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The Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch reports that an Australian corporate funded think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is not renewing the contract for Jennifer Marohasy, one of its Senior Fellows and a global warming skeptic.The n...

topics: biotechnology, business, climate-change, economy, emissions

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I really do not have much to say about this. It came over one of the list serves without any comment and I read it with a growing sense of recognition. It is the first time I have heard of it it is apparently British in origin but apparently ha...

topics: climate-change, environment, environmentalism, greenhouse-gas

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

Two enviros argue it's 'fluff' and 'blackmail' and no real fix for climate change. ...

topics: carbon-tax, climate-change, tax

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

Veteran enviro says no to Tzeporah Berman's 'PowerUp' logic. ...

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steven-milloy.jpg Taking a page from the rabid teabagging right, Steven Milloy launched into an angry tirade during a speech he gave on Monday to promote his book, Green Hell: How Environmentalists P...

topics: economy, environmental, environmentalism, political

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I Love Capitalists (Smart Capitalists, Anyway)Oil magnate and takeover king T. Boone Pickens has a plan to save America from its unaffordable dependence on foreign oil: switch to wind.Of course, critical to this plan is national willingness to supp...

topics: climate-change, environmentalism

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In reaction to the Ofcom ruling today on the Great Global Warming Swindle shock-u-mentary, Guardian columnist George Monbiot asks: Why does Channel 4 seem to be waging a war against the greens? Monbiot writes:The Great Global Warming Swindle is pa...

topics: environmentalism, global-warming

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

The political bet driving NDP's 'Axe the Gas Tax.' ...

topics: carbon-tax, ndp, political, tax

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November 7, 2006 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for a lot of Republicans. It's the day the Democrats won the majority in the US Senate and House. ber-conservative Republican Senator Rick Santorum was one of the Republicans who ...

topics: climate-change, economy, emissions, environment, environmentalism

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After virtually abandoning the issue for three decades, the environmental movement got a bold reality check this week from a new book highlighting relentless human population growth as a driving force behind global warming. This wouldn't have raise...

topics: climate-change, emissions, environmental, environmentalism, global-warming