The Plum Line Archive: Climate change
The Morning Plum
* States grapple with whether to stop implementing health law: An important story: As I noted here yesterday, Wisconsin is threatening in the wake of Judge Vinson's ruling to stop implementing the health reform law. Now many other states are...
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Greg Sargent
| February 2, 2011; 8:40 AM ET |
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Climate change, Foreign policy and national security, Health reform, House GOPers, Morning Plum, Senate Dems, Senate Republicans, Supreme Court
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GOP leadership cool to hearings into "scientific fraud" underlying global warming
Last week there was widespread speculation that the GOP is planning to hold high profile hearings next year into the "scientific fraud" behind global warming. The news touched off a round of anxious commentary among liberals about the coming rash...
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Greg Sargent
| November 8, 2010; 3:45 PM ET |
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Climate change, House GOPers
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Pat Toomey: Human activity might not be main cause of global warming
As many people have already pointed out, some of the leading beneficiaries of this season of Tea Party craziness are Republican candidates who hold extreme views on specific issues but nonetheless come across as moderate and reasonable when compared to...
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Greg Sargent
| October 11, 2010; 2:28 PM ET |
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2010 elections, Climate change, Senate Republicans, Tea Party
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The Morning Plum
* It's the disclosure, stupid: With the war between Obama/Dems and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entering into its second week, it's important to keep in mind that the foreign money charges should only be a small part of this...
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Greg Sargent
| October 11, 2010; 9:00 AM ET |
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2010 elections, Campaign finance, Climate change, Morning Plum, Tea Party, economy
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More House Dems fleeing (and bashing) Obama and Pelosi
Little by little, we're starting to see more House Dems running ads distancing them from President Obama and Nancy Pelosi -- and even directly taking them on. Some of the spots bash the Obama/Dem agenda in ways that echo GOP...
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Greg Sargent
| August 25, 2010; 3:04 PM ET |
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2010 elections, Climate change, Health reform, House Dems, House GOPers
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VIDEO surfaces of Ron Johnson blaming climate change on "sunspot activity"
Ron Johnson, the Tea Party-backed candidate challenging Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, took some flak and generated cable chatter when word surfaced earlier this week that he'd blamed climate change on "sunspot activity." Johnson originally made the claim to the Milwaukee...
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Greg Sargent
| August 20, 2010; 1:47 PM ET |
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2010 elections, Climate change
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