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The latest story exciting the denialosphere is this one by Carol Driver in the Daily Mail. Driver claims: Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent 'cover-up' emails a month before they went public The controversy surrounding the global warming scandal today deepened after a…

The Copenhagen Diagnosis is an update to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report to cover research published since then. This is the science that the cracker who stole the emails from CRU wants to distract you from. Via RealClimate.

Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He's made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the Competitive Enterprise Institute intends to…

Andrew Freedman interviewed Spencer Weart about the stolen emails: SW: Back around 2000 leading climate scientists talked to each other mostly about their science--debating one another's data and analysis and negotiating travel, collaboration and other administration--and a little bit about policy…

The global warming denialists have predictably gotten very excited about the emails that were stolen from CRU, declaring that they prove that there's a big climate scientist conspiracy (presumably to install a COMMUNIST WORLD GOVERNMENT). We don't know whether or not the thief altered the emails,…

This story from the Australian Associated Press contains the usual scare-mongering from Ian Plimer: AAP November 19, 2009 01:36pm Australia will go broke and become the laughing stock of the world if politicians ignore basic science on climate change, a leading global warming sceptic says. But…

Ian Plimer responds to criticism with by calling his critics names and failing to address their arguments. In an interview on BBC Radio 4, Plimer spouts his usual outrageous falsehoods: "We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes." Not true -- even Martin Durkin's…

Fred Singer and co petitioned the American Physical Society to replace its statement on Climate Change. Instead, it got reaffirmed The Council of the American Physical Society has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to replace the Society's 2007 Statement on Climate Change with a version that…

Despite her training in law, Janet Albrechtsen was not able to figure out that the Copenhagen treaty wasn't going to impose a COMMUNIST WORLD GOVERNMENT, so you just know that she has no chance in hell of understanding a scientific question. Albrechtsen claims that it is a "fact" that "Sea levels…

Back in 2006 it was revealed that scientists at the CSIRO had been forbidden from commenting on some impacts of climate change: JANINE COHEN: Kevin Hennessy is the coordinator of the CSIRO's Climate Impact Group. One of his jobs is to talk about the potential impacts of climate change. But there…

Time for some more open thread.

I recently left a comment on Tom Fuller's blog objecting to Fuller's claim to be on the middle ground. If Fuller is in the middle ground, then so is Inhofe -- they both think that climate scientists are a bunch of frauds. Fuller objected in a completely unrelated comment thread and derailed the…

Thingsbreak has been documenting the way Levitt and Dubner keeping digging the hole deeper, and Dubner has kept on digging with this whopper: we believe that anyone who reads our chapter without an agenda wouldn't even find it particularly controversial. They will see that we routinely address the…

Levitt and Dubner still haven't engaged with their critics' arguments and continue to respond with nothing more than name calling. Their latest piece in USA Today likens climate scientists to flat earthers: Devoted environmentalists, meanwhile, as well as some members of the tight-knit climate-…

Steve Levitt has followed in Dubner's footsteps with a response to his critics that fails to respond to their arguments. Levitt first restates his argument and then asserts that their conclusions are different because: We are answering a different question than our critics. Our question, at noted…

I've noticed ads for Bidrivals appearing here. This is an auction site that is basically a Swoopo clone and seems to be just as efficient at separating bidders from their money. Read Jonah Lehrer if you haven't heard of Swoopo.

Janet Albrechtsen (writing in The Australian, of course) is asked a question by her teenage daughters: Emails started arriving telling me about a speech given by Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, at Bethel University in St Paul, Minnesota, on October 14. Monckton talked…

Eli Rabett has been investigating Ian Plimer's claim that climate scientists were cooking the books on the CO2 record. Plimer wrote: The raw data from Mauna Loa is 'edited' by an operator who deletes what is considered poor data. Some 82% of the raw data is "edited" leaving just 18% of the raw data…

Well, they are shown next to each other in Dave Weigel's story Climate Change Skeptics Embrace 'Freakonomics' Sequel, but that's not the answer I'm thinking of. Weigel writes: The final chapter deals with global warming, characterizing the beliefs of pessimistic environmentalists as "religious…

Esteemed Pielkeologist, Eli Rabett points me to a post from Roger Pielke Jr complaining that he is being persecuted by the "liberal blogosphere". Apparently what prompted this was a comment from Brad DeLong on why he considers Pielke Jr to be dishonest: I do remember that what knocked my view of…

It's a fresh new open thread!

If you haven't got enough Superfreakonomics blogging Brian D has collected links to, well, everything. The response from the authors to the criticism has been underwhelming. Dubner ignores most of the criticism and blames Caldeira for the fact that they misrepresented him. Your must read story on…

When Kurt Lambeck criticized Ian Plimer on Ockhams Razor, he gaves specific examples of Plimer's errros of omission and commission. I gazed into my crystal ball and wrote: I predict that Plimer will respond to this by denying that his science has been criticised, claiming that Lambeck's criticism…

I reviewed Freakonomics when it first came out and really liked it. So I was looking forward to the sequel Superfreakonomics. Unfortunately, Levitt and Dubner decided to write about global warming and have made a dreadful hash of it. The result is so wrong that it has even Joe Romm and William…

Today is blog action day where bloggers are writing something about climate change. The post I was going to do isn't finished yet, but fortunately there is lots of interesting posts you can read. I recommend Jim Prall on how to engage with those sceptical of taking action and Kate of…

Seriously. And then a gullible journalist named Michael Coren wrote it down and put it in the Winnipeg Sun. Ed Darrell has the details.

As part of its ongoing war on science, Quadrant Online as published a piece by J.F. Beck accusing Rachel Carson of constructing an elaborate tissue of exaggerations and lies. In his piece Beck is only able to come up with two alleged lies by Carson. First, Beck claims that Carson said that DDT was…

One of McIntyre's repeated complaints about Briffa was that he refused to release his data. For example, in his post Fresh Data on Briffa's Yamal #1: A few days ago, I became aware that the long-sought Yamal measurement data url had materialized at Briffa's website - after many years of effort on…

Over the past few days we have had another outbreak of stories of how global warming has been totally disproved. For example, James Delingpole: the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie When finally McIntyre plotted in a much larger and more representative range of samples than used…

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg sends birthday greetings to Andrew Bolt. If you don't know why there are seven graphs, see here.