Climate Change Skepticism

Singin' in the rain

What to make of the new climate poll 35
Posted 2 days, 14 hours ago There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story.
Carbon fixated

Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Enlightenment thinking 0
Posted 4 days, 22 hours ago Carbon Fixated has now a exposed a far greater scandal than "Carbongate." It is time to expose the fraudulent religion that worships Issac Newton, who was even fatter than Al Gore, and his silly assertions about gravity, not to mention the meaningless babble of incantations called calculus.
CRU cut

Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU 43
Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago Thousands of emails from a top climate research center have been hacked and illegally posted on the internet. Climate skeptics are taking this opportunity (and out-of-context quotes from the alleged emails) to spread the word that "global warming is a fraud."
ClimateGate alert!

FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK! 14
Posted 6 days, 23 hours ago Right-wing bloggers reacting to trumped up denier story have become indistinguishable from TrollCat.
TIME TO TOON IN

Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery 7
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago Getting Americans to wake up to the reality of climate change is no easy task. But experts at Columbia University believe a mix of psychology, anthropology, and behavioral economics can help, and they've written a guide with cartoons showing how.
It begins...

The big stories out of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer 3
Posted 1 month ago Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill -- didn't contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable.
Pretty words

Obama energy speech contained few policy specifics, but shaped forward-looking narrative 1
Posted 1 month ago Obama delivered a speech on energy at MIT on Friday, marking the kick-off for what is likely to be a protracted effort by the administration and Democrats in the Senate to pass the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill.
They mean well

What does the Pew poll mean? 5
Posted 1 month ago A Pew poll shows declining belief in climate change. Don't panic.
Don't pewk, but...

Poll finds sharp rise in global warming skepticism 31
Posted 1 month ago A new Pew poll finds a significant drop in the number of Americans who believe global warming is happening, is human-caused, and is a serious problem. Some possible explanations.
CEI eats brains

Climate Cover Up reveals how zombies are made 4
Posted 1 month ago Ever wonder what keeps bringing those zombie climate skeptic arguments to life? A new book reveals the money and players behind the climate denial movement.
FAQ YOU

Ask Umbra on combating climate denial 55
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
This summer's cool weather has some people scratching their heads and wondering if climate change is real. Umbra explains the difference between one crazy summer and a global trend, and offers resources for understanding the finer points of the climate "debate."
CoC block

Chamber of Commerce keeps stepping on rakes 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce can't catch a break these days. It has pretended to agree with the goals of climate legislation while recommending changes in the means so drastic that they would gut the bill. But there's a problem: many, many business see enormous opportunities in the shift to clean energy. And many of those businesses happen to be members of the CoC.
Notable quotable

Sen. Tom Coburn has scientific document reading training 9
Posted 3 months ago
"I am not the smartest man in the world, but I have been trained to read scientific documents, and [climate change] is malarkey."

-- Sen. Tom Coburn, who also explained why Jesus would oppose a public option in health care reform
Blowing smoke out his Grassley

Chuck Grassley does not believe in the threat of anthropogenic climate change 11
Posted 3 months ago
In a Tuesday conference call with Iowa agricultural reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered some state-of-the-art Republican doubletalk on climate change. This is worth reading in full, in part to admire the blithely inconsistent muddle of it all, but also in part to marvel at just how second-nature this line of dissembling has become. These talking points are echoed almost verbatim up and down the conservative food chain, all the way from bottom-feeders like Marc Morano to U.S. Senators. No conservative has to think on his feet about it, or craft his own careful line on it.
*But don't cite me no scientific evidence!

“Can you PROVE to me that global warming is being caused by mankind?”* 25
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The deniers believe in "science," they just don't believe in scientists, or hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, or scientific "evidence."
Why I LIke to Do Battle With the Deniers

The climate science fight club 14
Posted 4 months ago
I like to engage in the fight with global warming deniers every once in a while as a sort of bloodsport, a fight club. It gets the blood flowing, like a good workout at the gym or a big cup of coffee.
Like splitting hairs with bald people

Sarah Palin, George Will, and Potemkin debates 21
Posted 4 months ago
Debating climate policy with conservatives is a surreal exercise because, as a movement and as a party, conservatives do not believe anthropogenic climate change exists. But the mainstream media refuses to notice.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: George Will edition 0
Posted 4 months ago
The conservative Washington Post columnist goes at climate change like a dog worrying a bone. Except the dog believes the bone exists.
The tale of two Jims

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, ACES edition 38
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
A curious thing happened at Tuesday's meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: famed climate-change skeptic James Inhofe (R-Okla.) cited NASA climatologist Jim Hansen in his screed against the House climate bill.
Jeb and flow

Jeb Bush still skeptical about climate change 5
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
As bad as George W. Bush's environmental record was, W. at least got around to acknowledging that climate change is real and human-caused before leaving office. Yet his little brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, remains a global warming skeptic.