By Alex Constantine This morning, I received the usual denier’s bilge response from “PolicyWatchdog,” defending the tobacco- and petroleum industry-funded spin doctors at the Heartland Institute against George Monbiot’s Guardian exposures of the climate-denial industry (here): Your accusations against The Heartland Institute are ...
This may be the most ludicrous outburst of corporate-sponsored, “conservative” hysteria – and famtasy rhetoric – since Sen. Jim DeMint claimed in a book that Nazi Germany was a “socialist democracy” that has resurfaced to ...
In the beginning: Friends of Science, Talisman Energy and the de Freitas brothers Deep Climate | December 2, 2009 Here is the first of an occasional series that will look back at the origins of various ...
By Roger Harrabin BBC News | May 21, 2010 In the Grand Ballroom Of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Hotel, dinner was over. Beef, of course. A great pink hunk of it from the American Mid-West. At ...
Facing hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages, the fossil-fuel giant is trying to change the subject. MAY 5, 2016 When in trouble, change the subject—or at least try to. So it is that ...
“… As recently as February 2015, a New York Times exposé revealed that a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who routinely casts doubt on widely accepted climate science had ‘accepted more than $1.2 ...
“… What he calls a ‘conspiracy’ is more a threat to the future of the big oil and gas companies that have been the most generous contributors to Mr. Inhofe’s re-election campaigns. …” People who ...
BY ROY WENZL A group supporting the political views of retired billionaire investor Tom Steyer bought a full-page color advertisement Friday in The Wichita Eagle — the Koch brothers’ hometown newspaper — inviting the brothers ...
July 15, 2014 The cable business channel CNBC continued to push climate change denial on its network, hosting a professor who compared the “demonization” of carbon dioxide to the Holocaust. Physics Professor William Happer has published no ...
By Deborah Snow, Peter Hannam Sydney Morning Herald, March 31, 2014 The Earth is warming so rapidly that unless humans can arrest the trend, we risk becoming ”extinct” as a species, a leading Australian health ...
BY JOE ROMM ClimateProgress, FEBRUARY 28, 2014 Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon — a company built around technology and hard-nosed accounting — must be accountable for the unadulterated anti-science nonsense of his columnists. Charles Krauthammer published ...
Climate Misinformer: Roy Spencer Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, as well as the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA’s ...
FEBRUARY 3, 2014 The National Review has held great influence among Republicans and conservative thought leaders for nearly 60 years, but a lawsuit from a climate scientist could threaten its very existence. Michael Mann’s defamation suit against Mark ...
December 20, 2013 A new study conducted by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ...
Some of America’s largest technology and telecoms companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and AT&T, are backing a network of self-styled “free-market thinktanks” promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation, according to a new ...
Also see: Climate denying group compares U.N. talks to the Holocaust – ” … Even for a group with a long history of doing everything possible to counteract the efforts of environmentalists, this is a new low. … “ November 25, 2013 ...
American consumers of conservative media like Fox News distrust climate scientists and don’t believe the planet is warming A new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally ...
More lawmakers in North Carolina than in any other state have signed Americans for Prosperity’s pledge against spending money to address the climate crisis. The political clout of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch of ...
Top News Outlets Failed to Cite Think Tank Funding in Two-Thirds of Climate and Energy Stories in 2011 and 2012 WASHINGTON (May 13, 2013)—The U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the ...
By Sue Sturgis Facing South, February 6, 2013 As North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s budget director, Art Pope will help make important fiscal decisions for a state facing serious threats due to climate disruption, from ...
February 5, 2013 Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, wants to put Republicans on record about whether the powerful panel should hold hearings on climate change. Waxman, over the ...
” … A little-known US-based climate sceptic called Alex Rawls … admitted to leaking the document. In a statement posted online, he sought to justify the leak: “The addition of one single sentence [discussing the ...
The religious right in the US backs GOP climate change denial because science also supports evolution against creationism By Katherine Stewart The Guardian, November 4, 2012 Now that Sandy has exacted a steep toll in ...
By Stephen Lacey Editor & Publisher, October 5, 2012 America is unique when it comes to giving a platform to climate deniers and skeptics. According to a new analysis of data released last year, American ...
From: The Union of Concerned Scientists Public affairs officials at federal agencies traditionally choose which research results to highlight in official press releases based on whether the research is scientifically significant or of interest to ...
By Mark Hoofnagle Denialism Blog, May 18, 2012 Many of the climate change denialist sites have been up in arms by comparisons of climate change denial to holocaust denial. In particular Marc Morano at climate ...
Five states fail to pass similar laws this year, with Arizona being the most high profile. Bills remain alive in three states By Maria Gallucci InsideClimate News, May 11, 2012 A high-profile bill in Arizona ...
Analysis by Tim Wall Discovery News, Feb 1, 2012 “Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition?” Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, rhetorically asked in a letter ...
UPI | May 16, 2011 FAIRFAX, Va., May 16 (UPI) — Accusations of plagiarism have led a scientific journal to retract a study that condemned scientific support for global warming, its editors say. The journal ...
Margot Roosevelt LA Times | March 21, 2011 Valero’s Wilmington refinery, near the Port of Long Beach. The company was the main funder of Proposition 23, a ballot initiative to suspend California’s global-warming law. And ...
By Brian Merchant treehugger | March 15, 2011 The GOP is In the process of attempting to pass legislation that would overrule the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health. Its ...
‘Climategate’ blogger in new racial slur By Joss Garman Left Foot Forward | November 25, 2010 Richard North has revised his blog post replacing the words “jungle bunnies” with “Mercedes dealers”. (Yes, your guess is ...
” … ‘It kind of undermines the credibility of your work criticizing others’ integrity when you don’t conform to the basic rules of scholarship,’ Virginia Tech plagiarism expert Skip Garner says. … “ By Dan ...
By Daily Mail Foreign Service November 10, 2010 Quizzed: Illinois Republican Representative John Shimkus answers questions for reporters after appearing before the House ethics committee A Republican congressman hoping to chair the powerful House Energy ...
“… BP, BASF, Bayer and Solvay, which are some of Europe’s biggest emitters, had collectively donated $240,200 to senators who blocked action on global warming – more even than the $217,000 the oil billionaires and ...
