Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:08:31 pm
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 ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:34:58 am
It's hot wingnut on wingnut action, as Redstate.com's head loon Erick Erickson links to a piece by plagiarist Ben Domenech, explaining why they now hate the National Review: National Review: “they lived long enough for us to see them become the villain.” Most observers presumed the magazine would endorse Romney ...

Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:42:42 pm
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 ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:10:06 pm
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 ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:09:48 am
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 ...

Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:47:22 pm
Today's insanity break is a beautiful time-lapse film composed of 10,000 RAW images, taken in and around Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is an amazing up and coming city. This time lapse is a culmination of 10,000 RAW images and multiple shoots capturing some of the ...

Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:22:26 pm
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 ...

Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:28:15 am
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 ...

Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:03:33 pm
Yes, Fox News is your go-to channel for the latest installment in the ongoing series of torture devices known as "debates." Well, this one isn't exactly a debate, more like a series of right wing nuts interviewing other right wing nuts. Including AG Ken Cuccinelli, a true wingnut kook who's currently ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:20:18 pm
Here we go again with the right wing's bizarre obsession with evolution. For more than a century religious conservatives have been waging a war of denial against reality itself, and there's no sign of a cease fire yet. Rick Santorum has long been known as one of the GOP's most overt ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31:41 pm
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 ...

Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:18:46 am
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: ...

Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:25:27 am
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 ...

Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:28:12 pm
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 ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:25:32 pm
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 ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:54:35 am
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...

Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:38:17 pm
I recently published a book in Norwegian attacking the counterjihadist movement, and the naiveté shown towards it by, for instance, Norwegian media. This has annoyed certain bloggers, including Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna, who promptly decided to attack me. Normally, I would not bother answering an article attacking me at ...

Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:21:44 pm
The revelations about Newt Gingrich's extremely cozy relationships with big dollar lobbies and industry front groups keep on coming: Gingrich think tank collected millions from health-care industry. The Center for Health Transformation, which opened in 2003, brought in dues of as much as $200,000 per year from insurers and other ...

Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43:26 am
Police in Washington DC are searching for a man they suspect of shooting at the White House, after the discovery of a bullet that hit a window: DC Shooting Suspect Could Be Threat to Obama, Police Say. ABC News has learned authorities are increasingly concerned that a man sought in ...

Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:19:21 pm
The irony is almost palpable: 4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online. The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan's status blog reported: "Site down due to ...

Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:25:38 am
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

Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:41:49 pm
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 ...

Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:26:38 pm
Herman Cain's absurd contradictory statements about his sexual harassment settlements have opened the door for his accusers to speak out. A day that began with a new revelation from the presidential candidate — that there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser’s complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday ...

Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:33:36 pm
Tonight I'm happy to announce a new LGF web app that I think will prove incredibly useful to our LGF Pages authors: the LGF Pages Dashboard. With the LGF Pages Dashboard, you can browse and search all the Pages you've posted, sort by the various columns, edit your Pages in a ...

Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:15:44 am
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 ...