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The English Channel
Skeptical climate-change documentary found unfair, but not misleading |
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22 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:38 AM on 22 Jul 2008 A British documentary that declared climate change to be a willful and conspiratorial hoax broke impartiality rules and misrepresented the views of some participants, British broadcasting regulator Ofcom said Monday. The not-so-subtly named The Great Global Warming Swindle, which aired on Britain's Channel 4 in March 2007, said at one point in its narration, "Everywher ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, TV, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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James and the giant lie
Oklahoma senator makes stuff up, wastes time in climate change debate |
Kate Sheppard |
04 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Senate's leading climate change denier, had plenty of kooky and alarmist things to say in yesterday's debate over climate change legislation. Think Progress has video of one of his wing-nuttiest contributions to the discussion, in which he lies about Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, and the IPCC: Yep, the same IPCC that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore. |
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| Topics: politics, Oklahoma, insanity, climate, climate change skepticism, IPCC, An Inconvenient Truth, James Inhofe, Muckraker, news (all these topics) |
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They Could Talk the Legs off a Chair
Exxon shareholders reject resolution to shake up management |
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28 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:55 AM on 28 May 2008 Exxon shareholders have rejected a high-profile resolution to strip one management role from current Chair-'n'-CEO Rex Tillerson and hire an independent chairperson. The influential Rockefeller family, along with various other investors, had pushed for the split. "Despite top-notch individual directors, [Exxon's] record over the last decade, particularly regardi ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics) |
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Beyond the Palin
Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing |
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22 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 May 2008 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. "We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty. To green groups, that argument is, shall we say, unimpressive. &quo ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Getting Their Message a Cross
Conservative Christians launch skeptical climate campaign |
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16 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:21 PM on 16 May 2008 Conservative religious leaders have launched a "We Get It!" campaign that just goes to prove that saying something doesn't make it so. The campaign aims to gather a million signatures on a petition opposing climate-change action, with the argument that tackling global warming will hurt the world's poor. "Our stewardship of creation must be based on Biblical pri ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Alas, Alaska
Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics |
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07 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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What's Your Hurricane?
Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier |
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14 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Is Our Textbooks Misleading?
Student charges that textbook downplays climate change |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics) |
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The Eye of the Storm
Global temps may drop this year but, alas, world still warming |
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04 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:18 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Brace yourself for climate-change-denier delight, as the World Meteorological Organization is expecting global temperatures to drop this year thanks to a strong La Niņa. But, of course, says WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud, "When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year. You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of te ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics) |
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Science Unfair!
Climate skeptics hold conference in New York City |
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04 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:34 AM on 04 Mar 2008 A conference of climate-change skeptics gathered in New York City this week to congratulate each other for daring to challenge the accepted science of global warming. A range of high-profile deniers painted themselves as put-upon independent thinkers branded as heretics by the church of climate-change dogma. Films were shown. Speeches were made. Al Gore jokes abounded. But actual climate science w ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Don't Let Your Right Get Left
United Nations calls climate change a matter of human rights |
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22 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:49 PM on 22 Feb 2008 If climate change is a "largely unscientific hoax" and "political concoction" (in the words of Republican strategist Mary Matalin), it's a hoax and concoction that could threaten the rights of millions of people. Or so said the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights this week. "Ultimately climate change may affect the very right t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Hey Man, That Ain't Cool
There was no consensus about global cooling in the '70s, says study |
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21 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:30 PM on 21 Feb 2008 The scientific consensus in the 1970s about "global cooling" is a beloved argument of global-warming skeptics -- and little more, says a survey of scientific literature between 1965 and 1979. During that time period, seven peer-reviewed articles supported global cooling, while 44 predicted global warming. "There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s tha ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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What's Up, Doc?
U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools |
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03 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 12:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressiona ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, education, England, litigation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Dimmockery
British citizen sues government over distribution of climate-change film to schools |
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28 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In July, a judge ruled that the British government's decision to send Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary to 3,500 English secondary schools did not constitute political indoctrination of children. British citizen and fun-name owner Stewart Dimmock disagrees, and is suing his government to quash the dastardly distribution. Dimmock claims the "irredeemable&quo ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, dimwittery, education, litigation, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Geez, All We Got Was Karl Rove's Resignation
Governments ruffled by climate kerfuffles in England, Australia |
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13 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Geez, All We Got Was Karl Rove's Resignation Governments ruffled by climate kerfuffles in England, Australia A couple of government climate kerfuffles have broken out: In Britain, a leaked briefing paper says the country won't meet a European Union target of 20 percent renewable energy by 2020, and suggests lobbying other nations for a more flexib ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, England, news, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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It's Not the Sun
Sun is not causing current global warming, researchers confirm |
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11 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| It's Not the Sun Sun is not causing current global warming, researchers confirm Attention all ye who think the sun might be a primary cause of climate change, and all ye who know someone who thinks that: No. It's not the sun. Researchers have published a study of the last century of solar activity, finding that the sun's output has actually declined over the last 20 years. (And yes, they did brain ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, news (all these topics) |
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The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music
Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds |
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30 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds In a decision that sent discordant music wafting toward Al Gore's ears, a group of Republican senators has put the kibosh on using the Capitol grounds for a gigantic climate-change-awareness concert this summer. The group -- led, not surprisingly, by climate skep ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, James Inhofe, music, news, politics (all these topics) |
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But What About Liechtenstein?
Survey unearths international climate-change attitudes |
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15 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| But What About Liechtenstein? Survey unearths international climate-change attitudes A majority of South Koreans believe global warming is a critical threat. Same with Iranians. And Mexicans. And Israelis. But Americans -- not so much, says a recent survey of more than 20,000 people in more than 15 countries. Granted, the U.S. could have been more ignorant: a solid 46 percent of Americans deemed climate change crit ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics) |
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Creation Careless
Evangelical policy director chastised for speaking out on climate change |
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06 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Creation Careless Evangelical policy director chastised for speaking out on climate change Rev. Richard Cizik, policy director for the National Association of Evangelicals, says global warming is human-caused and the God-fearing should take it seriously. Science-based belief? Quelle horreur! Last week, a group of conservative Christian leaders unaffiliated with NAE wrote a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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