Lying with Statistics

Peter Hart at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) points out that Bill O’Reilly claimed that the New England Journal of Medicine denounced health-care reform. But…that wasn’t, you know, true. He cited some statistics about how supposedly...
Strange Snow Patterns Consistent with Climate Change

Strange Snow Patterns Consistent with Climate Change

Freak snowstorms plunged the nation’s capital and the rest of the mid-Atlantic United States into utter chaos in February. The federal government shut down for nearly a week, many schools turned President’s Day into an unexpected 10-day-long “snowcation,” public...

Is Our Democracy Becoming a Joke?

This article was originally published in Common Dreams on 2/11/10. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a dramatic press conference in October. The group promised to stop lobbying against pending climate legislation, and pledged to help make it even stronger. A few...

Save Winter: Stop Tar Sands

As the Winter Olympics gear up and athletes tear through snow and ice in their various sports, our minds may not be on climate change. Many have found it strange to read reports of no snow in Vancouver, but we know that because of global warming, future winter Olympic...