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Are We Stuck With ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, … Bang’?

May 29, 2010
Are We Stuck With ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, … Bang’?

Are We Stuck With ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, … Bang’? By ANDREW C. REVKIN I was struck by a comment that followed my latest piece on cutting disaster risks, reacting to this line: “Only direct experience seems to trigger change.” Yeah. It seems Homo S “Sapiens” at large needs to first get hit by the...
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Deconstructing Lord Chris Monckton

May 28, 2010
Deconstructing Lord Chris Monckton

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, aka Lord Chris Monckton, never had much credibility. He is not a scientist, even less a climatologist, in fact he has no science background to speak of. He has not ever published any research paper in a journal, even less any on climatology. He is also a hate-monger who...
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Esteemed Scientists Hit Back at Climate Denier Campaign In Science Letter

May 8, 2010

255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel laureates, have penned a letter in Science slamming the disinformation campaign orchestrated by a small network of climate deniers that has confused the public about the real danger of climate disruption. The scientists’ letter, published in the May 7th issue of the...
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Weathermen, and other climate change skeptics : The New Yorker

April 14, 2010

APRIL 12, 2010 Joe Bastardi, who goes by the title “expert senior forecaster” at AccuWeather, has a modest proposal. Virtually every major scientific body in the world has concluded that the planet is warming, and that greenhouse-gas emissions are the main cause. Bastardi, who holds a bachelor’s degree in meteorology, disagrees. His theory, which...
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Bye-bye, global cooling myth: Hottest March and hottest 1st Quarter on record

April 13, 2010
Bye-bye, global cooling myth: Hottest March and hottest 1st Quarter on record

It was the hottest March in both satellite records (UAH and RSS), and tied for the hottest March on record in the NASA dataset. It was the hottest (or tied for hottest) January through March in all three records. The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest...
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Climate Scientist Bashing: a popular sport amongst German journalists

April 8, 2010
Climate Scientist Bashing: a popular sport amongst German journalists

A new popular sport in some media these days is “climate scientist bashing”. Instead of dealing soberly with the climate problem they prefer to attack climate scientists, i.e. the bearers of bad news. The German magazine DER SPIEGEL has played this game last week under the suggestive heading “Die Wolkenschieber” – which literally translated...
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How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics’ lies

April 7, 2010

Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false – there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/climategate-bogus-sceptics-lies
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A Fish-Climate Analogy

May 9, 2009

Here’s a thought provoking analogy, comparing what’s happening with climate-change denial to what has happened with the cod fisheries in Newfoundland. The tragedy of climate commons
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That Swindle again

July 23, 2008

We’ve talked about the big swindle here before, you know the one entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot: Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications
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The Toronto Sun Tabloid

February 13, 2008

The Toronto Sun published a column by Lorrie Goldstein, and that column showcases the outstanding (not) quality of journalism in that tabloid. Goldstein obviously has no understanding of climate science whatsoever and so he resorts to insults and ridicule to attack a view he obviously despises. I wrote them a comment to complain about...
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