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Cheerio climate!
Poll indicates Brits harbor doubts on climate change |
Joseph Romm |
23 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| U.S. conservatives aren't the only ones who are easily duped. When 1,039 Brits were asked 'To what extent do you agree or disagree that ... Many scientific experts still question if humans are contributing to climate change,' a remarkable 60 percent agreed whereas only 22 percent disagreed. Congrats to the British deniers out there -- yes, even you TVMOB, who apparently qualifies as a scientific expert in the U.K. because he wears a Nobel prize pin made of gold r ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Irony-gate
Viscount Monckton, a British peer, says his paper was peer-reviewed by a scientist |
Joseph Romm |
22 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 'The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley' is full of crap himself. Before casting a wary eye on his new ribaldry, however, let me direct you to yet another dismantling of his 'thesis' -- this one by Deltoid at ScienceBlogs: 'Monckton's triple counting.'(Even more debunking here.) But I digress. The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, as he prefers to call himself, or TVMOB, as I will call him because, damn, the acronym is just too sweet, has penned an epistle to the president of ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, scientific research (all these topics) |
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The English Channel
Skeptical climate-change documentary found unfair, but not misleading |
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22 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:38 AM on 22 Jul 2008 A British documentary that declared climate change to be a willful and conspiratorial hoax broke impartiality rules and misrepresented the views of some participants, British broadcasting regulator Ofcom said Monday. The not-so-subtly named The Great Global Warming Swindle, which aired on Britain's Channel 4 in March 2007, said at one point in its narration, "Everywher ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, TV, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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The newest denialist talking point
Physicists reaffirm that human-induced GHGs affect the atmosphere |
Andrew Dessler |
18 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| It goes something like this: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. Of course that's not true. Today a statement appeared on the APS website saying:APS Position Remains Unchanged The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing b ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Climate change and the null hypothesis
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Andrew Dessler |
17 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| An excellent post by my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State climatologist, can be found here. An excerpt: ... consider a pot of water. Somebody you don't know claims that they have invented a new way to heat water. They demonstrate this technique to you by placing the pot of water in a separate room and showing you a temperature readout that indicates a rising temperature. A true skeptic will not immediately believe that the temperature readout is comi ... |
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| Topics: climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics) |
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Anti-science conservatives must be stopped
New global warming denier article in Salon |
Joseph Romm |
30 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| That's the title of my new article in Salon. I had proposed 'The political fight of the century,' but the editors wanted a stronger headline -- and subhead: Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake. Now that the relevant science is settled -- namely that failing to quickly embrace strong greenhouse gas reduction policies would be the greatest act of self-destructi ... |
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| Topics: climate science, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate (all these topics) |
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Climate skeptics say the darndest things
Did I say darndest? I meant stupidest |
Andrew Dessler |
30 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| From Deltoid, Tim Lambert provides this exchange between Tim Flannery (climate realist) and Adam Shand (climate skeptic) from an Australian TV show: Tim Flannery: No one can predict the weather three months ahead, that's absolutely true. But if I asked you if January next year was likely to be warmer than June this year, what would you say? Adam Shand: I'd have no idea! TF: You'd say yes because that's what we always see. Summers are warmer than winter. And i ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery (all these topics) |
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Bjorn again
His argument is still bogus |
Andrew Dessler |
26 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Washington Post embarrasses itself today by publishing the usual delayer drivel in an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg. The fundamental problem with Lomborg's argument (which he also makes in his recent book Cool It!) is that it is based on the assumption that the worst-case, climate-change scenario cannot happen. The IPCC's predictions for climate change over the next hundred years range from about 2°C to 5°C. If you assume that the warming will be closer to 2° th ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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More on the hockey stick
Previous warm periods don't mean we're not responsible for this one |
Andrew Dessler |
17 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| For those interested in temperature reconstructions of past climates, in particular the kerfuffle over the hockey stick, I recently found a pretty good website. It contains a load of useful information, some of which I did not know. For example, consider this famous plot from the IPCC's First Assessment Report:Skeptics have used this plot to argue that today's warmth cannot be caused by humans because it was warmer one thousand years ago. The website does a good jo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics) |
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National Journal confirms our low expectations
Republican members of Congress do not believe in climate change or deem it a priority |
David Roberts |
12 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| National Journal polls members of Congress: Matt draws our attention to one particular quote from a Republican No: "If there's one thing poll after poll indicates, it's that the science is not settled on this issue." Wow. Also: But don't worry: McCain is a maverick! So he should have no trouble overcoming the deep institutional ignorance and intransigence of his party once he's president. BONUS QUESTION: Here's the list of the Dems in the poll -- te ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics) |
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A new part of the No Duh curriculum
Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress |
David Roberts |
09 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics) |
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The conservative climate change problem
An acknowledge-and-do-nothing strategy is little better than denialism |
Ryan Avent |
08 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Reihan Salam writes an incredibly disappointing, and boggling, blog post here, on his preferred strategies for dealing with climate change. Disappointing, because if Reihan, one of the best conservative writers out there, doesn't get the logic of carbon pricing, then there's little hope for some sort of conservative renaissance on climate change policy. Boggling, because Reihan is too smart a guy to get so many things wrong in such a short amount of time.Let me sta ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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He rules their world
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David Roberts |
06 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On the Drudge Report homepage right now: Gotta love those scare quotes. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, websites (all these topics) |
