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Disingenuity to Drill the Hole Deeper

July 14th, 2008 · 8 Comments

The push is on, big time. The solution to all of America’s problems, evidently, is to drill, drill, drill.   This is now the Republican mantra as they seem to believe that they have found a winning political issue, no matter what the implications of this “win” might be for America’s future. Let us be clear.  […]

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Tags: oil · peak oil · truthiness

Pat Sajak: Gl_b_l W_rm_ng D_n_ _ r ( _ssh_l_!)

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, the man who needs aditzy blond to help him spell words has come out of the woodworks. Pat Sajak is a strong-worded Global Warming Skeptic. Sadly, Wheel of Fortune’s host probably has a greater voice than the thousands of IPCC scientists with a segment of the American public … hopefully that segment isn’t highly […]

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Tags: global warming deniers · green · James Inhofe · jim hansen · journalism · skeptic · truthiness

Truthiness into the inbox …

June 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments

It had seemed that ABEC had bit the dust, having been transformed into ACCCE. But, it seems that obituary might have been a bit too soon as my in-box just was filled with truthiness and deception from the astroturfing Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Let’s take a brief look at this material from America’s coal […]

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Tags: cap and trade · carbon dioxide · carbon tax · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · pollution · truthiness · Uncategorized

Will-fully Ignorant

June 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

We could easily ask: Washington Post editors, are you idiots? In publishing George F. Will’s Carbon Power Brokers, the Post editorial board is complicit in the dissemination of deceptiveness and falsehoods surrounding policy making on what likely will be the most significant issue of the 21st century. The Post published this deceptive drivel the day […]

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Tags: lieberman-warner · truthiness · Washington Post

Alaska as a State in Denial?

May 22nd, 2008 · 10 Comments

Forget Katrina and Louisiana (where there are many other man-made factors, such as bad river management/flood protection), Alaska is the state most affected by Global Warming. It is also on the front lines of continued Republican efforts to confront reality directly … and deny it! Several Republican members of the Alaska State Legislature drove through, […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · skeptic · truthiness

Deniers Descend to Outright Deceit

May 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Deniers Descend to Outright Deceit

Global Warming Deniers (and their extreme right-wing enablers) are showing their desperation. Rather than continue with simply confusing people with distortion of data (lies, damn lies, statistics, and statistics from Global Warming deniers), we have before us a case of deliberate doctoring of evidence to distort events. For too many in the American right wing, […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · truthiness

Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …

April 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …

Being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics’ arguments has proven, to date, to be a healthy and sensible way to deal with their truthiness claims and arguments.  The Heartland Institute‘s distribution of a list of scientist supposedly doubting Global Warming yet again verifies the value of being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics. DeSmogBlog decided to take a look […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Heartland · skeptic · truthiness

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

Putting Money where the Mouth is …

March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

EcoGeek founder/owner, Hank Green, has blocked advertising from a Coal astroturf organization, America’s Power.  Green posted, yesterday, A Letter to the US Coal Industry:  Why I blocked your ad. I’m a little bit angry right now. For the last 12 hours, unknown to me, the U.S. coal lobby has been plastering EcoGeek with B.S. ads […]

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Tags: astroturfing · coal · truthiness

Another notch in the “Inhofe Scale”

December 21st, 2007 · 7 Comments

Giving credit where credit is due is, to me, a quite pleasurable task.  Lou Grinzo’s Inhofe Scale captures the delusional nature of the Senator from Exxon.  The Inhofe Scale will be used to measure statements (but most definitely not the speakers who make them) that exhibit a noticeable and willing detachment from reality. The scale […]

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Tags: Global Warming · James Inhofe · skeptic · truthiness