As the masquerade ball of phony scientists talks to itself (and of course the assembled media) in New York this week, a very different conference is happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Hundreds of the worlds leading climate researchers are gathering at the International Scientific Congress ...

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 ...

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...

Obama-mania hit Canada’s capital hard today but there was much more at play than photo ops during the President’s five-hour visit. Harper and Obama announced a “clean energy dialogue” focusing on “carbon capture and storage” technology (CCS) – a stash-the-em...

The Western Business Roundtable (WBR) is run by energy lobbyists with a history of using astroturf organizations as a means of advancing their client's interests. We have previously reported our extensive research on the Western Business Roundtable and Policy Communications Inc.,(the PR/Lobby firm t...

Much like trusting your mechanic when he says you need new brakes or a doctor when he tells you that your cholestoral is too high, you would hope that elected officials would listen to the experts in a particular field when it comes to developing common sense government policies. On the issue of glo...

More Gore-Bashing The neo-con Frontier Centre for Public Policy, long a promoter of oil-sponsored deniers of climate change, has produced a new "background paper" that challenges the showing of An Inconvenient Truth in Canadian schools on the basis of a 15-month-old UK Court decision. The report, wr...

Here's a great video interview with BBC reporter George Monbiot and Jeroen van der Veer, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.  The spin and bafflegab is almost too painful to watch. We need more reporters like Monbiot that push hard and ask the right questions. Enjoy: <!--break--...

Is it more appropriate to use the term "global warming" or "climate change"? Of course, like anything, it's complicated. For a bit of history lesson on the terms there is a great post on the NASA Global Climate Chage blog. To break their very detailed explanation down a little: 1970: referred to as ...

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...