DeSmogBlog is honored to be recognized by TIME magazine in the Top 25 list of The Best Blogs of 2011.
TIME reporter Bryan Walsh calls DeSmogBlog a "necessary corrective" and "the antidote" to the corporate smoke screen surrounding news coverage of climate change and energy issues.
Here is the full blurb about DeSmogBlog from Bryan Walsh at TIME:
A corporate smoke screen surrounds much of the coverage of climate-change and energy issues. Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation. Started in 2006 by James [Hoggan], a Canadian p.r. guru, DeSmogBlog dissects the half truths and outright lies around climate change, acting as an aggregator for smart research and opinion on green issues. If it sometimes goes too far — as with its jihad against gas fracking — DeSmogBlog is nevertheless a necessary corrective.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
You don't see this every day. President Barack Obama used Twitter today to call out climate deniers in Congress who are blocking political action to address climate change. 
The tweet links to this video released by Organizing for Action, the 501(c)(4) campaign group that promotes the President's national agenda.
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Congrats guys & well done.
Congrats guys & well done. You have a good team there.
Congratulations!
Congratulations for being recognized by Time. You all really deserve it!
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Well done!
I can only laugh at the
I can only laugh at the corporate shills at Time calling out a "Jihad" against gas fracking. Sorry if some of us like the idea of protecting the integrity of our ground water and landscapes. Keep up the good work guys!
Well-done!
Well-done!
Some at Time still don't get it
was my immediate reaction when I read, 'If it sometimes goes too far — as with its jihad against gas fracking...'.
Since when is jihad the correct term to use to describe a campaign for truth and responsibility?
Journo's just have to be journo's I guess and mangle language at every opportunity.
Congrat's DMB - well deserved and I hope that some of the deniers around here and eslewhere take notice.
Denierificationalist ? - Cough!
'Since when is a "campaign for truth and responsibility" (LOL!) use disinformation, deceit, and smear tactics?'
Ah! Another who mangles the language to make juvenile comments. Too much time feeding on Morano offal perhaps.