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The first anniversary of ‘Climategate’, Part 1: The media blows the story of the century November 15, 2010 This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the anti-science crowd successfully labeled ‘Climategate’. The media will be doing countless retrospectives, most of which will be wasted ink, like the Guardian’s piece — focusing on climate scientists at the expense of climate science, which is precisely the kind of miscoverage that has been going on for...
Esteemed Scientists Hit Back at Climate Denier Campaign In Science Letter
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 journal Science (subscription req’d), says: “We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general...
Gulf coast scientists: ‘oil is bad for everything’
Gulf Coast marine scientists agree that the unfolding oil disaster could mean devastation beyond human comprehension. Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has the story in this repost. In an exclusive interview with the Wonk Room, a team of scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, MS, discussed the ecological impacts of a three-month blowout from the BP-Halliburton Deepwater Horizon exploratory rig, described as the expected timeline for “ultimate...
Freakonomics, schmuckonomics…
The good folks over at RealClimate.org wrote a devastating letter to Steve Levitt, author of Freakonomics for his inaccurate and misleading handling of Climate Change. Well worth reading here.
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
From The New York Times By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: April 23, 2009 For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming. “The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,” the coalition said in a scientific “backgrounder” provided to...
Arctic Seabed Methane Beginning to Release
This article: New global warming threat as scientists discover massive methane ‘time bomb’ under the Arctic seabed discusses an actual observation of this very dangerous climate feedback mechanism. The title is misleading because this is no a “new” global warming threat, but something scientists have been predicting for years. Now it has actually been observed, and it is extremely worrisome as it could greatly accelerate global warming. Global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions...
Scientist warns of ‘last chance’ on warming
Exactly 20 years after he first warned Congress about the dangers of Global Warming, Jim Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Sciences, told Congress on Monday that the world long ago passed the “dangerous level” for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth’s atmosphere can only stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for a couple more decades without changes such as mass...
Report from the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, a Bush appointed comittee. http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm
Political Manipulation of EPA Science
It’s no secret that the Bush Administration and the Harper government both censor scientists on a regular basis, making sure that nothing that could harm their energy industry bodies gets out. Scientists from NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Environment Canada have complained about this fact for several years. The EPA even famously cancelled a report on the environment and global warming after the White House gutted out all the hard facts on climate change. Now...