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Not misrepresenting, but lying about evidence …

April 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Bjorn Lomborg has taken some real heat for his misrepresentations within and truthiness permeating his fantasy work Cool It. Over at SolveClimate, the typically excellent David Sassoon has taken the time to pull the string on the “evidence” for one of Lomborg’s key claims, that cold kills some 1.5 million Europeans each year and that […]

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Tags: bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers

Drudge takes “truth” out of truthiness

April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Drudge takes “truth” out of truthiness

Take a look at the Drudge Report’s header: These three link to fundamentally dishonest pieces, as The Wonk Room so clearly lays out.

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

Truthiness over Truth: McCain Surrogate Speaks Up On Climate Change

April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Truthiness over Truth: McCain Surrogate Speaks Up On Climate Change

Anyone with an open mind realizes that the “Straight Talk Express” has little relationship with action for McFlip, McFlop, McSame McCain as the man (the politician) truly seems to excel at telling people to “Do as I say, not as I do.”  Sadly, this is the case when it comes to Global Warming, where McCain’s Green […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · Global Warming · greenwashing · politics

Chamber of Commerce: April’s Fool …

April 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Yesterday, on 1 April 2008, the US Chamber of Commerce issued a memo that suggests that they want to make April’s Fools of all Americans through their continued efforts to distort discussion about energy issues in a way that takes the truth out of truthiness.   And, what is impressive (and depressing) is how the Chamber’s […]

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Tags: business practice · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · pollution

WE … WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective

April 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Tomorrow, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection are launching a $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize American support for serious action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in “one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.” One of the real challenges when it comes to press reporting on […]

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Tags: Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy

Reviews are coming in: NAM/ACCF are full of it!

March 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments

While the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Council for Capital Formation take their dog-and-pony show of supposedly independent but fully deceitful analysis about global warming legislation around the country, reviews of the work are coming in from across the country. And, the common reframe: Thumbs DOWN!

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Tags: analysis · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · lieberman-warner · politics · truthiness

Global Warming: political issue or not?

March 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Global Warming: political issue or not?

Al Gore likes to comment that Global Warming, its existence and the need to act on it, should not be a political issue.  Protecting the earth from global warming is a mandatory part of following Jesus, former Vice President Al Gore said at a “Stewardship of the Earth” luncheon Jan. 31 2008 during the New […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · politics

Dominion … the truthiness continues … forever?

March 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Coal is a booming business, with price increases even exceeding those seen for oil. Fossil Fuels and the polluting of the atmosphere are, we can hope, burning their last embers of extravagant enthusiasm. While coal is a booming business, it is also a business under fire, with people like Governor Sibelius standing tall in the […]

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Tags: climate change · coal · electricity · emissions · Energy · Global Warming · greenwashing

Yale study: Green Economy = Growing Economy

March 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Yale study: Green Economy = Growing Economy

Terra Daily reports on a Yale meta study looking at the economic impacts of a carbon-constrained economy.  The results: “As Congress prepares to debate new legislation to address the threat of climate change, opponents claim that the costs of adopting the leading proposals would be ruinous to the U.S. economy. The world’s leading economists who […]

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Tags: carbon tax · climate change · emissions · Energy · environmental · politics · pollution

New GW denialists’ deceptive lie on global temperatures

March 20th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Guest post from BruinKid. They’re at it again.  Over at ICECAP, a site that claims to not be made up of global warming deniers, but turns out to host some of the biggest names in the global warming denial field that get serious $$$ from the oil companies, Joseph D’Aleo (a meteorologist, not climate scientist) […]

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