cavuto-20070117-global-2.jpg Two of my most popular posts here at DeSmogBlog were a pair of items documenting 1) just how many surveys have found Fox News viewers to be more misinformed…
anthony-watts.jpg Over the last year, I’ve had numerous blogospheric encounters with the conservative climate “skeptic” Anthony Watts, the author of WattsUpWithThat. In the process, I’ve been particularly struck by how…
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg Recently, Rush Limbaugh went on another of his anti-science rants. This one was particularly fascinating, though, because of the things he actually got right—even as he &n...
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...
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...
shutterstock_16017175.smaller.png Donna Bethell recently complained to the Washington Post about an article that mentioned human causation of global warming: It also cited two well-known s...
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...
I don’t want wealthy, well-connected individuals, corporations and lobbies buying politicians; A large and secure middle class is vital to a democracy; vast wealth inequality creates vast political inequality and…
Obama-Keystone XL-Hillary.png TransCanada Corp, the company hoping to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, spent $540,000 on lobbying in the third quarter of 2011, according to lobb...
What is Blog-Bombing? The term is inspired by the concept of Tweet-Bombing, in which many Tweeters engage en masse in tweeting a particular message in order to fill the Tweetosphere…
Richard-Muller-prv.jpg Richard Muller not a Koch lackey after all … During all the bad days when people were coughing up chunks of lung while the TV still touted Camels, it…
One thing I really like about the Occupy movement is that it reclaiming mental space. I’m thinking of the overt focus on the riches gained by the top 1%, and…
HideTheDeclineShirt.jpg There has been much reaction to this weekend’s Elizabeth Rosenthal New York Times piece—“Where Did Global Warming Go?” Clearly, the issue has falle...
I decided to refute Cains 9-9-9 plan considering he is apparently now a rising star. Mr Cain has been screaming about 9-9-9 for quite some time , but is it…
OWS.jpg Occupy Wall Street is about challenging the power of the richest 1%. But what happens when that 1% owns the land of the occupation? It has been revealed that…
Galveston Bay.gif In an August post about the return of the “war on science”—prosecuted by the political right—I drew a key distinction between attacks on knowledge that h...
US blaming Iran for the threats against the Saudis equates to a wolf saying that it was the rooster that killed the chickens.
Sharp Edges.jpg Some conservatives are immensely more fun to debate than others. In the past month, a debate over left-right science abuse with Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Insti...
What a week in politics. I have to say with the provincial elections and the 5 billion dollar Champlain deal it seems wired talking about U.S politics again. But yes…
Newly-released data indicate that student debt is rising amongst new physicians in Canada. In 2010, 23 percent of medical residents surveyed estimated having more than $120,000 in education-related debt upon…
