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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Skeptics lie; news at 11 DeSmogBlog uncovers Heartland lies	David Roberts	02 May 2008	Gristmill
The right-wing Heartland Institute has been making a big fuss about "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares." Five hundred skeptical scientists? Sounds bad! Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog had the radical idea of actually contacting the scientists, to see if they are being accurately characterized by Heartland. You see where this is going, right? In less than 24 hours, Grandia received three dozen outraged replies from scienti ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, jackassery (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush, jackassery, politics, regulation (all these topics)

An enemy of my enemy ... Conservatives like Bush's climate plan because greens don't	David Roberts	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The conservative National Review likes the president's new climate change strategy. Not because it will work to reduce emissions, mind you. Because it irritates environmentalists and Europeans.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Post of the day: Crichton's fictions More debunkery of everyone's favorite fiction writer	Joseph Romm	23 May 2007	Gristmill
While Planet Gore now has the market cornered on entertaining global warming disinformation, Michael Crichton perfected it. For those last two or three people who still think the technothriller writer has his facts straight, check out reasic's terrific post on Crichton's inane 2003 talk, "Aliens Cause Global Warming." Yes, Crichton, a real medical doctor, actually said: Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're asked to ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

New Scientist's troll-b-gone	David Roberts	17 May 2007	Gristmill
If our How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide doesn't whet your appetite for debunkery, head on over to New Scientist, which has a new series taking on 'the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions.' Some are familiar to devotees of our guide -- they predicted global cooling in the '70s! -- but there's plenty of new stuff with which to arm yourself should you, for reasons I fail to understand, feel the desire to continue to engage with the trolls.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Tancredo's fictions	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.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, elections, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

Student forced to complete assignment to graduate Breaking news on Fox	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
This is one of the most torturous cable TV segments I've ever seen: (via Hugg)
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, lying liars (all these topics)

Newsweek blesses Richard Lindzen, ignores pay-offs from fuel companies For shame!	Kit Stolz	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This Monday, Newsweek will publish an op-ed by well-known climate-change contrarian Richard Lindzen, which concludes that global warming is nothing to worry about and may even be a good thing. 'Why So Gloomy?' he wonders, and adds that 'a warmer climate could be more beneficial than the one we have now.' Nothing new here: Lindzen's been making the same points for years, despite evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that he served on a prestigious panel chosen b ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Inhofe hates the rock music Climate contrarian blocks Gore concert plans	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
If climate change is the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,' then an all-star climate concert on the Capitol lawn has got to be some kind of descent into madness. So sayeth Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who's vowing to indefinitely block a resolution allowing Al Gore's Live Earth concert to rock the Capitol grounds in July because the event is 'partisan.' Said Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), who co-sponsored the resolution with Sen. Harr ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Harry Reid, jackassery, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

'Supporting global warming initiatives is tantamount to endorsing communism and the one world order'	David Roberts	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

The 'two sides' of the climate debate One of them is missing	David Roberts	05 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Bad Actors and their enablers have been pushing a particular spin on the climate debate: it has "two sides," the denialists and the alarmists. What can wise people above it all in the center do but roll their eyes at the grubbiness of it all? I'd like to introduce you to one side of the debate: Only 13 percent of congressional Republicans say they believe that human activity is causing global warming, compared to 95 percent of congressional Democrats. Mor ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, jackassery, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

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