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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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The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP
Fewer Republicans saying earth is warming |
Joseph Romm |
11 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The science is clear about the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are the dominant cause. But, sadly, that isn't clear to most Republicans. Anybody who thinks the public debate is over -- anybody who thinks the Big Lie doesn't work -- should look at the latest poll results from the Pew Research Center:The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased modestly since January 2007, mostly because of a decline among Republi ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics) |
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Alas, Alaska
Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics |
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07 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Monday links
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David Roberts |
05 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As promised, here's yet another bunch of links for your leisurely perusal: Fortune writer Adam Lashinsky has a great round-up from the Brainstorm Green conference. My only beef is with this, about Lomborg: Even if you believe that global warming is an abject crisis, I simply reject the argument that it's a bad idea to test your beliefs by listening to someone who disagrees or who is proposing a different solution. Well ... of course. The question is whether, af ... |
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| Topics: climate change skepticism, coal, energy, John Dingell, politics (all these topics) |
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A trip to the Land of Strained Analogies
More blather about sacrifice from pundits who don't really care about climate change |
Adam Stein |
05 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I see the pundits are still lobbing up chinstrokers about how addressing climate change is going to require 'sacrifice -- serious wartime sacrifice.' This sounds Very Serious. The only quibble I have is that it's probably not true. 'Going green' in a carbon-constrained economy won't feel like sacrifice to most people. It will feel like shopping. Meaning, it will feel like all the decisions we make every day, but tilted imperceptibly by the price ramifications of a carb ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, tech (all these topics) |
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Nature article on 'cooling' confuses media, deniers
Next decade may see rapid warming, not cooling |
Joseph Romm |
04 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Nature article ($ub. req'd) that has caused so much angst about the possibility that we are entering a decade of cooling -- 'Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector' -- has been widely misreported. I base this in part on direct communication with the lead author. In fact, with the caveat from the authors that the study should be viewed as preliminary, and should not be used for year-by-year predictions, it is more accurate to say t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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Has global warming stopped?
Climate change must be examined over decades, not years |
Andrew Dessler |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| There has been a lot of nonsense written about the lack of much if any warming over the last few years. It's not a new argument -- in fact, I blogged about it here -- but like an axe-wielding psycho from a cheap horror flick, it just keeps coming back. At times like this, it is always useful to look at the data. The figure below shows the temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961-1991 average) from 1850 to 2007. The data are the Hadley HadCRUT3v analysis. A ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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Skeptics lie; news at 11
DeSmogBlog uncovers Heartland lies |
David Roberts |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The right-wing Heartland Institute has been making a big fuss about "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares." Five hundred skeptical scientists? Sounds bad! Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog had the radical idea of actually contacting the scientists, to see if they are being accurately characterized by Heartland. You see where this is going, right? In less than 24 hours, Grandia received three dozen outraged replies from scienti ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, jackassery (all these topics) |
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Me, worry?
Most Americans don't believe global warming will pose a threat to them |
Maywa Montenegro |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A new series of Pew polls shows public concern for climate change is out of sync with the science: |
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| Topics: green living, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green
Lomborg does his shtick |
David Roberts |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| God knows why, but they invited Bjorn Lomborg for a short one-on-one interview. Somewhat embarrassingly for Fortune, they got about a third of the crowd that's come to most other sessions. Apparently people are tired of his shtick. For some reason, Adam Lashinsky from Fortune is kissing Lomborg's ass, asking him to "challenge our cozy consensus," granting him his self-proclaimed status as "skeptical," talking about how challenging he is, blah bla ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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It's not you; it's me
Energy execs and GOP reps grow apart on climate action |
Miles Grant |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Things may be getting a little weird in what's traditionally been a cozy long-term relationship. A Republican state representative in North Dakota last week ripped electric company executives for being too liberal on climate action: State Rep. Jim Kasper, R-Fargo, said the companies have a responsibility to 'tell the truth' about global warming. 'What I hear you saying is that, 'It's going to be a reality and we're just going to play the game as best we can,'' Kasper ... |
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| Topics: Congress, climate change skepticism, energy, politics, state politics, North Dakota (all these topics) |
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A decarbonization story: Part 2
Does the IPCC dangerously assume 'spontaneous' decarbonization? |
Joseph Romm |
17 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| No. The central point of the recent Nature article 'Dangerous Assumptions' (available here [PDF]) is that the IPCC made dangerous assumptions in their reference scenarios: ... the scenarios assume a certain amount of spontaneous technological change and related decarbonization. Thus, the IPCC implicitly assumes that the bulk of the challenge of reducing future emissions will occur in the absence of climate policies. We believe that these assumptions are optimistic a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics) |
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Skeptic stage dad to impressionable teen daughter: 'MOTIVATION!'
