spokespersons for the anti-science climate change denial movement, Sen. James Inhofe, pretty much came right out and admitted that the reason why he ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, James Inhofe, Anti-Science, Republican Party
As recently revealed in the leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, the climate change denial front group (with financial aid from energy industries) is producing a "global warming curriculum" for public schools, to indoctrinate children with the false notion that climate science isn't settled, and that there's nothing to worry ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Education
Environmentalist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, has an article at the Huffington Post in which he admits he is the source of the leaked Heartland Institute documents -- but Gleick denies making changes to any documents: The Origin of the Heartland Documents. This explains why the timestamp on the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Here's the email forwarded to me today by Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's director of communications, threatening me with legal action because I wrote a post about the leaked Heartland documents: February 18, 2012 Mr. Charles Johnson Editor Little Green Footballs Re: Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] Dear Mr. Johnson: It has come to our ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Emissions via Shutterstock There's more today on those devastating internal documents from the Heartland Institute; Heartland has confirmed that they were mistakenly emailed by a staff member. The Heartland Institute has confirmed in a prepared statement that it mistakenly emailed its board materials to an anonymous third party - confirming the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Wow, this is huge -- DeSmogBlog is releasing a cache of documents revealing the secret anti-science schemes of climate change denial front group The Heartland Institute: Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine. Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science
I commented yesterday that it was almost unbelievable how crazy the right wing rhetoric is getting, and here's yet another example from reactionary candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in Oklahoma and telling the crowd that the science of global warming is a myth, now totally disproven and rotting in the dustbin ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fracking, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Atavism
The WSJ published an op-ed several days ago, in which several notable scientists and luminaries claimed there was no need to panic about global warming. They included former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmidt, Burt Rutan, and several other scientists. The rebuttal today comes from actual climatologists who study climatology, not scientists from ...
NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, launched about 90 days ago, has produced an absolutely amazing super high resolution full-disc image of the Earth, produced in several passes over Central America. Click to enlarge You can also download a giant, incredibly detailed image (8,000 x 8,000 pixels) from NASA.
The National Center for Science Education has long been a leader in the battle against those who relentlessly try to insert creationism into public school science classes; they're probably most well-known for the key role they played in the Dover "intelligent design" trial. (Which didn't go well at all for ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Creationism, Intelligent Design, NCSE
MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel was featured in a video interview posted recently at Grist.org, and this triggered a deluge of frenzied hate mail and threats against his family from right wing climate change deniers. This is where the ignorance espoused by the Republican Party leads: hateful morons threatening the wives ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Right Wing, Threats
I just want to make sure Andrew Breitbart's endorsement of the utterly bogus "Climategate" nontroversy doesn't go unnoticed: Did you H8 how EastAnglia emails proved leftists - as in academia, Hollywood, #Occupy - use intimidation to create 'consensus'? @Lizardoid — AndrewBreitbart (@AndrewBreitbart) January 5, 2012 This could serve as a case study ...
Andrew Breitbart, Climategate, Global Warming, Climate Change, Anti-Science
I'm seeing news reports like this nearly every day, as the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into nihilistic science-denial: Pair of NASA studies reaffirm impact of global warming. In recent research, Mr. Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato, also of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, compared the climate of today, the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Methane, glaciers, Anti-Science
In order to keep his status as current frontrunner among the GOP candidates, it's vital for Newt Gingrich to convince the right wing base that he's just as ignorant about climate change as the other GOP candidates, despite the fact that in the past he clearly had a grain or ...
newt gingrich, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Dishonesty, Republican Party, Anti-Science
Remember when GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change? That was just last August. In the three months since then, he's apparently decided to throw in his lot with the anti-science wing of the GOP. Speaking today at the ...
Jon Huntsman, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climategate, Fake Outrage, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Heritage Foundation
This 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
In 2007, Newt Gingrich spoke convincingly about the need for "urgent" action to address climate change and reduce "carbon loading" of the atmosphere. At last night's Mike Huckabee Forum, Gingrich said that doing a public service ad on climate change with Nancy Pelosi was "one of the dumbest things I've ever ...
newt gingrich, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming
Peter Hadfield has another pair of excellent videos on climate change, answering the fraudulent, blatantly dishonest claims of right wing hero Christopher Monckton by quoting Monckton's own words back at him. This is absolutely devastating stuff, and it says volumes about the right (none of it good) that a pseudo-intellectual ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Christopher Monckton, Charlatan, Dishonesty, Right Wing
Here's an excellent, detailed piece on the blatant lies being pushed by right wing media about the so-called "Climategate" emails, comparing the actual emails to the right's out of context, deliberately distorted quotes. The level of outright dishonesty is shocking: 'Climategate' Redux: Conservative Media Distort Hacked Emails ... Again. Here's one ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climategate, Right Wing, Dishonesty, Disinformation
Today at the Wall Street Journal we find an appalling article titled Climategate 2.0, by one of Britain's most deranged and dishonest climate change deniers, James Delingpole -- who often appears on the crazed radio show of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Every sentence in this first paragraph is an outright lie: ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Wall Street Journal, Dishonesty, Climategate
Here's an excellent video by "potholer54" (real name: Peter Hadfield) on "Climategate Part 2" -- the latest attempt by unknown right wingers to sabotage efforts to address climate change, by using distorted and out-of-context quotes. The climate change deniers promoting this nonsense are flat out lying to the public about a ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Dishonesty
This one goes out to the right wingers who've emailed demanding to know when I'm going to cover the Son of Climategate pseudo-scandal, in which still-unknown entities have released another, larger selection of emails from their original theft in November 2009. The short version: pathetically bogus. But after seven independent investigations have ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climategate, Fake Outrage, Right Wing
As the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into anti-science denial, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new report that concludes, in very cautious language, that at least some of the extreme weather events we've seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change. The findings ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, IPCC, Extreme Weather