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Category: debunking
A commenter here brought up the controversy du jour for the denialosphere, how Greenpeace alledgedly admitted lying in a press release. Of course that stretch, (well, it's a stretch to call it a stretch), was further stretched to "Greenpeace just...
Posted by coby at 9:53 AM • 34 Comments •
Category: debunking
I had an open thread a couple of weeks ago about Ian Plimer's recent novel supposedly exposing the lie that is Anthropogenic Global Warming. I have not read it. A few commenter's defending the book asked how anyone can judge...
Posted by coby at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: other blogs
I have mentioned it frequently before, there is another serious problem with pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, ocean acidification. Geoengineering should never be discussed without mentioning it. The Way Things Break tells Nature as much....
Posted by coby at 2:22 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
(The following is offered as an amusing example of how reality sometimes seems to have a sense of homour:) My wife is from the Czech Republic and was mentioning to me her family's worries about the recent flooding (they are...
Posted by coby at 9:55 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: humour
Okay, so this is way off the general climate topic, but I really got a kick out of this article from Bill Maher published in the LA Times....
Posted by coby at 3:08 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
Things Break does a nice job documenting the way Rupert Murdoch uses his media empire to disseminate misinformation. A recent commenter pointed me to one of the articles in that chain, but I really did not give it much thought,...
Posted by coby at 1:25 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: editorial
I'm sure most of us remember how incoherent Sarah Palin was about climate change (well, okay, about most things), but John Boehner seems to have his sights set on out doing the master!...
Posted by coby at 12:15 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
This just reported today from the Washington Post:...
Posted by coby at 12:08 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
So, George Will and the Washington Post are at it again, head over to Things Break for the details. These institutions are oblivious to their own impending demise, a demise that articles like George Will's show they fully deserve. [Update:...
Posted by coby at 10:39 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: mainstream media
I may be very late to the party, but I would still like to refer readers to Chris Mooney's Op-Ed response to the recent George Will fiasco. Congratulations, Chris, it is very well presented and important material. I can't however...
Posted by coby at 10:37 AM • 1 Comments •
