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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Textbook case New edition of AP American Government book retains false information about climate change	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, we reported that the American Government textbook in use in classrooms across the country implies that the cause of climate change is in doubt, and that global warming could even be a net benefit for the planet and all who dwell upon it. At the time, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt assured concerned citizens that this was merely a flaw in older editions of the book, and that they 'will be working with the authors to evaluate in detail the criti ...
Topics: books, climate change skepticism, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

A new part of the No Duh curriculum Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics)

Is Our Textbooks Misleading? Student charges that textbook downplays climate change		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 "[S]cience doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all," says a random climate skeptic the widely used 2005 version of Advanced Placement high school textbook American Government. The text, written by two prominent conservatives, goes on to imply that the cause of climate change is ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics)

Oh, goody! A book! The Business & Media Institute's new but not particularly special report	Sir Oolius	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm sure there's at least a chapter devoted to the two decades of TV broadcasts in which, no matter how irrelevant the context, the words 'global' or 'climate' or 'change' or 'warm' were inextricably linked to the words 'scientists disagree.' No? Instead, they offer us John Coleman's Medienkritik: Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism. 'The We ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, TV (all these topics)

Unstoppable disinformation every 15 minutes from Fred Singer Climate denier contradicts self, facts, remains famous	Joseph Romm	21 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So Kansas state House member Larry Powell has sent a copy of Fred Singer's lame denier treatise, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, to every Kansas legislator. Of course, he sent one to Governor Sebelius, who denied a permit for two large coal-fired power plants in his home county. Since I've been blogging regularly on Kansas, Kansas reporter Sarah Kessinger called me Friday for my opinion on Singer's book and what legislators should do to become inform ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The deniers are winning the war of words Climate-skeptic books abound on Amazon's top sellers list	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth is so last year! Al Gore's book may have been No. 1 in 2006, but the global warming deniers and delayers are outselling everyone this year. Of course, Bj�rn Lomborg's collection of cherry-picked misinformation, Cool It is the top-selling book in four categories: Climatology, Climate Changes, Public Policy, and even Conservation. But who knew that the top book in both Meteorology and Weather was the Competitive Enterprise Institute's The P ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Fruitloopery for the yoots A conservative kids' book publisher takes on climate change	David Roberts	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times visits a conservative publisher of children's books. Here's what they find: First up is a story about a boy named Jake who watches a dire film about global warming in school. Jake walks home cursing every SUV -- until his best friend, Ben, sets him straight with a didactic lecture disguised as dialogue. The story makes its point perfectly clear; at one point, Ben tells Jake, 'There is NO conclusive evidence that humans are causing the Earth to heat ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The ghost of Ayn Rand reminds us that environmentalists want to KILL US ALL [cue music from Psycho]	David Roberts	17 Apr 2006	Gristmill
We received this op-ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute, for reasons I don't fully understand. Perhaps they didn't read the site too closely? I dabbled with Rand when I was a bitter adolescent ... which is the appropriate time to dabble with Rand. When you don't grow out of that phase, well, you go to work for the Institute. Anyway, I present, for your amusement and edification: ----- To save mankind requires the wholesale rejection of environmentalism a ...
Topics: books, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Crichton Mad A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear	David Roberts	01 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear. Photo: HarperCollins Publishers. Michael Crichton's State of Fear is an attempt to meld serious politico-scientific critique with a modern techno-thriller. It's an ambitious undertaking, but to paraphrase Thomas Edison, success is 1 percent ambition and 99 percent not writing an awful book. Crichton's novel, alas, is unilluminating ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics)

At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him Popular author Michael Crichton's new novel State of Fear features an evil cadre of environmentalists that uses secret technology to cause catastrophic natural disasters in order to convince the public of the dangers of global warming. They are aided by gullible Hollywood typ ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , insanity (all these topics)

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