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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, climate change skepticism, climate science (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 change skepticism, climate (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)

Lutz strikes back GM exec defends calling climate change a 'crock of shit'	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A couple weeks back, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, at a roundtable with reporters, casually mentioned that he thinks global warming is a "crock of shit." (His point was that it makes sense to develop an all-electric vehicle either way.) Lots and lots of people, mainly bloggers, got in a huge uproar about it. Yesterday, Lutz wrote a defiant post on GM's blog addressing the controversy. His point is that it doesn't matter a bit what his personal beliefs are; wha ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics)

Don't Let Your Right Get Left United Nations calls climate change a matter of human rights		22 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 22 Feb 2008 If climate change is a "largely unscientific hoax" and "political concoction" (in the words of Republican strategist Mary Matalin), it's a hoax and concoction that could threaten the rights of millions of people. Or so said the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights this week. "Ultimately climate change may affect the very right t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Hey Man, That Ain't Cool There was no consensus about global cooling in the '70s, says study		21 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:30 PM on 21 Feb 2008 The scientific consensus in the 1970s about "global cooling" is a beloved argument of global-warming skeptics -- and little more, says a survey of scientific literature between 1965 and 1979. During that time period, seven peer-reviewed articles supported global cooling, while 44 predicted global warming. "There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s tha ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Trippin' Lutz General Motors vice chair is not a climate-change believer	Sarah K. Burkhalter	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is not only cranky, but willfully ignorant: D Magazine reports that Lutz declared to journalists that global warming is a 'total crock of shit.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Hurricanes and global warming Revisiting the climate-science funding question	Andrew Dessler	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In the public climate change debate, one often hears the argument that scientists are making hysterical claims about climate change in order to get funding. I already blogged about how the argument fails the 'common sense' test, but I think this issue deserves another post. Kerry Emanual and Chris Landsea, two of the major players in the debate over the connection between climate change and hurricanes, have visited A&M in the last three weeks and both gave se ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Climate change is real! How about that? AGU releases position statement on climate change	Andrew Dessler	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The American Geophysical Union, a scientific organization with over 50,000 members, mostly earth scientists, just released a position statement on climate change. It is a strong endorsement of the mainstream view of climate science, as articulated by the IPCC reports: the Earth is warming, humans are to blame for most of the recent warming, and future warming may be disastrous. While this is a strong statement by itself, its true strength comes when you con ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The solar distraction Climate skeptics blame the sun for global warming	Andrew Dessler	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Global warming skeptics everywhere are jumping on the solar bandwagon: 'It's not greenhouse gases, it's the sun! Let's burn some coal to celebrate!' There are, of course, many, many problems with the solar theory as an explanation for recent warming. To me, the most damning is that the correlation has failed in the last few decades. As highlighted in an interesting news item in this week's Science: [Courtillot] and his team acknowledge that 'anomalous warming ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Unstoppable disinformation every 15 minutes from Fred Singer Climate denier contradicts self, facts, remains famous	Joseph Romm	21 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So Kansas state House member Larry Powell has sent a copy of Fred Singer's lame denier treatise, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, to every Kansas legislator. Of course, he sent one to Governor Sebelius, who denied a permit for two large coal-fired power plants in his home county. Since I've been blogging regularly on Kansas, Kansas reporter Sarah Kessinger called me Friday for my opinion on Singer's book and what legislators should do to become inform ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: George Waldenberger	Andrew Dessler	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In previous editions of the 'Inhofe 400,' we found some skeptics who were completely unqualified and others who are qualified but not actually skeptical. Today's 'skeptic' falls into the latter category. He is meteorologist George Waldenberger. In response to his inclusion on the list, George sent an email to Inhofe's staffers that began: Marc, Matthew: Take me off your list of 400 (Prominent) Scientists that dispute Man-Made Global warming claims. ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Inhofe (all these topics)

