Politics
- Daily Kos: Carl Lewis on Romney: ‘Seriously, some Americans just shouldn’t leave the country’
- Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Doing Its Best to Distract People from His British Gaffe Jaunt — Daily Intel
- Democurmudgeon: Obamacare Opponents now saying ‘See how bad it is, now that we’ve made it worse.”
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- Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem – Newsweek and The Daily Beast
- Is there a way to impeach Scalia? | Pharyngula
- Romney Breaks With Every GOP President, Pledges To Never Criticize Israel | ThinkProgress
- Daily Kos: Romney in London: The embarrassments are the sideshow, the real story is the economy
- Gibbs: Romney campaigning like ‘prep school bully’ – POLITICO.com
- How Uncle Sam Helped Mitt Romney Build His Fortune | Crooks and Liars
- Bill Keller Wants to Take Away Your Social Security and Is Either Too Ignorant or Dishonest to Acknowledge that He Is Not a Typical Baby Boomer | Beat the Press
Climate & Climate Politics
- Cat’s Out of the Bag. BEST Team (re)Confirms Human Caused Warming. Duh. « Climate Denial Crock of the Week (the emphasis is mine)
…Meanwhile, nothing in there about apologizing to the scientists he slurred and slandered in order to build up the visibility of his project. Thanks Richard. We now know what we knew 25 years ago.UPDATE: From Mike Mann’s Facebook page-
Muller’s announcement last year that the Earth is indeed warming brought him up to date w/ where the scientific community was in the the 1980s. His announcement this week that the warming can only be explained by human influences, brings him up to date with where the science was in the mid 1990s. At this rate, Muller should be caught up to the current state of climate science within a matter of a few years!
- Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’ Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress
- The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic – NYTimes.com
- Koch-funded climate change skeptic reverses course – latimes.com
…On his Facebook page, Mann wrote: “There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers – the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet – demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human-caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. I applaud Muller and his colleagues for acting as any good scientists would, following where their analyses led them, without regard for the possible political repercussions.”
Muller’s conclusions, however, failed to sway the most ardent climate contrarians, like Marc Morano, a former top producer for Rush Limbaugh and communications director for the Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who now runs the website climatedepot.com. “Muller will be remembered as a befuddled professor who has yet to figure out how to separate climate science from his media antics. His latest claims provide no new insight into the climate science debate,” Morano said in an email.
Muller’s New York Times commentary follows research he did last year that confirmed the work of scientists who found the Earth’s temperature was rising. In the past, Muller had criticized which global temperatures were used in such research, contending that some monitoring stations provided inaccurate data. Now, Berkeley’s research has weighed in on the causes of the temperature rise, testing arguments climate contrarians have used…..(read the complete article…)
Why does this article even mention what Marc Morano thinks? Muller at least has scientific credentials whereas Marc Morano is nothing but a right wing political propagandist who has never done a lick of scientific research in his life.
- BEST Results: No News here – It’s All About the Framing « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
- US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Illustrating global warming—What does “a 2°C increase” refer to?
- Skeptic » Doubtful News » A climate change denier studies the data, changes his opinion
….Here’s the question you must ask of the holdouts against AGW at this point: IS there any evidence that WILL make you change your mind? No? Then you are not being rational and your belief is based on your wishes, not the truth.
- McKibben: naming the enemy
“It has become a rogue industry, reckless like no other force on Earth. It is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.” These are the words Bill McKibben uses to describe the fossil-fuel industry in a recent striking article inRolling Stone which has received wide attention. It’s well worth reading, not least for the elegant lucidity of its prose. This post is not intended as some kind of summary, but rather as a reflection on McKibben’s notion that we need to recognise that we are up against a formidable enemy. He moves to this declaration by considering three numbers. (read the complete article…)
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- San Francisco’s New Archbishop Is Committed to Fighting Marriage Equality
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- A New Twist on Scout’s Honor: Standing Up for Gay Affiliates – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic
- Eagle Scouts Return Badges In Protest : NPR
- Kelsey Timmerman: An Eagle Scout No More: Why I’m Sending My Badge Back to Boy Scouts of America
- Why can’t gays be Scouts, too? – New York Daily News
- Boy Scouts of America should learn from its own history – For God’s Sake – The Washington Post
- Eagle Scouts stand up to the Boy Scouts of America: *UPDATED* – Boing Boing
- Eagle Scout returns medal over gay exclusion policy – Local News
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