Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal concerning oil company testimony on capitol hill this morning: Republicans who attended the hearing accused Democrats and the Obama administration of inappropriately using the disaster to pass legislation aimed at limiting emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

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Bill Maher.  This guy has turned from amazingly funny comedian, to a not at all funny politically motivated shit throwing douche.  And an amazingly uninformed one as well: New Rule: Al Gore must come out with a sequel to his movie about climate change and call it, An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the Fuck Is […]

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Steven Muffson and Michael D Shear via The Washington Post: Allies of the president have argued for weeks that the administration should stop talking about BP, the oil company responsible for the spill, and instead tap into the public attention to the catastrophe in hopes of giving it at least some redemptive value in the […]

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Ben Webster via Times Online: The society appears to have conceded that it needs to correct previous statements. It said: “Any public perception that science is somehow fully settled is wholly incorrect — there is always room for new observations, theories, measurements.” This contradicts a comment by the society’s previous president, Lord May, who was […]

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