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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)

Helpful hints for global warming deniers	Gar Lipow	01 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Many global warming deniers have moved on from denying the existence or human causes of global warming to denying it's worthwhile to do anything to mitigate it. 'Burn all the fossil fuels you want', they suggest, 'and adapt to the changes. Doing anything to reduce global warming is too expensive.' In a spirit of reconciliation, I thought I'd put forward some specific proposals to implement their approach. On a planet with unchecked greenhouse warming, we would have a l ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Party hopping Global warming is a hot potato	Anna Fahey	01 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Last week I reported on the wide and growing partisan divide in U.S. public opinion over global warming: self-identified Democrats are 39 percentage points more likely than their Republican counterparts to rate climate change a serious problem. But what puzzled me most was the 13-point drop in concern among Republicans since 1999. Call me na�ve, but with all the scientific evidence that's been piling up on the issue -- accompanied by increasing media attention -- I ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds		30 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
The Hill's Not Alive With the Sound of Music Gore climate concert kicked off of Capitol grounds In a decision that sent discordant music wafting toward Al Gore's ears, a group of Republican senators has put the kibosh on using the Capitol grounds for a gigantic climate-change-awareness concert this summer. The group -- led, not surprisingly, by climate skep ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, James Inhofe, music, news, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe hates the rock music Climate contrarian blocks Gore concert plans	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
If climate change is the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,' then an all-star climate concert on the Capitol lawn has got to be some kind of descent into madness. So sayeth Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who's vowing to indefinitely block a resolution allowing Al Gore's Live Earth concert to rock the Capitol grounds in July because the event is 'partisan.' Said Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), who co-sponsored the resolution with Sen. Harr ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Harry Reid, jackassery, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's ... Wrestlemania for the future of the planet	Adam Browning	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
El Hijo del Santo to the rescue! Someone tell Inhofe that after a worldwide search we've finally found his doppelganger. If the money is right and Don King doesn't want too big a cut, I don't see why we can't put together a pay-per-view event and settle this thing once and for all.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, James Inhofe (all these topics)

Conservatives and global warming Wherein we puzzle through the truthiness	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I was recently made aware of the fact that the conservative National Review has a newish blog called Planet Gore. That's right: the only conservative blog I know of on global warming is primarily focused on mocking Al Gore -- who is, you'll recall, a big Fatty Fatterstein. This pungent discovery got me pondering a post on how conservative opposition to global warming advocacy seems openly and bizarrely centered on hatred of liberals and environmentalists and Al Gore r ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

Political warfare /= scientific warfare Time to quit pretending otherwise	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Late last week Chris Mooney had a long and characteristically careful post on HuffPo clarifying the hurricane/climate change connection, exactly what Gore's said about it, and exactly where Gore can and cannot be legitimately criticized for it. The crucial point in the post, though, is not about hurricanes. It's this: Nevertheless, when it comes to the science of global warming and its impacts, there's a very significant difference between Gore and his would-be detr ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

'Supporting global warming initiatives is tantamount to endorsing communism and the one world order'	David Roberts	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, jackassery, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

GOP attack on Gore makes no sense at all Personal ethics pledge my left foot	Joseph Romm	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill
At the Environment and Public Works hearing yesterday, Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.) displayed an amazing lack of understanding about energy as he tried to get Gore to make a meaningless pledge. Now the EPW Minority web page repeats the inane charge: Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a 'Personal Energy Ethics Pledge' today to consume no more energy than the average American household. But why should Gore take such a pledge? Gore is a champion of greenhouse gas ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate change skepticism, Congress, energy, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Fair and balanced FOX News on Gore's testimony	David Roberts	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Fox News on Gore's testimony: Is it me, or does Brit Hume misunderstand science at a pretty fundamental level?
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

Memo to Inhofe:	David Roberts	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill
When you've lost J-Pod, you know you've gone overboard.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Inhofe makes the grown-ups laugh Even by his standards, this was pathetic	David Roberts	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I know that Sen. James Inhofe is a far-right bomb-thrower. I know he's built a career out of saying absurd things, particularly about global warming. I know nobody expects anything different from him. Despite all that, I was astonished at his performance in today's hearing. It's not that he disagrees with Gore. Plenty of legislators in both houses disagreed with Gore, thoughtfully and respectfully. What Inhofe did is flounce around and bitch and moan like a petulan ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Grist cited in Senate hearing We bad	David Roberts	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
In his question/rant for Gore, Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) cited a quote from Gore's interview with Grist. It's this: "I believe it's appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is." The quote bounced around skeptic circles for a long time a while back. Suffice to say, it's been yanked from context and grossly misinterpreted. See the full story here.
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Mooney on Waxman hearing	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Here's Chris Mooney's promised post on the "new revelations" from Waxman's hearing yesterday. From what I can tell, the big revelation is that NASA press hacks did, indeed, try to block Hansen from giving an interview to NPR. But we mostly knew that, right? And given how spectacularly failed the effort to silence Hansen was ... this one isn't moving my outrage meter much. There are just so many things competing for outrage these days, no?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Answers to questions the Drudge Report poses to Al Gore Come on, Drudge. You can do better	Joseph Romm	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore is testifying on Capitol Hill twice on Wednesday -- before John Dingell's House Energy and Commerce Committee and Barbara Boxer's Senate Environment Committee. According to the Drudge Report (link may only be temporary), 'Proposed questions for Gore, which are circulating behind-the-scenes, have been obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT -- questions that could lead Gore scrambling for answers!' Here are the questions, which would not cause a fifth grader to scramble, ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Al Gore to testify to both houses of Congress tomorrow Political wonks everywhere feel the electricity!	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
In what may be the blockbuster hit of the political season, Al Gore is testifying to Congress tomorrow -- twice. Not only is his testimony expected to influence the direction of coming legislation, but it may also reveal something of his intentions on the presidential race. One way or another, there's sure to be drama. First, at 9:30am, he'll testify to [deep breath] a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Energy and Commerce Committee ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

House Republicans stack climate change committee with skeptics Not that they're trying to obstruct progress or anything	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Here's a glimpse behind the scenes at how Republicans were chosen to serve on the new House global warming committee: House Republican Leader John Boehner would have appointed Rep. Wayne Gilchrest to the bipartisan Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming -- but only if the Maryland Republican would say humans are not causing climate change, Gilchrest said. 'I said, 'John, I can't do that,'' Gilchrest, R-1st-Md., said in an interview. 'He said, 'C ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics)

NYT on Waxman hearing	David Roberts	19 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Here's an account of Waxman's hearing from NYT's Revkin (who got this whole story going last year) and Wald. I think it supports my basic contention that nothing big happened, just a lot of quibbling over whether or not Cooney should have been editing. (An updated version.)
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics)

The latest debate on 'overselling' climate science Tedious	David Roberts	19 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Two meteorologists say that climate scientists are "overplaying" the climate threat (which they concede is real and urgent). Another scientist responds that, yeah, we shouldn't overplay the threat, but the threat is real and urgent. As so often with this immeasurably vapid debate, the slightest bit of scrutiny reveals that there is very little substantive difference in what the scientists in question believe. Two larger points: The disagreement is almost ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

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