Revisionist History and the CRU East Anglia stolen emails - the Baliunas example
One of the more egregious examples of the public relations spin on the East Anglia hacked email story involves a six-year-old research paper authored by Sallie Baliunas, an American astrophysicist...
View ArticleStolen email shows scientist happily sharing climate research data
At least one of the scientists being accused by industry groups and right-wing think tanks of hiding their climate research data, appears in an email we found in the stolen files to be more than happy...
View ArticleClimate contrarian calls US climate activists "Hitler Youth"
Fifty young U.S. clean energy activists stormed the stage today in Copenhagen during a live webcast organized by Americans for Prosperity and featuring climate denier Lord Christopher Monckton. When...
View ArticleCopendenier Fred Singer on holes in the ozone, toxins in our food and the...
Last week at the Copenhagen climate summit, we saw Christopher Monckton, the head of the delegation for the oil industry-friendly Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), accuse young climate...
View ArticleBreaking: leaked climate talks text makes disturbing conclusions
Cross your fingers that this latest revelation is another Yes Men hoax. [update: I've confirmed that this was NOT a Yes Men hoax]A draft copy of a confidential memo to the UNFCCC Secretariat has...
View ArticleMassey Energy running attack ads against "tree hugging extremists"
Massey Energy(NYSE: MEE), the 4th largest coal producer in the country is running political-style attacks in West Virginia claiming that "tree hugging extremists and self-serving politicians" are...
View ArticleBiting back at the Denier-sphere's stimulus spending spin
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 indirect...
View ArticleAmy Ridenour forgets Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies
From time to time I hear from a small DC group with the impressive sounding name: the"National Centre for Public Policy Research" (NCPPR).Their president Amy Ridenour took a jab at me the other day...
View ArticleRepublican Candidate Scott Brown's Flip Flopping on Climate a Loser for Clean...
What a difference a year makes for Republican candidate Scott Brown. Just last year Brown voted to support a regional greenhouse gas emissions trading plan and now he saying he's not even sure climate...
View ArticleClimate Denial Industry Blowing Hot Air On Himalayan Glaciers
The climate denial industry is once again trying to make a huge to-do about a tiny error by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.With the Climategate Swifthack episode fading from the...
View ArticleAnother climate denier myth busted: urban heat islands
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...
View ArticleThe NY Time's Case for a Climate Bill - will it help or hurt?
The New York Time's lead editorial today is The Case for a Climate Bill and its well worth the read.While chances of a clean energy bill in 2010 were damaged by the major upset last week in the...
View ArticleDeSmog Weekly TV - Live tomorrow at 7pm eastern (4pm pacific)
Hey Kossacks, tune in tomorrow as we host our second of hopefully many weekly live and interactive shows on Climate TV.Tomorrow I want to cover off some of latest news and analysis happening around the...
View ArticleKoch Industries is NOT funding the Tea Party Tax Day
Why am I so sure that Koch Industries, the 2nd largest private corporation and major donor to the right-wing libertarian movement, has absolutely nothing to do with Tea Party Tax Day?Because they told...
View ArticleOil Sands Newest PR Push Doomed to Fail - Again
The recently launched Astroturf platform AlbertaIsEnergy.ca is yet another faulty step by the captains of the Alberta oil and gas industry – people more interested in ill-advised public relations...
View ArticleWebby Votes for Climate Change
Three top climate change campaigns of last year are up for prestigious Webby Awards in 2010.The TckTckTck campaign is nominated for Best Activism website.Greenpeace International is nominated for Best...
View ArticleFiddling in Bonn while the Gulf oil spills
It almost seems like there is a firewall between the urgency of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the pace of the climate treaty negotiations underway in Bonn, Germany this week.The two are very...
View ArticleGetting astroturfed: what do Sandra Bullock, Lenny Kravitz and Blake Lively...
Other than all being heavyweight celebrities, Sandra Bullock, Lenny Kravitz and Blake Lively - along with many other celebs - have all starred in a Youtube ad created by an oil company (including BP)...
View ArticleTea Party Favorite in Maine Under Fire Over Tax Issues
Paul LePage, the Tea Party Republican candidate for the Governor of Maine is being asked some tough questions on the campaign trail about his wife's tax troubles in Florida, as well as potential...
View ArticleVideo Footage Shows Billionaire Koch's Involvement in Tea Party
A video clip has been released today showing billionaire industrialist David Koch on stage getting reports from regional organizers on their efforts to rally the Tea Party movement.
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