[✔️] November 11, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Hottest year, Humor page, More drilling in Alaska, Why Villains, Listing villains, 2016 Trump denial

Sat Nov 11 09:17:21 EST 2023

/*November *//*11, 2023*/

/[ already noticed ]
/*Earth just had its hottest year on record — climate change is to blame*
Around 7.3 billion people faced temperatures strongly influenced by 
global warming over the past year.
Carissa Wong
The past 12 months were the hottest on record. Some 7.3 billion people 
worldwide were exposed, for at least 10 days, to temperatures that were 
heavily influenced by global warming, with one-quarter of people facing 
dangerous levels of extreme heat over the past 12 months, according to a 
report by the non-profit organization Climate Central.

“These impacts are only going to grow as long as we continue to burn 
coal oil and natural gas,” says Andrew Pershing, the vice- president for 
science at Climate Central...
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This study clearly provides robust evidence for the science of 
climate-change attribution, says climate researcher Cecilia Conde at the 
National University in Mexico.

Joyce Kimutai, a meteorologist at Kenya Meteorological Department in 
Nairobi, says the analysis underscores the urgent need for countries to 
take action. She adds that at the United Nations COP 28 climate summit 
this month, the world needs to make progress on phasing out fossil fuels 
and implementing the Loss and Damage fund through which richer countries 
have agreed to help poorer countries cope with the social and physical 
devastation caused by climate change.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03523-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03523-3/
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*Daily global mean temperature anomaly*
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/[ OK, more gasoline.  More CO2,  more heat, sorry  ]/
*Judge rules Willow oil project in Alaska's Arctic can proceed*
November 9, 20238:27 PM ET
FROM KSKA
By Liz Ruskin
The massive Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope can move forward, 
a federal judge in Anchorage ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the claims of 
environmental groups, who argued the government's decision to approve 
the ConocoPhillips project didn't adequately consider its contribution 
to climate change and potential harm to the region's threatened polar bears.

The decision removes one of the last obstacles to the project, which 
would be the largest oil development on federal land in decades, and has 
become a flashpoint for climate activists.

Environmental groups said they plan to appeal.
"[The U.S. Department of Interior's] decision to greenlight the project 
in the first place moved us in the opposite direction of our national 
climate goals, in the face of the worsening climate crisis," said Erik 
Grafe, an attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice, in an 
emailed statement.
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In its legal briefs, the company cites what it sees as the benefits of 
the project, including an estimated $7.6 billion in revenue for the U.S. 
Treasury over the life of the project, and 2,500 local jobs during 
construction.
ConocoPhillips also emphasized its efforts to limit the impact on the 
Arctic environment.

"This feat will be accomplished with a minimal footprint — a mere three 
drill sites — and adherence to the most stringent environmental 
protections in the world," ConocoPhillips' attorneys wrote.

Some Alaska Native groups joined conservationists trying to block the 
project, citing concerns about the impact on caribou hunting and other 
subsistence activities central to the region's traditional culture.

But the state's largest Alaska Native associations and major for-profit 
Native corporations have endorsed the project. So have most local and 
regional governments on Alaska's North Slope, which represent mostly 
Iñupiat Alaska Native communities.
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"That's equivalent to putting two million extra cars on the road and 
driving them for 30 years," Grafe said.

But Gleason found the government's analysis was consistent with 
environmental laws, and with goals Congress established for the NPR-A.

"ConocoPhillips, as the lessee, has the right and the responsibility to 
fully develop its oil and gas leases in the NPR-A subject to reasonable 
restrictions and mitigation measures imposed by the federal government," 
she wrote.

ConocoPhillips says it intends to resume construction work on Dec. 21, 
the start of the winter construction season.

While the Willow Project is moving ahead, the Biden administration has 
tried to temper the anger of climate activists by taking other steps to 
curb oil production in the Arctic.

