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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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

Are scientists losing the global warming debate? Delayers are replacing deniers	Andrew Dessler	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There's been some hand wringing about the fact that science does not have the traction it should in the political debate over climate change. This is the genesis of the framing argument, most recently pushed by Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet. Basically, this thesis says that scientists need to put their scientific results into a 'frame' that allows the general public to better understand how to interpret their results. I've never particularly liked 'framing, ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, scientific research (all these topics)

The deniers are winning the war of words Climate-skeptic books abound on Amazon's top sellers list	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth is so last year! Al Gore's book may have been No. 1 in 2006, but the global warming deniers and delayers are outselling everyone this year. Of course, Bjørn Lomborg's collection of cherry-picked misinformation, Cool It is the top-selling book in four categories: Climatology, Climate Changes, Public Policy, and even Conservation. But who knew that the top book in both Meteorology and Weather was the Competitive Enterprise Institute's The P ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

A must-read 1972 climate prediction Rate of global warming predicted 35 years ago in Nature	Joseph Romm	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Nature just published this remarkable letter by Neville Nicholls of Australia's Monash University: Climate: Sawyer predicted rate of warming in 1972 Thirty-five years ago this week, Nature published a paper titled 'Man-made carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse' effect' by the eminent atmospheric scientist J.S. Sawyer (Nature 239, 23-26; 1972, $ubs. req'd). In four pages, Sawyer summarized what was known about the role of carbon dioxide in enhancing the natural gr ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Taking the measure of measurement Is climate change an artifact of computer models?	JMG	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Electric Politics has an audio interview on measuring climate change that might be of interest to many here.Here's the intro:The main knock against anthropogenic climate change -- more or less unchanged since the 1980s -- is that a cabal of cunning computer modelers have managed to dupe, co-opt, bamboozle, or intimidate climate scientists into believing fantastic, yet unsubstantiated, allegations. Recently put forward by the redoubtable Freeman Dyson, this critique also, unfortu ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Editorial vs. news The Wall Street Journal contradicts itself on global warming	Kit Stolz	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The Wall Street Journal is universally admired among journalists for its news and analysis; for its editorial page, not so much. A spectacular example of the latter's ability to mislead appeared yesterday, under the cute title Not So Hot, in which the anonymous editorializers adroitly attacked NASA, environmentalists, climate change models, and climatologists James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt over a statistically insignificant data correction. The misleading editorial was rew ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Are scientists overestimating -- or underestimating -- climate change? Part I Read on	Joseph Romm	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A study by Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Lab, to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), has the deniers and doubters delighted. 'Overturning the 'Consensus' in One Fell Swoop' gloats Planet Gore, which says the study 'concludes that the Earth's climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes' and so we 'should expect about a 0.6°C additional increase in temperature between now and 2070 [0.1°C per decade] ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Freeman Dyson, climate crackpot Yet another one	Joseph Romm	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
As a physicist, I have never been a big fan of Freeman Dyson. He was, after all, one of the 'geniuses' pushing Project Orion -- the absurdly impractical idea of creating a rocket ship powered by detonating nuclear bombs -- I kid you not! Dyson has written a new book, A Many Colored Glass, that you shouldn't waste your time and money on -- as this extract on global warming makes clear. Dyson has basically joined the famous-crackpot camp with Michael Crichton and ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Must-read from RealClimate The latest skepticism, debunked	Joseph Romm	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Not that anyone but a denier or two believed that some microscopic revision in a few years of temperature data meant the theory of human-caused global warming was even slightly undercut -- but progressives need to know all the rebuttals. I emailed Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate about this -- I'm sure I wasn't alone -- and he put together a very nice debunking post. As Gavin writes, 'there is clearly a latent and deeply felt wish in some sectors for the whole problem of ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Climate change Game over	Andrew Dessler	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In an editorial in this week's Science Magazine, Donald Kennedy writes: With respect to climate change, we have abruptly passed the tipping point in what until recently has been a tense political controversy. Why? Industry leaders, nongovernmental organizations, Al Gore, and public attention have all played a role. At the core, however, it's about the relentless progress of science. As data accumulate, denialists retreat to the safety of the Wall Street Journal op- ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

