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Koch brothers place fourth in Pacific Institute’s Climate B.S. of the Year Awards

Al Gore made headlines when he called B.S. on climate change deniers in Aspen over the summer, and now the Pacific Institute is doing the same. But this time B.S. stands for “bad science.”

Al Gore presses harder in the face of further global warming denial

By | 09.16.11 | 8:54 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received after he blasted climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Aspen.

AUDIO: Al Gore calls climate change denial B.S.

By | 08.09.11 | 4:04 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Friday, The Colorado Independent wrote about Al Gore’s Aspen speech, but we had technical difficulties in posting the audio. Those difficulties have been overcome, and you can listen here.

Climate Activists Get Sneaky in Prop 23 Opposition

By | 10.25.10 | 3:40 pm

In the latest effort to ensure that California’s Proposition 23 is defeated, activists have purchased a number of domain names that appear to be affiliated with the “Yes on Prop 23″ campaign, but actual redirect users to a page that says the ballot initiative is a “bad idea.”

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Detailing the Koch Brothers’ Climate/Energy Spending

By | 09.20.10 | 1:11 pm

A new Greenpeace report finds that the Koch Brothers, via their PAC, contributed $2.51 million since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle to lawmakers’ campaigns, more than any other oil and gas industry PAC. At the same time, the report says that “Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch More…

What’s in New Offshore Drilling? About 1 Percent of Demand

By | 05.12.10 | 2:51 pm

As the scramble continues to plug the oil gusher a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico — and as Senate Democrats promote their long-awaited proposal designed to tackle climate change — Al Gore offers a cogent reminder that the oil derived by expanding offshore drilling More…

So Much for Global Cooling: 2010 Temperatures Flirt With Records

By | 03.18.10 | 1:02 pm

This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of global warming, or even evidence of “global cooling.” (Donald Trump went so far as to call for the Nobel Committee to rescind Al Gore’s Peace More…

‘How the Left Swiftboated America’

By | 12.11.09 | 12:47 pm

Before there was Glenn Beck, there was John Gibson, a dyspeptic Fox News host who anchored the network’s 5 p.m. block and steadily upped his outrage against liberals and Democrats. His shining moment at the network was probably the “war on Christmas” coverage of the late Bush era, culminating in More…

Leaders Give Thanks for Obama’s Copenhagen Decision

By | 11.26.09 | 12:36 pm

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced yesterday, to go to Copenhagen for the international climate talks next month. These leaders include politicians — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) calls the move “one More…

‘The Approval Gap’

By | 11.24.09 | 9:44 am

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that “the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking” is well done, although Malcolm’s much-linked argument has probably gotten too far around the Web to be really demolished. Frederick’s main point, however, is solid. Public figures More…