The administration has proposed new rules that would limit future oil 
and gas development in other parts of the NPR-A. It's also reconsidering 
whether to allow drilling to the east, in the Arctic National Wildlife 
Refuge, and recently canceled oil and gas leases granted during the 
Trump administration.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1212016595/judge-rules-willow-oil-project-in-alaskas-arctic-can-proceed

/[ Anthropocene considers villainy ]/
*Should we retire the climate villain narrative?*
Simple stories pack a persuasive punch, but they might be stifling our 
climate creativity
By Mark Harris
November 9, 2023

The illustration for a Guardian story from 2021 epitomizes the view of 
many environmentalists: a smiling businessman smokes a cigar and counts 
his money while looming over a world in flames. “Meet America’s top 
climate villains,” the article promises, listing twelve CEOs, bankers, 
politicians, and media tycoons who, it says, “have an unimaginable sway 
over the fate of humanity.” And not in a good way—this cabal twirls 
their mustaches while cheerfully clear-cutting the rainforests.

But the real world isn’t a fairytale. Putting the blame for our climate 
mess in the boardroom ignores the role that governments have played in 
perpetuating fossil fuels, and the technological challenges in equitably 
transitioning to a low-carbon economy.

So we’re now faced with a dilemma. On one hand, people naturally 
gravitate toward stories with villains and heroes. And that emotional 
punch is clearly politically potent. On the other hand, in the 
multi-generational struggle against climate change, an adversarial 
narrative might be getting in the way of positive change.

• • •
*Villains Can Spur Positive Change*

*1.  Climate villains are real.* Facts are facts. The oil and gas 
industry knew about the likelihood of dramatic global warming since at 
least the 1950s, news magnate Rupert Murdoch grew rich on spreading 
disinformation, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has accepted millions of 
dollars for advertisements to spread false claims on the climate. 
Textbook villainy.

*2.  Anger is more productive than hope. *If the end result is what 
matters, it’s far more important to get mad than to cross your fingers, 
Norwegian researchers found. A recent study of over 2,000 people in 
Norway found that the link between climate activism and anger was seven 
times stronger than it was for hope. The source of people’s frustration 
was often human actors, such as politicians. Similarly, research from 
the London School of Economics shows that action-oriented stories about 
climate change can produce real-world behavior change.

*3.  Humanity needs villains*. Researchers Kai Gehring from Heidelberg 
University and Matteo Grigoletto of the University of Bern analyzed over 
two million tweets about the climate between 2010 and 2021. In this 
fascinating piece of research from May, they found that narratives 
depicting villains, those involving human characters, and simpler stores 
were more likely to go viraI. These story types became more prevalent 
during the Trump presidency, “which appeared to shift the narrative 
focus from potential solutions to climate change, towards the villain 
role of human characters,” they write. Villain stories, however 
inaccurate, are just what humans respond to during uncertain times.

• • •
*Insults Don’t Reduce Atmospheric Carbon *

* 1.  Name innovators instead of shaming laggards. *Not so fast, writes 
Alex Trembath at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental 
non-profit. He points out that until recently, many low-carbon 
alternatives were radically expensive, and their high cost had less to 
do with Big Oil’s nefarious influence than basic resource availability 
and engineering. That makes it understandable (and not at all 
villainous) for developing countries to struggle to decarbonize. 
Singling out big business “misidentifies the cause of one of the central 
problems facing humanity and misdirects those seeking solutions towards 
a tempting but ultimately counterproductive target,” he writes. “There 
are no villains in climate change.”

*2.  Not villains but anti-heroes. *Oil companies are some of the 
largest corporations the world has ever seen, and aren’t going anywhere 
anytime soon. This illuminating piece by Murray Shearer, a professor of 
hydrogen and alternative energy at CQ University in Australia, lays out 
how Big Oil’s infrastructure and expertise might be essential in any 
future transition to green hydrogen. If today’s climate villains can 
change direction, they might just follow a classic redemption arc.

