March 09, 2009
Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...
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February 27, 2009
Caught in a series of factual errors, or what many are calling outright lies about climate science , Washington Post columnist George Will has upped the ante for himself and his employer with his latest column on global warming. Rather than issue a retraction and simply move on, today he reiterated ...
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Mitchell Anderson
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December 17, 2008
He may only be part of a noisy minority, but Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) isn’t about to let his fringe status get in the way of his latest skeptic shtick. As he did last year, Inhofe, writing under the guise of the Minority on the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, has penned ano...
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Jeremy Jacquot
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December 08, 2008
Dense fog hangs inside and outside the Frankfurt airport, a hazy waypoint on the road to Poznan. As the most dedicated climate policy watchers all know, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently in its 14th session in Poznan, Poland. For the last week, senior climate pol...
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Richard Littlemore
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June 10, 2008
No Blood For Oil made for a good anti-war slogan when gas was going for the same price as Two Buck Chuck. But with gasoline now regularly priced at $4 and in Canada, where I’m sitting at Starbucks, what calculates to SIX BUCKS -- and that’s for the cheap stuff! -- I’m not so sure the saying ho...
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May 28, 2008
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid a...
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May 12, 2008
Both Clinton and Obama are stumping for "clean coal" up and down the coal State of West Virginia today. And both Presidential hopefuls include the capture and storage of "clean coal" greenhouse gas emissions in their policy platforms. The Obama "clean coal" promise: Oba...
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April 18, 2008
"Clean coal" spin by any other name is still spin. In other words, the coal industry has scrapped one front group name for another, as if we wouldn't figure it out. The coal industry's $35 million spin machine , Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), is now the American Coal...
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April 16, 2008
Updating the story about the University of Calgary's damning audit of its relationship with the Friends of Science, U of C general counsel Charlene Anderson told the Calgary Herald yesterday that no disciplinary action is planned "at this time," but "that might change at any time ...
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April 15, 2008
A University of Calgary audit into its relationship with the climate lobby group, Friends of Science (FOS), suggests that in setting up two trust funds on behalf of FOS, U of C Professor Barry Cooper likely contravened Revenue Canada and Elections Canada laws - and, in diverting money to his wife an...
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