climate change skepticism
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Rick Perry thinks Texas climate scientists are in a ‘secular carbon cult’
The Texas governor still refuses to drink the climate science Kool-Aid, no matter how many Texas scientists try to make him see the light (and feel the heat).
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Super Congress stacked with climate zombies
Most of the Republicans named to the Super Congress committee are proud torchbearers of global warming denial.
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Right-wing pundits: 'People believe our falsehoods, so we win!'
I guess it's no surprise that conservative pundits think climate science is about deliberately misleading people for political point-scoring. That's what their agenda is, so why should anyone else's be different? After a recent poll showed that 69 percent of Americans believe it's at least "somewhat likely" that "some scientists" may have falsified climate data, the right-wing media response amounted to "Hey, that's our lie! Look how well it's doing! We rule!"
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Getting more voices into the climate game, starting with Steven Chu
It's easy to overthink the problem of climate skepticism. One answer is sending signals that trusted people and institutions are in agreement on the issue.
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Companies claim concern for climate, but sponsor ALEC
By sponsoring the American Legislative Exchange Council, many corporations violate their own greenwashed official policies on climate change.
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How do you solve a problem like conservative white men?
Conservative white men are loathe to accept the threat of climate change. What should we do about it? Kick their asses.
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Fox News public enemy No. 1: Spongebob Squarepants
Is Fox News getting bored now that Obama's produced his birth certificate and the Casey Anthony trial is over? Apparently, since their new barely-tethered-to-reality flogging point is that SpongeBob SquarePants is indoctrinating kids with a sort of extremist environmental zealotry. The Department of Education hosted an event where kids got to pick out free SpongeBob books, and the Fox hosts' heads promptly exploded. Why? Because in one of the books on offer, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs try to use car exhaust to cause global warming, in order to sell pool admission tickets.
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Murdoch's sins go way beyond the hacking scandal
News of the World's phone hacking has been offensive, but News Corp has done something worse: It damaged the public's understanding of climate science
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Stuff white people like: denying climate change
A new study finds that conservative white men are far more likely to deny the threat of climate change than other people.