Climate Deniers

The Titanic, Climate Change And Avoidable Tragedies

Peter M. J. Hess, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Titanic, Evolution, Overpopulation, Climate Change, Moral Obligation, Christianity, Green Faith, Climate Deniers, Religion News

Like the Titanic, our present-day industrial civilization is a marvel of human ingenuity, and yet, a reckoning looms on the horizon.

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An Open Letter to State Farm About Climate Denial

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Heartland Billboard, State Farm Insurance, Heartland Institute, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Green News

Last week, Heartland rolled out a hate-oriented billboard campaign that compared scientists, science organizations, and federal agencies who acknowledge that science suggests human behavior is warming the planet to "murderers and madmen."

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From the Heartland: Schoolchildren, Climate, and... Mass Murder?

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Climate Change, Ted Kaczynski, Heartland Institute, Climate Deniers, Heartland Institute Leaked Documents, Heartland Institute Global Warming, Heartland-Billboard, Heartland Institute Billboard, Heartland Institute Billboards, Green News

This exposure of families and schoolchildren to the darker aspects of propaganda suggests the Heartland Institute's leadership has sunk to a juvenile bully's level of moral and ethical development.

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Why Politicians Believe Americans Don’t Believe In Global Warming

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Public Opinion Polls, Climate Skeptics, Climate Deniers, Gallup Poll, Psychology, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Republicans, Green News

If you follow the popular polls, you might think that Americans are growing ever more skeptical about man-made climate change -- despite the consensus...

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This Valentine's Day, Say It With (Climate) Science

Heather Libby | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Valentines Day, Climate Change, Ecards, Global Warming, Climate Deniers, Climate Scientists, Green News

Climate change isn't lovable. But the people who research its effects certainly are. And this year has been especially rough on them.

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Saudi Arabia's Surprising About-Face on Climate Change

Kelly Rigg | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Unfccc, International Climate Treaty, Climate Change, Global Economy, Saudi Arabia, Climate Deniers, Green News

When even the world's leading oil supplier says it's time to deal with climate change, it's a strong sign that the decade-long climate denial campaign has failed. It's all over but the shouting.

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Off The Wall On Climate At The Wall Street Journal

Elliott Negin | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: News Corp, Rupert Murdoch News Corp, Climate Deniers, Rupert Murdoch, Climate Change, Paul Gigot, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Global Warming Deniers, Wall Street Journal, Global Warming, Green News

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation says it's committed to "minimizing its environmental impact, growing sustainably, and inspiring others to take action." So why does the Wall Street Journal editorial page deny the reality of global warming and inspire others to do nothing?

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Why Republicans Deny Science: The Quest for a Scientific Explanation

Chris Mooney | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Acceptance, Political Psychology, Conservatives, Liberals, Climate Deniers, Science and Politics, Climate Change, Psychology, Evolution, Differing Views, Science News

An increasing body of science suggests that we disagree about politics not for intellectual or philosophical reasons, but because we have fundamentally different ways of responding to the basic information presented to us by the world.

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Video: Franken and Whitehouse School Congress on Climate Change

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Congress, Sheldon Whitehouse, Climate Deniers, Al Franken, Civics Education, Science, Climate Change, Science Education, Video, Green News

"As a society, we have to understand that science is a way of understanding the truth about the way things actually are in the physical world independent of how we wish they would be," Sen. Al Franken said.

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Gary Johnson On Legalizing Marijuana: It's Only A Matter Of Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Video, Pain Killers, Jon Huntsman, Marijuana, Marijuana Polling, Climate Deniers, Gop Debates Election 2012, Marijuana Legalization, Pot Legalization, Pot 2012, Gary Johnson, Global Warming, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson drew headlines earlier this month when he said he would issue a full presidential pardon for any...

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Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Amoco, American Tradition Institute, Koch Brothers, RIchard Mellon Scaife, Exxon Mobil, Freedom, Climate Deniers, Michael Mann, Ken Cuccinelli, Climate Change, University of Virginia, Politics News

A hearing today has implications for academic freedom across the country. What is at stake is Americans' freedom to investigate, debate and express ideas that run counter to those of corporations.

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Koch-Backed Climate Denier Admits Global Warming Is Real

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 12.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong....

