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getenergysmartnow.com - 3/16/2009
The Will Affair … struggling to keep up
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Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Is George Will the Most Ignorant National Columnist? and The day DC journalism died: Washington Post is staffed with people who found ZERO mistakes in George Will’s error-filled denial column Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, Where There’s a (George) Will There’s A Way … To ...
initforthegold.blogspot.com - 3/9/2009
For the Second Day in a Row
— initforthegold.blogspot.com — For the second day in a row Mark Morano has issued a press release from Senator Inhofe's... office essentially reporting that I make an equivalence between criticizing Al Gore and responsibility for 1000 deaths. Unfortunately for me I said something ... (more) For the Second Day in a Row

Comments vote down RealClimate found this 3/9/2009found this
Plastic into Oil? What do you think?
fakeplasticfish.com - 3/17/2009
Plastic into Oil? What do you think?
— fakeplasticfish.com — This just in: Oregon plastics recycler, Agri-Plas , has begun converting plastic waste back into crude oil.... According to Businesswire , "the company recently delivered its first full tanker (8,200 gallons) of oil to a refinery in Tacoma, Wash., which translates to a final delivery of 196 ... (more) Plastic into Oil? What do you think?

Comments vote down FakePlasticFish FakePlasticFish posted 3/17/2009posted this
theenergycollective.com - 3/23/2009
A mea culpa by the Washington Post, or not
— theenergycollective.com — The Washington Post has published Chris Mooney's intelligent critique of the mistaken claims about climate science in... recent columns by the paper's own George Will. Here's the take home message: Readers and commentators must learn to share some practices with scientists -- following up on ... (more) A mea culpa by the Washington Post, or not

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The Energy Collective:  George Will and the lessons we can learn from Greenland

Only In It For The Gold:  Chris Mooney Responds to Will in Washington Post

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George Will and the lessons we can learn from Greenland
The Energy Collective — ... Followers of the climate news online are no doubt aware of the web-plosion caused by an error-filled column by Washington Post op-ed columnist George Will. ...

Chris Mooney Responds to Will in Washington Post
Only In It For The Gold — ... PPS - Adam Siegel has some interesting meta-comments on the DKos site (he remains critical of the Post) and a huge plethora of links on the whole business. ...

Triumph of the Will bashers
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... I didn't follow the George Will Climate Crank Controversy very closely on this blog. You can read a comprehensive play-by-play from Adam Siegel here. ...

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