“They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense,’” an impassioned Al Gore told attendees at the Aspen Institute Thursday. “Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!”
Before going off to the Council on Foreign Relations to give a speech on foreign policy, former Minnesota governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. Asked about his stance on cap and trade, he acknowledged that he had changed his mind. He added, “I denounced it for a variety of reasons, one of which is the science is bad and it’s in great dispute,” repeating once more that there is a “scientific dispute” about the issue of climate change.
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The same day that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced that he did not have the votes to pass a cap-and-trade bill, even a scaled-down utility-only version, news broke that China has decided to institute its own cap-and-trade…
Scientists studying Lake Superior say that, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, water in the lake is 15 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year and is on track to exceed its record temperature…
Rep. Collin Peterson has introduced a “disapproval resolution” in an attempt to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating climate change emissions. Peterson said that “EPA bureaucrats” should not be put in charge of regulating greenhouse gases because it…
The New York Times carried an article Monday about how Gov. Pawlenty’s take on climate change is “evolving.” He has become less the gung-ho environmental partner to Democrats at the state Capitol and peers across the Midwest and…
“Bachmann Watch,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s new Web site for fact-checking Rep. Michele Bachmann, corrects some of the Sixth District congresswoman’s recent misstatements, including her refuted claim that Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan would…
Rep. Michele Bachmann spent part of Earth Day arguing against a carbon “cap and tax” because carbon dioxide is a “natural byproduct of nature.” It’s “portrayed as harmful, but there isn’t even one study that can…
During a radio show on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann described herself as a “foreign correspondent on enemy lines” in Washington, D.C. The Republican congresswoman went on to tell WWTC-AM:
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this
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