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ClimateGate alert!

FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK! 0
Posted 4 hours, 12 minutes ago Right-wing bloggers reacting to trumped up denier story have become indistinguishable from TrollCat.
EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 28
Posted 2 weeks ago Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video down by the close of business today, at pain of disciplinary action from EPA ethics officials, and to submit any future drafts to EPA officials before posting.
Signs point to 'no'

Is John Broder embarrassed to have a baseless hit job on Gore under his byline? 25
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago Al Gore's back in the public eye, promoting his new book, which naturally raises the question: which mainstream press outlet will be the first to do a vapid hit piece? We have our answer: The New York Times, which has run a truly absurd and embarrassing piece from John Broder. It casts about desperately seeking something sinister about the fact that Gore invests in clean energy technologies, argues David Roberts.
Can you hear the faint whispering of Wormtongue?

Republicans threaten to boycott Kerry-Boxer markup over substanceless procedural complaint 17
Posted 3 weeks ago Republicans are threatening to boycott markup of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill next week over a petty and substanceless procedural complaint. You better believe Inhofe is behind it.
Kerry smacks down Inhofe’s lies about the cost of climate policy 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago At today's hearing on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.) was spouting the usual lies about the high cost of the policy. Kerry responded:
CEI eats brains

Climate Cover Up reveals how zombies are made 4
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Ever wonder what keeps bringing those zombie climate skeptic arguments to life? A new book reveals the money and players behind the climate denial movement.
Paranoid racists ascendent

Thoughts on Van Jones’ resignation 37
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Van Jones had to resign. It became inevitable when Gibbs offered no support.

Much of the blame for this incident lies squarely on the White House. The information used against Jones was freely available on the web. All it took was a search. I thought by hiring Jones they intended to take a chance on a real left progressive, but now it appears they were simply caught flat-footed. Either Valerie Jarrett -- Jones' champion in the upper echelons of the administration -- didn't know much about him or didn't widely share what she knew. They certainly seemed disinclined to mount a vigorous defense with Glenn Beck gnoshing on his favorite new chew toy and the health care reform battle was about to heat up again.
Back to 10th-grade history

US Chamber of Commerce calls for ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ on climate change 19
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate science on trial. This is an attempt to disrupt the effort to fight global warming with a culture war, tying the science of climate change to fundamentalists’ unease with evolution.
Meet power rock and his sidekick spurt

Coal coloring book teaches kids all about dirty energy 8
Posted 3 months ago
We found a terrible children's coloring book made by a coal-industry group. Let’s have a look!
They were for it before they were against it

ConocoPhillips works to undermine climate bill, despite pledge to support climate action 4
Posted 3 months ago
ConocoPhillips is now actively campaigning against the House climate and energy bill -- even though it's a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an influential enviro-business coalition that played a key role in shaping the legislation.
It's not a vacation, we swear!

Reps take expensive trip to learn about climate, but still block action 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Seven of the 10 representatives who spent about half a million taxpayer bucks to go see climate-change-addled penguins actually voted against the House climate bill.
Rolling out the Astroturf

Forged climate bill letters a ‘blatant fraud,’ says women’s group 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Among the forged anti-climate letters that found their way to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) earlier this summer was a message purporting to be from the American Association of University Women.
Self-published book gained mainstream media attention through deception

Attack on industrial wind puffed with false peer review claims 46
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Nina Pierpont is a long-time, self-published advocate of the view that living within a kilometer or two of industrial scale wind farms can cause migraines, sleep deprivation, and other serious symptoms and long term damage. Now she's gained mainstream attention by claiming that her new (self-published) book Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Natural Experiment is peer-reviewed.

Note, however, that the imprint publishing this work, K-Selected Books, has a four-person editorial board consisting of Pierpont, her husband Calvin Luther Martin, and two other members. Pierpont's husband is also the book's editor. Her book only can be ordered only from her website. The "publisher" website is a page on Pierpont's site. This is obviously a self-published book.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Forgery edition 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In the hubbub surrounding the ACES vote, a lobbying firm sent fake letters to a congressman from organizations of color. That kind of offense deserves an immediate and powerful response. Or, in this case, a limerick.
Devious!

Glenn Beck: Van Jones is a communist intent on, er, creating private sector jobs 31
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glenn Beck has uncovered a plot! (Yes, another one.) Turns out Van Jones, President Obama's green jobs czar, is going to coordinate a vast radical/communist/black nationalist takeover of our sweet, virginal land of liberty.
Like splitting hairs with bald people

Sarah Palin, George Will, and Potemkin debates 21
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks 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.
Boy, George

Sen. Voinovich stalls confirmation of EPA deputy, demands new climate-bill analysis 3
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) is holding up the confirmation of a deputy administrator at the U.S. EPA until the agency coughs up numbers on the House climate bill that are to his liking.
Bond. Kit Bond.

GOP Sen. Bond thinks climate policy is just too confusing 6
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Missouri Sen. Kit Bond (R) is circulating this incomprehensible graphic that he says illustrates the "bureaucratic nightmare" of the Waxman-Markey climate bill that the House passed last month.
Jeb and flow

Jeb Bush still skeptical about climate change 5
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
As bad as George W. Bush's environmental record was, W. at least got around to acknowledging that climate change is real and human-caused before leaving office. Yet his little brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, remains a global warming skeptic.
The right, wronged

Conservative activists wage war on Republicans who voted for climate bill 14
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Republican House members who provided the margin of victory in last week's narrow passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act are taking heat from the right for their votes.