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Climategate Scientists Cleared Of All Charges Of Dishonesty

In a blow to global warming deniers everywhere, an official review released today has cleared all the Climategate scientists from charges of dishonesty. Turns out what they were guilty of was not sharing enough.

Rachel Maddow Compares ‘Bogus’ ACORN Scandal To ‘Made-Up’ Climategate

Rachel Maddow is uncovering a 'scandalous' trend. On Thursday, after an investigation into James O'Keefe's (unedited) ACORN tapes the California Attorney General released a statement saying "that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality." Maddow draws some comparisons to another recent scandal.

Climategate Scientists Cleared by British Panel Of Science and Technology Experts

In the debate on global climate change, Global Warming proponents may have just gotten their favorite closing argument back. The Associated Press is reporting that a British panel, made up of the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee, has completed an investigation today that clears the Climategate scientists of nearly all wrongdoing and validated...

President Obama Would Like You To Know Climate Change Is Real

President Obama went to Las Vegas today. (How many people do you think have already made the joke 'a little less conversation, a little more action please'?) While out there he discussed, among other things, the recent extreme weather conditions across the country. No matter what some parts of the conservative party...

Rachel Maddow: Glenn Beck Fans The Ones Most Likely To Mail Me Death Threats

If this is the beginning of some sort of media match between Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow, then I think Maddow won the first round. To begin, it looks like Glenn Beck is in trouble again for not remembering what he himself has said. This time with Rachel Maddow. Also, he called...

Climategate: five notorious hacks

Following allegations by Sir David King, the government's chief scientist under Tony Blair, that foreign spies were to blame for the hacked emails that set off the 'Climategate' scandal, we look at five of the world's most notorious hacking incidents.

Climategate Fallout? Growing Skepticism That Global Warming Is Behind Cold Spell

It appears that the relentless coverage of the Climategate scandal may have had some effect. Despite the record low temperatures -- and regardless of what they may actually signify -- fewer people believe that extreme weather conditions are the result of global warming than did just two years ago.

Old-School Reporter Asks Robert Gibbs Why it’s So Cold Outside

World Net Daily correspondent and conservative radio host Lester Kinsolving, with an assist from NBC's Mike Viqueira, threw more hilariously loaded questions at Robert Gibbs from behind his signature shotgun mic. He touched on some subjects sure to tickle the sensibilities of the birther/global warming denier/dittohead set when he asked Press Secretary...

Is Drudge Changing His Mind About Climate Change?

Is Drudge warming up to the idea of climate change? After spending last month heralding the leaked Climategate emails and the subsequent uproar over the Copenhagen summit, Drudge has been devoting some significant space to extreme weather conditions taking place around the globe. So much so he's devoted the entire upper left section...

Top Ten ‘-Gate’ Scandals Of 2009

2009 has been a year of controversies. Some of them were big, like Climategate. Some of them were not very big, but were nevertheless blown up by blogs and cable news, like Jackass-gate, when President Obama referred to Kanye West as a "Jackass." Many were united by that ever-persistent "-gate" suffix. In this slideshow,...

Is Hillary Clinton Preparing For War With Canada Over The Arctic?

Here's an interesting tidbit buried part way through Newsweek's interview with Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger. In the process of describing how one of the requirements of her job is to keep an eye on future problems, which lead to a description of this scenario, perhaps call it Climategate, The War Games?

Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory Takes On Global Warming, Climategate

Jesse Ventura's TruTV show Conspiracy Theory got contemporary last night when it covered two of today's most-debated topics: global warming and Climategate. Last week, the show proved that it wouldn't shy from controversy by taking on 9/11 conspiracy theories. But Ventura had already been on the record as a 9/11 skeptic before the...