Green Eagle

I don't want to devote too much time to this, but for the record, a climate study funded by the Koch brothers made the huge mistake of hiring an honest climate sceptic (apparently, as hard as it is to believe, there was at least one) who discovered that it is all true!   Here is a chart comparing his results (referred to on the chart as "Berkeley") to several well-known climate studies that have been the subject of endless derision and accusations of fraud by climate deniers, and all of the other usual right wing fools: Well, what do you know?  The scientists were telling the truth, and it was the people taking money from the oil companies that were lying.  Who could have ever predicted that? I just know that, when I write my next Wingnut Wrapup I'm going to find all sorts of posts apologizing for having trusted a bunch of corporate shills.

Atrios mentioned this article today, as a must read. It is about the lying that Fox News and other conservative sources engage in as part of their denial of global warming, and it is really great. It documents the fabrication of views and quotes from climate scientists to make them appear to believe the exact opposite of what they actually do. Standard conservative behavior, of course, but this is a particularly well documented account. Funny, the whole right wing world will run around in a panic for ten years about the virtually nonexistent terrorists that are supposedly threatening our every move, but they are willing to ignore something that could destroy us all.

Courtesy of The Guardian, the above photos, showing " Satellite images of polar ice sheets taken in July 2006 and July 2007 showing the retreating ice during the summer." The Guardian continues: "Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months." These photos, taken in July of each year off the coast of Point Barrow, show the frightening decrease in polar ice coverage that is taking place. None of this will be news to most of the people who find their way to this blog. The real reason I want to direct you to this article is this: "The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and th...