Mitchell Anderson

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As the dust settles on DC, many are now wondering what toll the midterm results will take on climate science and energy policy. The initial signs are ominous. Rep. Joe Barton of Texas is angling fo...
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NASA has just trotted out their latest astronomically expensive plan to put people on Mars. This scaled down scheme will only cost $10 billion but there’s a catch - you can’t come back. Instead the...
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Glacier National Park might soon need a new name. The northern Montana refuge just lost another two of its namesake ice fields to climate change and park officials warn the remaining twenty-five co...
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The scandal is growing at Environment Canada of how Canadian climate researchers are being “muzzled” by draconian policies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. This week the Montreal Gazette reported ...
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First there were sunspots. Then cosmic rays. Now comes the latest “proof” being trotted out by the climate denial crowd… pineapples. Swedish Scientist Nils-Axel Morner is claiming that sea levels ...
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Ever wonder why the government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is such an international pariah on climate change? Maybe its because they don’t believe in science. A former minister and c...
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More evidence is being unearthed on the sophisticated cyber-burglary of more than 1,000 emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) that sheds light on who did the stealing and why. An interesting...
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Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is again sharing his pearls of wisdom on climate change. His latest offering is an “original paper” produced for the non-peer reviewe...
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Another climate change denier myth - this one a favorite of Anthony Watts and his “Watts Up With That” blog - has just bit the dust. Many skeptics for years have sought to explain away decades of ...
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The climate denial echo chamber is again in high gear trying to assassinate the character of respected scientist Michael Mann of Penn State. Their latest ruse is to squawk that Dr. Mann is the indi...
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The media missed the real story about the so-called “climate-gate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the cli...
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Check out this fine compendium of the world’s most prominent climate cranks in this week’s Rolling Stone. Tim Dickinson succinctly summarizes the wretched roles played by seventeen of the worst off...
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The leading elected “climate skeptic” in the United States got a taste of just how marginalized his world-view is when he breezed through Copenhagen last week. The infamous Senator James Inhofe f...
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Ever wonder why Canada is so resistant to moving on climate change? Maybe it has something to do with the 1,500 climate change lobbyists pounding the halls of Parliament. An illuminating article f...
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The Calgary Foundation is at it again. This prominent Alberta charity is once more shoveling money through their “Science Education Fund” to organizations and projects that seem specifically unfrie...
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So where is all the money coming from? In one of the worst non-profit fundraising environments in decades, how is that the so-called “Friends of Science” (FoS) who only months ago seemed to be begg...
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The sprawling stable of climate change deniers in the employ of the National Post must be choking on crow after their editorial board finally admitted earlier this month that climate change is real...
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Much-loved actor and director Robert Redford launched the Sundance Channel fourteen years ago to broadcast independent and progressive films from around the world. It is therefore surprising that t...
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DeSmogBlog spoke this week to one of several groups impersonated by Big Coal to block the Waxman Markey Bill, and they are not happy. Lisa Maatz, director of public policy and government relations ...
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Groups Seek New Evidence in Bonner Scandal A coalition of groups, including some that were impersonated by coal lobbyists fighting against U.S. climate change legislation, have banded together in s...