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Via an e-mail acquaintance comes the following press release: January 20, 2012 Campaign Urges American Meteorological Society to Get Tougher on Climate Change In the wake of record-breaking extreme weather in 2011, campaign says it’s essential that T.V. meteorologists “Forecast The Facts” www.forecastthefacts.org San Francisco, CA – A new campaign, Forecast the Facts (www.forecastthefacts.org), launches Sunday to pressure TV meteorologists to . . . → Read More: Site alert: Forecast the Facts George Monbiot and Mark Lynas have a post up, The Spectator’s Spectacular Blunder, which is enough to make one reach for one’s Joe Romm Signature Edition titanium head vise in an attempt to prevent Projectile Cranial Fragment Syndrome. It might not be enough, sadly. In the brilliant farce Le Dīner de Cons, a group of bored, . . . → Read More: Climate change deniers answer a burning question Report into BBC’s science coverage likely to suggest corporation needs to avoid false balance on climate: The main conclusions of a high-profile BBC Trust review of the BBC’s science reporting, assessing its accuracy and impartiality, appear to suggest that the BBC is not biased in its coverage of science, and that the principle of impartiality does not . . . → Read More: Auntie Beeb gets one right Tamino is at it again, exposing a denier — in this case, Steve Goddard — in a pathetic attempt to imply that data says things it doesn’t. It’s essentially yet another cherry pick, and to get the full effect you really have to read it all and see the damning pictures. The summary grafs, . . . → Read More: Tamino 1, Goddard 0 I’ll let this video speak . . . → Read More: It’s getting ugly in Australia For those who haven’t noticed, Chris Mooney has been involved in a minor verbal scuffle with Anthony Watts, and yet again, Watts is managing to make himself look quite ridiculous. I can’t quote enough of the story to give you the proper context without replicating almost the two installments entirely piece, so I urge you to take . . . → Read More: Watts wrong with that guy, anyway? Once again, Christopher Monckton speaks… and there is humor. At least for sufficiently fuzzy definitions of “humor”, I suppose. What’s Mr. Monckton up to now, one might ask? It seems he decided to go all Godwin on Russ Garnaut, the chief adviser to the Australian government on climate issues: As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Footage . . . → Read More: Monckton goes Godwin To slightly paraphrase my favorite Lily Tomlin quote, “I grow more cynical every day about climate change deniers, but it’s still hard to keep up.” And in this case, the deniers aren’t up to their usual thuggery and acts of violence, but they’re doing it in a way that makes the US look like a . . . → Read More: Yet more denier thuggery This is simply sickening. AFP: Australian scientists threatened in carbon tax row: Climate researchers at one of Australia’s top universities have been rushed to a secure location after receiving death threats, according to an official, as debate rages over plans for a carbon pollution tax. The Australian National University (ANU) scientists had to be shifted following mounting abuse, with . . . → Read More: The ongoing violence of climate change denial The Reno Gazette-Journal has posted an interesting article about the insidious effect of Fox News on general understanding of some established facts, based on a study of media’s influence. They note: The study wasn’t intended to be concerned with where people got their information, just how accurate it seemed. But the researchers noticed a peculiar thing: . . . → Read More: Deniers and liars: The Fox feedback loop in effect |
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