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the Republican Party?
Yet again, a clear example of backpedaling Republican candidates in the face of pressure from Rush Limbaugh:
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has canceled the climate change chapter in his upcoming book of environmental essays after Rush Limbaugh and other commentators targeted its author, atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
For those who don’t [...]

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Too often, people point to statements and actions by civilian leadership to state “the military” thinks this or that about energy and climate issues. While  the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) spoke of climate change as a national security issue,  the QDR is always a highly political document driven by civilian (political appointee) leadership even with [...]

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As with the United States, Australia has faced a Murdoch media and fossil foolish driven effort to turn the nation’s back on science. In the face of this machine effort, not only has the Australian government adopted a carbon tax that will help turn the nation toward a more sustainable future but the Aussies have [...]

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On 18 October, Politco published a Darren Samuelson article entitled “Liberals unhappy with Solyndra focus“.
Environmental groups are desperate to shift media attention away from Solyndra’s collapse and toward allegations of Obama administration favoritism to the Keystone XL pipeline, and they’re willing to throw the White House under the bus to do it.
This article comes amid [...]

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706 Tea Party members arrested in prolonged demonstrations in front of the White House … protesting that President Bachman (or Perry or …) wasn’t living up her promise to send climate scientists to prison.
This sort of event would get banner headlines. A series of events, with people being arrested every day, would be banner headlined [...]

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A guest post from Warren S that merits reading … and thinking …  For a somewhat related piece, see Sourcing Skepticism … what factors drive questioning of Global Warming?

One of my recurring dilemmas: trying to imagine myself in the head of a climate change denialist.  
Why?  Why reject all the evidence?  Why be scared of [...]

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A month ago, a forceful Washington Post editorial advocated that the media practice journalism when it comes to political candidates and climate change. The editorial began:

“CLIMATE CHANGE is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”

So says — in response to a [...]

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Yesterday, Mark Hertsgaard and friends went to confront cranky anti-science climate zombies on Capital Hill.

Perhaps my favorite line of all is when the young woman asks Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Exxon) a perplexing question:
I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because you don’t like what you’re hearing.
There are several striking items here that merit [...]

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A simple truth, anti-science suffering haters of a livable economic system have hindered action to address our mounting resource challenges of our overuse and overabuse of depletable resources. These include oil (Peak Oil), water (depleting fossil acquifers), top soil (with increasingly serious dust storms in many parts of the world hastening creation of new deserts), [...]

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