Christmas season is making me tired. Every year, I get tired of hearing jaunty, NutriSweet-y jingles that sound like they're sung by Hello Kitty touted as "Chrismas Carols" and played earlier and earlier in the fall. "Here Comes Santa Claus" on November 11 — it's a revolting enough song if you have to hear it once. But do we really need to endure this particular brand of … [Read more...]
#22: We push back on Beck (Limbaugh & Hannity too)
There are lots of websites out there covering climate change. Some of them even use humor. But when Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other Fox News bloviators used record cold weather last winter as an excuse to bash climate science, Transition Voice was the only one to hit back with our own Global Warming Truth Index. It's a snarky parody that purports to … [Read more...]
The iceman cometh. Al Gore goeth?
January was a banner month for snowstorms and wintry weather across the US. It was also a banner month for Fox News commentators to excoriate Al Gore and pound home the message that global warming must be a hoax. In the second month of its new Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Global Warming Truth Index, Transition Voice has again collected weather data from the three Fox commentators' … [Read more...]
Can the Army make America care about climate?
If Al Gore can't get Americans to care about climate, then who can? Actually, we think Gore did a pretty good job in An Inconvenient Truth. If he hadn't, Sean Hannity and his buddies at Fox wouldn't be attacking Gore about climate science all the time. But for the audience that's more likely to watch Hannity than Gore, the Pew Climate Security Project has launched a smart … [Read more...]
Robots refute peak oil skeptics
If you're a fan of cartoon robots that swear like Dave Chappelle in slow, syllable-enunciating computer-generated voices, then "Have You Heard about Peak Oil?" by Noodles/xtranormal is the video for you. It starts off with the direct approach: "Have you heard about peak oil?" "I don't want to hear anything about your global warming bullshit. It's a hoax perpetrated by the … [Read more...]