Show me the money! Scientists do not have a financial incentive to settle the climate debate	Andrew Dessler	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
An argument often heard in the fruitlooposphere* is that the scientific community has financial incentive to push the consensus view that humans are responsible for climate change. The idea is that toeing the consensus line translates into more research funding. There is, of course, never any evidence presented with this argument. Rather, it is presented as 'common sense': 'Well, of course they're just trying to get more funding ...' So let's apply a littl ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Get real, deniers! Climate skeptics claim no warming since 1998	Joseph Romm	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Honestly, if anyone tells you 'For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming' -- as this Boston Globe columnist has -- they simply are not interested in seriously trying to understand and deal with the gravest problem facing humanity. They deserve the label 'global warming denier' for willfully trying to confuse the public debate. Let's look at the data, from NASA, presented last month (PDF): Through the first 11 months, 2007 is the second warmest ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: Christopher Castro	Andrew Dessler	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In previous editions of the 'Inhofe 400,' we found one skeptic whose only qualification for being a 'climate expert' was to have written an op-ed and another who argues that climate change must not be happening because God would never allow it. We also found some economists who don't seem to doubt that humans are causing the climate to change. Today's 'skeptic,' Prof. Christopher L. Castro, is a bonafide atmospheric scientist, so he clearly has relevant expe ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Inhofe (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' skeptic of the day Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner on climate change	Andrew Dessler	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Today's members of the 'Inhofe 400,' Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, do appear to have expertise on climate change policy. Prins is the professor and director of the Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events at the London School of Economics, while Rayner is professor and director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford. As such, they are different from those that I have previously highlighted (here and here), ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: Chris Allen	Andrew Dessler	30 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Today's member of the 'Inhofe 400' truly epitomizes the expertise and credibility of the group of experts that the good senator has assembled to demonstrate the obvious flaws in the theory of human-induced global warming. He is Chris Allen, weather director at WBKO, the ABC affiliate for south-central Kentucky. On his blog, Chris says this about global warming:My biggest argument against putting the primary blame on humans for climate change is that it completely tak ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Inhofe (all these topics)

The year in one cartoon 2007 was the year of splitting the difference	Joseph Romm	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The triumph, for yet another year, of those who want to split the difference and, basically, do nothing (i.e. those whose key climate strategy is to invest in good ole technology or at least to say they want to invest in technology) -- this means you President Bush, Newt Gingrich, Bj�rn Lomborg, OPEC (!), Shellenberger and Nordhaus (depending on what day you happen to catch them), and possibly Andy Revkin (and maybe even E. O. Wilson -- say it ain't so!) By the way, ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, energy (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400': Busting the 'consensus busters' Today: Thomas Ring	Andrew Dessler	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Recently, Senator James Inhofe published a list of 400 'prominent scientists' who have recently voiced significant objections mainstream climate science. In response to this list, I recently blogged that many of those listed lacked qualifications (see also here). I'm betting that Sen. Inhofe doesn't want you to actually read the list of skeptics, but just read the headline and accept their conclusion. Here at Grist, however, we don't do what the good senator wants us ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, climate science, climate (all these topics)

'Mine's bigger' Me on Hannity & Colmes	David Roberts	22 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here I am on Hannity & Colmes, 21 Dec. 2007. Mark Steyn was sitting in for Sean Hannity. The other guest is Chris Horner of CEI. There's some satisfaction in taking shots at Horner and CEI. God knows they get off too easy most of the time. And watching Horner bumble around and make no sense is fun.He called me an 'alarmist' and decried ad hominem attacks in the same sentence.In a discussion of whether there's a scientific consensus, you are not allowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics)

More on the 'scientific' attacks on global warming NYT's Revkin gives Inhofe a pass	Joseph Romm	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
So Sen. James 'global warming is a hoax' Inhofe (R-Okla.) issues a report in which he claims: Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called 'consensus' on man-made global warming. 'Padded' would be an extremely generous description of this list of 'prominent scientists.' Some would use the word 'laughable' (though not the N.Y. Times' Andy Revkin, see below). For ins ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe (all these topics)

Inhofe's latest windmill More bogus climate skepticism	Andrew Dessler	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Imagine my surprise upon reading a shocking entry on Sen. Inhofe's EPW blog: the scientific consensus on climate change is cracking! That blog provides a long list of names of people who disagree with the consensus, and I have no doubt that many on this list are indeed skeptics. The question is: does their opinion matter? Should you revise your views about climate change accordingly? Considering the source, I think we all know the answer to that. To underst ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate, James Inhofe (all these topics)

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