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That Swindle again

We’ve talked about the big swindle here before, you know the one entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot:
Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications

America is doomed

The things that Bush can say and do while maintaing a straight face are just amazing. His pandering to his oil industry buddies knows no bounds.
He is perfectly OK with authorizing drilling for oil off the pristine coast of Alaska, but he has just put a freeze on solar farms in the desert because he [...]

Scientist warns of ‘last chance’ on warming

Exactly 20 years after he first warned Congress about the dangers of Global Warming, Jim Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Sciences, told Congress on Monday that the world long ago passed the “dangerous level” for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth’s atmosphere [...]

NASA will need to fess-up on DSCOVR

Looks like NASA will have to come clean on their mishandling of the $100M DSCOVR satellite. This amazing satellite would enable us to precisely measure how much energy hits the planet and how much is reflected and re-emitted. This would give us the total energy budget and would give us a very clear understanding of [...]

Political Manipulation of EPA Science

It’s no secret that the Bush Administration and the Harper government both censor scientists on a regular basis, making sure that nothing that could harm their energy industry bodies gets out. Scientists from NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Environment Canada have complained about this fact for several years. The EPA even famously cancelled a report on [...]

Harper government gets panned by prestigious Nature Magazine

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Oil Sand Disaster Denial

I have discussed in these pages the environmental disaster of biblical proportion that is caused by oil sand exploitation in northern Alberta.  Now it looks like Premier Stelmach is in total denial. It’s amazing how low people can sink just for money.
Reposted from DeSmogBlog.
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Washington, DC today hyping his province’s [...]

2007 SmogMaker Awards

DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards
This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming.
Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious [...]

Winning the Oil End Game

Here’s a very interesting talk by Amory B. Lovins on weening ourselves off of oil while saving and creating jobs and fostering economic growth. He lists a bunch of simple ideas and shows their effect on oil consumption. This talk is based on his freely downloadable book which details all of his calculations so you [...]

Harper and Bush’s little plan to ruin the planet.

As a follow-on to my previous post on our little Canadian Dictator and his position on Global Warming, here’s a very nice little explanation of what is really going on, courtesy of DeSmogBlog.
If you owned a distillery, you would probably not be in favour of prohibition.
So it is little wonder why Harper is opposed to [...]