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Homage to a hero: Climaticide Johnny Rook

February 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The reality of the web: anyone with access to a computer and a web link can become a near universally available resource. In many, even most, cases that click can end up being a waste of ones time. And, sometimes that click can end up eating up a tremendous amount of one’s time due to […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Will directly lies … again … and again … and again …

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Will directly lies … again … and again … and again …

There are much more enjoyable things to spend one’s time on and one’s blogging efforts than having to fact check George F Will because Fred Hiatt’s Washington Post is clearly unwilling to do so. In tomorrow’s, yet-to-be-published OPED, George Will steps up with blustery outrage that his (dis)honor has been stained. Amid his disingenous truthiness, […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism

Will’s whining … defending the indefensible …

February 26th, 2009 · 10 Comments

According to Zachary Roth, George Will and The Washington Post Writers’ Group are doubling up when it comes to disinformation and truthiness when it comes to Global Warming issues. Roth got an early look at tomorrow’s (late tonight’s) Will column. [Now published.] We thought we were done with the topic of George Will and climate […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism

NY Times standing in solidarity with Washington Post

February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Ideological conservatives hold The New York Times and The Washington Post to be beneath contempt, as poster children of their bizaare conceptions of media thease are supposed bastions of liberal bias. When it comes to climate change issues, however, The Washington Post (and, more seriously, Washington Post Writers’ Group) embrace of “fair and balanced” rather […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Obama Administration · truthiness

Will-ful Deceit: three blunt examples

February 21st, 2009 · 14 Comments

As discussed in WashPost: Complicit in Disformation (or explicit collaboration)?, last Sunday’s George Will column was a disgraceful example of distorted discussion of climate change issues. This deceitful piece and the Washington Post’s seeming backing of it has created an uproar through the blogosphere that is seriously questioning what this sort of shoddy editorial management […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism

WashPost Embraces Will-Ful Deceit

February 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on WashPost Embraces Will-Ful Deceit

[NOTE: 5 March 09: For a more up-to-date bibliograpy, see: The Will Affair … struggling to keep up.] The Washington Post editors are, in essence, going silent when it comes to George Will’s use of their pages for disinformation on global warming issues. And, from that silence, the Post’s Ombudsman emerged to embrace the Will-ful […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism

Media “Fair and Balanced” extraordinaire

February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Media “Fair and Balanced” extraordinaire

Oregonians, represented by some of the better politicians when it comes to energy and climate issues, were served up a rather distasteful stew of “Fair and Balanced” reporting by Scott Learn of The Oregonian the other day. In Dueling global warming studies heat up Oregon’s debate, Learn makes Faux News proud by presented a University […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism

Sticky Icky Tar … Canadian Tar Sands and US-Canadian Relations

February 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments

President Barack Obama is about to make his first trip to another nation flying aboard Air Force One. Traveling north in wintry weather isn’t necessarily the most comfortable choice, but Canada is a critical US partner, meriting being on the top of the list for foreign travel for many reasons. When it comes to Canadian-US […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Extreme Home Makeover: UK Sustainability Edition

February 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Ed Milibrand, the UK Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced a plan to give the United Kingdom’s 27 million homes a “sustainability makeover”. This 6.5+ billion pounds/year program will operate with three core elements: A universal, street by street, house by house approach with everyone offered comprehensive and free or […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · energy smart · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · green

Will-ful Deception = No Fact Checking

February 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

George Will’s Carbon Power Brokers stands in a long-line of examples of The Washington Post giving space to global warming denial disinformation. How bad was this one? Bad enough that one of the cited sources had to step up to respond to Will’s distortion on a holiday. Will wrote As global levels of sea ice […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism