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'The Gore Effect'
Political Animal — ... ." Lovely's article reports, "Climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill are quietly watching a growing accumulation of global cooling science and other findings that could signal that the science behind global warming may still be too shaky to warrant cap-and-trade legislation." David Roberts explained , "The most notable feature of this 'growing accumulation of global cooling science' is that Lovely doesn't cite a single piece of it . Seriously. Not one." Indeed, the piece focused heavily on the work of Weather Channel founder Joseph D'Aleo, a conservative meteorologist (not a ...

Bad Writing
Matthew Yglesias — Read Dave Roberts and Ezra Klein and Brad Johnson on the latest “journalistic” atrocities being perpetrated by Politico’s Erika Lovely, who seems to have decided to cover the climate/energy beat with no intelligence and no integrity. But, of course, Politico is run by glib, greedy, sociopaths who are very good at attracting buzz and eyeballs and such and operate without a conscience about the impact of their work. If revenues increase by $1.02, readers are mislead, and thousands die as a result of Politico’s ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — Our Future: For a lot of progressives, the Holidays mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives and hear some of their deeply-held — and deeply wrong — assumptions about who liberals are, and what we believe. Gristmil: Politico 'reporter' pens two of the dumbest stories of the decade on climate science Open Left: The tax history conservatives want us to forget PERRspectives: GOP preparing to block health care reform...again The most sensible discussion I've seen on the ...