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Category: media
"He said, she said" journalism enabled industry-sponsored global warming denialism.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:46 AM • 4 Comments •
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Industry's Anti-Global Warming Misinformation Campaign Reminiscent of Big Tobacco's Strategy
Category: global warming
Industry groups actively worked to discredit global warming science while their own scientific experts warned that global warming science was sound.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:42 AM • 13 Comments •
George Will Seriously Needs to Check His Sources
Category: global warming
This time he relies on a recent New York Times article I've already lambasted for being totally anecdotal, lacking any hard facts, alarmist, and generally irresponsible
Posted by Nick Anthis at 10:55 AM • 13 Comments •
It's Getting a Little Hotter in Here
Category: movies
I'm starting to feel a little less guilty about my negative review of Sizzle.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Sizzle? More of a Simmer
Category: movies
Randy Olson's new film Sizzle is difficult to pin down.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:10 AM • 2 Comments •
Supreme Court to Address Navy Sonar Exercises
Category: environment
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case regarding the Navy conducting sonar training exercises in the proximity of marine mammals--some of which are threatened or endangered species. A large body of...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:18 PM • 0 Comments •
Obama's Support of Corn Ethanol Unlikely to Change
Category: Barack Obama
We're going to have to be realistic here.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:25 PM • 15 Comments •
Fact-Checking The Washington Post's Claims About Its Role in Unearthing the 2006 NASA Censorship Scandal
Category: media
It doesn't live up to its own standard on this one.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:25 PM • 1 Comments •
More Political Interference at the EPA
Category: political interference
The forced resignation of Mary Gade
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:42 AM • 1 Comments •
Pervasive Political Interference at the EPA
Category: political interference
Last week's report by the UCS indicates that the EPA has become little more than another political tool for the Bush Administration.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 2:58 PM • 3 Comments •
Best Headline Ever: "Creature from Hell Promises Salvation"
Category: biology
Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Schwarzenegger Approves Condor Protection Bill, but Damage Already Done
Category: endangered species
It will take two rights to make up for this wrong.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:39 AM • 9 Comments •
Blog Action Day on the Environment: October 15th
Category: blogosphere
Tomorrow, 15 October, is the inaugural Blog Action Day. This means that thousands of bloggers from across the internet will publish posts on a single topic: the environment. So far over 14,000 blogs have signed up, with an estimated audience...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:50 PM • 0 Comments •
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Al Gore and the IPCC
Category: Nobel Prize
For gaging scientific consensus on global warming and taking that message to the public.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:11 AM • 1 Comments •
Science and Politics Create the Perfect Storm in Chris Mooney's Storm World
Category: book reviews
From the earliest days of hurricane science to the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, Mooney's Storm World covers the scientific controversies that have fueled today's wild political and scientific debate over the link between hurricanes and global warming.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
It's Time to Get Off the Bottle!
Category: environment
Wake up! Bottled water is wasteful. Period.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:24 PM • 20 Comments •
Interior Department to Correct for Past Political Interference
Category: political interference
Repent! Repent!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
More Misleading Arguments from Global Warming Denialists
Category: global warming
A survey of non-scientists is cited as evidence that scientists dispute the global warming consensus.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:40 PM • 28 Comments •
A Credulous Media Response to Bush's Climate Change Plan
Category: global warming
Despite the press frenzy, the new plan is not a major departure from administration policy, it continues to flout the tried and true international process led by the UN, and it does not contain mandatory emissions caps.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:31 PM • 5 Comments •
A New Weapon in the Fight Against Global Warming: Art
Category: global warming
Some of the more insidious factors enabling the constant and dangerous advance of global warming are a lack of public awareness or acceptance and the feeling that it's not a problem relevant to my everyday life. One potentially effective way...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:39 AM • 3 Comments •
Oversight of Bush Administration High on Democrats' Agenda
Category: Democratic Party
The Democrats are already making big plans to investigate some of the Bush Administration's more outrageous instances of political interference in science.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:47 PM • 0 Comments •
The Next Target for Global Warming Denialists: Children's Books
Category: global warming
Senator Inhofe is up to his global warming denialist shenanigans again, and this time the target is a children's book.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:31 PM • 0 Comments •
The Power of Coal Is as Evident as Ever in Jeff Goodell's Big Coal
Category: book reviews
In Big Coal, Jeff Goodell offers an insightful and chilling exposé of the coal industry that leaves the reader shocked by our continued reliance on coal but at a loss for what to do about it.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
Global Warming, Creationism, and Religious Nutcases
Category: global warming
They're all sort of related, so here goes....
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:10 PM • 8 Comments •
Fantastical Fridays: Yes, This Is Horrible, This Idea
Category: Fantastical Fridays
This week's installment of Fantastical Fridays discusses a not-so-impressive finding reported in the media in January 2006. From the archives: (30 January 2006) To all of those who worried about the United States' dependence on Middle Eastern oil, who tried...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Setting the Record Straight on Global Warming
Category: global warming
An April 2006 paper in Nature narrowed down the range of possible scenarios for how global warming may play out as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise. Although much of the press coverage treated it as a blow to global warming science, it was in reality quite the opposite.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
A Hot Topic
Category: global warming
Global warming is certainly a "hot topic", and this post decribes some global warming research findings from January 2006: one that revises estimates of the expected increase in sea level due to global warming and another that demonstrates how certain important marine ecosystems could be vulnerable to changes in ocean currents due to global warming.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Amphibian Disease Heats Up
Category: global warming
What do global warming and epidemic diseases have in common? Apparently they have a lot, at least when it comes to amphibians.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:55 AM • 0 Comments •
An Inconvenient AP Story for Republicans
Category: global warming
Yesterday, the AP released a story describing the general approval within the scientific community of the science behind Al Gore's new documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Not to be outdone, global warming denialist James Inhofe (R - OK) released his own press release via the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it's about as crazy as anything else he's had his hands on.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:42 PM • 15 Comments •
National Academies Release Climate Change Report
Category: global warming
The National Academies today released their report on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years. The verdict? "High confidence that planet is warmest in 400 years; less confidence in temperature reconstructions prior to 1600." The reviews from around the...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:06 PM • 2 Comments •
