Heartland Institute

Climate Change Scientist Used G-Mail Account To Trick Anti-Climate Science Think Tank

Ryan J. Reilly | February 24, 2012, 3:28PM

Emails released by the Heartland Institute this week show that scientist Peter Gleick apparently created a G-mail account under the name of an existing board member to trick the group, which casts doubt on the science of man-made climate change, into sending him internal documents that he later sent to the press.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel Will Air Climate Change Documentary Episode

David Taintor | December 9, 2011, 1:09PM

The Discovery Channel has apparently warmed up to climate change.

About a month ago, Discovery reportedly cited a "scheduling issue" to explain why it would not air the seventh episode of the documentary series Frozen Planet -- an episode that focuses specifically on the impact of climate change on the planet. The network always planned to incorporate the climate change content into the other episodes of the series, which Discovery co-produced with the BBC.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel Passes On Climate Change Documentary Episode

David Taintor | November 16, 2011, 3:10PM

Because of a "scheduling issue", American viewers won't be seeing a new BBC documentary program focusing on climate change.

The Telegraph reports that the seven-part series, Frozen Planet, will include that seventh climate change episode as an "optional extra" -- not to be seen on the Discovery Channel in the U.S.

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Climate Change

National Science Foundation Clears 'Climate-Gate' Scientist Of Any Misconduct

Jillian Rayfield | August 24, 2011, 6:15AM

Climatologist Michael Mann

The National Science Foundation has cleared climatologist and Penn State professor Michael Mann of any misconduct in the "Climate-Gate" controversy, which became a lightning rod for climate change skeptics in 2009.

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John Shimkus

Climate Change Denier Shimkus To Head Environment Subcommittee (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | December 20, 2010, 9:46AM

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) -- the guy who thinks that man can't really destroy the planet because the Bible says only God can -- was passed over for chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in favor of Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI).

But now Upton has named Shimkus to chair the Environment and Economy Subcommittee. That subcommittee has jurisdiction over issues like national energy policy, energy regulation and utilization and the Clean Air Act.

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Fox News

Fox News Bureau Chief Told Staff To Cast Doubt On Climate Change

Ryan J. Reilly | December 15, 2010, 9:30AM

Fox News correspondent Wendell Goler and Fox vice president Bill Sammon

Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Bill Sammon e-mailed staffers last December to instruct them not to assert that the "planet has warmed (or cooled)" without "IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."

Sammon's e-mail, obtained by Media Matters, came less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler reported on-air that the World Meteorological Organization at the U.N. said 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record."

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Climate-Gate

'Plagiarized' GOP-Commissioned Climate Change Report Laid Groundwork For Climate-Gate

Rachel Slajda | November 29, 2010, 8:36AM

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

In 2005, the then-chairman of the House Energy Committee, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), a climate change skeptic, commissioned a report that would challenge the data in two major climate change papers, including the popular "hockey stick" theory. In 2006, the Barton-commissioned report was released and heralded by climate change skeptics the country over, laying the groundwork for last year's "Climate-Gate" controversies.

Last week, experts who reviewed the report for USA Today determined that the report was largely plagiarized.

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Joe Barton

Congressional Report Denying Climate Change Was Likely Plagiarized

Rachel Slajda | November 22, 2010, 6:30PM

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

Experts hired by USA Today to analyze a 2006 Congressional report that questioned global warming data say the report appears to have been plagiarized heavily from textbooks and Wikipedia.

The report was requested, and then often quoted, by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) when he was chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It was written by Edward Wegman, a statistician with George Mason University. The school is now conducting its own investigation into whether Wegman plagiarized the report, which calls into question numbers used by climate scientists.

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Global Warming

GOP Takeover In The House May Spell Doom For Obama's Environmental Policies

Ryan J. Reilly and Johanna Barr | November 8, 2010, 10:19AM

Reps. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Ralph Hall (R-TX)

Republican Members of the House of Representatives are set to take on a larger role in setting environmental priorities and funding scientific research in the 112th Congress, in the wake of a blue-ribbon report that once again warned that the U.S. is in danger of slipping in global science and technology.

So it's a bit troubling that some of them don't believe in climate change and still others want to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of some of its power to regulate pollution. And then, of course, there's the guy who apologized to BP on behalf of the government after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

So, where do those guys stand on environmental policy? Pretty far from where the Administration wants to go, it seems.

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