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David Roberts |
15 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is the saddest, creepiest story I've seen in a long while. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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Gore's Law
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David Roberts |
15 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Modelled after Godwin's Law, here is Gore's Law: As an online climate change debate grows longer, the probability that denier arguments will descend into attacks on Al Gore approaches one. (via Deltoid) |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, funnies (all these topics) |
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Breaking: The great ice age of 2008 is finally over -- next stop, Venus!
One month's worth of data laughable as proof of global cooling |
Joseph Romm |
14 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A top NASA scientist just emailed me the breaking news: 'The ice age expired!' Even more shocking: the rate of warming this year has been just about unprecedented in the historical record -- even faster than I had predicted just last month based on the NASA data from February. Just look at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset. While January's land-ocean global temperature was a mere +0.12 degrees C above the the 1951-1980 average and the February ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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What's Your Hurricane?
Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier |
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14 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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For Earth Day, Bush claims to want climate solutions
Analysis: Bush announcement attempt to subvert action |
Brad Johnson |
14 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As David mentioned, The Washington Times reported today that 'President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.' However, 'it is not clear exactly what Mr. Bush will propose.' Although this announcement comes as we head into the Earth Day weekend, Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino claimed it's just a coincidence. Stephen Dina ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush, jackassery, politics, regulation (all these topics) |
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Succeeding in the free market
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David Roberts |
13 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| One of my favorite writers, Jonathan Chait, has an article in The New Republic on 'the latest in global warming denialism' (the latest being acknowledging it exists but refusing to do anything about it). It mostly goes over familiar ground, but I wanted to call out one part where Chait makes an unwarranted concession. Discussing recent efforts to repeal some oil industry tax breaks in order to fund tax credits for renewable energy, Chait writes: Objection number one ... |
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| Topics: business, climate change skepticism, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Is Our Textbooks Misleading?
Student charges that textbook downplays climate change |
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09 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 "[S]cience doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all," says a random climate skeptic the widely used 2005 version of Advanced Placement high school textbook American Government. The text, written by two prominent conservatives, goes on to imply that the cause of climate change is ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics) |
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Sorry, deniers
Research finds (once again) that climate change is not caused by cosmic rays |
Joseph Romm |
06 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| One more denier talking point has been debunked by scientists using actual observations. You can read the Science News article here, which explains, 'New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases.' You can read the original article, just published by the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters, 'Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud co ... |
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| Topics: climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics) |
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Matt Drudge's misleading mashup bolsters right-wing fantasy World
Drudge hijacks headlines to sell global warming denial |
Brad Johnson |
04 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| From the Think Progress Wonk Room. Atop the Drudge Report right now: Do the stories behind these headlines tell the tale that global warming alarmists have 'hijacked' the political debate despite a 'lack of natural disasters' and no global warming 'since 1998'? No. Let's review: DRUDGE HEADLINE #1: REPORT: GLOBAL TEMPS 'HAVE NOT RISEN SINCE 1998' This claim has been thoroughly debunked every time it's popped up. The oil-backed global ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, economy, severe weather (all these topics) |
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The Eye of the Storm
Global temps may drop this year but, alas, world still warming |
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04 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:18 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Brace yourself for climate-change-denier delight, as the World Meteorological Organization is expecting global temperatures to drop this year thanks to a strong La Niņa. But, of course, says WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud, "When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year. You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of te ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news (all these topics) |
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Hoffert and Pielke: <del
Shame on Nature for quoting Hoffert on behalf of Pielke without noting they're colleagues! |
Joseph Romm |
02 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Suppose the prestigious journal Nature published an analysis of mine that they knew many people would disagree with. How would you feel if Nature then ran accompanying commentaries for and against my analysis, including another Senior Fellow from the Center for American Progress raving about how important and brilliant it was? You'd probably think that was kind of lame of them. Now suppose the Nature article never mentioned that I was a CAP Senior Fellow or that my m ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, climate change skepticism, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics) |
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More from the delayer-1000 du jour
Why did Nature run Pielke's pointless, misleading, embarrassing nonsense? |
Joseph Romm |
02 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The usually thoughtful journal Nature has just published a pointless and misleading -- if not outright dangerous -- commentary by delayer-1000 du jour, Roger Pielke, Jr., along with Christopher Green, who, as we've seen, is another aspiring delayer. It will be no surprise to learn the central point of their essay, ironically titled 'Dangerous Assumptions' (available here [PDF] or here, with a subscription), is: 'Enormous advances in energy technology will be needed to s ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics) |
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