The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th January 2007. George Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what’s new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the US government now insists that we find ways to block some of the sunlight reaching the earth. This means...
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Scientists’ Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3–A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations...
CBC’s The Denial Machine
This is an excellent don’t hold any punches investigative report by CBC’s The Fifth Estate. It talks about how Big Oil and the Republicans have systematically created a denial machine and instilled doubts in the public’s mind. Well worth watching until the end. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=522784499045867811&q=Fifth+Estate&hl=en-CAÂ
A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change
It has become fashionable in some parts of the UK media to portray the scientific evidence that has been collected about climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as an exaggeration. Some articles have claimed that scientists are ignoring uncertainties in our understanding of the climate and the factors that affect it. Some have questioned the motives of the scientists who have presented the most authoritative assessments of the...
Myth: Glaciers are advancing, not retreating.
This is a myth that is repeated frequently by the likes of David Bellamy and Dr. Fred Singer, two of the biggest PR “scientists” battling against the climatologists. Depending on which documents, reports, or lectures you look at, they either say that according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich 55% or 555 out of 625 glaciers being monitored are actually advancing, not retreating. This is completely false and Dr. Frank Paul of...
Half-Baked Smears against Climatologists
This Scientific American blog entry discusses some of the recent lame attempts from the global warming denial machine to discredit the science. Well worth the quick read.
No Sunshine for Global Warming Skeptics
By JR Minkel, Scientific American Known variations in the sun’s total energy output cannot explain recent global warming, say researchers who have reviewed the existing evidence. The judgment, which appears in the September 14 Nature, casts doubt on the claims of some global warming skeptics who have argued that long-term changes in solar output, or luminosity, might be driving the current climate pattern. The evidence for human-induced global warming is neatly captured in a...
Defending the “hockey stick” graph
Fiddling While the Planet Burns Will the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change? By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain cool: the air-conditioned offices of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. As New York...
Mr. Cool: Nurturing doubt about climate change is big business
Here is an excellent article by Charles Montgomery that appeared in The Globe and Mail on August 12th, 2006. In this article Montgomery debunks the junk science being publicized by Tim Ball and his “Friends of Science” foundation. Mr. Ball uses a lot of falsehoods, inaccurate data, and manipulated graphs to make his case. Montgomery also shows how the “Friends of Science” are funded mostly by the energy industry. The article is well worth...
Canada named top “fossil” at Kenya climate talks
The Conservative Government of Stephen Harper is getting slapped in the face at the Kenya climate talks. This government is doing a really good job at sucking up to the Bush administration and shaming Canada in front of the world. The so-called “Made-in-Canada” plan to tackle the environment and global warming issue is taken right out of the Bush agenda, and influenced by the oil industry. I guess it’s not that surprising given that...