climate deniers
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Bill Nye explains science, the moon, and climate change to Fox News, using very small words
Bill Nye's years of experience teaching science to children seem to have prepared him well for talking to Fox News hosts. Here, he attempts to help Happening Now host Jon Scott grasp difficult concepts like "volcanoes are not connected to the burning of fossil fuels" and "the science that happens on the moon ... is the same science that happens on Earth." Favorite line: "When you say to yourself, well, I'm going to ignore all the evidence of climate change, you're saying, I'm going to ignore the best ideas anybody's ever had."
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Conservative pundits deny existence of record-breaking heat wave
Rush Limbaugh says "almost no temperature records were broken" during the recent heat wave, and Newsbusters writer Noel Sheppard says there were "only 34 new all-time daily temperature records set." Only 34? Why, that's barely a record-breaking heat wave at all! Except for the fact that a) 34 records is nothing to sneeze at and b) by "34," Sheppard means "somewhere between 70 and 7,612."
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Norway terrorist is a climate change denier
Anders Breivik, Norway terrorist, is a climate change denier, like many American conservatives.
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Critical List: Captain Planet movie in the works; the U.N. considering climate peacekeeping force
The producer of Transformers is backing a live-action Captain Planet movie, which will teach children about environmentalism and green mullets and the periodic table of elements (earth, air, fire, water, and heart!). Next can we do a live-action G.I. Joe Knowing is Half the Battle movie? Because it will be just as fun.
Climate change could lead to conflicts so contentious the U.N. might need a separate peacekeeping force to deal with them. -
House votes against energy-saving lightbulbs
The House passed an amendment that prohibits spending to enforce lighting efficiency standards established by 2007's energy law.
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Unfair and balanced: Is U.S. reporting too soft on climate skeptics?
Does American media's attempt to be fair and balanced in their climate coverage give too much weight to climate deniers?
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Fox News takes credit for study that debunks climate skeptics
Fox News is patting itself on the back for "inspiring" a recent study showing that China's sulfur output has been masking the effects of global warming. It points to an interview that lead researcher Robert Kaufmann did with the BBC, where he said he looked into the issue because an old man told him Fox News said the planet was cooling. Hooray, Fox News got mentioned on a real news site! Break out the Confederate flag party hats! Too bad the rest of that article is about Kaufmann making that old man, and his Fox News overlords, look pretty silly indeed.
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Critical List: New York could approve fracking; animals get stoned
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to open up private land in the state to hydrofracking.
Children living near Fukushima tested positively for radiation exposure.
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'Under the weather' Inhofe skips climate denier conference
As a record drought roasts Oklahoma, "under the weather" climate denier Jim Inhofe bails out of Heartland Institute's Conference on Climate Change.