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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March 08, 2009
Not to let himself be outdone by his skeptic colleague in good standing, George Will, The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has penned an equally vacuous and misinformed column posing the thought-provoking question: “Where’s global warming?” It’s hard to know where to start. F...
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Jeremy Jacquot
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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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February 23, 2009
Like a bad horror movie villain, global cooling is the skeptic meme that just won’t die. The latest “respectable” media figure to perpetrate that myth is Newsweek and The Washington Post columnist George F. Will, who wrote a global warming piece last Sunday that was roundly denounc...
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Jeremy Jacquot
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January 30, 2009
The new face of the European Union also happens to be the old face of global warming skepticism. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic and, since January 1, the rotating president of the European Union, will give a keynote speech at the second annual International Conference on Climate C...
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Jeremy Jacquot
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January 14, 2009
It's hard to know whether to celebrate or to weep. CanWest News Services reporter Mike de Souza has learned that the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling for a lightning fast (eight-week), bargain basement ($40,000) report on the potential economic impacts of climate change in Cana...
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Jim Hoggan
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January 09, 2009
Good News! Climate change is all a big mistake! This remarkable finding was revealed by Michael Asher in Daily Tech – a publication more focused on iPhones than atmospheric science. Asher’s piece Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 confidently states that “Thanks to a rapid reb...
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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 11, 2008
Climate change denier extraordinaire Marc Morano dropped a news release on my desk this morning and smiled broadly when I said, "Hey, are you Morano?" - a smile that turned more sardonic when I told him who was asking. Morano, whose political bona fides include inventing the Swiftboat Veterans for T...
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Richard Littlemore
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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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