Global Warming

Hot and Bored

by Sheldon Rampton — July 15, 2006 - 1:37pm

For the past couple of years, global warming skeptics have been bashing climate researcher Michael Mann, claiming that fraud or errors created his so-called "hockey stick" graph showing dramatic increases in the temperature of the earth in the last decade.

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National Academies of Sciences, June 22, 2006

Achenbach's Back

by Sheldon Rampton — June 1, 2006 - 9:08pm
  • Topics: Global Warming

    • Every once in awhile Joel Achenbach's name crosses my viewfinder. We were both undergraduates at the same time at Princeton, although our paths never really crossed socially. The first time he really caught my attention, actually, was a few years after we graduated, when the Princeton Alumni Weekly reprinted a hilarious column he wrote for the Miami Herald, satirizing the way television dumbs people down.

    Hey, FOX - Google Much?

    by John Stauber — May 19, 2006 - 2:37am

    We appreciate News Hounds, the folks who "watch Fox so you don't have to." The website noted that "Fox News left out some crucial information in a report about the Washington premiere of Al Gore's film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth -- like the fact that think tanks c

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    News Hounds, May 18, 2006

    Spinning Nukes

    by Bob Burton — January 18, 2006 - 9:38pm

    Hill & Knowlton (H&K) has won a $8 million account with the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) to promote "broad policymaker and decision-maker support for nuclear energy broadly and specifically for the Yucca Mountain project." (Yucca Mountain in Nevada has been designated by the U.S.

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    Holmes Report, January 16, 2006

    Skeptical Journalism?

    by Bob Burton — January 17, 2006 - 3:49am

    "Take a step back and get the science right first, writes a special correspondent," is the teaser for a 920-word feature on climate change in The Australian's Inquirer section.

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    The Australian, January 14-15, 2006

    U.S. Front Groups Take a European Vacation

    by Diane Farsetta — December 8, 2005 - 12:04pm

    Britain's Independent reports on a "detailed and disturbing strategy document" authored by a U.S.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) official that seeks "to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change." CEI's Chris Horner, also a senior figure in the "

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    The Independent (UK), December 8, 2005

    Like-Minded Groups Across a Rising Pond

    by Diane Farsetta — September 20, 2005 - 11:04am

    "For decades, corporations have known that, if they lobby for their own interests, public opinion won't take them seriously," begins the Independent's article on the "most influential" third party groups that have aligned with businesses to oppose action on climate change.

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    The Independent (UK), September 20, 2005

    Fishing for Global Warming Benefits

    by Diane Farsetta — November 27, 2004 - 11:00pm

    "Climate change is 'a myth,' sea levels are not rising and Britain's chief scientist is 'an embarrassment' for believing catastrophe is inevitable. These are the controversial views of a new London-based think-tank," the International Policy Network.

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    Guardian, November 28, 2004
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