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us/Shell Oil Behind London Science Museum Decision to Take Anti-Science Stance on Global Warming?
ByLeslie Berliant
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The Times of London reports that the London Science Museum has decided to change its position from promoting understanding of the science of global warming to one that they deem “neutral” in their ...
us/Partisanship and Disinformation Surrounding Global Warming Taking their Toll
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A new Gallup poll shows that compared to three years ago, twice as many Americans believe that global warming’s consequences are exaggerated. And in just the last year, there has been an increase i...
us/Global Warming Deniers Part Ways: Australian Institute of Public Affairs Says Goodbye to Jennifer Marohasy
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The Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch reports that an Australian corporate funded think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is not renewing the contract for Jennifer Marohasy, one of ...
us/US Chamber of Commerce Study Parrots Republican Talking Points on Carbon Cap
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes themselves this way on their website: As the voice of business, the Chamber’s core purpose is to fight for free enterprise before Congress, the White House, r...
us/Behind the Orange Curtain, Facts about Climate Change Can be Hard to Find
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The Orange County Register managed to take their complaints about the California Air Resources Board (ARB) doing their job and twist it into a piece denying the realities of climate change and spou...
us/CO2 Speaker's Corner Makes Atmospheric CO2 Data Accessible
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Atmospheric greenhouse gases are a bit of an abstraction. We can’t see them, we can’t smell them, and we can’t immediately tell when there is a change in concentration. The site CO2Now is trying t...
us/When It Comes to Climate Change, Catholics Get It
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According to a recent Zogby telephone survey of over 1000 American Catholics, 55% agree that climate change is a serious problem, versus 22% who do not. Catholics in the U.S. are also clear on clim...
us/Jim Sensenbrenner: Full of Opinion and Hyperbole on Climate Change Legislation but Very Few Facts
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Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Voters will be pleased to know that as a member of that...
us/Peer Review and the Science Versus Opinion Smackdown
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Peer Review - a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field. – Merriam-Webster Dictionary Over the weekend, Bria...
us/Why Are Mitch McConnell and John Boehner Working Against the Interests of America?
ByLeslie Berliant
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Reasonable people can disagree about the particulars of an energy and climate bill. Some might say that the bulk of renewable investments should go toward wind and others might say solar. Some can ...
us/John Boehner, the Say Anything Republican
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You have to give it to John Boehner when it comes to looking out for his own interests. That would be $188,700 worth of interests in the form of campaign donations from coal, oil and gas lobbyists ...
us/The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009; Draft One
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Is 2009 the year of climate and energy legislation? It is if you believe Speaker Nancy Pelosi who called the passage of such legislation “an inevitability” on a conference call this morning regardi...

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