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Despite the panoply of Republican political elite suffering from acute anti-science syndrome (Santorum, Gingrich, Inhofe), a basic reality: A majority of Americans (including a plurality of Republicans) understand that climate deniers are deceivers and disconnected from reality. Earlier today, the Brookings Institution released Belief in Global Warming on the Rebound: National Survey of American Public […]

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Earlier today, the Climate Reality Project put up this video of youth parroting (parodying) Heartland Institute anti-science perspectives. The letter associated with this video is after the fold. This comes following mass release of internal Heartland Institute documents (including a disputed two-page climate strategy memo, which Heartland states is a forgery but whose origin remains […]

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There is a strong scientific consensus supporting the scientific Theory of Global Warming and these key points: There is warming Humanity is contributing to that warming This warming could create significant harm. While scientific “debate” always continued and there are debates over many elements within and around climate science (How fast will the Arctic Ice […]

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At the NWF’s Wildlife Promise, Kevin Coyle provides An Inside Look at the Extreme Right’s War on K-12 Climate and Environmental Education. Highlighting that the two-page document that the Heartland Institute claims didn’t originate with them is irrelevant, Coyle lays out “five common tactics that extreme right organizations, such as Heartland, use to keep children […]

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From the heartland, a group of Republicans have made an open call for a serious investigation of the leaked heartless Heartland Institute documents. In the press release (reproduced in full, absent specific contact information, after the fold), they emphasize the need for conservatives and conservative institutions to engage in truthful discussion of climate science issues  […]

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In light of Heartland Institute’s inadvertently sending out a hundred pages of internal confidential documents, which lay out their budget and name many of their otherwise anonymous Corporate contributors (but not their major ‘anonymous donor’), seven leading climate scientists have sent Heartland an open letter expressing sympathy for the challenges of having seemingly private material […]

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An anonymous leaker sent a number of climate-science related bloggers/blog sites a trove of internal documents from libertarian Heartland Institute. While the material points to many nefarious Heartland Institute efforts, such as supporting undermining of Wisconsin’s public education, the most extensive material is about Heartland’s heartless efforts to foster disinformation about climate science, to undermine […]

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Environmental organizations are showing a too rare unity in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. In the U.S. Congress, the Republicans are fighting hard to get around reasonable review processes for safety, environmental impact, and understanding of the national interest to support a pipeline to move highly-polluting Canadian tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries […]

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At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Representative Steve King (R-IA-5) made it very clear not just that he purposefully wastes taxpayers’ money but that he takes joy in doing so. King referred to the House office building janitors during Pelosi’s time as speaker as her “Stasi troops” — referring to oppressive secret police in […]

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While the Amazon is under serious threat invisible to most, this post is about yet another ‘rating war’ (and rating abuse) on Amazon as anti-science syndrome sufferers, urged on by the Andrew Breibart of the global warming denial world and other anti-science vigilantes, are swarming on Professor Michael Mann’s just-published book As Scott Mandia opened […]

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