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Washington Post mocks Inhofe as “last flat earther” 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Memo to WashPost, George Will: Cassandra was right 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In the category of worst essay by an environmental ethicist: David Henderson

And the winner is… 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
When you quote someone who is wrong, then you’re wrong, too

Memo to George Will, Washington Post 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
WashPost recycles another denier WSJ op-ed, this time from coal apologist Bjorn Lomborg 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Love in a time of cataclysm, part 2

Therapy on the Titanic 4
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Feeling sad, confused, angry, or hopeless over climate chaos? You're not alone. Here are a few thoughts on the emotional side of the climate issue, and resources for finding support.
THE RIGHT MOVE

Washington Post doubles down on fact-free climate denial 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Is there any media outlet that enables global warming denial more effectively than the Washington Post? After today's op-ed from one of the top deniers in the world, the latest in a long line of denial op-eds, you have to wonder.
FAHRENTHOLD 451

Washington Post gives polluters a free pass on dirty money and lies 5
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In today's Washington Post, David Fahrenthold's front-page story spends its first 15 paragraphs detailing Big Oil's massive campaign against clean energy while incredibly avoiding any mention of one little detail: money.
Off the rails

Washington Post features rail hack job from Robert Samuelson 4
Posted 3 months ago
Today, the Washington Post's lame excuse for an economics columnist, Robert Samuelson, wrote an extremely regrettable piece arguing that investments in high-speed rail are misguided. But this is no honest entry into the discussion of how best to invest in transportation infrastructure. It's a hack job, plain and simple.
Like splitting hairs with bald people

Sarah Palin, George Will, and Potemkin debates 21
Posted 4 months ago
Debating climate policy with conservatives is a surreal exercise because, as a movement and as a party, conservatives do not believe anthropogenic climate change exists. But the mainstream media refuses to notice.
Maybe Fred Hiatt Enjoys Obliterating the WaPo's Credibility?

Memo to Post: If George Will quotes a lie, it’s still a lie 1
Posted 4 months ago
There are lies, damn lies, Breakthrough Institute statistics, and then -- at the very bottom, where you find the crap that is really hard to scrape off -- George Will columns.
Washington Post, Fred Hiatt turn op-ed page into joke

Quitter-in-chief Sarah Palin attacks climate action and clean energy in falsehood-filled piece 11
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Memo to Washington Post and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: We get it already.
Hint: not much

What can we learn from polls on cap-and-trade? 3
Posted 5 months ago
A new Washington Post-ABC poll reveals that majorities of the American people believe in climate change, are concerned about it, are willing to change their lifestyles and pay more to address it, and want the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases. (Sorry, Newt!) They are, however, ambivalent on cap-and-trade. But it's dangerous to take too much from these cap-and-trade questions because most people don't know what cap-and-trade is. Only 24 percent of people even know it's related to the environment.
The Washington Post: Paranoid and Naïve

Washington Post launches attack on clean energy and climate bill for promoting building efficiency 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Memo to Washington Post: Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt just recycled a right-wing WSJ op-ed 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Fred Hiatt keeps delivering self-inflicted body blows to the dwindling reputation of the Washington Post editorial page.
Pearlstein Harbor

Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein gets climate bill wrong 2
Posted 6 months ago
In a laudable attempt to draw more elite media attention to the Waxman-Markey bill -- which, like all things "environmental," has not exactly been a preoccupation of the political cable/blog/op-ed axis -- Steven Pearlstein makes a hash of a few important facts.
The Green Divorcee

Environmental Organizing as Solution to Family Discord 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson

Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will's climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it.
Recursive rebuke

Washington Post reporters call out George Will for lying in Washington Post 10
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Today, in a news story on Arctic sea ice, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan explicitly call out Washington Post op-ed writer George Will for lying about climate change ... in the Washington Post.
Fool me thrice, shame on the media

George Will publishes global warming lies for a third time 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago