Archive for the 'The Denial Machine' Category

Fun with Statistical Correlation

The excellent RealClimate.org website is poking fun at The Great Global Warming Swindle and their manipulation of solar activity vs warming graphs.
It’s an entertaining read.

Debunking the “Great Swindle”

Ever since the “Great Global Warming Swindle” came out, some of my contrarian readers have repeatedly pointed to it as proof that Global Warming is a hoax, and I have repeatedly pointed out the producer’s past “swindles”, as well as the lack of credibility of most of the “scientists” they used, and the fact that [...]

CNN Special tonight, expect a bunch of hot air against climate change science.

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Rumour is that shock jock Glenn Beck will host the same old typical handful of global warming deniers on his CNN special tonight. They will no doubt spout the same old arguments like: “I remember when global cooling was all anyone would talk about.” In what is becoming a perfect echo chamber, we see the [...]

Global Warming: Junk Science vs. Real Science

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DeSmogBlog TV

Here’s the first episode of DeSmogBlog TV’ news update.
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The Real Climate Censorship

It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
(source) By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 10th April 2007.
The drafting of reports by the world’s pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

“SOUND SCIENCE” debate dismissed as a bunch of smoke

DeSmogBlog challenges Heartland Institute to argue tobacco rather than climate change. Here’s the press release:

VANCOUVER – Yesterday, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign calling former vice president Gore to a public debate on global warming. In response, the DeSmogBlog challenges the Heartland Institute to a debate on the harmful effects of second-hand tobacco [...]

Climate Change Denial: Delusion or Malevolence?

(source) By John Lefebvre, DeSmogBlog,  6 Apr 07
Climate change deniers may be slotted into either of two categories. Whether fossil fuel executives, fossil fuel workers, PR people, lobbyists or members of Congress, they all fit in either one category or the other.
One consists of those who actually believe, against the vast preponderance of the peer-reviewed [...]

James Randi on Global Warming

There is a nasty rumor circulating aroud the net that James Randi has endorsed the controversial film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Nothing could be further from the truth, and here is what he had to say about it: http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-04/040607mi.html#i8 

Science Committee Slams Industry-funded climate science attack

There is more good news on the hill today…
The truth about the denial machine is increasingly being brought out in the open.