*3.  The problem with climate click bait.* Pro-climate Republican 
political strategist Mary Anna Mancuso writes that angry protests, such 
as throwing pies at villainous airline CEOs, “may capture attention in 
the short term, but they can also alienate the very people who need to 
be engaged in the fight against climate change. They are the climate 
action equivalent of click bait.” Writing in The Hill, she suggests, 
“Instead of demanding perfection in our climate solutions, we should 
encourage a process where everyone, even imperfectly, actively 
contributes to the solutions.”
• • •
*What To Keep An Eye On*

* 1.  Taxing the bad guys. *If someone is widely perceived as a villain, 
punishing them becomes not just acceptable but required. France, the UK 
and India have all applied windfall taxes to oil and gas companies 
enjoying record profits on the back of supply uncertainties from the war 
in Ukraine. The billions such taxes raise could go to helping the global 
south, suggests former UK Prime Minister Gorden Brown.

*2.  The Democrats driving anti-climate action?* Political scientists 
Eric Merkley and Dominik Stecula read thousands of news stories from the 
past three decades, and trace the roots of today’s Republican climate 
denial to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth film in 2006. Having such a 
prominent Democrat promoting the climate inevitably polarized 
Republicans against it, they argue. And the more Democrats call out 
Republican villains for lack of climate action now, they say, the harder 
red states will fight against it. Instead, they recommend getting 
eco-minded conservatives to push win-win pro-climate measures like 
energy independence.

*3.  Efforts to break up Big Oil. *Activist group Polluter’s Out aim to 
abolish or nationalize the biggest climate villains might seem utterly 
unrealistic, but the fact that it’s even getting mainstream attention 
suggests there’s something to the movement – and remember that Obama 
briefly nationalized GM and Chrysler during the 2008 financial crisis. 
Writing in Prospect, Robert Pullen makes the case for the US government 
to nationalize ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/11/should-we-retire-the-climate-villain-narrative/

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/[ Classic Climate villains - from the Guardian ]/
*The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains*
Georgia Wright, Liat Olenick and Amy Westervelt
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an 
unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity
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*THE WOKE-WASHER   Mike Wirth*
Chairman of the board and CEO of Chevron

Mike Wirth captains Chevron, a notorious corporate polluter responsible 
for one of the highest total carbon emissions of any private company 
worldwide.

Under Wirth’s direction, Chevron has pursued several greenwashing 
tactics to downplay the company’s environmental impact. A coalition of 
environmental groups filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint against 
Chevron earlier this year saying it misled the public by claiming 
responsibility only for carbon emissions associated with refining and 
transporting oil, not the total emissions created by the product it sells.

Wirth also sits on the board of the American Petroleum Institute, an oil 
industry trade group with a long track record of spreading climate 
denial and delaying legislative efforts to curb carbon emissions.

In his own words: “Let them plant trees.”
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*THE RINGLEADER Darren Woods*
Chairman of the board and CEO of Exxon

ExxonMobil is publicly known as one of the first oil companies to become 
aware of climate change, more than 40 years ago. Still, Exxon spent 
millions of dollars spreading climate denial while simultaneously 
contributing the fourth largest amount of carbon emissions of any 
investor-owned company in the world.

Woods, who has been with the company since 1992, makes more than $20m a 
year. And though he expressed support for the 2015 Paris agreement to 
substantially reduce global pollution, leaked documents showed his plan 
for the company to increase its emissions by 17% through 2025.

Earlier this year, Exxon lobbyists were captured on video revealing the 
company’s efforts to obstruct climate legislation in Congress. Woods 
later tried to distance himself and the company from the lobbyists, 
saying they “in no way represent” Exxon’s position.

In his own words: Woods once called carbon reduction standards “a beauty 
match, a beauty competition”.
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*THE ENABLER Jamie Dimon  CEO of Chase Bank*

Billionaire Jamie Dimon is top dog at JP Morgan Chase, which has 
provided $317bn in fossil fuel financing – 33% more than any other bank 
– since the Paris agreement was adopted in 2015. Under Dimon, Chase has 
also funneled more than $2bn into tar sands projects between 2016 and 2019.

When Chase’s managing director, Greg Determann, was asked early this 
year if the company would still lend to oil and gas companies despite 
the worsening climate crisis, Determann replied: “‘Mr Dimon is quite 
focused on the industry. It’s a huge business for us and that’s going to 
be the case for decades to come.”

