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Museum meddling
Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII |
Brian Beutler |
16 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Surprised? Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The museum's director, Cristian Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add 'scientific uncertainty' about climate change, according to internal documents and cor ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Republican, global warming denier, and sun worshiper
Fred Thompson's confused stance on climate change |
Joseph Romm |
08 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| He's running for president now, so let's revisit Fred Thompson's climate change confusion. He took some standard denier myths and threw in a dash of his own unwarranted sarcasm to create this mishmash on the Paul Harvey radio show: Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Why do we respond to bozos?
Churchill, not Chamberlain |
Ken Ward |
07 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Why are we letting pro-fossil fuel bozos hijack the only forum that environmentalists and climate-change activists have for wrestling with the daunting task of transforming America? I posted a few practical suggestions in response to David's question, 'Should we be rebutting the skeptics?' I'm going to restate one proposal -- to adopt a Craigslist-type policy allowing Grist readers to flag inappropriate posts. Gristmill is a forum for conversation and debate between ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science, environmental movement, politics (all these topics) |
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Coming soon to a skeptic near you ...
Save the Martians! |
Andrew Dessler |
12 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS! I just read the Nature paper entitled 'Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars,' by Fenton et al. I suspect it will make the rounds in the blogosphere in fairly short order, so here are a few things to remember about the paper. The analysis starts with two maps of planetary albedo for Mars -- one from the 1970s and one from 1999-2000. Albedo is a fancy name for reflectivity; how reflective a planet is, and how ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Political warfare /= scientific warfare
Time to quit pretending otherwise |
David Roberts |
26 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Late last week Chris Mooney had a long and characteristically careful post on HuffPo clarifying the hurricane/climate change connection, exactly what Gore's said about it, and exactly where Gore can and cannot be legitimately criticized for it. The crucial point in the post, though, is not about hurricanes. It's this: Nevertheless, when it comes to the science of global warming and its impacts, there's a very significant difference between Gore and his would-be detr ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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Mooney on Waxman hearing
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David Roberts |
20 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's Chris Mooney's promised post on the "new revelations" from Waxman's hearing yesterday. From what I can tell, the big revelation is that NASA press hacks did, indeed, try to block Hansen from giving an interview to NPR. But we mostly knew that, right? And given how spectacularly failed the effort to silence Hansen was ... this one isn't moving my outrage meter much. There are just so many things competing for outrage these days, no? |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Congress, politics (all these topics) |
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