Archive for March, 2007

From DeSmogBlog: Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has acknowledged at a House hearing some of the changes he made were “to align these communications with the administration’s stated policy” on climate change. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said “my...
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Here’s a great article that dissects the “controversy” which the media latched on regarding the amount of snowpack decline in the Cascades. This addresses the issues brought up by one of my readers in this comment where he insinuates that this little media boondoggle casts doubts over the validity of climate change science or the reality of...
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Here’s a thought provoking blog entry by George Musser over at Scientific American: Last year, I started a thread on this blog to discuss doubts about global warming and humanity’s role in it. I tried to catalog the misgivings in as even-handed as way as possible and conducted a simple poll to see which...
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Channel 4 in the UK produced what can only be called a true work of fiction and propaganda and peddling it as a documentary “debunking” climate change science. It’s too bad that we do not have censorship of outright lies and twisting of the truth on TV. Here’s a couple of excellent articles explaining everything...
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Leaders of the Christian Right, in an obvious bow to the political right and their oil buddies, have written a letter that attempts to silence Richard Cizik, the policy director of the National Association of Evangelicals. Cizik has been very vocal in encouraging evangelicals to get more actively involved in the fight against global...
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From U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions. “The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations. The document, the United...
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Thursday March 1, 3:03 AM ET WASHINGTON – As the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world. The Inuits of Northern Canada and beyond are taking their case against the United States on Thursday to an...
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