The Military Battles Climate Change
While Republicans are mobilizing to push back against President Obama’s carbon initiatives, those in military sector are sounding the alarm about climate change—and the slew of issues that it has the...
View ArticleRepublican senators seek to block funds to combat Ebola
The Party of Nope Ebola is an existential threat that will kill us all unless Obama does a number of things right now, and we are all outraged that the government is not doing more to protect us, and...
View ArticleGLOBAL WARMING DENIERS IN CONGRESSIONAL DRVER'S SEAT
Following the midterm elections, Republicans remain firmly in control of the U.S. House of Representatives and now enjoy a majority in the U.S. Senate. Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok) is expected to...
View ArticleWatch Bill Maher slam incoming climate denying senators
Bill Maher read from the Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The four major statements of the document follow. Observed Changes and their Causes...
View ArticlePost-Election: The Good, The Bad & The Future
As the election returns started to roll in on Tuesday night, I began to get the feeling that it wasn’t going to be good news for America’s environment. Every projected winner flashing by was well know...
View ArticleThe wind is rising...
This is a screen capture from a site I like to visit, earth.nullschool.net. This is an animated map of current global wind, weather, and ocean conditions. Looking at the image, two storms pop out....
View ArticleRepublicans will use their Senate majority to melt the glaciers and flood the...
Climate changer-in-chief Jim Inhofe President Obama's efforts to fight climate change are high on the Republican list of policies to obstruct or undo once their Senate majority is sworn in. The GOP...
View ArticleBad News for GOP Denier Congress: nearly 1/2 of Republicans believe in Man...
Bad news for James Inhofe the new Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton. Increasing numbers of Republicans no longer go...
View ArticleHave we reached the tipping point? 3 minutes to midnight because of global...
I became aware of global warming (that is what I call it, not climate change a term coined by a Republican) back in 2006 when I wrote a diary about it;Cheney's 1% Doctrine and Global WarmingOver the...
View ArticleWei-Hock Soon and the best Climate Change Denial money can buy
The NYT, relying on FOIA information obtained by Greenpeace.He (Dr. Soon) has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that...
View ArticleNew Congress Targets Climate with “Fifty Days of Nay”
While the public is coming off the Oscars, and a fascination with the new movie Fifty Shades of Grey, I have been focusing on a different story. It’s called Fifty Days of Nay. It’s the sad narrative...
View ArticleSenator James Inhofe disproves climate change by bringing snowball in from...
Jimmy just failed his 3rd grade science exam If you want to know how dumb the position of climate denier is you need go no further than watch Senator James Inhofe, R-OK and chair of the Committee on...
View ArticlePoll 2/3 of Americans think "combating climate change is a moral issue that...
According to a new Reuters/IPSOS poll 2/3 of Americans see taking measures to reduce Global Warming as a moral duty. Something we need to do for future generations.Most Americans see combating climate...
View ArticleICYMI: Inhofe's Snowball Rebutted
Just a quick post picked up via Scientific American. When Climate Change Denier Senator James Inhofe (R Oklahoma) showed up with a snow ball on the Senate Floor to 'prove' Climate Change is a...
View ArticleA Snowball's Chance In Hell: Why We Can't Wait For Congress To Accept Climate...
When Copernicus first advanced the idea of a heliocentric universe in the mid-16th century, the theologian and Christian reformer Martin Luther declared it to be heresy. Speaking for most of the...
View ArticleSen. James Inhofe introduces budget amendment allowing LGBT discrimination by...
We are governed by terrible people, part the whateverth.On Tuesday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) offered an amendment to the Congressional budget that could force the federal government to maintain...
View ArticleSao Paulo - The Face of Humanity
Sao Paulo is rapidly descending into a dystopian crisis that is a harbinger of future world calamity brought about by shifting climate regimes. This city of 20 million people has recently had to...
View Article'Guardian v. Warrior Cops' in McKinney, TX and Beyond: 'BradCast' 6/9/2015
Guest: Police officer turned U. of SC asst. professor Seth Stoughton...On today's BradCast, I was joined by Seth Stoughton, former cop and now asst. professor at the University of South Carolina School...
View ArticleAmerican Petroleum Institute Ads Target Smog Rules
In a move that seems ripe for a John Oliver comedy segment, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has taken to radio, print, television, and social media to blanket Americans with the concept that our...
View Article“We are not Scientists…”—but we are paid off Deniers of Science
In previous blogs we have discussed the virtual mathematical impossibility of every Stupidparty member of the House Energy committee (31 of them) being so stupid that they actually believe the climate...
View ArticleA Tiny Bit of Good News from the Science Community on Global Warming
A new proposed scientific model of the sun’s magnetic field suggests that there will be a brief measurable cooling of the earth starting in the year 2030, and lasting perhaps 30 years, similar to the...
View ArticleIn My "Opinion", ...
Recently one of my Facebook friends posted the clever cartoon shown above. I love the drawing in which what appears to be 4 beams on the left morph into what appears to be 3 beams on the right. But...
View ArticleSurveying American Sins at Solstice
Reflection is needed for repair and reform. The Christmas greeting, "Peace on earth, goodwill toward men," is rooted in the Gospel yet has a universal pull. As an aspiration it seems as distant as...
