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Global Warming:

The carbon footprint gotcha

What Mark Kleiman says John Tierney, demoted from the NYT op-ed page and now continuing his libertarian propagandizing in the guise of "science writing," points out that flying around to climate-change conferences creates a large carbon footprint for high-profile environmental...

Before the truth has a chance to get its boots on

Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute spliced the audio of an Al Gore interview to turn a statement that Arctic melting was a consequence of global warming: And we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated...

Tim Blair lost in the stratosphere

Tim Blair declares: Global cooling is now a flight-safety hazard. The post he links speculates on a cause of the crash of BA flight 38: But it would appear that the major contributory factor could have been the extreme...

How many climate sceptics does it take to change a light bulb?

Via Gareth Renowden: Q: How many climate sceptics does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. It's too early to say if the light bulb needs changing. Though I think the answer should be: None. The light bulb...

I must be psychic

A week ago I wrote I predict that Avery will maintain that all the scientists are wrong about their own work and refuse to remove any names from the list. And look what they wrote: In response to the complaints,...

No, global warming didn't stop in 2002

There really is no excuse for this, from Michael Duffy: Global warming stopped six years ago. It might start again tomorrow, but from 2002 until now, average global temperatures have remained fairly constant. This is in contrast to the previous...

Heartland's bogus list of 500 scientists

Richard Littlemore reports: Dozens of scientists are demanding that their names be removed from a widely distributed Heartland Institute article entitled 500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares. ... DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the...

Et tu, Ockham's razor?

ABC's normally excellent Ockham's razor has taken a refreshing change from presenting the thoughts of scientists on science based on peer-reviewed research to presenting the opinion of a political scientist on global warming based on stuff he found on denialist...

Survey: climate scientists agree that humans are causing warming

Robert Lichter reports on a survey of American climate scientists commissioned by STATS at GMU. Some of the findings: In 1991 the Gallup organization conducted a telephone survey on global climate change among 400 scientists drawn from membership lists of...

Michael Molitor talk at UNSW today

From the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre CLIMATE CHANGE: Show me the money? Michael Molitor 6:45pm for 7pm start, Wednesday 23rd April, 2008 Science Theatre, UNSW . In order to stabilise concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at safe...

No, global warming has not stopped

Robert Fawcett and David Jones of the National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology have written a short paper debunking the global-warming-has-ended myth: There is very little justification for asserting that global warming has gone away over the past ten...

The Listener against free speech

Earlier, I wrote how the environmental writer for the New Zealand Listener was fired after Heartland demanded he be silenced, and: Gareth Renowden has the full story. Well not any more. The Listener hired a lawyer to threaten him and...

Scientists 2, Teens 0, Journalists -2

Another news story about scientists being shown up by a teen also proves to be completely wrong First the story appeared on April 4 in Germany's 'leading' tabloid ("I have calculated the end of the world ... and NASA says,...

Tell the truth about Heartland, get fired

A few weeks ago Dave Hansford, the environmental writer for the New Zealand Listener, wrote an article on how global warming deniers create an illusion of dissent: In November, three members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition - Bryan...

NPR puff piece on Kristen Byrnes

NPR has run a puff piece on Kristen Byrnes. Byrnes stuff is full of errors, but the reporter seems uninterested in whether Byrnes' science is accurate or not. James Hrynyshyn notes that Byrnes has libelled James Hansen, while Janet Stemwedel...

Why does Tim Worstall hate corrections?

Instead of correcting his erroneous post Tim Worstall has put up another post coming out against corrections. This time it's about an inaccurate textbook. Can you pass the test at the book's online study centre? Question 16. True or False?...

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