TagsTagsI 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
Here's a pretty amazing demonstration of the crude reactionary agenda of Fox News, a compilation of their "coverage" of clean energy technologies. This isn't just ignorance at work; Fox is promoting the interests of the fossil fuel industries, to the detriment of the whole world.
Fox News, clean energy, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Anti-Science, Propaganda
Dr. Richard Muller is testifying in the House of Representatives on his important climate change research project, in a hearing intended to promote the "End of Climate Change Skepticism." A live video feed is here. Related: Video: Climate Change Study Deals Crushing Blow to Denial Machine
It's all over the right wing media and blogs: the absurdly false claim that there's been "no global warming since 1998." We've posted about this before, but it's one of those denial myths that just keeps popping up again and again like a malignant jack-in-the-box. Peter Sinclair's new video shows ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Peter Sinclair, Deniers, Right Wing, Bad Craziness
A team of researchers led by UC Berkeley physicist Richard Muller (a self-described "skeptic" on global warming) has dealt a crushing blow to the climate change denial machine. Their exhaustive study of millions of pieces of data, ironically funded by the far right billionaire Koch brothers, discovered that ... gasp ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Richard Muller, Science, Climate Change Denial
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
Here's an extraordinary speech on climate change and the insanely dangerous behavior of the right wing, by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), via Joe Romm. Mr. President, I am here to speak about what is currently an unpopular topic in this town. It has become no longer politically correct in ...
Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Environmental Regulation, Extinction, Pollution Controls, Senator Whitehouse, Oceanic Changes, National Security Risk, Industrial Revolution, John Tyndall, Human Activities
As the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into anti-science denialism, two new research papers published in Nature show that time is running out: Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime. (Reuters) - Global temperature rise could exceed "safe" levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Republican Party, Anti-Science, Greenhouse Gases
Watching the debate last night, I was struck by the fact that we've now seen several of these gabfests unfold without a single mention of one of the Republican Party's biggest and most irrational problems -- their total rejection of science in many important areas. In the early debates we saw ...
Republican Party, Debate, Anti-Science, Media, Right Wing, Evolution, Climate Change, Global Warming