WTF, GOP? | Mother Jones

Dear Republicans: You shoulda had this election in the bag. But then you took a long detour to Crazytown.  

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Professor: If you want to roll the climate dice, you should know the odds

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The GOP Tries to Woman Up | The Nation

You can’t blame Republicans for wanting to change the subject. Rush Limbaugh’s slut-shaming of Sandra Fluke turned into an unmitigated disaster for the GOP, making clear how the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood—supported by all the pillars of the party, i …

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Mitt Romney: Climate Flip-flopper and Fracking Defender

This id the best the GOP has to offer?

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Small Town's Police Blotter Is A Riot

And you think small towns are boring. Law and disorder with a creative twist.

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What is the purpose of the United States?

What is the purpose of the United States of America? To make people rich? No.

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Diagnosing the Republican Brain | Mother Jones

Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome, and that's precisely where our country stands now with regard to the conservative denial of reality. For a long time, we've been trained to equivocate, to not to see it for  …

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Why Nobody Takes Ending Oil Subsidies Seriously

it is completely unremarkable that Republicans should curry favor to oil companies. Republicans and Big Oil are on the same team, see—of course they have the same horse in the race. But you'd be hard pressed to find a mainstream reporter point out any inherent ideological dis …

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A Message From A Republican Meteorologist On Climate Change

I’m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real. I am a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment, and sound science. I am not a climate scientist.  …

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Global Warming May Have Fueled March Heat Wave Odds | Climate Central

Although studies have not yet been conducted on the main factors that triggered this heat wave and whether global warming may have tilted the odds in favor of the event, scientific studies of previous heat events clearly show that global warming increases the odds of heat extre …

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Corporations Wrote a Law Requiring Climate Denial be Taught in School. Tennessee Just Passed It. : TreeHugger

One such model bill has just passed the Tennessee state legislature, and this one mandates that schools teach climate science as a theory alongside other 'credible' theories—like those ones preferred by fossil fuels companies, for example, that hold that global warming is …

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Republicans Are Blocking the Violence Against Women Act | Mother Jones

standing in the way of the Violence Against Women Act is a strange decision for a party that's spent the last few weeks playing defense on women's rights issues.

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Natural born drillers: Why shale gas won't end our energy woes | Grist

Does any of this impact the environment? (Hint: Yes) If individual shale gas wells are less productive than industry predicted, companies say they will simply drill more wells or simply re-frack wells repeatedly to get more gas flowing. That means more open spaces lost to indu …

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Has Green Failed Because Environmental Donors Have Been Giving to the Wrong Groups? : TreeHugger

Floating out under the radar about ten days ago was a new report on philanthropy and the environmental movement, which purports to have at least part of the solution to why, by and large, 1) there have been both been so few major political victories on environmental issues (at  …

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"The Lorax": Cue Fox News Freakout | Mother Jones

The Lorax will feel like nefarious agitprop to those who exist in a world where anything short of being a total ass to trees is akin to letting the terrorists win.

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Fracking Bans that Can Stand by Maura Stephens — YES! Magazine

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Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong by William D. Nordhaus | The New York Review of Books

Deniers should be careful who they cite! They may be in for an inconvenient surprise.

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Since When Was Creating Jobs & Building Community Elitism? : TreeHugger

To suggest that the people buying 100% local, organic t-shirts from the fields of North Carolina, or focusing their purchasing power on the farming communities that surround them, are elitist is a heinous lie.

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Judge Upholds Hydrofracking Ban in Middlefield, N.Y. - NYTimes.com

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Fracking debate divides New York landowners

As the state prepares to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, many people debate the risks of leasing mineral rights to extraction companies.  thousands of others along the Pennsylvania border, where rich natural gas deposits underlie forests,  …

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