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Another Climate Denial Argument Bites the Dust

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Geoengineering, Climate Deniers, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, BEST Project, Urban Heat Island Effect, Global Warming, Green News

This Koch-funded group has not been able to show that the urban heat island effect has had any influence on temperature measurements of global warming. In fact, the group found in a paper just released that both urban and rural areas "show significant warming."

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Study Says Politicians Shouldn't Fear Voicing Climate Change Concerns

Posted 12.14.2011

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Does a politician's stance on climate change matter in an election? Yes, according to a study from Stanford University entitled "The Impact of Can...

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Report Critical of EPA Instead Raises Questions About Watchdog

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Arthur Elkins, Carbon Emissions, James Inhofe, Endangerment Finding, Epa, Climate Deniers, Climate Change, Republicans, Politics News

The report doesn't question the science. Nor does it question the endangerment finding itself. It questions the procedure the EPA followed in its process of researching and preparing the finding. But the EPA says Inspector General Arthur A. Elkins, Jr. got it wrong.

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EPA Pushes Back Against Report Alleging Agency Cut Corners On Climate Finding

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Inspector General, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Emissions, James Inhofe, Greenhouse Gas Regualtions, Office of Management and Budget, Climate Deniers, Epa, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday pushed back against an inspector general report alleging the White House cut corners in...

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What's a Drag Queen Got to Do with Global Warming?

Byron Kennard | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Environment, Global Warming, Global Warming Drag Queen, Rue Rylvester, Green News

Gays are making giant strides in building public support for same-sex marriage. Meanwhile greens appear to be losing ground in building public support for action on climate change. What gives? Do gays know something greens don't?

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Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? (Part 1)

William S. Becker | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Floods, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, James Inhofe, Climate, Global Weirding, Climate Skeptics, Texas, Hurricane Irene, Tornados, Drought, Climate Deniers, Fires, Rick Perry, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News

The term "perfect storm" is overused now, but it is the perfect metaphor for the violent relationship between people and the environment today. We are experiencing a convergence of factors that are putting us at great risk.

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The Perry Principle

Robert Walker | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Population, Deniers, Population Growth, Drought, Peak Oil, Climate Science, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sustainability, Flooding, Evolution, Rick Perry, Global Warming, Elections 2012, Politics News

Rick Perry has dominated the headlines with public assertions that evolution is just a theory, and that the jury is still out whether human activity is responsible for climate change. He is just the latest public figure to call scientifically accepted ideas into question.

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WATCH: Rick Perry Says Climate Scientists 'Manipulated Data'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry took his skepticism about climate change one step further on Wednesday, telling a New Hampshire business crowd tha...

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Fox's Latest Assault on Climate Science: Attack SpongeBob

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Fox & Friends, Spongebob, Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Climate Deniers, Green News

Apparently, using cartoons to teach children about important science issues of the day raises hackles at Fox, especially when those issues are at odds with their political perspectives.

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More Climate B.S. at Forbes: Hiding the Energy Imbalance of the Planet

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Forbes Magazine, Patrick Michaels, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Deniers, Arctic Ice Melt, Green News

Patrick Michaels' essay is like trying to prove why the sun goes around the Earth. Or why gravity doesn't work. Or how the U.S. faked the moon landing. It doesn't matter what his arguments are: his initial premise is wrong.

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Moral Outrage Killed a Tabloid, but Can It Save the Climate?

Kelly Rigg | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: General Electric, Drought, Climate Change, Newscorp, Global Warming, Africa, Climate Deniers, Green News

As in the Egyptian revolution, we see again the power of moral outrage to act as a spectacular catalyst for social change. So are there are lessons here for the climate movement?

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The Earth Is Flat... but They Can't Handle the Truth

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Flat Earthers, Humor, Satire, Climate Deniers, Science, Climate Change, 9/11 Truthers, Politics News

It's time for real, truth-loving Americans to employ the same logic and observational methods used by climate change deniers to debunk a far more pernicious fantasy: the "theory" that the Earth is round.

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Climate Triage and the "New Normal"

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Mississippi Floods, Climate Triage, Extreme Events, Climate Change, Swiss Re, Climate Deniers, Green News

In coming years, we are going to be faced with increasingly difficult decisions in what must now be called climate triage -- choices about who and what is going to be protected and saved, versus abandoned and lost.

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