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The series of articles on climate change in The Conversation continues: Ross Garnaut: Australia's contribution matters: why we can't ignore our climate responsibilities The view that one country's actions have no effect on other countries is present in all but the largest countries, but outside…

Lanai Vasek in The Australian reports: In the latest incident, Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies executive director Anna-Maria Arabia received an email today saying she would be "strung-up by the neck" and killed for her promotion of mainstream climate science. The threat…

Here a screen shot from his talk. His comment on Garnaut's words is "Heil Hitler". Graeme Readfearn has the details. Update: Bolt throws Monckton under the proverbial bus.

The series of articles on climate change in The Conversation continues: Mike Sandiford: Our effect on the earth is real: how we're geo-engineering the planet: In Australia natural erosion removes about 100 million tonnes of sediment each year. With our annual exports of coal and iron ore now at…

Rosslyn Beeby at The Canberra Times follows up her earlier story: (Hat tip Dave McRae): Two of the most shocking cases involved young women who have had little media experience or exposure. One was invited to speak on climate change at a suburban library. Her brief was simple - talk about everyday…

The decline in relevance of these papers is directly related to their surrender to advocacy journalism. They no longer attempt to appeal to the broad population of the cities they serve but increasingly reflect the narrow interests of those who would shut down any argument that does not accord with…

The Conversation has launched a series of articles on climate change, introduced by editor Megan Clement here. The first three are: Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community: The overwhelming scientific evidence tells us that human greenhouse gas emissions are resulting…

The Canberra Times reports Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists,…

I'm here in Orlando to coach the University of New South Wales team in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals. A team of three uni students gets a computer and five hours to solve nine or ten really tough problems. (See last year's set, for instance). The finals were…

John Mashey analyses emails from Wegman and Azen and yes, Wegman's defence against plagiarism charges is to say that he and his students plagiarized from Denise Reeves. Multiple times. Andrew Gelman says it best: The major conclusions [of the plagiarised paper] are that there are different styles…

Tim Stephens, who is Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney and also one of Cardinal Pell's parishioners writes in Eureka Street (published by the Australian Jesuits) about his efforts to get Pell to learn something about climate science: Pell's…

Naomi Oreskes appeared on The Drum on Tuesday. Lotharsson has written a handy summary. I want to comment on a couple of extraordinary claims by Tom Switzer in that episode. First (at 31:56): "Interestingly, the IPCC models, there is a great deal of uncertainty, because the rate of warming has not…

On the front page of The Australian today we find the headline Summer of disaster 'not climate change': Rajendra Pachauri. If you read the actual quotes from Pachauri in the article and not the fabricated one in the headline, you'll find that Pachauri said something rather different: "What we can…

Dan Vergano reports that Social networks of author-coauthor relationships by Said, Wegman, Sharabati and Rigsby has been retracted by Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Deep Climate has more details, but I want to highlight one particular thing: "Neither Dr. Wegman nor Dr. Said has ever…

Last year Anthony Watts said that it was a certainty that siting differences caused a warm bias: "I can say with certainty that our findings show that there are differences in siting that cause a difference in temperatures, not only from a high and low type measurement but also from a trend…

Climate Scientist rap from Hungry Beast Via Roger Jones

The Climate Science Rapid Response Team received a verbose query from Abu Ali Al-Hussain who oddly enough, sounded exactly like Christopher Monckton. I liked this bit from Monckton's sock: The IPCC has been making long-term predictions of future climate states on the basis of modeling: yet its…

Bryan Walsh of Time lets us know what he thinks of Nisbet's Climate Shift with the title of his post: The Unfair Reception of the Climate Shift Report Shows That Greens Need to Be More Open to New Ideas. He explains why he thinks the reception is unfair in an aside: So, just to get this straight,…

Peter Sinclair's latest video is on the many mispresentations of "hide the decline".

Cardinal "I spend a lot of time studying this stuff." Pell has also said that greenhouse mitigation is a pagan ritual: Some of the hysteric and extreme claims about global warming are also a symptom of pagan emptiness, of Western fear when confronted by the immense and basically uncontrollable…

Matthew Nisbet's contrarian "Climate Shift" report has been rightly criticised for claiming that green groups outspent opponents of climate action, that the era of false balance in the media was over and for his own falsely balanced coverage. Ted Parson, who wrote the book on protecting the ozone…

2GB have continued their practice of never talking to mainstream climate scientists with an interview with Richard Lindzen. It's hard to pick Lindzen's biggest whopper. Richard Littlemore thinks it is Lindzen's untruth that there is no evidence for any change in polar ice sheets. Skeptical…

Time for a new open thread.

Via Deep Climate, John Mashey's seminar on "The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science" is being streamed live here. It starts two hours from now, 7:30 PDT. The battle of truth versus disinformation is nowhere better demonstrated than in the distortion of climate science. More than 97 percent of…

The recent blunders of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop have helped draw attention to the coalition's own policy, which to achieve exactly the same reduction in emissions as Labor via "direct action". Greg Hunt, Opposition spokesman on climate action and environment explained how they are going to do…

There are two climate related rallies in Sydney tomorrow. The rally for climate inaction (What do we want? Inaction! When do want it? Now!) has been heavily promoted on talkback radio and the facebook page has 709 people saying they are attending, while the rally for climate action has relied on…

Tony Abbott seems to have answered Julia Gillard's question of whether you should get your climate science from reputable climate scientists or Andrew Bolt by going for Andrew Bolt. Bolt interviwed Tim Flannery who said "If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of…

John Lott is at it again. This time he accuses Chris Brown of misquoting him when in fact Lott's post had been quietly corrected after Brown pointed out that is was wrong. This seems to be the same behaviour that got him into trouble over his mystery survey. Rather than concede that he had made an…

In a recent speech Julia Gillard asked: I ask who I'd rather have on my side: Alan Jones, Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt. Or the CSIRO, the Australian Academy of Science, the Bureau of Meteorology, NASA, the US National Atmospheric Administration, and every reputable climate scientist in the world…