The British newspaper the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the BBC has adopted new editorial guidelines that expressly call for its reporters to be impartial on science issues, suggesting that the new rules are a response to criticism that the storied news agency was not giving adequate coverage to More…
Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, Brian Sussman, author of the new book “Climategate,” laid out the reasons Americans shouldn’t believe the hype on global warming and should fear the consequences of climate legislation.
Some of his arguments sounded familiar. Take, for instance, his point that dinosaurs got by just fine More…
The year 2009 has been monumental for climate news. Featuring breakthroughs and setbacks, scandals and spin, 2009 saw the first-ever passage of a comprehensive climate bill by a house of Congress. But the country ultimately ended the year the same way it began on climate change: mired in uncertainty. More…
One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers will publish it. Take Sarah Palin: Judging from The Washington Post’s op-ed page, she’s now one of the country’s top experts on climate change. In July, More…
Yesterday, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) citing “Climategate” as reason to doubt the legitimacy of the EPA’s recent finding that greenhouse emissions threaten public health. Today it’s Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) offering the same critique. In a call with reporters, Grassley said Congress never More…
Ben Geman, talking to the senators who’ll decide whether or not to bring cap-and-trade to the floor, reports that it isn’t. And in another report, he finds the EPA blowing off the scandal.
The stolen e-mails CRU scandal came amid a decrease in public concern about — More…
Republican lawmakers aren’t about to let this one slide.
Following the “Climategate” scandal, which global warming skeptics say casts doubt on the science behind climate change, four GOP leaders today sent a letter (PDF) to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson calling on the EPA to withdraw its More…
Under pressure from global warming skeptics after some of his hacked and leaked emails revealed potentially compromising exchanges with other scientists, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at England’s University of East Anglia is stepping down pending an investigation, The Associated Press reports.
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Here’s one of the cheerier conservative videos of the day: Myron Ebell and Lee Doren of the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute hound the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the Center for American Progress for interviews on the so-called “climategate” scandal. (Some quick background: More than 1,000 emails were More…
The office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, just issued a press release announcing the launch of an investigation into “Climategate,” the quasi-scandal involving the release of more than a thousand hacked emails that reveal agenda-driven behavior on the More…
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