In his own words: “The solution is not as simple as walking away from 
fossil fuels.”
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*THE FINANCIER Larry Fink*
CEO of BlackRock

As the chief executive of BlackRock, Fink oversees one of the world’s 
largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, with $87bn behind the industry.

And though Fink has made sweeping climate promises and even wrote an 
op-ed about achieving a “net-zero” world, his company has profited off 
deforestation – a major cause of rising emissions – more than any other 
company globally.

Fink has also pushed BlackRock to vote against pro-climate action 
shareholder resolutions – all while angling for money from the federal 
government that should go to climate projects.

In his own words: “Without global action, every nation will bear 
enormous costs from a warming planet, including damage from more 
frequent natural disasters and supply-chain failures.”
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*THE KINGPIN Charles Koch  Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries*

Alongside his now-deceased brother David, Charles Koch has a lengthy 
résumé of climate malfeasance. The multibillionaire is the longtime head 
of Koch Industries, a refining, petrochemical and pipeline company 
labeled by Greenpeace as a “kingpin of climate denial”.

The Kochs, and particularly Charles, moved early to politicize climate 
change. Charles founded and funded the Cato Institute, a libertarian 
thinktank known to coordinate and distribute climate denial, which 
became the first organization to stoke the ideological divide on the 
climate crisis. Koch Industries went on to spend nearly $150m financing 
climate denial groups between 1997 and 2018 alone.

Since his brother’s death, Charles has attempted to backtrack on his 
legacy of sowing hyper-partisan division. But according to OpenSecrets, 
Koch Industries is the top spender ($5.6m) on annual lobbying on oil and 
gas so far this year.

In his own words: “Boy did we screw up. What a mess!”-
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*THE OBSTRUCTIONIST Mitch McConnell  Senate minority leader*

Mitch McConnell admitted to believing in human-caused climate change 
only in 2020. He is also the chief architect of ongoing Republican 
obstructionism. Under President Obama, whose climate actions he smeared 
as a “war on coal”, McConnell used the filibuster to block even tepid 
climate reforms supported by a majority of Americans.

Under Trump, McConnell nuked the judicial filibuster in order to put 
three anti-science, pro-corporate justices on the supreme court, 
including Amy Coney-Barrett, who maintains deep family ties to big oil 
(her father worked at Shell for decades). And now, McConnell is ensuring 
that 100% of Republicans will vote against all of Biden’s climate agenda.

McConnell is also heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry, to the 
tune of more than $3m over the course of his infamous career.

In his own words: “I’m not a scientist.”
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*THE SABOTEUR Joe Manchin US senator*

Today, Joe Manchin is most famous for being a swing vote for important 
legislation, but the real story is how the fossil fuel industry made him 
mega-wealthy through two coal companies he founded in the 1980s.

While even coalminers in his home state of West Virginia support a Green 
New Deal, Manchin uses his position to hold climate legislation hostage 
on behalf of the fossil fuel industry – which he is doing by threatening 
to vote against Biden’s Build Back Better climate agenda. The Exxon 
lobbyists caught on tape earlier this year specifically identified 
Manchin as “their guy”, and said they meet with him several times a week.

According to OpenSecrets, Manchin takes more money from the fossil fuel 
industry than any other Democrat.

In his own words: “If you’re sticking your head in the sand, and saying 
that fossil [fuel] has to be eliminated in America … and thinking that’s 
going to clean up the global climate, it won’t clean it up at all. If 
anything, it would be worse.”
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*THE PROPAGANDIST Mark Zuckerberg *
Facebook founder and CEO

Zuckerberg, whose net worth is $120bn, shows a consistent willingness to 
profit off the spread of climate denial on behalf of the fossil fuel 
industry. In April 2021, Zuckerberg told Congress climate misinformation 
was “a big issue”, yet Facebook has done little to rein in climate 
denial or challenge the fossil fuel industry.