It's Not the Sun Sun is not causing current global warming, researchers confirm		11 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
It's Not the Sun Sun is not causing current global warming, researchers confirm Attention all ye who think the sun might be a primary cause of climate change, and all ye who know someone who thinks that: No. It's not the sun. Researchers have published a study of the last century of solar activity, finding that the sun's output has actually declined over the last 20 years. (And yes, they did brain ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, news (all these topics)

NASA chief Griffin stands by his Luddite remarks -- as space agency guts climate science work Unfortunate	Joseph Romm	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
NASA administrator Michael Griffin offered a lame apology for his denier remarks on climate change. The Associated Press reports that Griffin 'regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview.' That is, he apologized for speaking his mind. Sad. In a related story, the media revealed a recent report on how NASA and the Bush administration are gutting earth observation work crucial to tracking climate change: The Bush adm ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, funnies, green living (all these topics)

Fred Thompson delivers rational, informed, passionate speech about the need for immediate action to combat global warming	Adam Browning	03 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Just kidding. He's an ass: 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 in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto. NASA says the Martian South Pole's 'ice cap' has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Bunk from Beck Real Climate tears apart another fraudulent presentation from E. G. Beck	Coby Beck	29 May 2007	Gristmill
Over at RealClimate today, they present and debunk another fraudulent reconstruction from German school-teacher-plays-skeptic-scientist E. G. Beck. First it was his groundbreaking (as in stick your head in the sand) work on CO2; now he turns his attention to temperature reconstructions for the past millennium. When bad science still doesn't get the result you want, why not spice it up with a bit of plain and simple fraud?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

2007: hottest year on record so far Or is it just us?	Joseph Romm	19 May 2007	Gristmill
April may have seemed on the cool side in this country, but globally it was the third warmest on record (and the warmest April ever over land). In fact, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reports that 'globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the warmest on record for January-April year-to-date period.' Drudge reported the April news perversely: 'WARMING ON HOLD? Aprils temperatures were below average ...' April temperature anomalies are s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Epistemological standards, arbitrarily applied Why must global-warming science produce certainty?	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
I wonder what would happen if the same amount of skeptical attention paid to global warming science were paid to the other disciplines that inform policymakers: economics, opinion polling, covert intelligence, diplomacy, history, ethics, etc. Do those other areas of analysis produce models and predictions free of uncertainty? Of course not. And yet we use them every day, because -- outside this bizarre cultural artifact we call the "global warming debate" ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Is the science of climate change settled? No, but we still know enough to start taking action	Andrew Dessler	09 May 2007	Gristmill
A few weeks ago, I was perusing Grist when I ran across an ad for A Convenient Fiction, a slideshow rebuttal of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The author was none other than Steve Hayward, who you might remember from the AEI-$10,000-payola scandal. I had actually seen this slideshow discussed in the New York Times, and was interested to see it. In my previous communications with Hayward, he was at great pains to describe himself as someone who believed the scienc ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

Mooney on Waxman hearing	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?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Another op-ed on climate change Debunking the 'water vapor' nonsense	Andrew Dessler	18 Mar 2007	Gristmill
On March 8, the Newport Daily News published a commentary that recycled one of the stalest skeptical arguments around: because water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide must be unimportant. This is incorrect, of course, and has been debunked on several blogs (e.g., here). In response to this, my colleague Chris Reddy and I wrote this response, published March 16: Disregard inaccurate view on climateIn his recent editoria ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

A long rant about facts, persuasion, and global warming Facts alone will never cut it	David Roberts	16 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I want to tear my %$#@! hair out. On Wed. night in New York City, there was a formal debate. At issue was the statement, "global warming is not a crisis." David Biello sets the scene: Arguing for the motion were the folksy (and tall) Michael Crichton, the soft-spoken Richard Lindzen and the passionate Philip Stott. Arrayed against were the moderate Brenda Ekwurzel, the skeptical Gavin Schmidt and the perplexed Richard Somerville. (Note: all the adje ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

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