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On thin ice Arctic ice alarmingly scarce, say NOAA, NASA, NSIDC	Joseph Romm	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Yes, I know you've all heard that we've had 'record' refreezing of Arctic ice. Big shock there. We had record melting followed by a temporary cooling La Niña event. What those denier/delayer-1000 talking points don't tell you is that the refrozen ice is very thin and still at record low levels following the staggering ice loss this summer. To set the record straight, on Wednesday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA had a teleconference to show the surpri ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The blind <del Roger Pielke Jr. defends his absurd delayer post ... by quoting a global warming denier	Joseph Romm	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Seriously! In a post ironically titled 'You can't make this stuff up' (actually, you can -- that's what most deniers do), Roger Pielke, Jr. responds to my last post (which challenged his absurd defense of the 'Earth is cooling' nonsense) as follows: And people wonder why some people see the more enthusiastic climate advocates akin to religious zealots. Who are these 'some people' Pielke cites? Go to his link -- it's none other than NASA Administrator Michael Grif ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate (all these topics)

Take that, delayers (this means you, Pielke)! Hadley Center says we're warming, not cooling	Joseph Romm	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The deniers/delayer-1000s cite recent U.K. Hadley Center data to promote their 'climate is cooling' disinformation. Even Roger Pielke, Jr. is peddling this nonsense with his recent inanely titled post, 'Update on Falsification of Climate Predictions.' Falsification? Give me a break! According to the Hadley Center, the eight warmest years in the global temperature record of 150 are, in order, 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Those are also the eight war ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: The decline and fall of the ideologues Delayers and doomsayers receive a chilly reception from pragmatic business leaders	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
There was a lot going on at the conference, but one underlying dynamic is particularly notable. I mentioned it in my post on Jeff Immelt's panel, but it's worth discussing at more length. The conservative ideologues -- the WSJ editorial board, invited guests Fred Smith and Myron Ebell of CEI, Steve Milloy of JunkScience -- thought they were going to put the CEOs' feet to the fire. Force business community to face some hard truths. Expose carbon policy as an econom ...
Topics: business, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Climate change is back, baby! Where is the media coverage of February's incredible warming and extreme weather?	Joseph Romm	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Well, that record cooling trend in January, which was solid evidence (to some) that human-caused global warming was at an end, melted away as fast as the summer ice in the Arctic. Not only did February begin a frighteningly unsustainable warming trend for this year, it saw a record number of tornadoes. Climate change is making a comeback! In your face, delayer-1000s! And as Jon Stewart -- or the Pope -- might say, damn you, polluters! But where is the news covera ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Media enable denier spin, part three Please stop calling them 'skeptics'	Joseph Romm	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
What name can we possibly use for the people who are working feverishly to convince the public to ignore the broad scientific understanding of global warming and delay taking serious action, action needed to avert a very grim fate for our children, their children, and so on? I suspect future generations will call them 'climate destroyers' or worse, since if we actually (continue to) listen to them, that pretty much ensures carbon-dioxide concentrations will hit c ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Bringing a knife to a gunfight What drives climate change denial?	Adam Stein	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
David and I have apparently crossed blog streams (very dangerous; never do this), but I do want to expand a bit on this basic idea: climate change skepticism has little to do with science. Rather, it is an outgrowth of the culture war. This point seems both totally obvious and strangely unremarked. At the risk of generalizing, environmentalists tend to view climate change denialism as a top-down, money-driven phenomenon. Energy producers, auto manufacturers, oil compan ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Shouldn't those have been red colorless, odorless balloons? Competitive Whining, er, Enterprise Institute bashes Gore with all they've got	Sir Oolius	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A short while ago, Sir Oolius received a fundraising email from the Competitive Enterprise Institute asking for donations to help them with their new raison d'etre: yelling 'FU, Al Gore!' as loudly and as often as possible. The fruits of this effort are now upon us in the form of a national ad whining campaign: If carbon = life, then Al Gore ...Since it's Friday, here's another gem that's too bad even for the CWI to attempt to air nationally:
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, Competitive Enterprise Institute, TV (all these topics)

The upside of disinformation: unintentional humor Manhattan Declaration disses IPCC, Gore, any attempts to reduce CO2	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Okay, so at the recent Heartless Heartland skeptic/denier/disinformer/climate-destroyer conference (I promise to propose a better term this week!), one of the few attendees who was a non-non-believer in science emailed me the following: Marc Morano, Sen. Inhofe's press secretary, just cited your post on the dangers of consensus as an example of how deniers are forcing climate action proponents to retreat. 'We're making them afraid of using the term 'consensus'!' No ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, IPCC (all these topics)