Last year, pro-fossil fuel Facebook ads were viewed 431m times. In just 
the first half of 2020, ads on Facebook calling climate change a hoax 
were viewed at least 8m times in the United States alone.

In 2019, an article falsely attributing climate change to Earth’s solar 
orbit went viral, accumulating millions of views without intervention by 
the company. And this year, one report found that in just the first two 
months of 2021, Facebook spread climate denial to more than 25 million 
people, including posts about wind turbines being to blame after Texas 
froze over in February.

Meanwhile, Facebook has muzzled actual climate scientists trying to 
share peer-reviewed research.

In his own words: “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking 
stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
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*THE TYCOON Rupert Murdoch*
Founder of News Corp

The father of international media conglomerate News Corp and the CEO of 
Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets, Australian 
American tycoon Rupert Murdoch has overseen his companies’ rampant 
spreading of misinformation and climate denial for decades, netting him 
over $23bn.

Although Murdoch has claimed his company does not support climate 
denial, his news outlets have published article after article sowing 
doubt in climate science. Meanwhile, as of 2019, more than 80% of 
climate coverage on Fox News was steeped in denial, according to an 
analysis by the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen.

In his own words: “Climate change has been going on as long as the 
planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.”
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*THE DESTROYER David MacLennan*
CEO of Cargill

Rainforests are the most important climate regulators in the world. But 
Cargill, a global food corporation helmed by MacLennan, has a profit 
model based on rainforest destruction caused by soy and beef production, 
particularly in the Amazon.

MacLennan has been in charge of the company’s global strategy since 
2013. He was calling the shots when, in 2019, former congressman Henry 
Waxman called Cargill the “worst company in the world”, referring to its 
track record on deforestation.

Thanks to public pressure, Cargill did recently declare a moratorium on 
buying agricultural products from illegally cleared rainforest, but 
there is evidence that under MacLennan’s leadership, the company is 
already ignoring its own commitment.

In his own words: When asked why Cargill wasn’t eliminating 
deforestation from its supply chain: “The supply chains in Brazil are 
very complicated.”
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*THE FABULIST Richard Edelman*
CEO of Edelman PR

Edelman heads the global communications firm Edelman PR, which made tens 
of millions of dollars over the years by working with fossil fuel 
companies. His firm has created multi-pronged PR, advertising and 
lobbying campaigns with ExxonMobil, TransCanada, the American Petroleum 
Institute and Shell – prompting high-profile clients and executives to 
leave over the firm’s work peddling climate denial.

In 2015, Edelman announced that the firm would stop accepting climate 
denier assignments, but he has since claimed that the firm’s work for 
Shell, ExxonMobil and more don’t technically qualify as climate denial.

Tax filings show that since that 2015 announcement, the firm has raked 
in $12m for its work with the American Fuel and Petrochemical 
Manufacturers alone, whose most recent focus has been increasing 
criminal penalties for pipeline protesters.

In his own words: “I’m proud of what our firm is doing to build a house 
of trust through our mission, values, and actions.”

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*THE SMOOTH TALKER Ted Boutrous*
Partner of Gibson Dunn law firm
As Chevron’s lead attorney and the main spokesman for all the oil 
companies in some two dozen climate liability cases, Boutrous sets the 
agenda in answering to the fossil fuel industry’s decades of lies about 
climate change. His argument before the courts hinges on the idea that 
every person shares equal blame for the climate crisis, and that it’s 
“counterproductive” to hold the fossil fuel industry particularly 
responsible.

Law Students for Climate Accountability rates Gibson Dunn among the 
worst of the worst on its climate scorecard for having the 
second-highest amount of fossil fuel litigation work of all 26 firms the 
group evaluated.

