Grist | Topics | 292 Results

RESULTS		Results 151 – 175 of 292
Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Student forced to complete assignment to graduate Breaking news on Fox	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
This is one of the most torturous cable TV segments I've ever seen: (via Hugg)
Topics: jackassery, climate change skepticism, climate (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)

The denialist deck of cards A video you simply must see	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
Yikes. Everyone must watch this video, which comes to us from DeSmogBlog: And on a related note, this seems like a good time to link to The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts. You will see that these perpetual, maddening arguments about global warming are not new. The techniques are the same and the goals are the same: protecting industry. All the more reason not to feed the trolls. And ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, health, lying liars (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)

Maybe you can go broke underestimating the taste of the American public Denialist special tanks in the ratings	David Roberts	09 May 2007	Gristmill
Eric Boehlert on Glenn Beck: The bad news last week was that Glenn Beck, the right-wing radio talker and self-described "rodeo clown" who broadcasts nightly on CNN Headline News, hosted a world-is-flat special about the "myths" surrounding global warming. In it, Beck rounded up the usual band of discredited, oil industry-friendly "experts" who announced that the looming atmospheric crisis is overblown, and that far from being a ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, TV (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)

Should we keep rebutting skeptics? Vote!	David Roberts	04 May 2007	Gristmill
A little while back, CNN recruited a right-wing talk radio host named Glenn Beck to host one of its prime-time shows. As MediaMatters rather exhaustively reveals, Beck is an unreconstructed racist, sexist, classist, misogynist, authoritarian, xenophobic troglodyte of the old school. He doesn't work particularly hard to conceal his trogloditicism. In fact, one suspects CNN views the trogloditicism as the draw. Beck's latest crusade is -- you guessed it -- global ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, lying liars (all these topics)

Monbiot replies to Cockburn's global warming denial Shot down	Gar Lipow	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Alex Cockburn, who has long been a low-key denier of the human contribution to climate chaos, has decided to take his contrarianism on this issue loud and proud. Because Alex is a bit too prominent to simply ignore, George Monbiot takes a few minutes from his busy schedule to tear the piece into little tiny shreds. It takes Monbiot only a few sentences to point out that all the arguments Cockburn makes are well known and widely discredited, and that Alex uses zero refer ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, lying liars (all these topics)

The Nation dips its toe in the tepid waters of climate change skepticism Sigh	David Roberts	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Wow. The Nation has elected to print some flat-footed, idiotic global warming skepticism from Alexander Cockburn, who has made a media career out of insulting people and generally being a dick. I don't have time to get into it -- see previous post -- but you can check with Sir Oolius for some initial debunkery. The one thing a reasonable person might conclude from Cockburn's steaming pile of column is that it's very important for greens to detach global warming activ ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Power, program, and practical considerations: Objectives How to build a real climate movement	Ken Ward	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Campaigns and programs crafted to advance the Bright Lines strategy must also fit real world constraints and political realities on the ground, and take account of external roadblocks to effective action. The following objectives address these issues. 1. Tangible risk. Climate change is like world hunger: it's an issue of concern when media attention is high, just as coverage of periodic famines raises concern about world hunger. Most American ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, India, politics (all these topics)

CO2 rise lags temperature rise, redux	David Roberts	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
One of the most persistent climate skeptic talking points has to do with how temperature rise seems to lag behind CO2 rise in the historical record, raising questions about the direction of causality. Maybe temperature rise causes CO2 rise rather than the other way around! Our own Mr. Beck addressed the point here, but today RealClimate takes yet another go at it. Of course, skeptic talking points are like zombies -- they never stay dead -- so I'm sure we'll revisi ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Bush beats global warming Video	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Stephen Colbert brings the good news: (h/t: Hugg)
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics)

The Gristiest cartoonist Tom Toles, national treasure	JMG	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Toles.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics)

Conspiracy uncovered! Letter to the editor from Arkansas	Andrew Dessler	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This is the text of a letter to the editor printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on April 16 of this year: You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two. This shoul ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, insanity, politics (all these topics)

