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For many, it’s time that climate scientists took off their white coats and stood up to the ongoing broadside against their work and the near-constant drumbeat from right-wing pundits and politicians that have added derision of global warming to their conservative litmus test, disavowing anyone who might dare take seriously the work of the climate science community.

Continue Reading Emails Reveal Argument Among Scientists for Strong Response Against McCarthyesque Attacks on Climate Science

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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
(reposted with permissions – with edits and additions)

Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re not longer so sure.

Continue Reading The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: Politics, Email, Winter Lead to Public Confusion Over Global Warming (but mostly politics)

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Climate scientist Phil Jones, head of the British Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University, and at the epicenter of “climategate” – so-called after thousands of private emails were stolen and made public late last year – said yesterday that he had “obviously written some very awful emails.”

Continue Reading East Anglia’s Phil Jones Admits to “Awful Emails” but Maintains Body of Global Warming Evidence Unchanged

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson held firm against lead climate pseudo-skeptic James Inhofe and his colleagues on Tuesday at an EPA budget hearing with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Continue Reading EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Spars With Senate GOP Over Climate Science

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A look at the Freeman Dyson, noted physicist, and his doubts about global warming.

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Head in the sand - the roar of ignoranceWe’ve been reporting recently on the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen, where some of the world’s top climate scientists and experts are meeting to collect and synthesize the research in climate change since the Fourth Assessment Report released by the IPCC in November of 2007.

Continue Reading Rush Limbaugh and the Heartland Institute: I am Ignorance, Hear Me Roar