global warming
denialism | March 8, 2012I think it's a nice, succinct description of the problem of climate change from one of the leaders of the field.
On a related note the nation of Kiribati is relocating to Fiji as their island nation is disappearing.
gregladen | March 8, 2012Quite possibly Pete Sinclair's best and most important videos yet.
Click here to get more background from Peter Sinclair's site.
The post refers to this book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
illconsidered | March 5, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMarch 4, 2012 Chuckles, Judicial Humour, Maldives, Liu et al., Hönisch et al., Weaver & Swart Cato Suit, Harris, Heartland, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Global Legal Framework, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices,…
illconsidered | March 4, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Sipping from the Internet Firehose...February 26, 2012 Chuckles, Europe, Weaver & Swart, WB-GPO, Blue Planet, AAAS, Equinox, Coalition Heartland Leak: Docs, Provenance, Gleick, Legalities, Ethics, Funding, Framing, Education, Misc Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear…
illconsidered | March 4, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsFebruary 19, 2012 Chuckles, Coalition, Europe, AAAS, Intimidation, Maldives, Correlation, Status, Mashey Heartland Leak: Docs, Provenance, Funding, Education, Scientists' Letter, Miscellaneous Thermodynamics, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting…
denialism | March 1, 2012About a month ago I asked if denialism is truly more frequent on the right or is it that the issues of the day are ones that are more likely to be targets of right wing denialism? After all, one can think of slightly more left wing sources of denialism like GMO paranoia, 9/11 conspiracies, altie-meds, and toxin fear-mongering. The mental heuristics that cause people to believe, and then entrench themselves, in nonsense seem generalizable to humanity rather than just those attracted to conservative politics. Why should those who identify as liberal be any different? Wouldn't they just…
gregladen | February 28, 2012A report detailing an audit of a course called "Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective" (ERTH 2402), taught at Carleton University, has been compiled by a team of concerned individuals and was released a few minutes ago. From the report:
The course... provides an unbalanced and, in many cases, factually inaccurate view of anthropogenic global warming which detracts from the high quality of teaching at Carleton University. We highlight 142 incorrect or equivocal claims and cite the relevant scientific literature to correct those statements. While the principle of academic freedom…
tlambert | February 26, 2012John Mashey, in comments writes:
It has been a busy week or so, with more to come.
1) See Fakery, p.3 and p.12.
In ~2009, Heartland+SEPP+CSCDGC got ~$8M.
The other 9 on p.3 got ~$39M.The additional 36 501(c)(3) on p.12 added another $283M.
Now, only some of that is for climate disinformation, but some of it is for tobacco advocacy and other science disinformation, such as on environmental issues. In addition, these entities cross-support each other in various ways. One often finds them cross-quoting, cross-writing articles, signing petitions, together.
It is far cheaper to create confusion…
gregladen | February 26, 2012Watch the whole thing:
Brilliant. Click here for the background on this nice video.
gregladen | February 21, 2012A bill in Oklahoma that would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of "controversial" topics such as "biological evolution" and "global warming" is back from the dead. Entitled the "Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act," House Bill 1551 was introduced in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2011 by Sally Kern (R-District 84), a persistent sponsor of antievolution legislation in the Sooner State, and referred to the House Common Education Committee. It was rejected there on February 22, 2011, on a 7-9 vote. But, as The…
denialism | February 16, 2012Everyone is writing about desmogblog's leak of internal documents from the Heartland Institute. But to me I think leaked documents are nothing compared to their fully public, out-in-the-open history of being openly contemptuous of science, funding cranks with advanced degrees (though not in climate) to disparage the field, and their hosting of denialpalooza.
James rightly points out that much hay is being made of a single sentence that, could "easily be the result of sloppy editing, or at perhaps a Freudian slip." This is of course is a sentence describing a curriculum developed by the HI…
illconsidered | February 14, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomFebruary 12, 2012 Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Europe, Maldives, Jacob, WSJ-16, Opinions Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, USCG Healy, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
denialism | February 9, 2012 The states in Green have gone for Rick Santorum, who besides having a a Google problem also believes in one of the wackiest conspiracy theories there is - the climate change hoax. That is, the belief that there is a shady group of Illuminati that have power over thousands of climate scientists from all over the world, and in their greed for sweet sweet grant money scientists uniformly falsify all their data to serve this power-hungry cabal. Is that an exaggeration? Nope, that's what people who believe in the "hoax" ascribe to (see skeptical science's thorough debunking of Evans here).…
illconsidered | February 6, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionFebruary 5, 2012 Chuckles, COP17, Horn of Africa, RPRP, Miller, Lenton, Europe WSJ-16, Intimidation, Rodentia, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Orca, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
gregladen | February 1, 2012And I suspect he's done so willingly. Well, you know what they say about statistics and liars.
Here's the story. The Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail independently published highly misleading and blatantly idiotic pieces on climate change. We've covered this extensively already over the last few days. Phil Plait, of the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discovermagazine.com, was one of numerous scientists to respond to those flaming examples of horrific bottom feeding journalism with the post "While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower." In that post, he presented a still-image from a…
gregladen | January 31, 2012Michael Mann, famous climate scientist, has released a book called The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (also available as a Kindle edition). I've not read it yet but I thought you'd like to know about it.
Michael Mann is the guy who came up with the Hockey Stick graph and metaphor. Early reviews are positive:
In this meticulous and engaging brief on climate change research and the political backlash to legitimate scientific work, Penn State professor Mann narrates the fight against misinformation from the inside. (Publishers Weekly )
An important and…
illconsidered | January 30, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Sipping from the Internet Firehose...January 29, 2012 Chuckles, HotW, Poe, Strange, WEF, WSF, Fisheries, CSLDF, Intimidation Open Science, USDA, CCRA, Subsidies, Value, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Freshwater, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
gregladen | January 27, 2012The Wall Street Journal has published one of the most offensive, untruthful, twisted reviews of what scientists think of climate change; the WSJ Lies about the facts and twists the story to accommodate the needs of head-in-the-sand industrialists and 1%ers; The most compelling part of their argument, according to them, is that the editorial has been signed by 16 scientists.
The scientists who signed to WSJ editorial are:
Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the…
gregladen | January 25, 2012'Round here, people are using phrases like "That's Crazy Talk" and "Outlandish" and other quaint Aphorisms of the Great Plains. Why? Because the USDA has just released its new Planting Zone Map. It turns out that all the climate zones have moved north permanently. Thus the new map. You can plant stuff never before plantable right here, this year, now. The climate change has happened, and continues; A new and changed map is expected again in a few years.
Click the map to visit the site and start planning your garden!
denialism | January 23, 2012Today's NYT has Thomas Edsall's What the Left Get's Right, the follow up piece to last week's What the Right Get's Right, and what's fascinating is how even conservative commentators think liberals get science right more often than conservatives. Or at least they are less likely to view it ideologically:
A few conservative concessions to liberalism's strengths were made without qualification; others were begrudging. Nonetheless, in the conservative assessment, common themes emerge:
Liberals recognize the real problems facing the poor, the hardships resulting from economic globalization and…