A Scientist takes down Lord Monckton - Updated
John Abraham, a professor of thermal sciences at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, took eight months to research and produce a thorough debunking of a talk given by notorious climate-change...
View ArticleEPA to the rescue!
EPA has issued a strongly worded rebuttal of climate change deniers' desperate attacks on science. In the "Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings...
View ArticleBush Made Tonight Possible, says McConnell
http://www.politico.com/...It's an irrefutable point, truly. If Bush hadn't gotten us into the most ill-conceived, unjustified, deficit-ballooning disaster of a war in America's history, we wouldn't be...
View ArticleClimate Scientists fight back!
Climate scientists prepare to fight back against deniers!This is very heartening news to read as we watch the anti-science, global warming- denying Republicans vie to be the next chair of the House...
View ArticleGOP's climate denial farce begins to unravel
Dan Vergano of USAToday reports that the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis has retracted a study authored by Edward Wegman, professor of statistics at George Mason University and...
View ArticleClimate of Harassment
Climate change deniers have used many tactics in their fight to prevent action on greenhouse gas emissions. From manufacturing doubt (a tactic borrowed from the tobacco wars) to buying scientists to...
View ArticleThe real issue: why is everyone piling on Murdoch?
Fox and Friends have a deliciously desperate take on the tsunami of scandalous revelations currently swamping their parent company. Fox has largely declined to cover the scandal except as a minor...
View ArticleWhat does Occupy want? Maybe, what Americans keep asking for.
You know, it just doesn't seem like a hard question to me. There are a few things Americans keep asking for, over and over again. It's just that our 'representatives' don't seem to hear us. What to do?...
View ArticleTruly Stunning: More Americans Killed by Guns Since '68 Than In All Wars Put...
I'm motivated to write this diary by a diary that appears on the rec list calling my ignorance of gun nut culture "stunning". You want stunning? Try this on for size:More than a million Americans have...
View ArticlePolice Lives Matter - no kidding
Police Lives Matter - no kidding. Has anyone ever doubted this? Has there ever been a murder of a cop that went unprosecuted? Has there ever been a cop who didn't receive the benefit of the doubt in...
View ArticleNetanyahu: America is easily moved
So said Netanyahu in a 2001 speech to terror victims. In a video reported on by the Washington Post in 2010, he brags,"I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in...
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