Bogus Job Numbers Used To Sell Keystone XL Pipeline
tarsands protests.jpg As thousands of protestors gather at The White House today to voice opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline plan, one of the major selling points from the pipeline…
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Commonwealth Business Council Picks In-house Denier To Chair Climate Forum
cbc.jpg IF you were going to have a serious high-level discussion about, say, improving science teaching in schools, then who would you invite to chair the meeting? How about an…
Herman Cain at AFP: ‘I am the Koch Brothers’ Brother From Another Mother’
Wow. The GOP's Koch-Cain problem elevates to new heights today. At the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity event today, Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told it like it is. “I am…
Oil Industry Co-Opts Occupy Movement to Sell the Keystone XL Pipeline
99percent.jpg The AFL-CIO's America's Building Trades Unions and Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement with a new initiative...
Biomass – bad for trees, bad for the planet
GP01WFH.jpg A new report out today finds that using forest timber (biomass) for heating, electricity generation or liquid ‘biofuel’ could severely harm forests and accelerate glo...
Score Another Victory for Scientists, Michael Mann, and the Freedom of Inquiry
495px-Mann4.jpg Yesterday in a Virginia courtroom, Michael Mann—who is quickly becoming the Galileo of climate science—triumphed over the conservative American Tradition Institute, an...
New Lake Michigan Coal Ash Spill Raises Old Concerns
coal ash spill.jpg On Monday, a bluff surrounding a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based power plant collapsed, sending a cascade of debris and coal ash waste from the power plant into Lake Michigan.…
Is There a Bias Asymmetry Between Democrats and Republicans?
democrat_and_republican_symbols.jpg There’s a must read item today at the Huffington Post by Jonathan Weiler, co-author of the excellent book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American P...
Byron Kennard: Why I’m Ridiculing Climate Deniers
Rue Rylvester.jpeg This is a guest post by Byron Kennard. Late in 2010, I read Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand and, frankly, I almost wish I hadn’t. Reading Brand...
Canadian Embassy Coaches Diplomats To Promote Tar Sands, Overstate Environmental Protection Efforts
Picture 1.png The Canadian government, on the provincial and federal level, needs to tag team on tar sands public relations, according to an internal Canadian Embassy document reported on by ...
Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation Mistaken On Actual Facts
gwpf.jpg A UK-based climate change denial think-tank has been caught making serious misrepresentations on climate policy which go against the guidelines of the UK's charity regulator. Th...
Massive Natural Gas Export Deal Inked by BG Group, So Much for Industry’s "Domestic Energy" Claims
shutterstock_74395414.jpg The natural gas industry's favorite public relations ploy about the necessity of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the process through which "clean nat...
Why Hard Core Climate “Skeptics” Don’t Change Their Minds
Muller001.jpg I’ve been watching with interest the blogosphere uproar over the release of results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project centered around physicist Richard Mulle...
Harry Reid to Hillary Clinton: Drop Keystone XL Pipeline Plan
NV_HarryReid.jpg Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have gained a new ally in the fight to prevent this disastrous oil boondoggle from moving forward: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D&ndas...
Gas Industry Front Group Called Out By RFK Jr Attempts To Spin Facts Yet Again
frack.jpeg The oil and gas industry has a long history of resisting public accountability and protective standards, and generally avoiding tough questions about its practices and attacking its cr...
Lord Monckton Gets Punked By Australian TV Satirists
monckton_genius.jpg YO - check this out. Jet-setting climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton has been revealed on Australian television as a fictional character created by comedy gen...
Why Communicating Science is So Money
schmidt2-300x300.jpg I’ve been meaning to thrown in my congratulations to Gavin Schmidt of NASA and RealClimate.org, who is the first recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s new...