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Two Different Planets

I mean of course, the one we live on and the one where Republicans live. On our planet, one of the few major anti-global warming figures got a grant from the Koch brothers to debunk all the previous global warming data, and ended up announcing that the previous studies were all true.  On our planet: "Alas, a favorite climate change denial trope is on its deathbed. Specifically, the claim that modern polar ice sheets formed during a period of rising carbon dioxide. New analysis of CO2 levels from the time, about 33 million years ago, show the greenhouse gas dropping sharply and the ice caps forming right alongside" And on our planet: "NOAA: Arctic worse than in 2005...The report, written by 121 scientists from around the world, said statistics point to a shift in the Arctic health in 2006. That was right before 2007, when a mix of weather conditions and changing climate led to a record loss of sea ice, from which the region has never recovered. This summer's...

The New Climate Lie from the Right

Here's the right wing global warming scandal of the day: "Top Climate Scientist Admits Man-made Global Warming Is a Farce– * Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing * There has been no global warming since 1995 * Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes Finally, one of the chief scientists at the center of the “Climategate” scandal admitted this weekend that there has been no significant global warming in the last 15 years ." You can read all about it here, here, here, here, and probably at another trillion right wing websites, if you bothered to look. Funny how they all hopped on this story the same day. Green Eagle will stick his neck out here: Anyone want to bet how long it will be before this story turns out to be a total lie? Update: Well, that didn't take long: "... the Daily Mail , has taken another body blow with the paper publishing a false story claiming that Phil Jones had admitted that...