In his own words: “Chevron is a great company and great client with a 
strong culture of social responsibility.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen

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[ Other villain citations ]
*Six Quiet Climate Villains*
Under-the-radar polluters, and the individuals doing their best to hold 
climate science back
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians

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*The Five Worst Climate Villains Among World Leaders*
By Chris Dalby - Oct 29, 2014,
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Five-Worst-Climate-Villains-Among-World-Leaders.html

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*These Two World Leaders Are Laughing While the Planet Burns Up*
Meet earth's worst climate villains
https://newrepublic.com/article/119896/canada-australias-climate-change-record-leaders-deniers 

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*Stephen Harper Ranked #1 Worst ‘Climate Villain’ In The World*
http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#
https://web.archive.org/web/20141103225218/http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#

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*The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee*
By David Roberts at drvolts  Oct 26, 2015,
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616370/science-committee-worse-benghazi-committee

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/[ From the archive -- the first draft of a villainy list from decade 
ago - by Mike Roddy ]/
*Beast 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains, 2011*
Or the 15 Most Heinous Climate Villain CATEGORIES:
Most crazy, extreme reach, furthest from any possible science
Most directly connected with carbon fuel money
Most carefully adhering to script

*EVIL TWIN AWARD:*
David and Edward Koch
Howard Shellenberger and Steve Nordhaus
Ross McKittrick and Steve McIntyre
Lord Monkton and Marty Feldman  (half joke)
*
BRAIN-FRIED 60’S ICON AWARD*
Ted Nugent
Stewart Brand
Alexander Cockburn
Lunar-astronaut Harrison Schmitt

*CREDENTIALS IN THE WRONG FIELD AWARD*
Anthony Watts
Roger Pielke Jr.
Edward Wegman
Michael Crichton
SLIMY POLITICIAN AWARD
James Inhofe,  Lindsey Graham, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ,
Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General, Virginia
Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky
John Barasso, Senator from Wyoming
Endless names for this category,
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, (R-Missouri), 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=12

Michael Steele (drill baby drill RNC head)

*CLUELESS JOURNALIST AWARD*
Rush Limbaugh, radio talk host
Glenn Beck, TV personality
John Tierney, New York Times Science Editor
George Will  (although more of a pundit)

also other categories:
*SHAMELESS PUNDITS, MEDIA WHORES AND OPPORTUNISTS *
Mark Morano
George Will
David Bellamy, British TV presenter, environmentalist
Sarah Palin
Bjorn Lomborg
Phelim McAleer  producer of anti global warming films
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard co-founder
Steve Doocy (is he still on ?? 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=14)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=6
John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel *
*
*SHAMELESS ACADEMIC QUACKS or PSEUDO SCIENTISTS*
Sallie Baliunas
Richard Lindzen
Patrick Michaels
Frederick Seitz
Fred Singer
Completelist http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers:Scientists
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Researchers might want to check these

    http://www.desmogblog.com/
    http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers
    http://www.sourcewatch.org/
    http://www.prwatch.org/
    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy
    SIX QUITE CLIMATE VILLAINS
    http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1

/[The news archive global warming trumps Trump ]/
/*November 11, 2016 */
November 11, 2016
The New York Times reports:

    "For a look at how sharply policy in Washington will change under
    the administration of Donald J. Trump, look no further than the
    environment.

    "Mr. Trump has called human-caused climate change a 'hoax.' He has
    vowed to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency 'in almost
    every form.'

    "And in an early salvo against one of President Obama’s signature
    issues, Mr. Trump has named Myron Ebell of the business-backed
    Competitive Enterprise Institute to head his E.P.A. transition team.
    Mr. Ebell has asserted that whatever warming caused by greenhouse
    gas pollution is modest and could be beneficial. A 2007 Vanity Fair
    profile of Mr. Ebell called him an 'oil industry mouthpiece.'

    "Global warming may indeed be the sharpest example of how policy in
    Washington will change under a Trump administration. President Obama
    has said his efforts to establish the United States as the global
    leader in climate policy are his proudest legacy.

    "But if Mr. Trump makes good on his campaign promises, experts in
    climate change policy warn, that legacy would unravel quickly. The
    world, then, may have no way to avoid the most devastating
    consequences of global warming, including rising sea levels, extreme
    droughts and food shortages, and more powerful floods and storms."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/donald-trump-climate-change.html

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