MSNBC’s Mitchell: Oil Spill An ‘Opportunity’ for Obama to Push Energy Bill
MSNBC’s Mitchell: Oil Spill An ‘Opportunity’ for Obama to Push Energy Bill
Speaking to New York Magazine columnist John Heilemann on MSNBC Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell wondered if the Gulf oil spill could be a political opportunity for President Obama: "Is there an opportunity now to do something real on energy?"Heilemann proclaimed the disaster [...]
Hit Job: ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White Supremacists
Hit Job: ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White Supremacists
At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited "hockey stick graph" didn’t like being mocked in a YouTube video. Now Mann is alleging he’s a victim [...]
Aussie politics: Rudd may be in for a Rude Awakening
Aussie politics: Rudd may be in for a Rude Awakening
From Cliff Thies:
The latest from Australia… it appears that the Liberal-National Coalition has caught-up with, and may even have surpassed Labour in the polls. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a climate change advocate, who was elected in 2007, may turn out to be a one-termer. The next [...]
Bill Maher Strikes Back at George Will Armed With Falsehoods and Bill Clinton
Bill Maher Strikes Back at George Will Armed With Falsehoods and Bill Clinton
After making a fool out of himself going up against George Will on last Sunday’s "This Week," Bill Maher dug an even deeper hole five days later trying to strike back at the well-known columnist with a peculiar blend of falsehoods [...]
Video: Dem Congressman: ‘Climate Change Is a National Security Issue’
Video: Dem Congressman: ‘Climate Change Is a National Security Issue’
"Our intelligence analysts and our military folks tell us that environment factors, exactly — environmental factors determine who we’re going to be fighting, where we’re going to fighting them, whether we’re going to be fighting them," said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). [...]
USA Today Defends Michael Mann on Front Page, Misrepresents ClimateGate
USA Today Defends Michael Mann on Front Page, Misrepresents ClimateGate
USA Today on Thursday devoted a front page story to defending one of the key scientists involved in November’s ClimateGate scandal.
In a piece entitled "Questions about research slow climate change efforts," author Brian Winter — oh the irony! — omitted important information about [...]
NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow ‘Worldview’
NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow ‘Worldview’
Wow!
It’s like Christoper Joyce of National Public Radio is completely unaware of ClimateGate. Phil Jones? Never heard of him. Oh, he is the former head of Britain’s Climatic Research Unit who now admits manipulating data? No matter. You see, we have our minds made up and [...]
Accuweather’s Bastardi Takes on Bill Nye & Global Warming on FNC
Accuweather’s Bastardi Takes on Bill Nye & Global Warming on FNC
On Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor, FNC’s Bill O’Reilly hosted a debate between global warming skeptic Joe Bastardi of Accuweather, and Bill Nye of PBS’s Bill Nye the Science Guy, known for recently declaring that it was "unpatriotic" to dispute global warming. Bastardi argued that recent winter weather patterns are [...]
Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM’s Rosett Applies Reality Check
Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM’s Rosett Applies Reality Check
Yvo de Boer resigned yesterday as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Here are three key passages from the official announcement at the UN’s web site:
The top United Nations climate change official said today that [...]
Hardball Spins: Bayh Quitting Because There’s No Room for ‘Centrists’
Hardball Spins: Bayh Quitting Because There’s No Room for ‘Centrists’
Since the announcement of his resignation from the Senate the common label (from CNN to MSNBC) of Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh seems to be that of a "centrist." On Monday’s Hardball both Chris Matthews and his guest panelist NBC News’ Chuck Todd called [...]