gristmill.grist.org - 2/10/2009
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I'm seeing a lot of people passing around a link to this story on TPM , which mocks Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes for saying that the case for man-made warming is "falling apart" but refusing to divulge any of his sources for that seemingly significant piece of info. At first I just laughed ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/16/2009
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George Will is supposedly one of the reality-based
conservatives, who eschews the willful know-nothingism of some of...
his ideological co-travelers. Yet today, as he has many times before, he uses his perch on the Washington Post editorial page to lie ...
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George Will is an idiot | Gristmill: The environmental ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/13/2009
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The $789 billion economic-recovery bill looks good in
terms of green spending, according to preliminary analysis from...
the Center for American Progress. The House and Senate reached agreement on the bill on Wednesday and are expected to approve it by ...
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A green-tinged stimulus bill | Gristmill: The ...
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Barnes' Source For Global Warming Denialism?
TPMMuckraker —
Yesterday, we told you about how Fred Barnes has learned that global warming isn't man made -- but won't tell us where he got this startling information.
But luckily, it looks like Dave Roberts of the environmental news site Grist knows the answer. Roberts writes:
Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.).
Apparently, Morano is the point man for the fringe movement of ...
REVEALED: Marc Morano’s Pack Of Climate Denial Jokers
Wonk Room —
... who’s informed him “the case for global warming” is falling apart, but all signs point to Marc Morano. Morano’s “entire job is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and ...
Think Progress Names NewsBusters Editors 'Climate Denial Jokers'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... who’s informed him “the case for global warming” is falling apart, but all signs point to Marc Morano. Morano’s “entire job,” Gristmill’s David Roberts explains, “is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and ...
'Green News Report' - February 19, 2009
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More info/links on stuff we talked about on today's episode follow below...
Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming: scientists
Grim year for Sacramento River chinook
Delta Pumping Behind Salmon and Killer Whale Declines
REVEALED: Marc Morano's Pack of Climate Denial Jokers
Fred Barnes' source for climate science
Where There's a (George) Will There's A Way ...
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