PolluterWatch Memo to Koch PR Team: Ever Consider Making Your Astroturf A...
PolluterWatch is serving up a great tongue-in-cheek “memo to the Koch PR team” tonight, noting the obvious blunders from Koch Industries’ astroturfing and attack squad lately. The Kochtopus keeps...
View ArticleUnequivocal: Today’s Right is Overwhelmingly More Anti-Science Than Today's Left
Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim:“In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-science Democrat. Neither party...
View ArticleAmerican Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)BackgroundThe American Enterprise Institute (AEI), or American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, is one of the richest and most influential think tanks...
View ArticleSteven F. Hayward
Steven F. Hayward Credentials Ph.D., American studies; M.A., government, Claremont Graduate School B.S., Business and Administrative Studies, Lewis and Clark CollegeSource:[1] BackgroundSteven F....
View ArticleNew Shill Gas Study Published by SUNY Buffalo Institute With Heavy Industry Ties
When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a “shill gas study”? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're...
View ArticleFakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax
Follow the money. October 23, PBS Frontline's Climate of Doubt gave viewers an hour's coverage of the tactics of climate anti-science, its advocates and a quick look into the funding behind it. Read...
View ArticleMont Pelerin Society A Window Into Ideological Heart Of Kochtopus Climate Denial
It’s known as the Kochtopus– the extensive network of think tanks, institutes, university departments, political funding arms and “grassroots” activist groups funded by oil billionaires Charles and...
View ArticleIn Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change...
Caught in the crosshairs of an ongoing New York Attorney General investigation exploring its role in studying the damage climate change could cause since the 1970's and then proceeding to fund climate...
View ArticleStudy Finds The 'Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over'
Conservative think tanks in the United States are a sort of “ground zero” for the production of doubt about the links between fossil fuel burning and dangerous climate change.These think tanks produce...
View ArticlePacific Research Institute
Pacific Research Institute (PRI)BackgroundThe Pacific Research Institute (PRI), known as the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) until 1984, is a conservative think tank founded in...
View ArticleBig Government: Darn Handy in a Crisis
Slavish devotees to the free market must be mourning the news today as the U.S. government steps in to rescue the insurance giant AIG and (we're still hoping) to forestall a worldwide financial...
View ArticleThe American Enterprise Institute: Still Peddling Lies, Lies and More Lies...
At some level, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for global warming skeptics. It must take a lot of resolve and perseverance to keep pushing an idea that everyone knows is blatantly false(presumably,...
View ArticleGOP to host “Mock Climate Hearing” (a.k.a. Coal/Oil-apalooza 2009)
House GOP leaders intend to stage a “mock climate hearing” to attack the Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” currently being debated by Congress. Led by Republican...
View ArticleThe oily echo machine behind "climategate"
The most vocal organizations around the University of East Anglia hacked email story (aka. “climategate”) have been involved in a decade-plus campaign to delay action on climate change.The goal of this...
View ArticlePolluterWatch Memo to Koch PR Team: Ever Consider Making Your Astroturf A...
PolluterWatch is serving up a great tongue-in-cheek “memo to the Koch PR team” tonight, noting the obvious blunders from Koch Industries’ astroturfing and attack squad lately. The Kochtopus keeps...
View ArticleUnequivocal: Today’s Right is Overwhelmingly More Anti-Science Than Today's Left
Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim:“In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-science Democrat. Neither party...
View ArticleAmerican Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)BackgroundThe American Enterprise Institute (AEI), or American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, is one of the richest and most influential think tanks...
View ArticleSteven F. Hayward
Steven F. Hayward Credentials Ph.D., American studies; M.A., government, Claremont Graduate School B.S., Business and Administrative Studies, Lewis and Clark CollegeSource:[1] BackgroundSteven F....
View ArticleNew Shill Gas Study Published by SUNY Buffalo Institute With Heavy Industry Ties
When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a “shill gas study”? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're...
View ArticleFakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax
Follow the money. October 23, PBS Frontline's Climate of Doubt gave viewers an hour's coverage of the tactics of climate anti-science, its advocates and a quick look into the funding behind it. Read...
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