Year-end climate talks begin next week in Lima, and they’ve been preceded by the usual torrent of reports and prognostications. We’ve sifted through much of it, and here we’ve compiled those explainers that we think do the best job of navigating the morass. If you need another reminder of how badly our media are…
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“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!”
Those are the immortal words of the forgettable US President Warren G Harding, whose administration collapsed under the weight of its own scandals. I’d argue the sentiment applies to climate change as well — because we can fight the Koch Brothers and the Heartland Institute but what about obstructionist NGOs myopically pushing one agenda at the cost of workable solutions? And what about resource-guzzling NGOs and government negotiators?
This page is geared towards keeping us all honest by torpedoing lies, distortions, and general silliness coming from our “friends”.
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Even The Atlantic Buys The Lies. Why?
by Steve Zwick • • 0 Comments
The American Tea Party hates Obamacare. They hate it with a visceral passion because it’s a government program that may – just may – succeed where the private sector failed. Such a success would invalidate basic Tea Party tenets, so they fight it with everything they have: a few rational points and a barrage of…
