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National Journal confirms our low expectations
Republican members of Congress do not believe in climate change or deem it a priority |
David Roberts |
12 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| National Journal polls members of Congress: Matt draws our attention to one particular quote from a Republican No: "If there's one thing poll after poll indicates, it's that the science is not settled on this issue." Wow. Also: But don't worry: McCain is a maverick! So he should have no trouble overcoming the deep institutional ignorance and intransigence of his party once he's president. BONUS QUESTION: Here's the list of the Dems in the poll -- te ... |
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| Topics: politics, climate, climate change skepticism (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: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, IPCC, James Inhofe, Muckraker, news, Oklahoma, politics (all these topics) |
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Different worlds
Well-informed Republicans are not concerned about climate change |
David Roberts |
27 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A new analysis of survey data finds: The more Democrats think they know about global warming, the more concerned they are. But Republicans who consider themselves well informed on the topic seem no more worried than those who profess ignorance, a study suggests. What's going on? Here's my one-sentence diagnosis: Democrats are more likely to be moral relativists and epistemological realists; Republicans are more likely to be the opposite. The base of the right is u ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, messaging, politics (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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The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP
Fewer Republicans saying earth is warming |
Joseph Romm |
11 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The science is clear about the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are the dominant cause. But, sadly, that isn't clear to most Republicans. Anybody who thinks the public debate is over -- anybody who thinks the Big Lie doesn't work -- should look at the latest poll results from the Pew Research Center:The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased modestly since January 2007, mostly because of a decline among Republi ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (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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For Earth Day, Bush claims to want climate solutions
Analysis: Bush announcement attempt to subvert action |
Brad Johnson |
14 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As David mentioned, The Washington Times reported today that 'President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.' However, 'it is not clear exactly what Mr. Bush will propose.' Although this announcement comes as we head into the Earth Day weekend, Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino claimed it's just a coincidence. Stephen Dina ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush, jackassery, politics, regulation (all these topics) |
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A Southern Baptist conversion to concern about climate change
Young theologian discusses denomination's recent declaration |
Kit Stolz |
27 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Jonathan Merritt is a young theologian in Atlanta who broke into the national conversation this month by championing, within the conservative Southern Baptist faith, the declaration of a new set of principles regarding creation care and climate change. While noting continuing debate on some global warming questions, the declaration made a point of stating that we as a species can damage the planet and that such actions are wrong. The declaration stressed that 'we do not ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Museum meddling
Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII |
Brian Beutler |
16 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Surprised? Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The museum's director, Cristian Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add 'scientific uncertainty' about climate change, according to internal documents and cor ... |
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| Topics: politics, climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics) |
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The twilight of Inhofe
One last rant from the Senate's loopy streetcorner anti-prophet |
David Roberts |
26 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Sen. James Inhofe has become something of an epic figure, worthy of contemplation by historians, playwrights, or perhaps psychoanalysts. The zeitgeist, which once seemed to rise up around him like a thundercloud, has now moved on, leaving him dripping and bedraggled, resorting to ever more unhinged grand gestures to try to recapture some of the old magic. His historical moment is over, as his career may soon be, but he's not going gently into that good night. Quite ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, politics (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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Republican, global warming denier, and sun worshiper
Fred Thompson's confused stance on climate change |
Joseph Romm |
08 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| He's running for president now, so let's revisit Fred Thompson's climate change confusion. He took some standard denier myths and threw in a dash of his own unwarranted sarcasm to create this mishmash on the Paul Harvey radio show: Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Ted Stevens, climatologist
Alaskan senator invents new theory of global warming |
Kit Stolz |
06 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Ted Stevens, the Republican senator whose vacation home was recently raided by the FBI, and who made over $800,000 from a shady real estate deal last year, has come up with a brand-new theory of global warming. He told a NBC reporter in Alaska: We're at the end of a long, long term of warming, 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll s ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics) |
