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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Consortiumnews.com - Jan. 30 - Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

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“Winter Jam Canceled Due to Lack of Winter”

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:38:00 -0800

Grist - By Jess Zimmerman - Jan. 27 - Apparently this year isn’t among New York’s ten warmest winters on record, but it’s too warm for the scheduled activities, some of which require snow. The parks department was prepared to make the snow, rather than relying on nature to provide, but the f

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Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:53:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Jan. 05 - My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve—dangerously naïve. I'm aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then c

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Capitalism vs. the Climate

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:41:00 -0800

The Nation - By Naomi Klein, The Nation - Nov. 09 - There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global

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Special Investigation: Who’s Behind the “Information Attacks” on Climate Scientists?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Climate Guest Blogger - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - by Sue Sturgis, in an Institute for Southern Studies repost This week, in a courtroom in Prince William County, Virginia, a hearing will take place that could have implications for the privacy rights of scientists at colleges and universities across the country. It’s part of a lawsuit brought by the American Tradition Institute, a free-market [...]

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The War Against Climate Science Unravels

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Kelly Rigg - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - For those who have ever put the skeptic arguments to the test, it has always been clear their criticisms rarely stand up to even the most basic level of academic rigor. But last week's study delivered a decisive blow to the edifice of climate skepticism.

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Myles Allen and Guardian Must Retract Phony Quote on Al Gore’s Views of Link Between Climate Change and Weather

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Oct. 12 (Opinion) - Top climatologist Calls Key Allen Critique “clearly wrong.” Myles Allen, with the complicity of the UK’s Guardian, has put words into Al Gore’s mouth in order to attack the Nobel-Prize winning former Vice President. What makes this attack a particularly egregious breach of journalism is that Allen and the Guardian could have avoided it had [...]

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Humans Are Altering Fall Foliage, Studies Find

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Climate Guest Blogger - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - by Cole Mellino Fall foliage may be changing later due to climate change. As certain regions experience warmer average temperatures, the growth season has been extended, causing leaves to change colors and drop later than in the past. Studies from Europe and Japan show that trees are starting to change colors and drop later, so [...]

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Rand Paul Wants Koch Brothers Thrown in Jail!

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Brad Blog - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - Lee Fang at Think Progress offers devastating coverage in response to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)'s recent claim to The Street's Mallory Factor (video here) that those who pollute streams with benzene should be thrown in jail. "I don’t want to pollute the water. I don’t want to pollute streams," said Paul, ...

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The Problem of Media Idiocy: Why Do MSM Media Stars Pretend to Be Stupid?

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Eric Alterman, The Nation - Sep. 19 - People in the upper reaches of the US media think that to do their jobs they must behave like idiots in order to be â€œfairâ€ to the Republicans' idiotic ideas.

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Public Opinion Stunner: More Americans Understand World is Warming — Thanks to Rick Perry, Reports Reuters

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - Did Rick Perry’s lies on global warming inadvertently trigger a backlash among voters? Reuters and Stanford’s public opinion expert Jon Krosnick think so: More Americans than last year believe the world is warming and the change is likely influenced by the Republican presidential debates, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who [...]

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It’s Obscenely Hot: June 2011 Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Nearly 11 to 1

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Joe Romm - Jul. 07 (Opinion) - Steve Scolnik at Capital Climate analyzed the data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center and found U.S. heat records in June outnumbered cold records by 2706 to 251 — nearly 11 to 1: Monthly total number of daily high temperature and low temperature records set in the U.S. for June 2010 through June 2011, data [...]

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Who’s your expert? How peer-reviewed research differs from rhetoric by climate science deniers

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - A jury of one’s peers should assess scientific claims. Here are two, related pieces from The Conversation, “Who’s your expert? The difference between peer review and rhetoric” and “Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review.” First, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute, submits some climate “sceptics” to peer-review and finds them [...]

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“Crappy Headline” Ruins New York Times Story on Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Joe Romm - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - .. I’m about to start writing a post criticizing the New York Times for the dreadful headline it ran on John Broder’s Thursday piece, “Scientists See More Deadly Weather, but Dispute the Cause,” when who should call me on the phone? Broder was calling for some comments on climate politics, as he does [...]

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On 10th Anniversary of Bush Tax Cuts, What We Could Have Had Instead

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Brad Blog - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - By way of marking today's 10th anniversary of George W. Bush's job-killing, society-crushing tax cuts for the rich -- which we recently illustrated via one very clear chart, as the largest factor, by far, in exacerbating our current public debt --here, courtesy of Think Progress, is just a few of ...

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Liberals: Don’t Even Consider Gloating About Donald Trump

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By The New Republic - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - Now that Donald Trump appears on the verge of launching a presidential campaign, it is worth reflecting on the meaning of this low moment in American political history. Trump is a clown and a buffoon, and the odds of him winning even one Republican caucu

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An Anti-Science Mania Takes over GOP

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:12:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Robert Benson - Mar. 21 - The current vogue among a majority of national-level elected Republicans to reject the validity of the scientific consensus on climate change recalls the anti-evolutionary furor seen in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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Debt, Austerity and How to Fight Back

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:45:00 -0700

The Nation - Mar. 17 - Editor's note: On Tuesday, April 5, hundreds of schools and community groups will participate in a teach-in on debt, austerity and how people are fighting back. From 2 – 3:30 pm (EST) a national teach-in will be streamed live from New York City, followed

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No Word for Meltdown: The Return of Nukespeak

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor, Richard Bell - Mar. 15 (Opinion) - George Orwell argued that controlling language offered the ultimate tool for getting people to accept the unacceptable – such as the catastrophic risks of operating nuclear power plants. In Orwell’s “1984,” each new edition of the Newspeak dictionary had fewer words than the previous one...

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Wackos of the World Unite!

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - Mar. 05 - Craziness is roaming the world from Libya to Wisconsin, with a lengthy stopover in Washington DC, observes Michael Winship. March 5, 2011

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How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Lee Fang, Think Progress - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - The Koch's Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company's long running history of manipulating the market to pad Koch profits.

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Does Living Near Wind Turbines Cause Health Problems?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Feb. 23 - A group of residents living near wind farms in Canada have joined together to form an anti-wind power movement. According to CNN, the group is...

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The modern GOP is irresponsible and dangerous

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Kos - By Laurence Lewis <rss@dailykos.com> - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - The modern GOP is irresponsible and dangerous

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More Stormy Weather for the Climate Campaign

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By Steven Hayward - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - If you want to get into the weeds of climate science and policy (and other science issues), you should bookmark the science blog of Roger Pielke Jr of the University of Colorado. Pielke is not a climate skeptic. Like Bjorn Lomborg, he accepts the conventional or "consensus" view that future climate change could be potentially very serious 100 years out from now. Here I should disclose that I have a slightly different view about climate change than John [Hinderacker]; I don't think climate change is a complete hoax. I think it is far from adequately understood and almost certainly to be recognized someday as having been vastly overestimated (like most past envrio-scares from the population bomb through acid rain). The cabal pushing the issue are acting in supremely bad faith, and their prescriptions (Kyoto Protocol, etc) are idiotic and tyrannical. That said, aspects of this issue are worth taking seriously, and few do it better than Pielke...

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