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Category: alternative energy
Paul Krugman has some optimistic economic commentary on solar energy in the NYT today, titled "Here comes solar energy". It can not be emphasized enough, his points about indirect subsidies to dirty energy sources in the form of shifting the...
Posted by coby at 10:08 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: temperature
The fallout from the BEST project results continues, with the denialosphere frantically trying to disown and defame Richard Muller. Marc Morano is at his shrillest pitch ever, and believe me that is as shrill as shrill gets! I guess it...
Posted by coby at 10:11 AM • 43 Comments •
Category: editorial
Did you ever wonder just how it can be possible that the same, thousand times debunked, climate "skepticisms" keep re-emerging, month after month, year after year? Obviously, there are those individuals (like Singer and Soon), organizations (like HeartlessLand), and media...
Posted by coby at 2:00 PM • 102 Comments •
Category: humour
This Youtube is long, but it is very well done, and frankly hilarious. Many of our favorite denier memes would fit in very comfortably as well....
Posted by coby at 1:23 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: humour
Via the amusing and insightful musings and insights of Marc Roberts:...
Posted by coby at 6:36 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
Roy Spencer, darling of the climate skeptic community, says he is not very organized, as Phil Jones said of himself, and that "if you asked me to find original data from 20 years ago I'd have great difficulty too. We...
Posted by coby at 1:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Lord Viscount Monckton of Benchley, it turns out, really is a "swivel-eyed maniac". Or at least it is a fair thing to say....
Posted by coby at 10:04 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
Okay, that's sarcasm. Wille Soon is featured in an interview on the Examiner.com website, but grilling is hardy how to describe the pathetic softballs Kir Meyers throws, rather rolls, his way. Here are a few of the questions he asked:...
Posted by coby at 7:12 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: humour
Offered without comment: (Thanks Morten Morland for the laugh, and h/t to Jeffrey Hill)...
Posted by coby at 12:56 PM • 92 Comments •
Category: debunking
Richard Lindzen has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal for Earth Day and exhibits the best of climate denialism's ability to flip reality on its head. I was considering going through it and highlighting its many falsehoods and logical...
Posted by coby at 9:02 AM • 110 Comments •
