Joe Biden to climate activists: ‘Keep the faith’ – ‘There is science in the White House’

By ANDREW RESTUCCIA21 January 2013 Vice President Joe Biden reassured environmentalists Sunday night that the Obama administration would not let climate change fall by the wayside in the president’s second term. “I’ll tell you what my green dream is: that we finally face up to climate change,” Biden said during a surprise appearance at the […]

Koch-funded study finds 2.5°F warming of land since 1750 is manmade – ‘Solar forcing does not appear to contribute’

By Joe Romm 20 January 2013 The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST) has finally published its findings on the cause of recent global warming. This Koch-funded reanalysis of millions of temperature observations from around the world, “A New Estimate of the Average Earth Surface Land Temperature Spanning 1753 to 2011,” concludes: … solar forcing […]

Fewer than 10 environment reporters left at top 5 U.S. newspapers

By Katherine Bagley17 January 2013 (InsideClimate News) – The news last week that the New York Times is dismantling its environment desk and reassigning the reporters throughout the newsroom provoked an outpouring of reaction, much of it suggesting that now isn’t the time to take risks that could diminish the coverage of climate change. In […]

Met Office hits back at ‘inaccuracies’ in James Delingpole article on climate science

By David Batty 10 January 2013 (guardian.co.uk) – The Met Office has hit back at claims that it conceded there is no evidence for global warming and that its weather forecasts are inaccurate. The forecaster has published a blog detailing an alleged “series of factual inaccuracies about the Met Office and its science” made in […]

Climate skeptics swayed by consensus, not evidence

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer  7 December 2012 (LiveScience.com) – Conservatives are less likely to accept the reality of human-caused climate science when presented with supporting scientific evidence. But tell them that 99 out of 100 climate scientists agree on the subject, and conservatives will be more likely to accept that humans are altering […]

Video: Exxon hates your children

5 December 2012 (other98) – FINALLY: A TV ad that tells it like it is: EXXON HATES YOUR CHILDREN. Go to http://ExxonHatesYourChildren.com if you want to see it on national television! (And go straight to http://bit.ly/XuuWsK to donate.) What would YOU spend the $10 billion on instead? Exxon Hates Your Children via Tamino Technorati Tags: […]

Video: MIT professor compares climate change to playing Russian roulette with our children’s future

By Ellie Johnston20 November 2012 John Sterman, MIT Professor and fellow collaborator on many Climate Interactive projects, lays out the stark realities we are facing with climate change inaction in his presentation at the MIT Museum last month. He describes the risks we face by not taking immediate measures to address climate change in every […]

88 percent of Americans say the U.S. should try to reduce global warming: Yale survey

By Larry O’Hanlon 15 November 2012 (Discovery News) – A large majority of Americans now say global warming should be a priority for the president and Congress, according to a new report by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. The report is based on a national survey conducted in early September – well before […]

Most U.S. Republicans believe in demonic possession, less than half believe in climate change: report

By Dominique Mosbergen      2 November 2012 A new poll reveals the majority of registered Republican voters believe that demonic possession is a real phenomenon. The “Halloween-centric” poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling showed that 68 percent of Republican voters think it’s possible to be possessed by demons. Meanwhile, as news website AlterNet notes, only 48 […]

Online advertisers know you better than you think

By Sarah Wenger, MBAOnline.com22 October 2012 Online advertisers know you better than you think Technorati Tags: propaganda

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