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September 8th, 2011 - 10:32 pm § in Environment, Hypocrisy, Science

How A Rational Man Can Offend the Irrational Repricans

Right Site says Howard Fineman Smears Climate Skeptics By: Scott Whitlock| September 08, 2011 | 18:02 Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to attack Rick Perry’s climate change skepticism as a “war of the worlds between science and faith.” Dismissin[...]

August 27th, 2011 - 9:26 am § in Environment, Hypocrisy

Climate Change, As the World Churns

Climate Change: It’s bad and getting worse Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come. Dahr Jamail al Jazeera Flooding in China is currently affecting approximately five million people [GALLO/GETTY] The rate of ice loss in two of Greenl[...]

June 8th, 2011 - 11:08 am § in Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics

As the world burns …..

Glued to The Weather Channel While the World Burns By Paul Rogat Loeb Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Tornadoes rip through Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma—even Massachusetts. A million acres burn in Texas wildfires. The Army Corps of Engin[...]

May 30th, 2011 - 10:36 am § in Hypocrisy, Science

Blasphemy: The War on Science

Right and left are equal opportunity abusers of science .. whenever science is in the way, bith sides discard it.  A good example is this post from Lee Rosenberg, the marijuana fanatic at Horses Ass.: Drug War Roundup by Lee, 05/29/2011, 9:28 PM – This Thursday, June 2, multiple former world [...]

May 16th, 2011 - 12:04 am § in America

Faux Fox Phacts About Climate Change

from Media Matters 1. Global warming “doesn’t exist” 2. 2009 was “the coldest year on record” 3. “Nearly all of the [Arctic] ice has returned” 4. “How can there be global warming if it’s snowing and it’s bitterly cold?” 5. “The [...]

May 12th, 2011 - 7:54 am § in Environment

Climate shifts ‘hit global wheat yields’

By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News Shifts in the climate over the past three decades have been linked to a 5.5% decline in global wheat production, a study has suggested. A team of US scientists assessed the impact of changes to rainfall and temperature on four major food crop[...]

May 9th, 2011 - 6:05 am § in America, Environment, Science

Climate Gate: A physicist tries to disprove global warming.

Sad to say, the worst fear of the science crowd, has come true.  A real scientist, has gotten funding to prove his point.  Richard Muller, a physicist from UC Berkeley and critic of climate science, has been funded by Bill Gates and David Koch! Watch the video to see how this research turned out.[...]

March 30th, 2011 - 11:17 am § in America, Environment, Hypocrisy, Religion

“The US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness.”

“Misinformation was presented as fact, truth was twisted and nobody showed any inclination to listen to scientists, let alone learn from them. It has been an embarrassing display, not just for the Republican Party but also for Congress and the US citizens it represents. One lawmaker last week [...]

March 28th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in Misc., Science

Radical Right Truths: Climategate

Many have asked what I fear is the worst issue confronting these United States; after reflection and tought, I have concluded a rather unique, but I believe ultimately correct, answer:  The politicization of science.  Yes, science has become a political minefield, and the results are the catastrop[...]

February 3rd, 2011 - 10:51 am § in America, Hypocrisy

Climate Denial

Thanks to Jefferson and the enlightenment, the American Revolution gave us a society that bans blasphemy laws. Is this is a good thing? Scientific truth .. whether that truth is based in particle physics or historical research, is different from the religious truths of the past or the doctrinaire tr[...]