Once again, the White House has censored a scientific report that discusses the possibility of diseases becoming a problem under a warmer climate. As many as 6 pages were removed from the report. It is really upsetting to see a bunch of religious freaks and industry puppets constantly muzzling scientists to suit their political agenda.
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You may have heard that recently someone in the UK challenged a school district in court to try and block them from showing Al Gore’s Oscar winning documentary to the students. This court challenge was based on a set of 9 alleged “errors” in the movie. Well, first of all, it turns out that (unsurprisingly), this court challenge was funded by fossil-fuel industry money. And then the court actually endorsed the movie. And now...
Al Gore and the IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize.
(source) In another sign that this year is going to be the year of global warming awareness, Al Gore and the IPCC are sharing the 1.5 million dollar Nobel Peace Prize this year. Gore said he was “deeply honored,” adding that “the climate crisis is not a political issue it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity,” according to a written statement. Gore plans on donating his half of the money...
Who Killed DSCOVR Part 3: Digging for Answers from NASA
Here’s the third installment of the “Who Killed DSCOVR” series on DeSmogBlog.
Fred Thompson on Science and Global Warming
I thought that recently announced Republican Presidential Candidate and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson looked like a smart and reasonable guy, but then I read the transcript of his interview with Paul Harvey: Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar...
Who killed the DSCOVR project? (Part 2)
Mitchell Anderson of DeSmogBlog just posted the second installment of his investigative report on the death of NASA’s DSCOVR project. It is truly tragic that such an important project, at such an important time in our planet’s history, has been cancelled for purely partisan reasons. It appears that the main reason why this was cancelled is simply that Al Gore’s came up with the idea. Unreal.
Hypocrisy and Renewable Energy
Here’s a good article at Green Options on the “Cape Wind” fiasco. Basically the right wing fights the project because, well, its bad for the fossil fuel industry, and the Kennedy’s, who like to pass themselves as pro-environment and pro-renewable energy, are fighting it because it will spoil their view. This is a rather hypocritical stance, and a very unfortunate one. Global warming may very well destroy the island they are on, which will...
Oreskes responds to Schulte
Many readers will no doubt know the 2004 paper in Science by historian of science Naomi Oreskes, a paper which discussed the consensus position regarding anthropogenic climate change. Predictably, the paper received much vitriol from the climate contrarians and denialists. Now, a medical researcher (Klaus-Martin Schulte, who appears to be a consultant in endocrine surgery) has claimed that Oreske’s paper is not only outdated but also wrong. This claim has been extensively crowed over...
Good thing the arctic ice is melting, there’s oil under there!
The Sietch has a good entry on the new USGS study that estimates the amount of undiscovered oil under the rapidly melting Arctic ice. At the same time, a rising conflict is brewing between Russia, Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Norway over who owns that oil. They are all oblivious to the huge problem of global warming, worrying instead about getting their hands on yet more oil, and destroying yet another pristine environment, one...
Who killed the DSCOVR project?
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) cost over $100 million and was designed to measure the energy budget of our warming planet. Yet the spacecraft has remained in its box for the last five years and it looks like it is not going anywhere anytime soon. New DeSmogBlog contributor Mitchell Anderson will write a multi-part investigative report over the next few months. You can find the first article here.