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Bill McKibben’s LATimes OPED today makes a searing, and truthful, analogy. The title gives it away
The O.J. tactic
Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson’s lawyers: If the winter glove won’t fit, you must acquit.
Opinion
Yes, those who are fighting so mightedly to confuse the public about the state of climate scientists are like OJ Simpson’s lawyers. They [...]

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The Washington Post editorial board came out with a strong statement about climate change that, even with its few errors, would be an important statement if it weren’t such a monumental travesty in the face of actual Washington Post editorial policy and practices.
Entitled Climate Insurance, the editorial begins.
THE EARTH is warming. A chief cause is [...]

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Those seeking to undermine knowledge and respect for science, whether it is those who decry Charles Darwin’s laying out of evolution or fossil-foolish interests attacking Nobel Prize winners, have something to fear when Barack Obama chooses to speak (with or without a teleprompter). While there were many reasons for his election, his ability to [...]

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A (sometimes too) calm of voice of sanity has been silenced before his time. Martin Bosworth has passed away, a victim in the nation’s health care wars, the perfect patient for the health care system: he worked mightedly to keep himself healthy and away from doctors’ offices, a strategy that worked well when he [...]

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At times, the expression ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ seems all too relevant to the governance process and is sadly too true when it comes to the Commonwealth of Virignia. Yesterday, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared that his “belief” system evidently trumps science as he committed the Commonwealth and its citizens’ taxes [...]

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The Denialosphere is in rapture due to a Daily Mail story earlier today which, in a very distorted write-up, claims that a major climate scientist has stated that there is no warming since 1995. The title of this travesty of something claiming to be journalism:
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There [...]

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The Washington Post has an incredibly uneven nature when it comes to the science related to Climate Change. The editorial page will publish an absolutely dishonest piece, be challenged to such an extent that they will publish multiple letters (including from misquoted scientists/scientific institutions) calling out the fraudulent material, and then give George “Will-ful Deceit” [...]

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Prominent elements Republican Party and associated anti-science syndrome sufferers are gleefully (and ignorantly) making jokes about the Washington, DC, area’s record snow levels, using this to confuse people about the realities of Global Warming. The reality of Global Warming is that “warmth” isn’t what all of us will feel with each moment, after all that [...]

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Poor misunderstood Bob Lutz. How dare Lutz be castigated for stating that “Global warming is a crock of s*%t!” After all, he follow this with “”Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not a climate denier.” This is, in essence, the opening for an atrociously error-filled Business week column by Ed Wallace that piles misrepresentation on top [...]

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I regret not seeing Kate Sheppard’s excellent discussion at Mother Jones prior to writing Whole Foods’ CEO vs Whole Foods’ Values? and Whole Paycheck’s “Crazy Uncle”’s crazed global warming ignorance. Kate addresses the connection between Mackey’s statements/views, Whole Foods’ lobbying (or lack of it), and governmental action on environmental issues. As with The New [...]

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