Latest Myths We're Tracking

The American Power Act and Electricity Bills

Opponents of reform consistently mislead people on the American Power Act's effect on electricity bills, but the EPA recently studied it and said that the APA lowers energy bills.

Latest Myths We're Tracking

The American Power Act and Jobs

Recent studies have all put the lie to one of the most common attacks of the American Power Act. The studies show huge job growth from passing the legislation

Latest Myths We're Tracking

National Security and Climate Change

Knowing that the threat of climate change on our national security can motivate us to action, opponents of reform through non-sequiturs and distortions to muddy the waters

Latest Myths We're Tracking

American Power Act

The folks opposed to action on climate keep distorting the American Power Act, but it has no energy tax at all.

Latest Myths We're Tracking

The Netherlands Below Sea Level

Deniers are attacking the IPCC for using figures provided by the Dutch government.

Behind the Distortions:

Cash

Little Straw Men

Contributor Kevin Grandia takes a look at an old and misleading PR strategy that the obstructionists use time and time again in the climate change fight.

UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE:

Understanding the science

The Pattern of Denials

Contributor John Cook continues a regular series looking at the science of climate change with a look at the patterns and characteristics of the denialist arguments. The distortions are predictable and fall into the same patterns nearly every time. Get your cheat sheet on how to spot it.

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University of East Anglia

The UEA Emails

Recently, over a thousand emails between climate scientists were stolen from a server in the University of East Anglia in England. The contents of these emails do nothing to cast any doubt whatsoever on the science of climate change, but many have distorted their contents to push an agenda.