Global Warming

Faulty Accounting

by Bob Burton — October 13, 2006 - 4:56am

The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against a Scottish energy utility that claimed that a tree planting scheme funded by consumers volunteering to pay a higher tariff would offset their carbon emissions. The ASA told Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) to withdraw a brochure promoting the scheme. SSE had argued that the average household produced 4.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from gas usage and household waste.

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Guardian (UK), October 12, 2006

Unmasking Fossil Fuel Lobby Groups

by Bob Burton — September 27, 2006 - 9:26am

George Monbiot argues that journalists and media outlets routinely fail to ensure adequate disclosure of the funding sources when including interviewing staff from think tanks on global warming.

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Guardian (UK), September 26, 2006

Will the Tiger Switch Think Tanks?

by Diane Farsetta — September 21, 2006 - 11:53am

Following sharp criticism from Britain's Royal Society, Exxon Mobil says it is reviewing which of the groups "that challenge the scientific validity of concerns about global warming" it will continue to fund.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), September 21, 2006

Some Like It Hot

by Bob Burton — August 15, 2006 - 4:33am

Numerous climate change skeptics have spent most of the two decades denying increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations were anything to worry about. Donald J. Boudreaux, the chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University and an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, takes a different tack.

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Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2006

Ben Santer Speaks (While "Global Climate Coalition" Slinks into History)

by Jonathan Rosenblum — August 14, 2006 - 1:46pm

It "was one of the most vicious attacks I have ever seen on the integrity of a scientist," says one scientist on how the energy industry used to treat federal global climate expert Ben Santer.

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Environmental Science & Technology Online News, August 9, 2006

BP's Adman Got Suckered by His Own Scripts

by John Stauber — August 14, 2006 - 10:09am

BP is the most successful oil company at greenwashing its own image. Unfortunately for BP, the recent news about its massive oil leak in Alaska and the shutting down of its corrosive pipelines have revealed the truth -- it really is all about oil profits. In the New York Times , a BP adman admits that even he was suckered.

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New York Times, August 14, 2006

Making Radioactive Weather

by Bob Burton — August 8, 2006 - 6:01am

Source: Australian Conservation Foundation

In a feature in the weekend magazine accompanying the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, scientist Tim Flannery extolled nuclear power as the solution to

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Sydney Morning Herald, August 8, 2006

Climate Change Website Taken Off, Eh?

by Diane Farsetta — August 7, 2006 - 11:38am

The conservative administration "is trying to push global climate change off the federal map, shutting down the main federal website on the topic and removing mention of it from speeches and postings" -- in Canada.

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Toronto Star, August 5, 2006

Viral Video Questioning Global Warming Linked to DCI

by Diane Farsetta — August 3, 2006 - 10:58am

The video "Al Gore's Penguin Army," which belittles the threat of global warming (suggesting viewers "stop exhaling") and makes fun of the former vice-president, has a

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), August 3, 2006
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