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Washington Post Embraces False Balance in Flawed Piece on Heartland Affair
NY Times Andrew Revkin Walks Back Some of His “Overstated” Phrases About Peter Gleick — Or Does He? The media loves he-said, she-said stories. Those have the most narrative drama and require the least amount of actual judgment on the part of reporters or editors. Just relate the core facts and then slap some opposing [...] |
Chart-Challenged Fox News Spins Gasoline Prices
Fox shows yet again it has a hard time with hard data by Shauna Theel, cross-posted from Media Matters In a segment falsely blaming Obama for rising gasoline prices, Fox News’ America’s Newsroom aired the following chart yesterday. It shows three data points ? including the vague “last year” ? plotted nonsensically on the x-axis: “Last year” [...] |
Coal Consumption in China Rises at Fastest Rate Since 2005
Energy consumption figures just released by the Chinese government underscore how quickly coal use is booming in China, a country that is already the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. In 2011, China’s coal consumption increased by 9.7%, the most year-over-year growth seen since 2005. The country also saw a substantial increase in natural gas [...] |
NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year
Global Ice Loss from 2003-2010 Could ?Cover the Entire United States in One and Half Feet of Water? Changes in ice thickness (in centimeters per year) during 2003-2010 as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, averaged over each of the world’s ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and Antarctica. [...] |
CAPAF General Counsel Responds To Heartland Institute
On February 19, the Heartland Institute?s General Counsel, Maureen Martin, sent a letter by e-mail and post addressed to Think Progress in response to revelations about the Institute. Yesterday, Debbie Fine, General Counsel for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, replied to Martin. The letter sent to the Heartland Institute is well worth reading and reprinted in [...] |
Koch Brother Who Called Cape Wind a ?Sweetheart Deal? Slapped With $550,000 Fine For No-Compete Contracts
by Michael Conathan This doesn?t qualify as much of a news flash, but just in case you were curious, hypocrisy is alive and well in the Koch family. And this time it?s going to cost one of them half a million dollars. After a lengthy series of lawsuits he filed against his better known brothers, [...] |
Why the ?Keystone Vision? is an Economic Mirage
Politicians say they want to support the “Keystone Economy.” Here’s why that vision means fewer jobs, no impact on gas prices, and more pollution by Daniel J. Weiss Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) told reporters during a recent press conference on the economy on that ?Solyndra and Keystone represent what?s at stake this November. Two [...] |
February 22 News: GOP Politicians Not Listening To Even Conservative Scientists On Climate Change
Other stories below: Judge rules town can ban hydrofracking; GM to Gingrich: You can put a gun rack in a Volt GOP Not Listening to Even Conservative Scientists on Climate Change Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News A number of prominent U.S. climate scientists who identify themselves as Republican say their attempts in recent years to educate [...] |
Top Three Reasons Cheap Natural Gas Won?t Kill Renewable Energy
I’ll be the first to admit that cheap natural gas prices are one of the biggest short-term threats to deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. today. With a glut of gas dropping prices to historic lows, the competitiveness of technologies like wind, solar PV, and solar hot water are facing significant challenges. But here’s [...] |
Crossing the Line as Civilization Implodes: Heartland Institute, Peter Gleick and Andrew Revkin
Elizabeth Kolbert: It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. Humanity?s Choice (via M.I.T.): Inaction (?No Policy? — the policy aggressively advanced by most professional disinformers and tacitly accepted by most in the intelligentsia [...] |
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