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us/Putting lipstick on the coal pig
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When people argue that the use of coal and other fossil fuels is still cheaper than renewable energy they usually (and conveniently) fail to mention the external costs of fossil fuels that aren’t f...
us/Coal 'Smells good, too!'
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Did you know that coal is so clean that it even smells good? Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection/“Reality” coalition has put out a new ad.  It’s the sequel to their first ad, which revealed t...
us/Nightmare On Coal Street: The Video
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Earlier this week, President-elect Barack Obama announced his picks for his energy team, with Dr. Steven Chu to head up the Department of Energy. Dr. Chu is not the happy holiday gift the “clean co...
us/Has Arctic sea ice loss become irreversible?
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The party’s over, we had us a time..We burned all the kindling… Watched the last coals dwindlingAnd the ice melting down… – Eliza Gilkyson Is the party over? According to a new study by scientis...
us/Politico Pimps the Global Warming Skeptics
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For at least a year before the 2008 U.S. election, legions of political geeks were glued to a number of websites, from pollster.com to politico.com. The latter provided more or less excellent cover...
us/Sarah Palin puts polar bears on thin ice
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The United States is drawing closer and closer to one of the most important presidential elections in many years.In particular, the scientific community is anxiously anticipating the outcome on Nov...
us/Incoming Transmission From Planet Flat Earth!
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In an alternate universe, where up is down, planets are flat, and hot is actually cold, lives a certain Republican Senator named James Inhofe. He has been known to travel to the US Senate and hold ...
us/Sarah Palin: From Climate Change Denier To Long-Winded Skeptic
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In last night's interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin, shall we say, “bent the truth” regarding her stance on climate change. Jake Tapper has the scoop :“Let me talk to you a bit about ...
us/Coal Industry's ACCCE mixes apples (coal) with oranges (wind)
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Over at the Clean Coal Front Group Soapbox (er, blog), ACCCE Vice President of Communications Joe Lucas has a new post entitled: All New Technologies Take Time to Develop He basically claims that w...
us/Kentucky coal to liquid plan means more dirty fuel is on the way
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There's only one energy source dirtier than coal-fired power plants and the oilsands: coal to liquid fuel. And today in Kentucky plans were announced for a $4 billion coal to liquid fuel plant. T...
us/Tom Harris Pops Up Down Under
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In an article titled the Sad Demise of On-Line Opinion, Australian Clive Hamilton, writes:“The editors' appeal to the principles of good journalism to defend the publication of denialist anti-scie...
us/Choice Words for James Hansen From Big Coal Exec
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Andy Revkin's New York Times Dot Earth has published a letter from Vic Svec, Senior Vice President for Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company in the world, reacting to the statement made...
us/Republicans: still clueless about their own emissions
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Republican Congressman Steve Pearce represents the second congressional district in New Mexico. The effect of climate change on nearly every aspect of life have been noted, and are predicted to ...
us/Fox News: Global Warming Deniers Crazy Like Man Stuck in Toilet
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Here's one for the record.Fox News, anchor Shep Smith was reporting on the bizarre story of a man who was found “drunk, naked and wedged up to his waist in a toilet” when he made the comparison to...
us/Rick Santorum's dirty words
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November 7, 2006 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for a lot of Republicans. It's the day the Democrats won the majority in the US Senate and House. Über-conservative Republican S...
us/Say Goodbye and Adios "Clean Coal"
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A few days ago, the ACCCE released a new, stunningly vague advertisement called “Adios,” that is somehow supposed to put America's mind at ease, and/or scare us about a future without coal. Here's...
us/ExxonMobil Still the Bull in the Climate Shop
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He was going to be smooth. Polished. Charming. The new face of ExxonMobil, presented to us back in March 2006: If Rex W. Tillerson has his way, Exxon Mobil will no longer be the oil company th...
us/Is Exxon backing away from climate change deniers?
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Love on the rocks ? Exxon Mobil Corp. has cut funding to groups raising questions about climate change from human-generated carbon dioxide, a move taken on the eve of its annual meeting in the ...
us/The ACCCE's Magical Mystery Carbon Storage Adventure
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Want to learn more about coal? Check out our resource page on the Top 5 Clean Coal Myths. Hey, kids, it's time for another bedtime story from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a.k...
us/Enter the Inhofian Polar Bear Expert
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What a coincidence. Just as the Alaska State Legislature allocates $2 million for a conference promoting climate change deniers' “expert” analysis of why polar bears aren't really endangered, a po...