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James and the giant lie
Oklahoma senator makes stuff up, wastes time in climate change debate |
Kate Sheppard |
04 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Senate's leading climate change denier, had plenty of kooky and alarmist things to say in yesterday's debate over climate change legislation. Think Progress has video of one of his wing-nuttiest contributions to the discussion, in which he lies about Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, and the IPCC: Yep, the same IPCC that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, IPCC, James Inhofe, Muckraker, news, Oklahoma, politics (all these topics) |
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Blast from the future
Why does the Post let conservative columnists make up climate facts? |
Joseph Romm |
02 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Memo: To Washington Post, circa 2008 From: Future Historians of America (FHA), circa [you wouldn't believe us if we told you] Re: Historical Fact Checking Via: T-mail (Tachyon-Mail) As we attempt to document the reasons carbon dioxide concentrations are currently 945 ppm and rising 5 ppm a year, the FHA has a few questions we hope you can answer for us. It seems like every time the United States contemplated legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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News flash: Newton's laws were 'overthrown'
Bizarre talking points of WaPo columnist Krauthammer |
Joseph Romm |
31 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Sir Isaac Newton is one of the towering geniuses in all human history. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer? Not so much. Krauthammer has written a classic anti-science screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment,' that recasts many favorite anti-scientific denier memes in odd terms. You still hear and see all of these today, so let me touch on a few of them. And as I will discuss in Part 2, the article is most useful be ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, insanity (all these topics) |
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They Could Talk the Legs off a Chair
Exxon shareholders reject resolution to shake up management |
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28 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:55 AM on 28 May 2008 Exxon shareholders have rejected a high-profile resolution to strip one management role from current Chair-'n'-CEO Rex Tillerson and hire an independent chairperson. The influential Rockefeller family, along with various other investors, had pushed for the split. "Despite top-notch individual directors, [Exxon's] record over the last decade, particularly regardi ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics) |
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Different worlds
Well-informed Republicans are not concerned about climate change |
David Roberts |
27 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A new analysis of survey data finds: The more Democrats think they know about global warming, the more concerned they are. But Republicans who consider themselves well informed on the topic seem no more worried than those who profess ignorance, a study suggests. What's going on? Here's my one-sentence diagnosis: Democrats are more likely to be moral relativists and epistemological realists; Republicans are more likely to be the opposite. The base of the right is u ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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The Will to disbelieve
Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision |
David Roberts |
23 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This ran on VanityFair.com earlier today. George Will is far from the only middle-aged Boomer pundit who spends his time shadowboxing Dirty Hippies on the Washington Post editorial page, but his Thursday column is a doozy even by that genre's dubious standards. Seems the Communist Greens, with their 'hostility to markets' and contempt for individual freedom, have teamed up with Activist Judges yet again. They're after America's vital fluids! Amidst the error and ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, endangered species, habitat loss, polar bears (all these topics) |
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They blinded me with bad science
Should you believe anything John Christy and Roy Spencer say? |
Joseph Romm |
22 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I don't believe 'em. But should you? You can't read everything or listen to everybody. Life is just too short. I debated Christy years ago, so I know he tries to peddle unscientific nonsense when he thinks he can get away with it. But some of the comments in my recent post 'The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP' can't seem to get enough of the analyses by these two scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville who famously screwed up the satell ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Beyond the Palin
Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing |
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22 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 May 2008 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. "We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty. To green groups, that argument is, shall we say, unimpressive. &quo ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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What's happening in the world of Brave Heresy?
RPJr. is at it again |
David Roberts |
20 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Roger Pielke Jr., last seen bobbing and weaving in an online bout with an Actual Scientist -- and getting pummeled -- can now be found in a story in the Moonie-owned, far-right Washington Times: Roger A. Pielke, environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, and not previously a global warming skeptic, reacted to the Nature article: 'Climate models are of no practical use beyond providing some intellectual authority in the promotional battle over ... |
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| Topics: climate science, climate change skepticism, climate (all these topics) |
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We Get It -- the joke, that is
Corporate evangelical leaders cloak opposition to climate policy behind concern for poor |
David Roberts |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Those of you following Grist's news feed (if you're not, you should) are aware that last week a group of conservative evangelicals launched the "We Get It!" campaign, arguing against action on global warming. We've written a great deal on Grist about the split in the evangelical leadership between those who recognize the danger of global warming and those who don't. The former includes lots of younger churchgoers who want to broaden the church's mandate b ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Getting Their Message a Cross
Conservative Christians launch skeptical climate campaign |
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16 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:21 PM on 16 May 2008 Conservative religious leaders have launched a "We Get It!" campaign that just goes to prove that saying something doesn't make it so. The campaign aims to gather a million signatures on a petition opposing climate-change action, with the argument that tackling global warming will hurt the world's poor. "Our stewardship of creation must be based on Biblical pri ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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The jewel of denial
The delayers' paradox |
Joseph Romm |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The primary goal of the global warming deniers and their disciples is to waste time and delay action, which is why I prefer to call them delayers. (This post is inspired by the surprising finding that only 27 percent of conservatives say the earth is warming because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.) The delayers' paradox The deniers and delayers are those who argue that failing to embrace strict reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions will not lead to s ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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