by Brad Johnson
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‘Everybody’s Scared To Be A Skeptic’
SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories 8
Posted 1 day, 9 hours ago Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, has embraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy. Read More -
ClimateGate alert!
FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK! 14
Posted 5 days, 11 hours ago Right-wing bloggers reacting to trumped up denier story have become indistinguishable from TrollCat. Read More -
thanks for nothing
Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 3
Posted 6 days, 10 hours ago Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More -
Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal 6
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago Thursday, 14 Democratic senators affirmed their allegiance to the profits of polluting industry at the expense of the health and jobs of their constituents. In a letter to Senate leaders, a bloc of senators with powerful coal interests in their states called for "fair emissions allowances in climate change legislation." Their definition of "fair," unfortunately, turns out to be full taxpayer subsidies for global warming polluters. Read More -
Senate Finance Committee calls on polluter lobbyists to defend pollution economy yet again 2
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago On Tuesday, Sen. Max Baucus's (D-Mont.) Finance Committee will look at the effect of clean energy legislation on the "future of jobs." Appearing before the committee are four industry or conservative lobbyists and one coal-industry union lobbyist, Abraham Breehey. The only economist to testify will be Margo Thorning, a lobbyist for the anti-tax American Council on Capital Formation. Also testifying is Carol Berrigan, a nuclear industry representative, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Kenneth Green. Read More -
Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ 1
Posted 3 weeks ago While other Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) boycott action on the climate crisis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has chosen a leadership role. Read More -
Jon Stewart praises ‘SuperFreak’ author 5
Posted 4 weeks ago On last night’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heaped praise on the contrarian approach to global warming taken by SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist. Read More -
Who’s who on the EPW: Senate committee begins landmark climate hearings 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago This week, hearings begin in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The committee members can be sorted by their degree of support for clean energy, progressive reform, and strong climate action. Read More -
Obama says ‘It’s hard to say’ why critics of clean energy accuse him of socialism 1
Posted 1 month ago The current system has reaped great rewards for the ultra-wealthy and the industrial polluters at the expense of the health and welfare of their fellow Americans. To avoid blame for their malfeasance, they must paint Obama as the villain, and his essential reform agenda as even scarier than the status quo, with language that taps into the darkest fears of the American public. Read More -
Is the Congressional Budget Office trying to kill humanity? 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Although director Doug Elmendorf recognized that his estimates do not take into account the economic impacts of climate change, he testified that the changes that scientists call "catastrophic" would be barely noticeable in the U.S. economy. Read More