View ArticleIs the Battle Over Before it's Begun?
Yes, the supreme court battle has begun and, so far, it is apparent that most of the casualties are already on the Republican side and the injuries are self-inflicted. If you haven’t yet come to this...
View ArticleLetter to James Inhofe: How to expose Global Warming for the hoax it really is
While looking over links from a recent column by Paul Krugman, I found an interesting research paper on the psychology of climate science denial, NASA faked the moon landing—Therefore (Climate) Science...
View ArticleSenator Jim Inhofe (R- Oklahomistan) Veers Off Runway
Literally.Senator Jim Inhofe walked away unscathed Sunday night after reportedly skidding off an Oklahoma airport runway after landing a small plane.Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for Inhofe, said the...
View Article5 Things You Should Know About Global Warming
1 — The Earth is 510 million square kilometers or 197 million square miles. It has 7 continents, 5 oceans, 4 seasons, 2 hemispheres, 2 frozen poles, 1 hot equator, day and night.This makes taking it’s...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: James Inhofe- 2016 Update
On this date, in both 2014, as well as in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day shared its first two profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the evidence he...
View ArticleKoch Industries and Fracking Lobbyist Mike Catanzaro To Lead Trump Energy Team
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogThe Washington Post has reported that Mike Catanzaro, a former senior energy staffer for Republican Party House Majority Leader John Boehner with a track record of climate...
View Article'Inhofe brigade' of climate-science deniers and program slashers settle in as...
A year ago, Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma was a joke. The former mayor of Tulsa was first elected to the Senate in 1994 and since then has built a reputation as an anti-scientific numbskull....
View ArticleRepublican lawmakers move to cash in on healthcare repeal by buying up stock...
Who knew kicking 22 million people out of their health insurance could be so lucrative?Just as the Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, Rep. Mike Conaway, a Texas...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: James Inhofe
On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the evidence he needs to...
View ArticleRepublican Senators demand investigation of National Science Foundation—for...
Republicans have developed an abiding love for Inspector General investigations, and now a group of Senators including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, James Lankford, and James Inhofe are calling for another...
View ArticleWomen’s Voices Stymie Trump Agenda
Recent top headlines focused on two stories: Family separation of immigrants seeking asylum at America’s southern border, and the “exit” of Scott Pruitt from the helm of the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleSenator Snowball blames the late John McCain for Trump Snub.
Not snark or the Onion.Just when you think you’ve seen the bottom of GOP cruelty and absurdity, you read this: GOP Sen. Inhofe: McCain ‘Partially to Blame’ for Flag Ordeal Because He Was Mean to...
View ArticleMcCain's Senate Armed Services Committee gavel now expected to pass to a...
It is all but unavoidable in the modern Republican Party that Sen. John McCain will be replaced in his various roles by people who are markedly stupider than him. In particular, McCain's role as as...
View ArticleTrump denies calling anyone, ever, 'mentally retarded.' As usual, he lies
“The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions ‘mentally retarded’ and ‘a dumb southerner,’” Donald Trump tweeted late Tuesday night. “I said...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: James Inhofe- 2018 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the evidence he needs...
View ArticleAfter reporters catch Armed Services Chair trading defense stock, it's flash...
Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a RepublicanOfCourse, is settling in to his new position as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Inhofe, who got the job after the death of previous chairman...
View ArticleBREAKING: 14 GOP senators thunder their outrage at the high crime of witness...
Quite often the British newspaper The Guardian outdoes American corporate media in covering American politics, and I’ve got an example here, let’s call it the latest in their “GOP hypocrisy test”...
View ArticlePowerful Republican senator puts his lake house over flood prevention for a...
Sen. James Inhofe is taking strong action to defend the quality of boating and swimming at the lake where he has a vacation home, even at the cost of flooding in a nearby community. The Oklahoma...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: James Inhofe- 2019 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the evidence he...
View ArticleStupid Republican of the Day: Senator James Inhofe (Trump is 24/7/365)
Stupid Republican of the Day: Senator James Inhofe, (R) OklahomaThe President of the United States calls you Wednesday night while you are eating out at an Italian restaurant. (Alas, there’s no mention...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: James Inhofe- 2020 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the...
View ArticleOpponents of a real crackdown on military sexual assault have help from a key...
Here’s a headline for you. From the Associated Press: "Military leaders wary of changes in sexual assault policy." You don’t say! After years and years of admitting under pressure that yes, they have a...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: James Inhofe- 2021 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the Bible as the...
View ArticleMisuse of the Espionage Act of 1917 and its 2022 Use Against Donald Trump:...
Guest: ACLU's Ben Wizner; Also: Results from KS abortion amendment recountDems quietly outsmart GOP/SCOTUS on climateMore...On today's BradCast: Based on the FBI's unsealed warrant for their recent...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: James Inhofe- 2022 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a man who cites the...
View ArticleMeanwhile... : 'BradCast' 7/11/2024
Biden's tenuous candidacy; Trump and Orban; Inflation, prices falling; Climate liar Inhofe dies; California's stunning solar revolution…We went to air on today's BradCast prior to Joe Biden's...
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