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Have you heard of the Four Dogs Defense/  If not, time to read ahead to learn about it and how it relates to Climate Change from guest blogger James Wells.

The gobal warming deniers are on the run!  Yes really!  Despite the bad news on the surface, the underlying signal of denier retreat is as unmistakeable [...]

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This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation.

…while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might have heard about it.  We no longer have energy problems.  That’s right, as the Murdoch headlines announced triumphantly:
U.S. [...]

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Written prior to the SOTU, guest blogger Barath’s thoughts still ring true as to what the focus should have been …

You may have read that President Obama is going to propose energy as a key piece of his agenda in the State of the Union tonight:
President Barack Obama will encourage the country’s booming natural gas [...]

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Sadly, across the nation (and, well, across the globe), anti-science syndrome sufferers are using a variety of tools to attack scientists who are, well, showing fidelity to science.  Whether harassing (and, to a reasonable person, threatening) emails to scientists and their wives or rogue Attorney Generals leveraging taxpayer resources for baseless (and costly) investigations,
Sadly, writ [...]

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Perhaps sadly, 21st Century American politics has some striking differences between the political parties in the world views and the policy constructs that derive from it.
All too often, for any number of reasons, these stark contrasts get lost in the public consciousness — whether due to fatigue, information overload, the messiness of legislative sausage making, [...]

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A correspondent just provided the text of material that Greenpeace has sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) making a case that TransCanada is potentially in violation of security laws due to its use of inflated job figures as part of a strategic influence campaign to drive the Obama Administration into supporting this misguided [...]

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This guest post was originally published at DeSmogBlog from the keyboard of the diligent and thoughtful Steve Horn.
On January 16, the Los Angeles Times revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of climate change denial or “skepticism” as a credible “theoretical alternative” to human caused [...]

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In association with the State of the Union, the White House released ”A Blueprint for An America Built to Last“. 
Within it, “A Blueprint to Make the Most of America’s Energy Resources” (full section after the fold) from which we learn that “nuclear power, efficient natural gas, and clean coal” are “renewable energy” sources.
Now, if we wish to [...]

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With all due respect, Mr. President, you misstated “the defining issue of our time …”
I do hope that the United States returns to the idyllic notion of a past defined by your grandparents in
a story of success that every American had a chance to share – the basic American promise that if you worked hard, [...]

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