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Fox News Gives Science Lesson on Why Humans Aren’t Causing Global Warming

6:53 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, media, television, united states by TreeHugger

fox-co2-cant-cause-warming.jpg Screen grab via Media Matters As of late, Fox News has been particularly egregious in it's never-ending quest to sew doubt about the unequivocal scientific consensus that humans are causing the climate to warm -- see the SpongeBob SquarePants debacle, the moon volcano proof, the heat index nonsense, the list goes on. But this one takes the cake: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cut Science Funding, Cut America’s Vision for the Future: Neil Degrasse Tyson (Video)

5:41 pm in Science & Technology, television by TreeHugger

Instead of closing corporate tax loopholes or eliminating huge tax breaks for the wealthy, Congress is cutting vital programs -- and scientific research and development is on top of the list (along with funding for such things as programs that provide assistance to the poor). There are countless reasons why this is majorly problematic for the future well-being of the nation. Just talking green, we could see cuts to clean energy R&D, battery development, energy efficiency research, and so on. The proposed cuts -- and specifically the proposed termination of the successor to the Hubble telescope, the James Webb -- have renowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil Degrasse Ty...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stephen Colbert: Global Warming is a Lie, Just Like Thermodynamics (Video)

1:08 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, humor, television, united states by TreeHugger

colbert-global-warming-media-myth.jpg Image: Screenshot, Comedy Central Global warming is a hoax whipped up by the media -- and so are the very laws of thermodynamics. So sayeth Stephen Colbert, in this supremely amusing segment on the latest in brain-dead global warming denial: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elon Musk Profiled on Bloomberg TV (Video)

2:36 pm in audio video, Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, television, transportation by TreeHugger

Internet, Space Rockets, Electric Cars & Solar Panels Earlier this week, Bloomberg TV ran an hour-long profile of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur of South-American origins who has been involved in companies like Zip2, Paypal, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla Motors. While it isn't just about his green activities, it shows that from the very start he's been thinking about ways to have a big impact on the world (his targeted areas: making commerce possible on the Internet, making space exploration cheaper, making clean energy more accessible and cheaper, and ma...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fox News Manufactures SpongeBob Global Warming ‘Controversy’ (Video)

2:26 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, television by TreeHugger

spongebob-global-warming-fanatic.jpg Image: Owen Prior via Flickr/CC BY There are primarily two kinds of Fox News pundits: The kind-of-dumb blowhard who actually believes the dumb things that he's saying (I'd drop Beck and O'Reilly in this bin) and the deceptively intelligent blowhard who knows how to effectively manipulate dumb ideas into audience-pleasing populist polemics (hello, Hannity). What makes the morning show Fox & Friends so bizarrely alluring is that it's populated by a combination of the two: you get the feeling that Gretchen Carlson really knows be...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fox News: Do Moon Volcanoes Disprove Climate Change? (Video)

1:32 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, television by TreeHugger

Okay, so I'm not sure how exactly the Fox News fella was going to argue that the existence of volcanoes on the moon serves as evidence that climate ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rush Limbaugh Says Heat Index is a Gov’t Conspiracy, Letterman Mocks Him (Videos)

3:40 pm in Business & Politics, radio, television, united states by TreeHugger

As fringe climate skepticism was being pushed into the cultural mainstream over the last few years, it left many environmentalists and scientists scratching their heads. How could this be happening? w...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sheryl Crow Donates Concert Proceeds to Wild Horses, and More Celebrity News

11:40 am in activism, actors, celebrities, Culture & Celebrity, music, television by TreeHugger

sheryl crow wild horses photo Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage Musician Sheryl Crow may have thought she was showing her support for animal rights when she promised to donate part of the proceeds from an upcoming Wyoming performance to the Cloud Foundation, which protects wild horses -- but some groups disagree. Showing Animals Respect and Kindness called the donation "nothing but PR spin," suggesting that the rodeo where Crow plans to perfo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Roseanne’s Nuts about Global Warming

1:11 pm in Culture & Celebrity, global climate change, hawaii, television by TreeHugger

photo roseanne-nuts-lifetime-macadamia A still from "Roseanne's Nuts," via Lifetime So you may have noticed that Roseanne Barr, formerly of the 1980s-90s hit TV comedy series "Roseanne," is making a comeback. I'll admit that I've noticed, and that I was watching a recent episode of "The View" this morning (via DVR) when Roseanne revealed her solution to all the world's problems, including global warming: The macadamia nut. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stephen Colbert Takes on Fracking

2:16 pm in Business & Politics, gas, humor, new york, oil, television, united states by TreeHugger

colbert-fracking-video.jpg Photo: Screengrab from Comedy Central It's sort of surprising that Stephen Colbert's caricature of a Foxy uber-conservative pundit has lasted this long -- he gets a remarkable amount of mileage out of his now-famous persona. Sure, his satiric character's participation in real-life politics has upped the stakes. But regular old bits like this remind us all why he's still going strong: I never have, and probably never will again, see such a comprehensive, hilarious takedown of fracking. Watch:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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