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We Get It -- the joke, that is
Corporate evangelical leaders cloak opposition to climate policy behind concern for poor |
David Roberts |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Those of you following Grist's news feed (if you're not, you should) are aware that last week a group of conservative evangelicals launched the "We Get It!" campaign, arguing against action on global warming. We've written a great deal on Grist about the split in the evangelical leadership between those who recognize the danger of global warming and those who don't. The former includes lots of younger churchgoers who want to broaden the church's mandate b ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, religion and spirituality (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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Me, worry?
Most Americans don't believe global warming will pose a threat to them |
Maywa Montenegro |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A new series of Pew polls shows public concern for climate change is out of sync with the science: |
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| Topics: green living, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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NASA chief Griffin stands by his Luddite remarks -- as space agency guts climate science work
Unfortunate |
Joseph Romm |
06 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| NASA administrator Michael Griffin offered a lame apology for his denier remarks on climate change. The Associated Press reports that Griffin 'regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview.' That is, he apologized for speaking his mind. Sad. In a related story, the media revealed a recent report on how NASA and the Bush administration are gutting earth observation work crucial to tracking climate change: The Bush adm ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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RealClimate humor
Who says scientists aren't funny? |
Gar Lipow |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| RealClimate has an extended satire against climate denier use of false correlation=causation logic to argue for solar cycles as the main cause of global warming. As humor with extended charts and co-efficients of correlation go, it is quite funny. However, I must admit that an exchange between two commenters on the post was much funnier: James: CO2 has an insulating effect -- we know this because people have measured it. Humans have been putting more CO2 in the a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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The denialist deck of cards
A video you simply must see |
David Roberts |
11 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Yikes. Everyone must watch this video, which comes to us from DeSmogBlog: And on a related note, this seems like a good time to link to The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts. You will see that these perpetual, maddening arguments about global warming are not new. The techniques are the same and the goals are the same: protecting industry. All the more reason not to feed the trolls. And ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, health, lying liars (all these topics) |
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Maybe you can go broke underestimating the taste of the American public
Denialist special tanks in the ratings |
David Roberts |
09 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Eric Boehlert on Glenn Beck: The bad news last week was that Glenn Beck, the right-wing radio talker and self-described "rodeo clown" who broadcasts nightly on CNN Headline News, hosted a world-is-flat special about the "myths" surrounding global warming. In it, Beck rounded up the usual band of discredited, oil industry-friendly "experts" who announced that the looming atmospheric crisis is overblown, and that far from being a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Should we keep rebutting skeptics?
Vote! |
David Roberts |
04 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A little while back, CNN recruited a right-wing talk radio host named Glenn Beck to host one of its prime-time shows. As MediaMatters rather exhaustively reveals, Beck is an unreconstructed racist, sexist, classist, misogynist, authoritarian, xenophobic troglodyte of the old school. He doesn't work particularly hard to conceal his trogloditicism. In fact, one suspects CNN views the trogloditicism as the draw. Beck's latest crusade is -- you guessed it -- global ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, lying liars (all these topics) |
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Bush beats global warming
Video |
David Roberts |
26 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Stephen Colbert brings the good news: (h/t: Hugg) |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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The Gristiest cartoonist
Tom Toles, national treasure |
JMG |
25 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Toles. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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The times, are they really a-changin'?
Bob Dylan on climate change |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bob Dylan, global warming denialist? |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, music (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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Local climate skeptic mocked on Daily Show
Some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time |
Trina Stout |
20 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Remember that wacky Federal Way, Wash. father who opposed showing An Inconvenient Truth in public schools? ("Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore!") Well, he's back, and on the Daily Show: Some choice quotes, in case you can't watch the video: 'The global warming we're experiencing right now would have to be God's wrath ... These are precursors to the rapture, which should occur in about, you know, 5 to 7 years ...' 'If you ha ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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It's hard out there for a skeptic
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David Roberts |
19 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| After 20 years of disproportionate media coverage, climate contrarians have started being ignored. It would be impossible to overstate the depth of my sympathy. Impossible, I tell you. Update [2007-4-19 16:17:10 by David Roberts]: As an addendum: actual climate scientists think coverage is already 'too balanced.' And by balanced, I'm pretty sure they mean 'balanced. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living (all these topics) |
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What the Talmud tells us about global warming
The Talmud and global warming |
Gar Lipow |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| As global warming deniers move from 'it's not happening' to 'it's not human-caused' to 'but it's good for you' to 'it's too expensive to fix,' I'm reminded of a tale from the Talmud. It seems a family was accused of returning a clay pot they had borrowed cracked beyond repair. The accused family had three defenses: They never borrowed the pot. The pot already had a crack in it when received. They returned the pot completely unharmed. Perhaps it is unf ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, religion and spirituality (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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'Supporting global warming initiatives is tantamount to endorsing communism and the one world order'
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David Roberts |
23 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, religion and spirituality (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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The CEI ads
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David Roberts |
17 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| OMFG, so, I finally went and watched the TV ads to be aired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute a week before An Inconvenient Truth is released. I'm not sure what I expected, but these things are genuinely funny. They look like nothing so much as a parody produced by Saturday Night Live. The tag line -- the last line of the ad, read dramatically as a little girl blows a dandelion -- is: "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life." It's a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, messaging, TV (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: books, celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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