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Heartland Institute’s BS ad campaign is causing it all kinds of problems
OK, I’m working on a joke, tell me if you think this works: How is the Heartland Institute like a professional burlesque dancer? It just can’t stop showing its ass! Eh? Eh? All right, maybe not, but...
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Grist’s psychotronic climate billboard generator
Tyrants and murderers say the darnedest things. But sometimes they say perfectly natural, truthful things like “I need a sandwich,” or “epaulettes make me look skinny on camera,” or “I believe in...
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Romney choosing climate skeptic as running mate
Mitt is thinking hard about which boring white man to choose as his running mate. (Photo by Gage Skidmore) OK, alright, Romney hasn’t actually picked his VP candidate yet, but we can already say with...
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The Great Billboard War of 2012
Heartland’s crazy billboard featuring crazies was quickly pulled down, but climate groups are fighting fire with fire — or, in this case, billboard with billboard. Forecast the Facts came up with this...
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Heartland Institute going broke due to dickish billboard campaign
After a year fraught with hardship, the climate-denialist Heartland Institute is being rapidly abandoned by its friends and supporters, doomed to wind up friendless and alone, wandering the streets...
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Peter Gleick did not forge Heartland documents
Before the Heartland Institute decided to alienate even right-wing denialists with their OTT billboard campaign, they were already in kind of hot water — some of their internal documents had come to...
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Heartland adviser: Heat waves only kill people who were basically dead already
The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg is actually braving the Heartland Institute conference this week. And it’s totally worth it, because she’s coming out with quotes of horrifying callousness, like this...
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Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics
Lord Christopher Monckton, climate denier extraordinaire. (Photo by Don Irvine Photos.) A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress. With the Heartland Institute suffering from a...
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Attention, renewable energy supporters: You worship Satan
Are you against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, seizing family farms for risky oil pipelines, or opening more offshore real estate to operations like Deepwater Horizon? Do you think...
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Sorry guys, no more Heartland Institute conferences
Denialist think tank the Heartland Institute likes to have all its besties over once a year to watch movies, braid each other’s hair, and talk about how they don’t believe in science or, when it comes...
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The self-inflicted downfall of the Heartland Institute
A version of this post originally appeared on Climate Progress. “I don’t appreciate being called a terrorist,” the woman said firmly. I was standing outside the Hilton Chicago hotel talking to Jim...
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Once again, with feeling: More science will not cure climate skepticism
More science won’t help. Why is skepticism about climate change so persistent? The answer might seem to be obvious: ignorance! People just don’t understand the science. Their education has not...
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North Carolina tries to outlaw sea-level rise
North Carolina is no stranger to the “if you dislike it then you should have made a law against it” model of legislation, but this is extreme: The state General Assembly’s Replacement House Bill 819...
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Report: Corporations are big fat hypocrites about climate change
Corporations are officially people now, and like people, sometimes corporations will loudly say that they believe one thing while their actions reveal another preference entirely. Like a lady who says...
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It wasn’t just the billboards: How activists brought down the Heartland...
Activists protest outside the Heartland climate-denier conference. (Photo by Forecast the Facts.) It’s been a rough few weeks for the Heartland Institute, the “intellectual” nexus of the fossil...
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Winning the climate culture war
Put ’em up. My previous post covered a new study from Yale researcher Dan Kahan and colleagues showing that greater scientific literacy does not correlate with greater acceptance of the risks of...
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Climate-change deniers hitting a wall — but so is the planet
A version of this article originally appeared on TomDispatch. It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial. First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki’s face...
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The top five things voters need to know about conservatives and climate change
I’ve seen a recent surge of stories about conservatives and climate change. None of them, oddly, tell voters what they most need to know on the subject. In fact, one of them does the opposite. (Grrrr...
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BP’s Glenn Beck strategy for maybe saving a few million dollars
Both a representative image and a metaphor. Three years ago, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig wrote an essay for The New Republic, “Against Transparency.” His argument was an uncommon one:...
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Here are some of the death threats sent to a climate scientist
University of East Anglia. (Photo by mira66.) James Delingpole is a British journalist for The Telegraph who was primarily responsible for the pseudo-controversy known by the unoriginal name...
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Slow Ride Stories: Kick-starting conversations about climate change
The climate is a-changin’ — but the debate on climate change isn’t. As a result, climate scientists and environmental advocates appear to be fighting a losing battle: A recent poll of American...
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111 ways Nate Silver hire Roger Pielke Jr doesn’t like you
Roger Pielke Jr, the political scientist recently hired by Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight “data journalism” venture, has a long record of harsh criticisms of the climate science community,...
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Seth Meyers: Eco-warrior?
Since we can’t get our politicians to talk about climate change, late-night TV hosts might just be the next best thing. Meyers, the host of Late Night, dedicated about eight minutes of his show Tuesday...
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Major corporations that claim to support climate action are funding...
Reuters reviewed campaign donations made by the political action committees of 30 of the biggest American companies — including GE, Google, and Verizon — that signed the 2015 “American Business Act on...
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Lawyers told House Science Chair Lamar Smith his subpoenas are trash.
Smith will spend Wednesday morning leading a hearing that “may as well be sponsored by ExxonMobil,” according to 350’s executive director May Boeve. Smith hopes to affirm his power to subpoena the...
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The best way to fight climate change? Don’t call it climate change.
American cities from Boston to Baton Rouge are getting hammered by hurricanes, torrential downpours, and blizzards amped up by climate change. Maybe that’s why Americans are coming around to the idea...
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You know you want to be Grist’s newest fellow
Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then Grist wants you! We are now accepting applications for the spring 2017 class of the Grist Fellowship...
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Scott Pruitt doesn’t want to politicize science?
During a Thursday interview on a Texas radio show the EPA administrator said his agency wants objective science to buttress its mission. Sounds like something Pruitt and scientists can agree on, right?...
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How can Pruitt sue himself? California wants to know.
The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed a lawsuit on Friday to get the agency to say how it plans to handle Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential conflicts of interest. Pruitt is now in...
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Trump promised ‘tremendous cutting’ at the EPA. We’re beginning to see what...
Nearly 400 employees have left the agency since Aug. 31, largely due to buyouts. The EPA is on course to become the smallest it’s been since Reagan was president in 1988. And it’s not just people: The...
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