A new investigation exposes how one of the top scientists involved in
denying climate change has failed to disclose his extensive funding from
the fossil fuel industry. Dr. Wei-Hock Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics has downplayed global warming and rejected human
activity as its cause, arguing the sun is more responsible than
greenhouse gases from pollution. Climate denialists — including
Republican Senator James Inhofe, chair of the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee — frequently cite Soon’s work to reject concrete
action.
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Oil Lobby Paid Washington Post and Atlantic to Host Climate-Change Deniers at RNC
It's a new low for major news organizations to sell their brand to lobbyists and let climate truthers go unchallenged. GOP and media just featured climate deniers without offering any dissenting speakers and this should violate the editorial standards of any credible news organization.
House committee subpoenas Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey over Exxon investigation
Want to see how giant corporations try to rig the system in their favor? Look at what ExxonMobil is doing to try to intimidate Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office is one of several AGs who are investigating whether ExxonMobil broke state consumer and investor protection laws by knowingly misleading people about climate change since the 1970s.
30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar
In 1986, Republican Sen. John Chafee convened a remarkable set of climate change hearings. The congress was told on the consequences of climate change. The facts have followed the predictions since and yet Donald Trump wants to renegotiate the climate change agreement on favor of business.
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition – Scientific American
Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading Trump’s transition plans for EPA, the sources said.
The Trump and Clinton campaigns finally had a substantive climate debate
The energy advisers to the two campaigns squared off. It wasn’t half bad. The hour-long debate featured its share of depressing nonsense, like when Cramer waffled on whether humans are causing global warming. (Spoiler: They are.) But the discussion was genuinely substantive, and the advisers delved into issues like the Paris climate deal, nuclear power, and (oh yes) transmission policy.
Republican Kelly Ayotte Lost Millions of Dollars by Defying Koch Brothers on Climate Change
Ayotte is the only Republican senator in a competitive race who acknowledges humans are behind climate change. Her stance came at a cost: millions of dollars in lost funding from the climate-denial-funding oil billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch.
WHITE HOUSE: Energy world rocked by Trump win
Donald Trump's election is sending shock waves through the energy and environmental world. President-elect Trump, who declared victory just before 3 a.m. EST today, has promised a fundamental shift from the Obama administration's energy and climate policies, proposing to eliminate U.S. EPA, pledging to boost fossil fuel development and calling global warming a "hoax."
Climate scientists condemn article claiming global temperatures are falling
On Thursday afternoon, the committee tweeted a Breitbart article alleging: “Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists”. The story linked to a British tabloid, the Daily Mail, which claimed that global land temperatures were plummeting, and that humans were not responsible for years of steadily increasing heat.
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said. Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.