Secret papers turn up heat on global-warming deniers
With Al Gore way down in Antarctica inspecting melting glaciers, and America’s unusually mild winter providing a respite from seasons of freakish droughts, floods, Nome-style whiteouts and the...
View ArticleClimate scientist admits swiping documents
MacArthur Award "genius" grant winner and Berkeley climate scientist Peter Gleick last night confessed to posing as a Heartland Institute board member in emails to the right-wing organization to...
View ArticleStatehouses introduce ALEC climate skeptic school bill
Arizona, Oklahoma and Colorado this year joined the dubious list of states to have this year introduced a bill that would mandate the teaching of climate change skepticism in public school systems,...
View ArticleKoch brothers donated big to ALEC, Heartland Institute
Tax filings obtained by the Center For Public Integrity show that the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch donated a combined $24 million to various conservative organizations and think tanks in...
View ArticleThe campaign to fight action on climate change is backed by $1 billion a year...
Climate deniers may be a minority, but they're organized — and they have a massive donor base backing them up.That's the conclusion reached by a report published Friday in the journal Climactic Change,...
View ArticleClimate buffoons’ real motives: 5 reasons they still spout debunked garbage
California's record-breaking drought. Britain's record-breaking floods. Australia's unprecedented heat wave. And the polar vortex, times three. The only thing that matched the degree of extreme weather...
View ArticleClimate deniers are taking their anti-science shenanigans to Vegas
So here's the deal. The latest report for the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the "accepted global authority on climate change," is out, and it's concluded that the effects of climate...
View ArticleHeartland Institute’s ridiculous new lie: “Climate change is good for you”
Climate change -- it's good for your health!That's the newest, and newly ridiculous, claim being touted by the climate-denying Heartland Institute. Each time the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on...
View ArticleWSJ’s shameful climate denial: The scientific consensus is not a myth
Climate change is a tricky subject to talk about: It's a large, complex scientific issue that's both difficult to grasp in full and extremely important for the public to understand. In our shorthand...
View ArticleKeep peeing in the pool?! Climate deniers lose their minds after new EPA rules
As we noted last night, the global warming deniers were sure to start firing on all carbon-emitting pistons this week in response to the Obama EPA's landmark announcement todayof proposed new rules to...
View ArticleAttention, climate deniers: For just $10,000, your Op-Ed can be featured in...
The Koch brothers-affiliated, global warming-denying Heartland Institute is gearing up for its big climate change conference next month in Vegas. And to get everyone excited, they're sponsoring an...
View ArticleNew York Times’ climate skeptic debacle: How a new profile sets back science
The New York Times missed the mark big time in its new profile of John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and prominent climate skeptic who "finds...
View ArticleScott Walker budgeted $250,000 to figure out if wind turbines are making...
Wisconsin governor and climate dodger Scott Walker made some room in his big budget proposal for renewable energy... sort of. Kate Sheppard at the Huffington Post calls our attention to page 449 of the...
View ArticleClimate-denying researcher slams critics with help from climate-denying...
Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon, the climate "denier-for-hire" who failed to reveal the over $1 million in industry funding backing his research, has responded for the first time to the controversy that erupted...
View Article“These guys are true believers”: CNN’s Bill Weir calls out climate deniers
Bill Weir is passionate about climate change. A bit too passionate, at times, for a CNN anchor, as he learned last summer when he fired off a vulgar -- if justified -- tweet at Fox Nation over its...
View ArticleAmerica’s preeminent climate deniers are sending “real scientists” to the...
You'll never guess what crazy shenanigans the folks at the climate denying Heartland Institute -- I'm sorry, I meant to say "the world’s leading think tank promoting scientific skepticism about...
View Article“Way, way out of line”: Watch climate deniers bad-mouth the pope
Care to take a guess about what America's most prominent climate deniers think about Pope Francis' forthcoming encyclical on global warming?Guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg attended the Heartland...
View ArticleAmy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence danced on top of Billy Joel’s piano so you...
It all began with an “I’m in love with you” fan letter. Then, it escalated to a boating trip to The Hamptons and a screenplay collaboration. Yesterday, the budding friendship between Jennifer Lawrence...
View ArticleRachel Maddow eviscerates the Bush administration’s incompetent Katrina...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama addressed a crowd in New Orleans, noting the ways the city has recovered. In his speech he referred to the tragic events that unfolded as a...
View ArticleDespite volatility, on-air rampage difficult to predict
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Living alone in a world of perceived slights, Vester Lee Flanagan II festered and fumed. His hair-trigger temper directed at a random collection of people he encountered never...
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