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
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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 Definitely “Not Safe For Work” and worth a few minutes of . . . → Read More: An appropriate response to climate change deniers Once again, we have a bulletin from The Dept. of the Blindingly Obvious: The U.S. probably won’t take significant steps to curb climate change until an environmental disaster sways public view and prompts political action, Robert Stavins of Harvard University said. “It’s unlikely that the U.S. is going to take serious action on climate change until there are . . . → Read More: American tipping points Pete Sinclair has just released a not-quite-eighteen-minute video that takes on the infamous “Mike’s trick”/”hide the decline” balloon juice that the deniers have been peddling for what seems like decades. Regular readers of this site know that I think very highly of Pete’s work on the Climate Denial Crock of the Week, but I have to say . . . → Read More: Debunking the “trick” to “hide the decline” yet again I’ve often linked to videos from Pete Sinclair’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week video series, because I think he does an outstanding job of focusing on specific topics in educational and often very entertaining ways. But one of his videos really stands out for me, Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past, which . . . → Read More: A climate change reminder from 1956 Democrats roll out climate change big guns, Republicans remain immune | Environment | guardian.co.uk: Democrats had pushed for Tuesday’s hearings in the hopes that testimony from climate scientists might give Republicans second thoughts in their moves to strip the Obama adminsitration of its powers to act on climate change. Republicans are set to move as early as Thursday . . . → Read More: Update: Congress is still (mostly) science-free John Abraham, Michael Mann, Michael Oppenheimer and Peter Gleick have an excellent piece up at Politico about the efforts by House Republicans to legislate away the nasty realities of climate change.: We are saddened and disturbed that Upton [R-Michigan] is apparently planning to hold a vote in committee very soon to overturn a science-based determination absent any . . . → Read More: A science-free Congress Skeptical Science has an excellent post up, Climate Sensitivity: The Skeptic Endgame, that I highly recommend if you haven’t seen it already. And if you have seen it, I suggest you go take another look, as the comments are still piling up, and they’re also worth reading. The basic point of the post is that the . . . → Read More: Climate sensitivity and the deniers’ last stand |
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