This is absolute remarkable: the Politico energy and environment reporer, Erika Lovely, has written a crazy piece denying global warming:
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.
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Despite the growing science, the world’s leading crusader on climate change, Al Gore, is unconcerned.
The Wonk Room has a good break down:
The only specifics she mentions to support this extended screed are D’Aleo’s "Is Global Warming on the Wane?" in the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Global Warming Petition Project. The Almanac piece purports that global warming is due to sunspot variation, and the petition claims — as Lovley faithfully transcribes — to have the signatures of "31,000 scientists across the world" agreeing with the assertion that "man’s impact on climate change can’t be reasonably proven." These are both zombie lies, animated by the efforts of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and credulous reporters like Erika Lovley, years after they have been pronounced dead by all reputable authorities...