The times, are they really a-changin'? Bob Dylan on climate change	Kate Sheppard	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Bob Dylan, global warming denialist?
Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, music (all these topics)

Karl Rove meets Sheryl Crow	David Roberts	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Drama ensues!
Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics)

Local climate skeptic mocked on Daily Show Some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time	Trina Stout	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Remember that wacky Federal Way, Wash. father who opposed showing An Inconvenient Truth in public schools? ("Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore!") Well, he's back, and on the Daily Show: Some choice quotes, in case you can't watch the video: 'The global warming we're experiencing right now would have to be God's wrath ... These are precursors to the rapture, which should occur in about, you know, 5 to 7 years ...' 'If you ha ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, funnies, green living (all these topics)

A Convenient Fiction? AEI brings us the good news on climate	Erik Hoffner	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
How about that fascinating ad in Gristmill today for the new video courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute! An Inconvenient Truth ... or Convenient Fiction? aims to present us with an alternative to the "climate extremism" that is "popular with Hollywood and other pessimistic enclaves" and seeks to assure us everything is A-OK. They're even doing screenings around the U.S. In, uh, three locations. Anyone else give this AEI spin project a spin y ...
Topics: advertising, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

It's hard out there for a skeptic	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
After 20 years of disproportionate media coverage, climate contrarians have started being ignored. It would be impossible to overstate the depth of my sympathy. Impossible, I tell you. Update [2007-4-19 16:17:10 by David Roberts]: As an addendum: actual climate scientists think coverage is already 'too balanced.' And by balanced, I'm pretty sure they mean 'balanced.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living (all these topics)

Lindzen againzen Rebuttal ad nauseum	David Roberts	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I'm not sure there's much value left in rebutting Dick Lindzen's schtick every time it pops up. He keeps saying the same stuff, so the rebuttals keep saying the same stuff, and at this point anyone interested in the schtick or the rebuttal has a panoply of sources close at hand. Nonetheless, Newsweek's egregious bad judgment means that millions of new people are being exposed to the schtick, so, therefore and forthwith: the rebuttal, again, from RealClimate. Spread it ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, lying liars (all these topics)

What the Talmud tells us about global warming The Talmud and global warming	Gar Lipow	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
As global warming deniers move from 'it's not happening' to 'it's not human-caused' to 'but it's good for you' to 'it's too expensive to fix,' I'm reminded of a tale from the Talmud. It seems a family was accused of returning a clay pot they had borrowed cracked beyond repair. The accused family had three defenses: They never borrowed the pot. The pot already had a crack in it when received. They returned the pot completely unharmed. Perhaps it is unf ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Newsweek blesses Richard Lindzen, ignores pay-offs from fuel companies For shame!	Kit Stolz	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This Monday, Newsweek will publish an op-ed by well-known climate-change contrarian Richard Lindzen, which concludes that global warming is nothing to worry about and may even be a good thing. 'Why So Gloomy?' he wonders, and adds that 'a warmer climate could be more beneficial than the one we have now.' Nothing new here: Lindzen's been making the same points for years, despite evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that he served on a prestigious panel chosen b ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (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)

Green around the Gilchrest Good interview on climate change	Kate Sheppard	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Good interview with Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) in Foreign Policy in Focus this week. Gilchrest, chair of the House Climate Change Caucus and co-sponsor of the Climate Stewardship Act, was not appointed to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming last month because he refused to deny that humans are causing climate change. A few excerpts from the interview: Gilchrest: There's no question that we're at a time when we need strong, bold initiati ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics)

In climate science, small changes matter How can 3 percent be important?	Andrew Dessler	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Consider this argument often made by climate skeptics: Water vapor is the most important gas, contributing 97 percent of the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is only small percentage. Therefore, regulating carbon dioxide will have no impact on our climate. WhileEven if these numbers are generally correct, there are lots of problems with this argument. For example, it disregards the fact that climate forcing by water is really a feedback, and that changes in car ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Page:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12		Results 151 – 175 of 292

Stories About: climate change skepticism