Global Warming:
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...
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Posted on May 13, 2008 1:49 PM • 11 Comments
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...
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Posted on May 12, 2008 8:16 AM • 16 Comments
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...
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Posted on May 10, 2008 1:51 PM • 21 Comments
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...
Posted on May 8, 2008 12:35 PM • 48 Comments
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,...
Posted on May 5, 2008 2:16 PM • 150 Comments
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...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 2:51 PM • 114 Comments
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...
Posted on April 29, 2008 2:49 PM • 60 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 27, 2008 3:03 PM • 32 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 9:22 AM • 84 Comments
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...
Posted on April 22, 2008 11:09 AM • 10 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 7:06 AM • 106 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 2:01 PM • 37 Comments
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,...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 2:38 PM • 3 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 1:45 PM • 18 Comments
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...
Posted on April 15, 2008 2:56 PM • 57 Comments
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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Posted on April 14, 2008 1:48 PM • 51 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
