Dems launch series of climate change speeches to fight GOP 'climate deniers' - The Hill's Floor Action

"There are a number of us who plan on speaking every day on the House floor on the need for Congress to take action on climate change," Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said on the House floor.

"We're making this commitment because this chamber is filled with such a large collection of climate deniers," he said.
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Earlier in the day, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said on the floor that a new study from Harvard University and Oregon State University shows that the Earth is hotter now than it has been in the last 11,300 years. He said the use of engines and turbines over the last 100 years has caused more warming than in the last 100 centuries combined.

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Feature: Targets of global warming documentary unconcerned, amused | Washington Free Beacon

Only a handful of people showed up to a screening of Greedy Lying Bastards—Craig Rosebraugh’s documentary that aims to expose the global warming denialist-industrial complex—at an Alexandria, Va., theater on Saturday. And none of them seemed to notice one of the documentary’s star villains seated in the audience.
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Bastards also struggles to explain how a small group of conservative activists stopped a Democratic-controlled Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration from taking any meaningful steps to deal with climate change.
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The three “denialist” organizations Rosebraugh singles out—CEI, Americans for Prosperity, and the Heartland Institute—received a combined $34 million in grants and contributions in 2011. The Sierra Club alone received around $85 million during the same time period.
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“It’s interesting that such a small group of people can [be blamed for] kind of thwart[ing] the international consensus,” Ebell said. “If it’s all so obvious, why couldn’t they get it through Congress?”

Rosebraugh’s movie is not able to answer that question.
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Bastards ends up looking like a bookend to An Inconvenient Truth. Seven years ago, Vice President Al Gore set out to persuade the public that the human-caused global warming theory was both a fact and an imminent threat. Now the task is being left to radicals such as Rosebraugh. And just as Truth marked the mainstreaming of the global warming movement, Bastards may mark its descent into the fringes.