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Alternative information
GA state legislature tries to figure out whether climate change is real |
David Roberts |
23 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Wow. Via the indispensable Aunt Phyllis, this is old school: On Tuesday the Georgia legislature held a hearing called "Climate change: fact or fiction?" Listen to these blasts from the past: 'In the media, we hear the gloom and doom side,' said Rep. Jeff Lewis (R-White), chairman of the House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee that held the hearing. 'There is alternative information out there.' Indeed there is! Puzzlingly, the "alter ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Georgia, politics (all these topics) |
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Planet Gore Disinfotainment Watch: Utterly misrepresenting research
Keeping an eye on the 'wingers |
Joseph Romm |
20 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| (Part of a series of posts keeping an eye on Planet Gore, the National Review blog devoted to obfuscating on climate change.) New research finds low cost for tackling climate change. But not when that research is reported by Planet Gore. Sterling Burnett recently authored a classic example of PG's disinfotainment. He writes: Has the media completely lost objectivity and the search for the 'truth' with regard to the issue of global warming. The latest reason that made m ... |
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| Topics: politics, legislation, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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Tancredo's fictions
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David Roberts |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo was asked, "what's the latest work of fiction you've read?" His answer: An Inconvenient Truth. Guess that goes on his fiction shelf right next to Darwin's Origin of Species. More at Tancredo Watch. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, elections, jackassery, politics (all these topics) |
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Why do we respond to bozos?
Churchill, not Chamberlain |
Ken Ward |
07 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Why are we letting pro-fossil fuel bozos hijack the only forum that environmentalists and climate-change activists have for wrestling with the daunting task of transforming America? I posted a few practical suggestions in response to David's question, 'Should we be rebutting the skeptics?' I'm going to restate one proposal -- to adopt a Craigslist-type policy allowing Grist readers to flag inappropriate posts. Gristmill is a forum for conversation and debate between ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science, environmental movement, politics (all these topics) |
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Power, program, and practical considerations: Objectives
How to build a real climate movement |
Ken Ward |
30 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ((brightlines_include)) Campaigns and programs crafted to advance the Bright Lines strategy must also fit real world constraints and political realities on the ground, and take account of external roadblocks to effective action. The following objectives address these issues. 1. Tangible risk. Climate change is like world hunger: it's an issue of concern when media attention is high, just as coverage of periodic famines raises concern about world hunger. Most American ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, India, politics (all these topics) |
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Conspiracy uncovered!
Letter to the editor from Arkansas |
Andrew Dessler |
24 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is the text of a letter to the editor printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on April 16 of this year: You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two. This shoul ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, insanity, politics (all these topics) |
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Karl Rove meets Sheryl Crow
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David Roberts |
22 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Drama ensues! |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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Coming soon to a skeptic near you ...
Save the Martians! |
Andrew Dessler |
12 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS! I just read the Nature paper entitled 'Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars,' by Fenton et al. I suspect it will make the rounds in the blogosphere in fairly short order, so here are a few things to remember about the paper. The analysis starts with two maps of planetary albedo for Mars -- one from the 1970s and one from 1999-2000. Albedo is a fancy name for reflectivity; how reflective a planet is, and how ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Green around the Gilchrest
Good interview on climate change |
Kate Sheppard |
12 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Good interview with Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) in Foreign Policy in Focus this week. Gilchrest, chair of the House Climate Change Caucus and co-sponsor of the Climate Stewardship Act, was not appointed to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming last month because he refused to deny that humans are causing climate change. A few excerpts from the interview: Gilchrest: There's no question that we're at a time when we need strong, bold initiati ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics) |
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Party hopping
Global warming is a hot potato |
Anna Fahey |
01 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Last week I reported on the wide and growing partisan divide in U.S. public opinion over global warming: self-identified Democrats are 39 percentage points more likely than their Republican counterparts to rate climate change a serious problem. But what puzzled me most was the 13-point drop in concern among Republicans since 1999. Call me naïve, but with all the scientific evidence that's been piling up on the issue -- accompanied by increasing media attention -- I ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (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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