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OK, I'm demanding debate Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless	Andrew Dessler	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Awhile back, I ran across the web site demanddebate.com (hat tip: Michael Tobis). The thrust of the website is that everyone should demand debate about climate change instead of gullibly accepting the Gore/alarmist view. Their slogan is, 'I'm more worried about the intellectual climate.' I am teaching a 'intro to atmospheric science' class and had been trying to find a skeptic to come talk to the students. So I hit the contact button on the web site and asked ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Texas (all these topics)

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

Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary? Climate change skeptics fall for hoax paper	David Roberts	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
UPDATE: I have to put this up top, because it's so deliciously delightful. Turns out Rush Limbaugh fell for this scam, hook, line, and sinker. He bought it because he misunderstood a warning from notorious skeptic crank Roy Spencer -- he thought Spencer was calling climate change, not the paper, a hoax. Spencer subsequently apologized for, um, Limbaugh's stupidity and gullibility. Wow. I hardly know what to do with all this schadenfreude. The world hardly needs any mo ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Vote early and often	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I don't usually pay much attention to the Weblog Awards, but it has come to my attention that the odious skeptic blog Climate Audit has marshaled its flat earth fanboys to push it in the lead for 'best science blog.' That just ain't right. Unless you want to hear Glenn Beck repeating a new talking point ad nauseum, head on over and vote for the more sensible Bad Astronomy. Go on. It will only take a sec.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, websites (all these topics)

Experts agree: We should all lie. A lot. About important stuff. Nobody fights for change unless they see there's a problem	John McGrath	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ugh. So my local paper decided to print its own local blend of Nordhaus-Shellenberger drivel. Did you know that "it's time to stop blaring dire warnings about the perils of climate change and, instead, start enthusiastically proclaiming solutions"? I sure didn't. It's not as if people like Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, or I dunno, Gar Lipow have spent years talking about exactly that. It's not like the central message adopted by successful c ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate, messaging, environmental movement, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

The twilight of Inhofe One last rant from the Senate's loopy streetcorner anti-prophet	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Sen. James Inhofe has become something of an epic figure, worthy of contemplation by historians, playwrights, or perhaps psychoanalysts. The zeitgeist, which once seemed to rise up around him like a thundercloud, has now moved on, leaving him dripping and bedraggled, resorting to ever more unhinged grand gestures to try to recapture some of the old magic. His historical moment is over, as his career may soon be, but he's not going gently into that good night. Quite ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, 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)

Never doubt that a small group ... The threat from climate deniers	JMG	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
People forget that Margaret Mead's overused quote about small groups being able to change the world doesn't necessarily imply 'in a good way.' Here's an interesting interview to think about when you next read something from folks like the National Assn. of Manufacturers, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, or Bjorn Lomborg: In the 18th century elites predominated among the politically active. So it was natural for the founding fathers to worry mainly about faction while bl ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

What's Up, Doc? U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressiona ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, education, England, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

More from the dark side How climate skeptics like Fred Singer operate	Andrew Dessler	01 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Several posts ago, I reproduced a few emails to and from well-known climate skeptic Fred Singer. Since then, I've had a few other exchanges emailed to me. They give great insight into how skeptics work the system to promote their view. Here's the best one: To: John Marburger, Science Advisor to the President From: Fred Singer Dear Jack Is this story accurate? And if so, are you basing yr statement on the IPCC summary -- or do you have other ev ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Dimmockery British citizen sues government over distribution of climate-change film to schools		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In July, a judge ruled that the British government's decision to send Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary to 3,500 English secondary schools did not constitute political indoctrination of children. British citizen and fun-name owner Stewart Dimmock disagrees, and is suing his government to quash the dastardly distribution. Dimmock claims the "irredeemable&quo ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, dimwittery, education, litigation, news, politics, United Kingdom (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, Bj�rn 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)

It's hard out here for a denier The ongoing humiliations of the tattered 'climate skeptic' movement	David Roberts	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
These last few years have not been kind to the climate flat-earthers. Their patron political party got drubbed in the mid-terms, the IPCC demolished their favorite talking points, numerous post-IPCC scientific results make the IPCC look conservative, and the impetus for action on climate change is growing at breakneck speed everywhere outside the U.S. executive branch. This last couple weeks has been particularly humiliating. In the Vermont trial wherein the automak ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The mantle of Galileo More on climate skepticism	Andrew Dessler	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I often get weird but enjoyable e-mails forwarded to me. This week, it's an exchange between well-known climate skeptic Fred Singer and a group at MIT setting up a climate change seminar. It seems that some members opposed the idea of inviting Fred, which Fred found offensive: It has come to my attention that Mr. XXXX has addressed a long letter to members of the committee organizing the MIT Seminar series 'The Great Climate Change Debate.' Apparently, he considers ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The siren song of denial Climate change skeptics try to seduce us to inaction	JMG	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Every once in awhile, I'm struck by something that makes me realize how the ancient storytellers were terrifically acute observers of the human condition, and used metaphor brilliantly to convey their observations. Perhaps the most salient example these days is the song of the sirens, the beauties whose songs would lure sailors toward them until they grounded their ships on the rocks and drowned. The modern-day sirens, Avery and Singer, are taking up the cause by trying to l ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (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)

Ted Stevens, climatologist Alaskan senator invents new theory of global warming	Kit Stolz	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Ted Stevens, the Republican senator whose vacation home was recently raided by the FBI, and who made over $800,000 from a shady real estate deal last year, has come up with a brand-new theory of global warming. He told a NBC reporter in Alaska: We're at the end of a long, long term of warming, 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll s ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, politics, Ted Stevens (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)

Hunting the white whale Flawed new analysis purports to show that there's no scientific consensus on climate change	Andrew Dessler	02 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If those opposed to action on climate change are like Ahab, the scientific consensus is their white whale. The reason is simple: as Frank Luntz's famous memo pointed out, if they can convince the general public that the science of climate change is uncertain, they can drag the debate over policy to a grinding halt. Thus, every so often, another argument emerges that purports to prove that scientific consensus on climate change does not exist. This week, ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (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)

More ammo against skeptics	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
If our How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic series doesn't fully scratch your skepticism itch, check out Skeptical Science, a well-organized site devoted to tracking climate skeptic arguments and rebutting them.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Alternative information GA state legislature tries to figure out whether climate change is real	David Roberts	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Wow. Via the indispensable Aunt Phyllis, this is old school: On Tuesday the Georgia legislature held a hearing called "Climate change: fact or fiction?" Listen to these blasts from the past: 'In the media, we hear the gloom and doom side,' said Rep. Jeff Lewis (R-White), chairman of the House Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee that held the hearing. 'There is alternative information out there.' Indeed there is! Puzzlingly, the "alter ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Georgia, politics (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)

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