No special revelation	David Roberts	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Southern Baptist Convention to back off from outright denialism tomorrow?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Skeptics and ressentiment	David Roberts	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Most of what needs to be said about the substance of the just-concluded Heartland Institute Skepticpalooza Clown Show has been said (see, in particular, Miles and Joe). Just a couple of stray observations. The science of climate change has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of interesting questions in climate science, but the people at this conference have nothing to say about them. To me, the interesting aspects of the conference are sociological and political. ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Deep thoughts On the International Conference on Climate Change	Sir Oolius	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If only Congress would have signed on to the Manhattan Declaration years ago, we could have spent valuable resources wisely summarizing nonexistent reports, thereby avoiding the subprime crisis.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Four hundred skeptics? Try 19 The Heartland conference recycles the usual climate change skeptics in its speakers list	Andrew Dessler	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times carried this interesting write-up of the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. For those not familiar with this conference, it's like a scientific meeting on climate change -- without the science. The NYT article concluded with this statement, which pretty much sums it up: The meeting was largely framed around science, but after the luncheon, when an organizer made an announcement asking all of the scientis ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Media enable denier spin, part two What if the MSM simply can't cover humanity's self-destruction?	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If those who counsel inaction and delay succeed, billions of humans will suffer unimaginable misery and chaos while most other species will simply go extinct. Maybe the best one line description of our current situation I have read is: It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. That's the final sentence in Elizabeth Kolbert's fine glob ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Dismal science Do Big Oil and Big Tobacco share a similar smokescreen?	Miles Grant	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Stepping into the Heartland Institute's '2008 International Conference on Climate Change' was like walking into an alternate reality. To the rest of us, climate science is settled, the solutions are sensible, and the time for action is now. But in the Marriott Grand Marquis Times Square, the only science comes from industry-funded think tanks; climate action will destroy humanity; and the underdog in this fight is ExxonMobil. Photo: Justin Shearer Perhaps m ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, energy (all these topics)

Oh, goody! A book! The Business & Media Institute's new but not particularly special report	Sir Oolius	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm sure there's at least a chapter devoted to the two decades of TV broadcasts in which, no matter how irrelevant the context, the words 'global' or 'climate' or 'change' or 'warm' were inextricably linked to the words 'scientists disagree.' No? Instead, they offer us John Coleman's Medienkritik: Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism. 'The We ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, TV (all these topics)

Nobelity Nine Nobelists on the big problems	JMG	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Saw a good DVD this evening, after what seemed like several weeks where all the worst things were unfolding faster and faster and I was looking for something not quite so grim as the current headlines.Nobelity is worth a look. Two ideas of special note for Gristies. The film starts off with a discussion with physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, whose Nobel was for figuring out the electroweak force that unified two of the four fundamental forces in nature. ...
Topics: movies, climate, climate change skepticism, energy (all these topics)

Science Unfair! Climate skeptics hold conference in New York City		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:34 AM on 04 Mar 2008 A conference of climate-change skeptics gathered in New York City this week to congratulate each other for daring to challenge the accepted science of global warming. A range of high-profile deniers painted themselves as put-upon independent thinkers branded as heretics by the church of climate-change dogma. Films were shown. Speeches were made. Al Gore jokes abounded. But actual climate science w ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, United States (all these topics)

You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May Climate change skeptics say we should note, not hype	Sir Oolius	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Revkin: Mr. Morano, in an e-mail message, was undaunted, saying turnabout is fair play: 'Fair is fair. Noting (not hyping) an unusually harsh global winter is merely pointing out the obvious. Dissenters of a man-made 'climate crisis' are using the reality of this record-breaking winter to expose the silly warming alarmism that the news media and some scientists have been ceaselessly promoting for decades.' And then there's this: 'Earth's 'Fever' Breaks: Global Cooli ...
Topics: climate science, climate change skepticism, climate (all these topics)

Media enable denier spin, part one A (sort of) cold January doesn't mean climate stopped warming	Joseph Romm	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I fully understand why spreaders of climate disinformation have hyped up a (sort-of) cold January as if it somehow provided scientific evidence to support their campaign to undermine the well-established scientific understanding of human-caused climate change. That's their job (literally, in many cases). But I can't understand why the media keep treating such disinformers as if they were a genuine part of the scientific process who deserve free publicity, rather ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Climate skeptic tries to throw cold water on global warming, gets all wet	Sir Oolius	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
From an article titled 'Cold Water on 'Global Warming'' (paraphrased): My climate change prediction is that no one outside of our own inner circle of discredited charlatans and industry shills will want to sit around and watch The Great Global Warming Swindle reruns for three straight days, even if it is at the Times Square Marriott. Once my prediction comes true, I can blame it all on the liberal media.
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate (all these topics)

Flat earth firsters? A celebration of hot air on Broadway	Frank O'Donnell	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
No, you couldn't make this one up. It's a meeting, starting Sunday, of hundreds of "scientists" and propagandists, convening to denounce the proposition that global warming is real. It's like a gathering of the Flat Earth Society. Or, since this meeting literally is taking place on Broadway, it recalls the great Preston Jones play, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, which did run briefly on Broadway. The meeting is under the ae ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Wow	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Aside from being substantively misleading, this is just really, really awful. Doesn't CEI have enough money to hire a video editor?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Crock is as crock does GM's Lutz can think whatever he wants, but the record shows his actions hurt the climate fight	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, a post on the Wall Street Journal's energy blog discussed the controversy over GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz calling global warming a 'crock of shit.' It said: Some, like Wired and Grist, buy his argument: As long as GM keeps making progress toward electric cars and expanding the role of alternative fuels like ethanol, the auto maker is clearly blazing a new trail. This is a bad misreading of my point, which I probably didn't make very ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

James Carville vs. his wife Mary Matalin calls global warming 'a largely unscientific hoax'	Joseph Romm	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Mary Matalin, conservative operative and wife of liberal operative James Carville, explained on CNN today why conservatives don't like McCain's views on global warming: It's 'a largely unscientific hoax.' Oh, well, then never mind. Her husband takes a different view (duh): 'What we need to do, as a party, is try our best to focus on those two issues, energy independence and global warming, above the other environmental and energy issues out there.' So to him, glob ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

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