Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:45:09 pm
Bill O'Reilly doesn't understand how the sun rises and sets, or how the tides go in and out, and I have a feeling not even Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation will change that. [Video]

Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:52:58 am
In the latest bail-out from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the far-right creationist climate change denial organization known as the Heritage Foundation is joining the fundamentalist groups who are afraid of gay cooties. Similar to last year’s CPAC, more than a half dozen groups say they won’t attend the ...

Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:56:03 pm
A reminder that in some parts of the world, "theocracy" is not just the fervent desire of fanatics -- it's the dominant paradigm: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people ...

Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:43:23 am
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" ...

Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:09:47 pm
The Smoking Gun has details on an FBI affidavit detailing part of their criminal investigation of 'Operation Payback', leading to a raid on a Texas business called Tailor Made Services. DECEMBER 29--As part of an international criminal probe into computer attacks launched this month against perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks, ...

Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 6:35:06 pm
Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, says he's going to confront the Birther delusion head-on, and good for him. It's long past time to kill this mind-numbingly stupid right wing meme. HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been ...

Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:57:12 pm
In his latest video, environmentalist Peter Sinclair reveals the dread conspiracy behind the terms "global warming" and "climate change." [Video]

Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:02:28 pm
In the latest GOP offensive against science, the new head of the Environment and Economy Subcommittee will be, astoundingly, John Shimkus. Yes, that John Shimkus. The religious fanatic who believes we don’t need to worry about climate change, because the book of Genesis says God will decide when the world is ...

Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:05:20 pm
A few days ago we noted that Tea Party loon Sharron Angle had launched a new organization called "The Patr Jot Cauc SPAC" ... ... oh, wait ... that's "The Patriot Caucus PAC." Anyway, LGF reader Sergey Romanov browsed around the site and dug up this gem of an anti-evolution rant ...

Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:56:56 pm
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 ...

Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:21:59 am
Media Matters has been leaking internal Fox News memos that show executives and editors deliberately putting policies in place to lie about issues like health care and climate change: FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science. In the midst of global climate change talks last December, ...

Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:36:34 am
The Gawker network security breach is shaping up to be quite serious. PBS has a report with more details on the kind of information that was exposed when hackers (possibly from 4chan) broke into the Gawker database: Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies. Gawker Media, one ...

Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:04:21 pm
In the Republican Party's rapidly escalating War on Science, James Inhofe is one of the Generals. A fundamentalist Christian with ties to the Dominionist movement, Inhofe has arguably done more than any other right wing politician to attack and delegitimize the science of global warming, and in this video he ...

Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:31:37 pm
NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon and her team today announced an astonishing discovery, in the poisonous waters of California's Mono Lake: a new type of bacteria that does not share the basic biological building blocks of any other organism on Earth. The new life form, dubbed GFAJ-1, has a biochemistry ...

Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:49:08 am
House Republicans are escalating their attack on the science of global warming with a plan to kill the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Meanwhile in Virginia, Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is rabidly pursuing his persecution of climate researcher Michael Mann, using other Republicans in the ...

Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:46:56 am
In addition to their retail business, Amazon.com is a major player in the "cloud" hosting market; their hosting service is known as the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2. When Wikileaks' servers in Sweden were hammered by a DOS (distributed Denial Of Service) attack, Julian Assange opened an account with ...

Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:07:48 am
Pseudo-scientist Anthony Watts of the "Watts Up With That" climate change denial blog posted a bold prediction earlier this year -- he said this summer would decisively show that the polar ice cap had stopped declining. He guaranteed this, in fact. Now the scientific measurements have been taken, and the results ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:04:54 am
Q: How can you tell which Republican politicians are not global warming deniers? A: They're the ones who aren't in office. Former Republican Representative from New York Sherwood Boehlert had an excellent piece in the Washington Post this Friday about the issue: Can the party of Reagan accept the science of climate ...

Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:03:16 am
Yesterday, the Pope's comments about condoms caused a huge international stir, because it seemed like he was signaling a change in Catholic policy. So today the Vatican rushed out another statement to clarify that when Pope Benedict said it might be OK for male prostitutes to use condoms, he meant only ...

Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:19:11 pm
Kate at Climatesight has an outstanding article, filled with links, about the most reprehensible fraud yet perpetrated by the global warming denial industry: The Real Story of Climategate. A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand ...

Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:14:05 pm
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joins the rest of the Republican Party in promoting anti-science ignorance: Gov. Christie says he's skeptical that global warming is caused by humans. TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie says he's skeptical that humans are responsible for global warming. .. Asked by a man attending the event ...

Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:17:15 am
In this Fox News interview, Sen. Jim DeMint makes the agenda of the modern GOP crystal clear: "You can't be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative." "Social conservative" in right wing parlance means one thing: fundamental Christianity. And you don't get to pick and choose from that ideology. ...

Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:31:55 pm
Karl Rove rejoices in the prospect of a planet unsuitable for human life: Karl Rove: ‘Climate Is Gone’. “Climate is gone,” said Rove, the keynote speaker on the opening day of a two-day shale-gas conference sponsored by Hart Energy Publishing L.L.P. And Rove told the trade show, “I don’t think ...

Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:16:37 pm
It gets worse. Not only is the incoming Republican leadership planning to launch inquisitions into their political enemies, they're plotting a full-out assault on the science of climate change. If the GOP wins control of the House next week, senior congressional Republicans plan to launch a blistering attack on the ...

Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:41:41 am
The latest Gallup poll shows that Tea Party-fueled blind rage is probably going to result in big wins for the Republican Party. This will go down as the most thoroughly astroturfed election in history. President Obama had better warm up his veto pen. Get ready for two years of GOP-driven gridlock, attempts ...