DeSmogBlog: Are Conservatives Inherently More Biased than Liberals? The...
Republican Brain.jpg In the first round of critical reactions to my book The Republican Brain, there wasn’t much to impress. As I related at AlterNet, the general conservative response to the book was...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: What To Expect When You’re Electing: Mitt Romney’s Energy Advisors
Romney and Bush.jpg In the last few months, the press has been drawing a lot of parallels between presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and former Republican President George W....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Delaware Tax Haven: The Other Shale Gas Industry Loophole
shutterstock_30322192.jpg Most people think of downtown Houston, Texas as ground zero for the oil and gas industry. Houston, after all, serves as home base for corporate headquarters of oil and gas...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: House Republicans Sacrifice Human Health For Alleged Job Creation
redtape.jpg With July 2012 officially behind us, the U.S. jobs report for the month has economists and politicians concerned about the employment situation in America. And even though the economy...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Arctic Ice Decline Much Worse Than Expected
August 2012, Arctic ice extent models.png As the extent of Arctic sea ice declines to levels unrecorded since satellite monitoring began, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Andrew Bolt Cuts Ties With Climate Science Denying Galileo...
galileo.jpg ANDREW Bolt is Australia's loudest and most popular climate science doubt-spreader who just loves to stoke the fires of environmental conspiracy theorists with his daily splurge of blog...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Science Denial and Andrea Saul – Romney 2012 Campaign Spokesperson
andrea saul wide shot.JPG This is a guest post from Connor Gibson, originally published at PolluterWatch. A fully-footnoted version of this briefing is available for download from DocumentCloud....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Was Scott Walker Chosen to Headline Heartland Institute Gala Due...
800px-ScottWalker.jpeg Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker will keynote the Heartland Institute's 28th Anniversary Benefit Dinner this evening at Navy Pier in Chicago, IL. Walker recently won...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Republican Ohio Governor Kasich’s Trillion Dollar Shale Gas Lie
kasichshrug2.jpg About the only positive thing you can say about industry-funded astroturf groups is that they at least base their misinformation campaigns on phony “studies” and “reports.” Their lies...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Romney’s New Campaign Strategy: Attack Green Jobs During Massive...
Green Jobs US.jpg Since President Obama took office, industry-funded think tanks and faux grassroots organizations, along with oil-friendly politicians have been collectively demanding to know “where...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: What To Expect When You’re Electing: Representative Paul Ryan
Ryan Romney.jpg With the selection of Wisconsin Republican Representative Paul Ryan has his running mate, Mitt Romney has effectively pushed his campaign into the climate change denying fringe. While...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Media Fails Again On Climate Change Coverage During Massive Heat...
corporate media ball chain.jpg North America just witnessed the hottest month in the history of record keeping (about 117 years). The month of July shattered every previous record, but was certainly...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: "Goliath" Melting Year Shatters Records in Greenland
greenland_moulin-NASA.jpg It’s been a “Goliath,” record-setting melting year in Greenland, home of the world’s second largest ice shelf. On August 8th, a full four weeks before the end of “melting...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Enbridge Video Stunningly Misleading
Enbridge vid.jpg For compulsive watchers of, Enbridge Inc., the spill-crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tarsands crude to the Canadian West Coast – or just for students of the barefaced lie –...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Fracking Industry Paying Off Scientists For "Unbiased" Safety...
science-and-money.jpg As a whole, Americans have an unfortunate tendency to distrust scientists. The number of those who distrust science and scientists is skewed heavily by ideology, with...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Just 2% of Canadians Deny Climate Change Occurring, Poll Finds
canada-climate-change_0.jpeg Originally published on EnergyBoom.com A recent survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. has found that only 2% of Canadians believe climate change is not taking...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: See No Evil, Speak Little Truth, Break Rules, Blame Others
pinoccio.shutterstock_77732134.jpg The "Wegman Report", led by Edward Wegman of George Mason University (GMU) got criticized in 2010's Experts claim 2006 climate report plagiarized. Experts called it...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Anti-turbine Activist Given Role as Observer on Australian Wind...
waubra_grab.jpg THERE are very few health symptoms these days which anti-wind power activists and suggestible and anxious residents have not at some point blamed on those spinning steel turbine...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Hundreds of Concerned Citizens Protest Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...
Cuomo-Fracking-Credo.jpg Over 350 concerned citizens turned up at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s policy summit today to protest his risky plan to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Daily Kos Climate Change SOS Blogathon Features Wide Range of...
Daily Kos.png Our friends over at Daily Kos are running an amazing Climate Change SOS Blogathon this week, featuring dozens of voices from the climate hawk community. Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, John...
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