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Ten years ago, in mid-November of 2009, someone hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, and began sharing them with various climate blogs. From there, unscrupulous deniers took quotes out of context, truncated...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Nov 11, 2019 at 07:19 AM PST
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The list of people and entities getting requests for documents, etc. just came out and Sam Nunberg is on it. This is one of the stipulations and unfortunately it only goes back to Jan 1, 2015. (f) Any contacts, direct or indirect,...
by certainot
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on Mon Mar 04, 2019 at 11:31 AM PST
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The Canadian Centre for Research on Globalization sounds like a reasonable, boring think tank. Based on its name, you may not think twice if you saw one of its experts on TV. But you might notice something askew if you went to its website, which serves...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 07:12 AM PDT
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Environmental groups have to do something different.
I remember some years ago a 350.org climate protest at the state capitol. 500 protestors had a good time but the only media it got the next day was ridicule from the state’s loudest radio station....
by certainot
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on Fri Apr 21, 2017 at 03:26 AM PDT
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If you were going to attack Hillary Clinton to favor Trump why wouldn’t you piggyback 25 years of well-established talk radio lies about her?
And why wouldn’t you figure out how to feed a team of 1200 coordinated radio stations already used very...
by certainot
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on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 07:59 PM PDT
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Senator James Inhofe STILL says 'climategate' is proof that global warming is a hoax. Is 'Calexit' next for Putin/Limbaugh?
The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding an open hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election this...
by certainot
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on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 07:41 AM PDT
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Are 'Climategate' in 2009, the debt crisis 2011, and now Trump examples of the Kremlin’s use of talk radio?
In the New York Magazine, April 3, 2016, Gabriel Sherman wrote a piece titled “...
by certainot
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on Mon Mar 06, 2017 at 03:15 PM PST
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Memo to deniers: Stop trying to make Climategate 2 happen. It’s not going to happen.
With Trump in power, we’ve been waiting with bated breath for a full-scale assault on climate and the environment. This weekend, it looks like that assault has...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Feb 06, 2017 at 07:52 AM PST
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Remember ‘Climategate’ in 2009? Emails of climate scientists at East Anglia University were hacked, apparently by Russians. After Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the RW media worked it over for the week of Nov 23, the rest of our media was playing along,...
by certainot
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on Fri Jan 20, 2017 at 05:12 PM PST
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In 2011, Daily Kos writer G2geek wrote a dairy titled Stochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters. The diarist defined Stochastic Terrorism as “Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 02:56 AM PST
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Why Would Putin Want a Corrupt Bully Running the Free World — a Trump Kleptocracy?
Friday’s bombshell CIA announcement that Russian interference in the US election was specifically designed to elect Trump immediately set the Washington Post‘s comments...
by dotcommodity
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on Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 12:43 PM PST
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For those who do not know, ‘Climategate’ was a fake scandal that was concocted out of (almost literally) the seven words contained in the above email, one of thousands of emails between climate scientists released to the public by an unknown...
by Aven Gier
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on Mon Apr 18, 2016 at 07:32 PM PDT
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Recently, I wrote an extensive article (and ...
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 12:33 PM PDT
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There is an evolving feeling that anti-GMO activists and climate change deniers are nearly the same. They both rely upon
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Thu Aug 20, 2015 at 04:19 PM PDT
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For your entertainment and enlightenment, six people debate the motion "It's Wrong To Pay For Sex."
The Climate Wars
Steve Curwood talks with Penn State climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann ,
by ForeignPolicy
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on Wed Aug 13, 2014 at 01:58 PM PDT
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Those who have made their unfathomable fortunes supplying fossil fuels to an eaze-addicted society -- have a vested-interest in keeping-on selling their wares. For as long as corporately possible.
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by jamess
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on Sat Dec 01, 2012 at 09:12 AM PST
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People and Corporations who have made their fortunes from selling fossil fuels to the masses -- have a vested-interest in keeping-on selling those fuels. For as long as corporately possible.
So ...
by jamess
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on Sat Nov 24, 2012 at 09:30 AM PST
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This is my latest piece on DeSmogBlog :
In late 2009, climate change skeptics thought they had found the Holy Grail in terms of climate denial – a collection of more than 3,000 hacked emails that ...
by farronbalanced
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on Fri Jun 08, 2012 at 12:49 PM PDT
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The double-standards of Conservatives are legend, and often simply pass "as the norm."
But this one "takes the cake" -- when you dig into the rationalizations that this very influential think-tank ...
by jamess
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on Sun Mar 11, 2012 at 12:09 PM PDT
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This is not a frivolous question. I do not know how we would cope with the climate situation if all of humankind were to suddenly wake up and see the urgency. I have serious doubts that we have ...
by don mikulecky
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on Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 09:35 PM PST
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