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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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In the United States, at this time, any voter who progresses “Green” sentiment has no viable option other than voting Democratic in all Federal elections — even as Democratic politicians and the Democratic Party fall (far) short of what is required to address our climate and other challenges.

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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 […]

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This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation. [Update:  See, more recently (18 March 2012), Zakaria error tweets its way around the world … ] …while the truth is putting on its shoes. The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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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