Andrew Dessler sent me a copy of his book The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change. So far I've read a couple of chapters and they've given a pretty good summary of the issues. Dessler has also started a...
When John Lott was caught using a sock puppet, Glenn Reynolds declared that he wasn't going to mention it on his blog because it wasn't "actual news". Later he chastised Greg Beato for doing a photoshop of Lott as Mary...
A leaked memo from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) gives us inside view of how some of the Global Warming disinformation campaign is financed. There's this: We decided to support Dr. Patrick Michaels. ... In February of this year,...
After repeatedly make the same "up is down" blunder Tim Blair has at last switched from talking about An Inconvenient Truth's average take per theatre to the total take: Nathan Goulding discovers an inconvenient fact: "You may not have...
Judd Legum at Think Progress reports some outrageous claims by Inhofe: Yesterday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) attacked Al Gore and global warming science, claiming that Gore was "full of crap" on global warming. Appearing on Glenn Beck's radio show and...
January 2006: In several interviews with The New York Times in recent days, Dr. Hansen said it would be irresponsible not to speak out, particularly because NASA's mission statement includes the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet." Guess...
Back in April Patterico caught Michael Hiltzik using sock puppets to defend himself. He's back with a post implying that Glenn Greenwald has sock puppets called Ellison, Sam Mathews, Wilson, Ryan and Thomas Ellers who all post from the same...
PZ Myers writes Time's former "Blog of the Year," the execrable PowerLine blog with which I share a state, has done it again: said something so stupid and so palpably false that I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about ragging...
Last month the National Research Council report on climate reconstructions released its report and basically vindicated the hockey stick. This was widely reported in the media. But not in The Australian. I did a search through the archives of The...
We all know that the scientific consensus on global warming is that humans are causing most of it. The Creationist consensus is that humans aren't causing it. But just as their are divisions in the Creationist camp between Old Earth...
Chris Mooney on the report Joe Barton commissioned on the hockey stick: I am beyond bored with the whole thing. I'm reaching the point of despair. Listen, people: This is an argument over a study that is now some eight...
PZ Myers writes Time's former "Blog of the Year," the execrable PowerLine blog with which I share a state, has done it again: said something so stupid and so palpably false that I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about ragging...
Last year I banned per/David Bell from commenting for a few days after he abused another commenter. This prompted an attack on me from ClimateAudit where commenters wrote falsehoods like this: Lambert knows his facts are weak, as such he...
Joe Barton's Committee has released a report they commissioned on the hockey stick by Wegman, Scott and Said (WSS). The focus of the report is much narrower than the NRC report and the results are basically a subset of the...
A press release from the UK Green Party says: A survey carried out by the Green Party shows overwhelming opposition to Government nuclear plans Energy Survey shows 87% of public opposed to new nuclear power stations 89% agree 'the Government...
Michael Fumento complains about his Wikipedia article: An Aussie named Tim Lambert has as his raison d'etre attacking anybody who is more intelligent, more successful, and more relevant than he is. That leaves him with 6.3 million targets -- more...
Erik Svane says that the media is not reporting the good poll news from Iraq: Indeed, one reason that "the global image of America has slipped," that "pessimism about the future of Iraq was widespread," and that "Iraq is sapping...
I wrote earlier how some Global Warming Skeptics likened themselves to Creationists. Over at the Panda's Thumb Richard Hoppe has more: Regular readers of the Thumb will recall that in February, the Ohio State Board of Education removed the "critical...
In an interview with People Bush says: I think we have a problem on global warming. I think there is a debate about whether it's caused by mankind or whether it's caused naturally, but it's a worthy debate. It's a...
At 3:10 in a Tim Ball interview with the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen, he says this: To my knowledge I've never received a nickel from the oil and gas companies. I wish I did get some money --...
Jim Motavalli has an interesting article about Inhofe's attack on the Associated Press: Borenstein, through his membership in the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and elsewhere, has a long history of arguing passionately for fair and balanced reporting. Perry Beeman,...
Klein's Law states: At any given moment, PowerLine has no idea what they're talking about. John Hinderaker has responded to my post on how Hinderaker claimed that ticket sales for Al Gore's movie had gone down when they'd actually gone...
OK, this is from November 2004, but still... Frontier Centre: We are all familiar with the modern theory that the world's climate is getting warmer. Is it? Tim Ball: Yes, it warmed from 1680 up to 1940, but since 1940...