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How about we stop claiming environmentalists are “anti-human”
Know what’s really depressing? Dragging out old saws about anti-human environmentalists.In the dark of night yesterday — OK, at 8:02 p.m. — Slate published a piece by Anne Applebaum that calls out the “anti-human prejudices of the climate change movement.” Specifically, she is worried that the news coming from Copenhagen is turning her nine-year-old son […]
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On ‘climategate’
Jeff Masters gets at something in his great piece on the “climategate” e-maelstrom that most press coverage leaves out: this isn’t our first time around the track. The Manufactured Doubt industry has been around for decades, working to thwart regulatory constraints on large corporations that make dangerous products. Not only are all the same techniques […]
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For McCain, it’s really all about the fake snow
I’m prepared to fight for this fake snow, damn it. Media hype aside, John McCain was always a self-important blowhard. But didn’t he used to care a little bit about substantial issues–and even once sponsor climate legislation in defiance of an oil-satuarated White House? As Grist’s Jon Hiskes recently pointed out, McCain has completely […]
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FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK!
FOX News evidently agrees with Global Warming Skeptic Trollcat (see above): Thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit were hacked recently and dumped on a Russian web server. Fox News and right-wing bloggers believe the illegally obtained emails prove that “global warming is a MYTH.” Oops, that’s Global Warming Skeptic […]
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EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade
Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video […]
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Is John Broder embarrassed to have a baseless hit job on Gore under his byline?
Al Gore’s back in the public eye, promoting his new book, which naturally raises the question: which mainstream press outlet will be the first to do a vapid hit piece? Today we have our answer: The New York Times, which has run a truly absurd and embarrassing piece from John Broder. It casts about desperately […]
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Republicans threaten to boycott Kerry-Boxer markup over substanceless procedural complaint
Darren covered this over at ClimateWire, but I’m not sure a straight news story can really capture the toxicity and absurdity of what the Inhofe is planning to do on the climate bill next week. Some background: when the Waxman-Markey chairman’s mark was released, the EPA undertook an exhaustive five-week analysis of its economic impacts. […]
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Kerry smacks down Inhofe’s lies about the cost of climate policy
At today’s hearing on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.) was spouting the usual lies about the high cost of the policy. Kerry responded: That’s good, but he could have said so much more. Even with those shortcomings of economic models, the costs turn out to be “modest,” in CBO chief Doug Elmendorf’s words. For […]
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Climate Cover Up reveals how zombies are made
Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, by James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore (Greystone Books, 2009)Regular readers know that I’ve basically lost the … what is it? cussedness? … required to spend time debunking skeptic arguments about the existence of climate change. It’s like being a zombie hunter, shooting, hacking, and defenestrating talking points […]
