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Dept. of Misinformation

No, Jeff, there’s not a debate about the science of climate change 2
Posted 20 hours, 56 minutes ago
Following on our in-depth series, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Grist is launching an occasional feature that tracks the latest global warming denialisms and skeptics garbage, making sure to point readers to the real story.
Lowlights from the House climate debate 3
Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago
Still spinng

EPA ‘suppression’ story grows, despite shoddy science in report 3
Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago
The peculiar story of a "suppressed" report at the Environmental Protection Agency continues to grow, despite the fact that the agency appears to have done nothing worse than holding its employees to professional standards.
Minute man

The House climate bill debate, in one minute 0
Posted 4 days, 4 hours ago
Grist sat through roughly six hours of debate of the climate bill on Friday, and if you were watching or following our live blogging of it, you know how painful it got at times. For those who want to see the short version of Friday's debate, Progressive Media USA put together a one-minute summary of Democratic and Republican talking points.
A look inside the right-wing message machine

Scant evidence for charge that EPA ‘suppressed’ dissent [Updated] 7
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute has issued a release under the headline "BREAKING: EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study." Wow! A huge story, right? Not so fast.
A Green WTF?! Moment

Global warming did NOT cause this plane crash 7
Posted 4 weeks ago
Saying global warming brought down the Air France plane is like saying climate change is a myth because it's cold today in Miami...
Antics roadshow

Video highlights from the GOP’s anti-climate-bill crusade 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago
House Republicans release a video of their climate and energy roadshow that couldn't be funnier if we'd made it ourselves.
Bringing 'round the House

We watch dozens of hours of climate bill debate so you don’t have to 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
I'm keeping close watch over debate on the Waxman-Markey climate bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (Grist ... sitting through hours upon hours of markup so you don't have to!)
The incredible shrinking tent

Republican counter-strategy on climate: Revenge! 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
How much smaller can the climate denial tent get? We’re about to find out.
What are you smoking, Smokey Joe?

Barton worries that EPA will regulate runners 5
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is concerned about the plight of marathon runners under a cap-and-trade plan. No, we're not making this up.
What's the sound of one hand solving a problem?

Republican incoherence on climate change 10
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Republicans can't offer the public a solution to climate change because their base won't allow them to acknowledge the problem.
Hot air

Rep. Michele Bachmann says CO2 is ‘a natural byproduct of nature’ 5
Posted 2 months ago
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) explains the 'science' of carbon dioxide on the floor of the House.
Seriously, he said that

Rep. Shimkus says climate bill is worse than two wars and terrorist attack 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) says the Waxman-Markey climate bill is "the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country" that he has ever experienced.
Joe Blow

Joe Barton tries to stump Steven Chu with question about where oil comes from 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), a climate skeptic with some wacky theories of his own, tried to stump Energy Secretary Steven Chu at Wednesday's climate-bill hearing by asking, "How did all the oil and gas get to Alaska and under the Arctic Ocean?"
The skeptic tank

House Republicans bring strange theories and wacky witnesses to climate hearings 22
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
While House Democrats try to get serious about climate legislation, Republican reps and witnesses they invite to hearings have been bogging down proceedings with skeptical rants and cockamamy theories.
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Don’t buy Kimberly-Clark’s latest ruse 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The world's largest manufacturer of tissue products has unveiled a recycled line -- but it continues to clearcut Canada's Boreal forest to make its signature brand, Kleenex. That blows.
Bachmann loony overdrive

Bachmann again calls for revolution against climate action 6
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In an interview with NewsMax, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) now says she wants a revolution "armed with knowledge" to combat the "tax on the right to use and consume energy" that Democrats are putting forward.
Full of Shimkus

Cable talkers take note of Shimkus flat-earthism 0
Posted 3 months ago
The idiocy of John Shimkus has attracted some attention from cable talkers.
More Congressional stupidity 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Joe Barton: worst person in the world 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago