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Searched LGF articles for: climate change denial (823 matches, in 33 pages)

Pawlenty Announces Candidacy, World Snoozes

Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:23:57 am
He's rabidly anti-gay, a climate change denier, and is in favor of letting schools teach creationism as science, and Tim Pawlenty announced today that he's running for President in the Republican Party. He'll fit right in. Meanwhile, in what may be a subtle commentary, his hometown newspaper ran the story of ...

GOP Takes Up Residence on Fantasy Island

Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:27:23 pm
Jacob Weisberg asks: Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? At a press conference last week, someone asked Chris Christie for his views on evolution vs. creationism. "That's none of your business," the New Jersey governor barked in response. This minor incident, which barely ...

USA Today: Climate Change Deniers = Birthers

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:57:01 pm
A USA Today editorial makes an excellent point about the Republican Party's default anti-science stance, comparing climate change deniers to Birthers. Late last week, the nation's pre-eminent scientific advisory group, the National Research Council arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report called "America's Climate Choices." As scientific ...

GOP Medicare Meltdown Watch

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:26:28 am
The Republican Party is in the midst of glorious meltdown over Paul Ryan's bizarre, heartless plan to kill Medicare, as South Carolina Tea Party Governor Nikki Haley blasts Newt Gingrich over his criticism of Ryan's "budget." Dallas (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich might not want to count on ...

Video: I'm a Climate Scientist

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:02:23 pm
In this video from Australia's Hungry Beast, climate scientists prove that they can kick it like the Beasties. Sort of.

Far Right Billionaire David Koch: Obama Deserves No Credit for Bin Laden

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:46:02 am
A few right wing politicians have made graceful statements praising President Obama for the bin Laden operation; John McCain, for example. But if you read right wing blogs, you'll discover a flood of utter denial and mean-spirited refusal to credit Obama. It's an almost universal opinion, which is how things ...

It's Back to Nature with 'Home Grown Funnies'

Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:18:39 pm
R. Crumb's "Home Grown Funnies" was first published in 1971, and has had at least 20 printings since then. It's a solo work with Crumb's unusual imagination on full display, featuring The Snoid From Sheboygan and a bizarre extended piece, "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot." I know this copy is from one of ...

Top Climate Scientist on Tornadoes: 'Irresponsible Not to Mention Climate Change'

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:30:37 pm
In the opinion of top climate scientist Dr. Kevin Trenberth, it's "irresponsible not to mention climate change" in the context of the killer tornadoes this week in the South. It is irresponsible not to mention climate change. ... The environment in which all of these storms and the tornadoes are ...

Gallup Poll: Negative Views of Tea Party at All-Time High

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:10:42 am
The latest Gallup poll shows that the popularity of the atavistic Tea Party movement is at an all-time low. PRINCETON, NJ -- About half of Americans, 47%, now have an unfavorable image of the Tea Party movement, the highest since it emerged on the national scene. Gallup began tracking Americans' views ...

Flashback: Pamela Geller Proved Over and Over That Obama's Birth Certificate Was a Fraud

Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:32:56 am
MEGA DERPOf all the right wing conspiracy loons who promote the Birther garbage, few are as persistently idiotic and ridiculous as Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller. For a while Birtherism actually vied with anti-Muslim bigotry for space at her site, which shows you how important it is to her. In countless posts, ...

Video: The Hourglass

Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:03:26 pm
Here's something beautiful for a change of pace, a short film about designer Mark Newsom's hand-made hourglasses, filmed at the Glaskeller factory in Basel, Switzerland.

Brunswick County Commissioner: 'Evolution is a Lie'

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:21:55 pm
Across the country, Republicans in state and local governments are pushing hard to destroy environmental protections, destroy women's rights, prevent gays from having rights, destroy unions, destroy child labor laws, etc. etc. etc. There's a parade of right wing atavism going on, the likes of which I've never seen. And as ...

Obama: 'There Are Climate Change Deniers in Congress'

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:26:32 am
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 ...

Wingnut Blog Fail of the Day: Aaron Worthing

Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:38:02 am
I woke up today feeling masochistic, I guess, because I spent about 15 minutes having a look around the wingnut blogosphere to see what was shaking in the Land of Epistemic Closure. The Daily Caller has an article accusing Glenn Beck of using the work of numerous right wing loons (such ...

Al Gore: The Epic Battle Against Energy Industry Lobbyists

Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:52:28 pm
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 ...

GOP's Budget Cuts Target Clean Air and Water, Create Windfalls for Polluters

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50:32 am
The details of the budget deal reached by Republicans and Democrats have been released, and the cuts the Republicans demanded in the Environmental Protection Agency are absolutely grotesque. This is a very clear attack on the scientific institutions that study climate change, and a very clear attempt to remove restrictions ...

Syrian Forces Fire on Demonstrators Again

Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:04:16 pm
In Syria today, government forces opened fire on a funeral procession and on a sit-in demonstration: Syrian Forces Open Fire on Demonstrators in Two Cities. In Dara’a, the security forces fired to disperse a funeral march for some of the 37 people killed in protests across the country a day ...

Gov't Shutdown Imminent Because GOP Refuses to Back Down on Far Right Policies

Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27:17 am
The government shutdown is coming, and it's not because of fiscal disagreements. Both parties now agree on the size of spending cuts. The shutdown is imminent because of the GOP's determination to ram through the far right policy riders they've attached to the budget; these riders are more important to them ...

The Right Wing View of Climate Change: Don't Worry, God's in Charge

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:20:06 pm
When the vast majority of the world's scientists agree that climate change caused by human activity is a deadly serious, increasingly imminent threat that must be addressed before it's too late, what could possibly be driving the right wing's suicidal rejection and denial? Here's a letter to the editor of Virginia's ...

All Votes In - Kloppenburg Wins WI Supreme Court Race

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:25:23 pm
Just coming over the wires: all votes have been counted in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race, and the winner is JoAnne Kloppenburg. The tally: JoAnne Kloppenburg - 740,090 David Prosser - 739,886 However, with a margin as close as this a recount is a given, which means the results could change.

Deniers' Review Supports Scientific Consensus on Global Warming - Right Wing Sad

Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:10:55 am
A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians led by global warming "skeptic" Richard Muller launched a project recently to analyze the scientific data on temperature trends. They were apparently fairly certain they'd find evidence to prove that climate change is not happening. Imagine my surprise to discover that the initial ...

Tim Blair Phones in Another Smear

Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:46:50 am
We all know that the right wing is constantly cooking up outrageous outrages about Barack Obama. But there's also a little cottage industry of wingnut bloggers who perform the same function -- directed at me. Case in point, climate change denier and far right loon Tim Blair, who phones in another ...

Republicans Plan to Call Their Gov't Shutdown a 'Slowdown'

Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:43:38 am
Republicans are getting ready to shut down the government, as they seem to do every time a Democrat is President. But this time they're also trying to avoid blame for the actions they take; they think they can fool people by calling their shutdown something else: Dems say calling it ...

Wisconsin GOP Abuses Open Records Act to Intimidate UW-Madison Professor

Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:45:53 am
In a thuggish attempt at intimidation, the Wisconsin Republican Party has launched a legal effort to gain access to all of the emails written by UW-Madison history professor William Cronon, after he wrote a blog post titled "Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?" and an op-ed ...

Sarah Palin on Why McCain-Palin Lost in 2008: 'I Wasn't at the Top of the Ticket'

Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:11:15 pm
Sarah Palin's on one of her rare trips outside the US, and told a reporter for India Today that the reason why the Republican ticket failed to win in 2008 was because she wasn't at the top. Speaking at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi, Palin was asked why ...

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