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Entries by Kevin Grandia from 03/2009

Canada Thinks It Can Sell George W's Climate Plan to President Obama

| Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Obama and his team see right through Canada's weak, ineffectual climate plan. After all it's pretty much the plan set out by former President George W. Bush.

The Heartland Institute and the Academy of Tobacco Studies

| Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Long before the Heartland Institute was in the business of organizing events like the "International Climate Change Conference"being held next week in...

New Report on How to Manufacture Doubt about Global Warming

| Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

"Doubt is our product because its the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public" - 1969, Brown an...

Video: Climate Skeptics Meet the Real World

| Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

In New York this week a group of so-called "experts" on climate change have convened a meeting to discuss their worn out theories on why they think cl...

Rush Limbaugh a Significant Cause of Global Warming

| Posted 03.10.2009 | Green

The mass amounts of hot air spewed forth daily by self righteous right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh are probably a significant contribution to the wa...

Oil and Gas Lobby Spending Up a Whopping 64% on Capitol Hill

| Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics
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Spending by oil and gas companies lobbying politicians on Capitol Hill jumped a whopping 64% between 2007 and 2008. The oil and gas sector paid out a...

New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert Slams US CAP for "Donating to Deniers"

| Posted 03.19.2009 | Green

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the 2006 global warming book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, has a piece in the New Yorker today titled "Donating to the ...

Busting the Clean Coal Bulls**t

| Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

"Clean coal" is not an actual invention, a physical thing - it is an advertising slogan. Like "fat-free donuts" or "interest-free loans."

90% of the World's Coal to be Exhausted in 60 Years

| Posted 03.25.2009 | Green

The coal industry's spin doctors have been droning on about the abudance of coal for the last year, but new research by Dave Rutledge, Chair of Caltec...

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) Officially Registered as a Moron

| Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

My search for a suitable place to recognize the hard work of Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) has finally come to an end. I just found out there's an off...

The Republican's Global Warming Amateur Hour

| Posted 03.30.2009 | Green

Republicans don't want to hear from real scientists like the climatologists at NASA and the National Academy of Sciences.