climate change skepticism
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Is this outrageous climate denier secretly Borat?
Well, no. He's not. But that's the beauty of this clip, where Australian comedian Craig Reucassel interviews completely over-the-top climate denier Lord Monckton as though he were a Sascha Baron Cohen creation. It's a masterpiece of layered irony — Reucassel gives a deadpan interview worthy of Ali G while pretending that Monckton is doing the same. […]
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Climate change didn’t ‘go,’ it was pushed
"Where did global warming go?" It's not "America" that has lost its belief in climate change and its will to take action. It's the Republican Party.
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Guilty as charged: proof of 'human fingerprints' on climate change
A Yale report showed Americans want evidence from experts that human activity causes climate change. Here are eight handy charts proving our impact.
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WSJ: We can't trust climate science because neutrinos might go faster than light
Someone at the Wall Street Journal read a press release about a scientific finding! And then decided that since people are evidently still discovering things, climate science is probably going to turn out bullshit.
Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein's theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth's atmosphere.
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How climate change denial lets the fuel industry run politics, in one handy chart
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the climate change denial machine.
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How Inhofe turns balloon animals into 'news'
Sen. James Inhofe blows so much hot air about climate change, he should work children's parties.
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Talking to the Tea Party about climate?
Is talking to Tea Partiers about climate that different from talking to your eco-friendly, politically savvy friends?
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Climate-denying candidates make more Americans believe in global warming
According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, 83 percent of people now believe that climate change is happening. That's up from 75 percent last year. What's behind the change? Partly heat, and partly hot air.
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Watch comedian David Mitchell take the piss out of climate deniers
I am obsessed with David Mitchell. (The comedian, not the dishy author, but really both of them.) Okay, mostly I'm obsessed with Robert Webb because he's the cute one who takes his pants off sometimes, but the point is they are both spectacularly funny and I will basically listen to David Mitchell talk about anything. So it's particularly delightful when he's going yard on climate deniers.