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Drudge takes “truth” out of truthiness

April 4, 2008 · 2 Comments

Take a look at the Drudge Report’s header:

These three link to fundamentally dishonest pieces, as The Wonk Room so clearly lays out.

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Categories: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers
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10 Steps to a Low-Carbon Economy?

November 28, 2007 · No Comments

The Center for American Progress just released its 10-step plan to a Low-Carbon Economy.  Based on an early look at the summary pages, great stuff and, well, ho-hum, and well, missing elements.  But, looking forward to seeing the full report.

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Categories: alternative energy · climate change · emissions · energy · energy efficiency · environmental · fuel economy · government energy policy · politics
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Gore: Media, take note, the world is NOT flat!

November 6, 2007 · 4 Comments

“There are still people who believe the world is flat … you don’t go and search out people who believe the world is flat and give them equal time.”

Al Gore was on NBC yesterday and ripped the media for providing a platform for “outliers”, people who merit being taken as seriously as card-carrying members of the Flat Earth Society. People who, rather than being given soap boxes in major newspapers, in Congressional hearings, on TV programs, should be laughed into marginality.

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Categories: 746 · Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · journalism · media
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