Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room reports that about half of the Republican caucus in Congress, taking into account the results of the midterm elections, “now questions the scientific consensus that greenhouse pollution is a civilizational threat.”
According to Johnson, “45 of 97 Republican freshmen and 85 of 166 More…
Imagine this: A farmer spends months tending to his wheat field only to wake up one morning to find, in peak harvesting season, all of his precious wheat has burned to the ground. The culprit, as it turns out, is a stream of sparks from nearby train tracks.
The farmer More…
A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on global warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on global warming has pretty much stayed the same during the last year. About 59 percent of Americans say there is “solid evidence” More…
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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Environmentalists slammed Ken Buck, the Republican running for Senate in Colorado, today for “Buck-pedaling” on his stance on climate change, painting the candidate as inconsistent on the issue.
Buck suggested earlier this week that he agrees with Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) view that global warming is a hoax, telling a More…
In keeping with my pledge to write about climate science more often, I thought I’d share the latest climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
According to NOAA, the arm of the federal government that monitors climate:
The first nine months of 2010 tied with the same
The New York Times editorial board came out swinging in a Sunday editorial on climate change, slamming Republican Senate candidates for questioning whether climate change is largely a result of human activity.
To illustrate its point, the board compared the candidates to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who led More…
Because everybody loves to read about climate policy on their days off, here’s a Politico discussion with key energy and climate wonks on whether Congress and the Obama administration should give up on pushing for a cap-and-trade bill. Enjoy!
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…
“Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact. All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”
Guess who said this. Nope, it’s not James Hansen or Rajandra Pachauri. It’s none More…
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