Tag: Television - Page 4
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Watching TV For An Hour Will Shorten Your Life By 21.8 Minutes
There are often times that one gets up from watching the television thinking that those are sixty minutes that you are never going to get back, but it is worse than you know. A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine calculates
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GOP Spinmaster Teaches Stephen Colbert How to Sugarcoat Oil Drilling & Global Warming (Video)
Frank Luntz is arguably one of the biggest reasons the United States has been able to dodge taking action to address climate change for so long -- in an infamous memo (which was leaked and obtained by a green group), he
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Fox News Gives Science Lesson on Why Humans Aren't Causing Global Warming
As of late, Fox News has been particularly shameless in its never-ending quest to sow doubt about the unequivocal scientific consensus that humans are causing the climate to warm -- see the SpongeBob SquarePants debacle,
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Cut Science Funding, Cut America's Vision for the Future: Neil Degrasse Tyson (Video)
Instead of closing corporate tax loopholes or eliminating huge tax breaks for the wealthy, Congress is cutting vital programs -- and scientific research and development is on top of the list (along with funding for such things as programs that provide
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Stephen Colbert: Global Warming is a Lie, Just Like Thermodynamics (Video)
Global warming is a hoax whipped up by the media -- and so are the very laws of thermodynamics. So sayeth Stephen Colbert, in this supremely amusing segment on the latest in brain-dead global warming denial:
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Elon Musk Profiled on Bloomberg TV (Video)
Internet, Space Rockets, Electric Cars & Solar Panels Earlier this week, Bloomberg TV ran an hour-long profile of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur of South-American origins who has been involved in companies like Zip2, Paypal, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla
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Fox News Manufactures SpongeBob Global Warming 'Controversy' (Video)
There are primarily two kinds of Fox News pundits: The kind-of-dumb blowhard who actually believes the dumb things that he's saying (I'd drop Beck and O'Reilly in this bin) and the deceptively intelligent blowhard who
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Fox News: Do Moon Volcanoes Disprove Climate Change? (Video)
Okay, so I'm not sure how exactly the Fox News fella was going to argue that the existence of volcanoes on the moon serves as evidence that climate change isn't happening here on earth, but I'm sure it would have been good! Fortunately for him, Bill
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Rush Limbaugh Says Heat Index is a Gov't Conspiracy, Letterman Mocks Him (Videos)
As fringe climate skepticism was being pushed into the cultural mainstream over the last few years, it left many environmentalists and scientists scratching their heads. How could this be happening? we wondered. So we protested, debunked, and screamed
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Sheryl Crow Donates Concert Proceeds to Wild Horses, and More Celebrity News
Musician Sheryl Crow may have thought she was showing her support for animal rights when she promised to donate part of the proceeds from an upcoming Wyoming performance to the Cloud Foundation, which protects wild horses
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Roseanne's Nuts about Global Warming
So you may have noticed that Roseanne Barr, formerly of the 1980s-90s hit TV comedy series "Roseanne," is making a comeback. I'll admit that I've noticed, and that I was watching a recent episode of "The
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Stephen Colbert Takes on Fracking
It's sort of surprising that Stephen Colbert's caricature of a Foxy uber-conservative pundit has lasted this long -- he gets a remarkable amount of mileage out of his now-famous persona. Sure, his satiric
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Al Gore to Air Longest Reality TV Show Episode Ever
...And It's All About Climate Al Gore has been in the news quite a bit lately -- and not just because I unwittingly helped start a far-right media frenzy by filming his comments on population issues. Between the release of his acclaimed Our Choice book
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Conan O'Brien Commutes via Carpool and Fights LA Traffic With Road Rage (Video)
There are lots of great reasons to carpool to work. It saves gas money, reduces carbon emissions, and fights traffic by putting fewer cars on the road. It even decreases stress levels. And using late night talk show hosts as
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Talks National Parks, Celebs Take a Stand Against Shark Finning, and More
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is such a big fan of nature that her environmentally-friendly home includes a retractable roof that provides natural cooling -- while giving her an unobstructed view of the outdoors and the
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Rush Limbaugh: Still the Nation's #1 Climate Naysayer
Is Rush Limbaugh Our Preeminent Climate Skeptic? Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the most typical climate change naysayer to have a major media platform at his disposal. There are, or course, a host of well-known professional skeptics like the publicity hound
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Bob Barker Wants You to Stay Away from SeaWorld and More Celebrity News
Animal rights activist Bob Barker partnered with PETA this week, filming a public service announcement that asks families planning their summer vacation to skip SeaWorld, saying, "Life in cramped tanks is
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TV News Overwhelmingly Dominated by Opponents of EPA: Report
But Public Opinion Tells Another Tale ... Last April, a CNN/Opinion Research Poll found that a whopping 71% of Americans thought that the EPA should be allowed to move forward with greenhouse gas regulations. Before that, a
