Kevin Grandia is the Managing Editor of the award-winning site, DeSmogBlog and the Director of New Media for Hoggan and Associates a 26 year-old public relations agency based in Vancouver, Canada.

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Blog Entries by Kevin Grandia

Copenhagen Climate Talks: Monckton "Hitler Youth" Video

Posted December 10, 2009 | 04:22 PM (EST)


It looks like Christopher Monckton, the head of the right-wing CFACT delegation at the Copenhagen climate talks, is unfamiliar with Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies.

After calling a group of young people from Sustain US, "Hitler youth" and Nazis" at the Copenhagen climate summit yesterday, Christopher Monckton...

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Katie Couric: melting ice caps are worth more than 1,000 emails [video]

3 Comments | Posted December 8, 2009 | 04:10 PM (EST)


In her Notebook on Copenhagen, CBS anchor Katie Couric makes a very strong case for why the hacked emails do not undermine the scientific realities of climate science:

"A picture is worth 1,000 emails and pictures of the polar ice caps show a 20% decrease since 1979. NASA images...

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White House Says Leaked Email Story "Silly" - the Science Is Clear

2 Comments | Posted December 8, 2009 | 12:35 AM (EST)


According to an AFP story out today, the Obama White House has dismissed as "silly" the idea that climate science is in jeopardy over the Climate Research Unit leaked emails.

"I think everybody is clear on the science," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.

"I think scientists are...

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Great Video Debunking the Stolen Climate Email Controversy

29 Comments | Posted December 6, 2009 | 04:42 PM (EST)


Watch this video and tell me how anyone can still think the stolen climate change email controversy is anything more than manufactured by the right-wing media echo machine and their fossil fuel friends in the free market think tanks:

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Hackers Attempt To Access Canadian Government Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis

8 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 07:03 PM (EST)


On the heels of the controversial story about emails and data stolen by hackers from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, it has now been revealed that individuals posing as network technicians recently attempted to infiltrate another climate data center operated by the Government of...

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When cavemen roamed the earth 3,000 years ago?! [video]

2 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 07:41 PM (EST)


Fox News loves it's strange science when it comes to climate change, but a recent interview with Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R) shows just how sad this channel really has become.

On the Red Eye show, McCotter makes a strange argument that climate change is nothing to worry about...

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An easy, very quick summary of the Copenhagen climate treaty

2 Comments | Posted November 26, 2009 | 02:31 PM (EST)


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Cartoon courtesy of David Horsey at Hearst Newspapers. Via The Daily Beast.

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Michael Mann in his own words on the stolen CRU emails

16 Comments | Posted November 26, 2009 | 12:31 AM (EST)


With all the wild accusations flying around over the illegally obtained email correspondence from the University of East Climate Research Unit, I thought I would ask one of the scientists in the middle of the issue to provide some context.

Penn State University climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann,...

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Show me the email Morano! Climate spindoctors throwing stones in glass houses

15 Comments | Posted November 24, 2009 | 08:55 PM (EST)


The climate conspiracy theorists are enjoying their moment of glory with the hacked emails that were made public late last week.

And who can blame them, given that many of them were relegated to the fringe years ago?

I suspect that most mainstream media will not buy the overblown...

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Stolen CRU emails: Who are the criminals behind the conspiracy theorists?

7 Comments | Posted November 21, 2009 | 02:39 PM (EST)


Former Republican strategist Marc Morano is having as much fun with the stolen emails from the Climate Research Unit that he did with the Swift Boat Veteran's for Truth attack he led against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

Morano and his site Climate Depot has...

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Stolen climate science emails just ain't the conspiracy some want it to be

37 Comments | Posted November 20, 2009 | 04:33 PM (EST)


I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy. Anything provides insight into the inner-workings of your opponents is pretty much manna from heaven in this...

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Energy industry front group plans "teabagger" protest at Gore's event in Portland

1 Comments | Posted November 17, 2009 | 06:23 PM (EST)


I just got word that Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is planning on protesting a presentation Al Gore is making tomorrow night in Portland, Oregon.

Under the guise of the "teabagger movement" AFP will do what it does best, which is protesting clean energy and green jobs.

It's hard to...

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Robert Redford's Sundance Channel to Air Climate Denier Propaganda

180 Comments | Posted November 17, 2009 | 04:49 PM (EST)


(This is a re-post of an article my colleague Mitchell Anderson wrote)

Much-loved actor and Director Robert Redford launched the Sundance Channel fourteen years ago to broadcast independent and progressive films from around the world.

It is therefore surprising that the network is...

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Mike Papantonio: 'mainstream media incapable of asking the tough questions'

Posted November 17, 2009 | 01:29 PM (EST)


In a recent interview with the author of the controversial new book Climate Cover Up, Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio made the point that when it comes to those people who prop themselves up as experts and say that climate change is not happening, the media are...

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Looking for climate leaders in Copenhagen [video]

Posted November 6, 2009 | 10:13 AM (EST)


Environmental groups banded together for an unprecedented event outside the negotiating rooms at the Barcelona climate talks.

With alarm clocks ringing, and some alien visitors the group sent the message to country negotiators that the time is now for a climate deal and that we need world...

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What Would Frank Luntz Do with the Copenhagen Climate Treaty?

Posted November 6, 2009 | 07:42 AM (EST)


When I'm trying to unravel public relations spin, I frequently find myself asking WWFLD (What Would Frank Luntz Do)?

As you'll recall Frank Luntz is a chief Republican spin-doctor famous for his memo on climate change.


We have seen a lot of spindoctoring at the Barcelona climate...

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Coal Industry Coloring Book Spins "Clean Coal" for Kids

2 Comments | Posted November 5, 2009 | 12:25 PM (EST)


Someone just sent one of the most ridiculous pieces of propaganda the coal lobby has produced to date.

Put out by the West Virginia Coal Association and their Friends of Coal front group, the "Let's Learn About Coal" coloring book, pretty much speaks for itself:

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Copenhagen Climate Treaty on Death-Watch

1 Comments | Posted November 5, 2009 | 10:53 AM (EST)


Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session underway in Barcelona.

Case in point: the head of the UN climate treaty process Yvo de Boer is now saying that, "It is physically impossible...

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One Year Later There's Still A Climate Of Hope

Posted November 4, 2009 | 09:55 AM (EST)


One year down and three to go in President's Obama's first term as the grand poohba and while there has been a lot of humming and hawing lately about his record to date on environmental issues, I remain blissfully optimistic with a touch of niggling cynicism.

I have always...

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A politically binding climate change agreement is great... if you're a politician

Posted November 4, 2009 | 07:48 AM (EST)


The biggest news coming out of the Barcelona climate talks being held this week is the re-framing of a successful climate change treaty as being one that is "politically binding" as opposed to "legally binding."

With all the long hours I've been putting into to covering these climate talks,...

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