Ari Schulman: The Beaker And the Ballot

Where Mr. Mooney previously took the role of culture warrior, here he purports to play that of scientist. All too obviously, for him, the subject of his analysis is delusional; the question is, how did his brain get this way? The answer, he claims, traces back to primitive tribal imperatives of group identification and persuasion. Conservative thinking remains encoded in the regions of the brain devoted to fear, threat and authority, whereas liberals use more-evolved regions.

NRCC uses Solyndra, cap and trade in attack ads - Darren Goode - POLITICO.com

The National Republican Congressional Committee has rolled out a trio of ads seizing on two of the GOP’s favorite attack points: Solyndra and cap and trade.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Mann talks climate change politics | NCPR News

[q] And, [the temperature] shoots right up, not quite straight but dramatically up.

[Mann] That’s right, and to levels that exceed anything that we have seen in the past.