What's New

And from the "other side" comes Conservapedia, so far out there that some think it might be a parody. From their Global warming page (viewed February 23, 2007): "It should be noted that these scientists are largely motivated by a need for grant money in their fields. Therefore, their work can not be considered unbiased. Also, these scientists are mostly liberal athiests, untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him."

Logical Science: Defending the scientific consensus from vested interests

Uncivil War

Cold Case vs. CSI

Nigel Calder in the Times

WSJ Editorial Board: Head Still Buried in the Sand

Misinformation from Lomborg

Answering Jonathan Adler

Fraser Institute fires off a damp squib

The IPCC Fourth Assessment SPM

Stern Science

The Human Hand in Climate Change

IPCC AR4 leaks wrong

Ron Bailey, climate sensitivity, and projected temperature increases

Washington Times spreads DDT ban myth

Can Washington get smart about science?

Moncktons curious take on the SPM

DeSmog Leaks Advance Copy of Think Tank's IPCC Attack

January 2007

The Right Hates the Weather Channel!

The Mighty Wurlitzer

Attack Orchestrated

Calling All Science Teachers

Consensus as the New Heresy

2006 Year in review

November 2006

Parallel universe quiz

How much CO2 emission is too much?

AGU, AAPG and AMQUA

Global cooling, again

October 2006

Doubting Inhofe

Global cooling: Inhofe talking sh*t* again

Inhofe's NYT refs

How not to attribute climate change

Con Allègre, ma non troppo

Attribution of 20th Century climate change to CO2

Carl Wunsch, The Economist and the Gulf Stream

Playing dirty: Coming clean on climate-change spin—how the PR industry sold the “made in Canada” solution to global warming

NRSP: Not Really Science People

I'm evil!

September 2006

Inhofe's speech and right-wing global warming myths

Becker and Posner's ignorance about DDT

The science and politics of DDT

Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial

Geology group protests award given to novelist Michael Crichton

The denial industry:

For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco. In the first of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot tells a bizarre and shocking new story

Denialists:

I've been thinking about putting together a comprehensive description of "the denialist." You know, the type of person that refuses to believe in facts when they are indisputable. Topics of denial include the holocaust, HIV causing AIDS, global warming/climate change, evolution, the necessity of animals in research, cigarettes causing cancer, embryonic stem cells aren't as good as adult stem cells, the government blew up the WTC on 9/11 not terrorists etc. Despite the incredible disparity between these areas of resolute denial and the motives behind them, the tactics used by denialists are remarkably similar. In today's Guardian, for instance, George Monbiot has an excellent description of the methods used by high-priced denialists bought and paid for by Exxon Mobile to prevent climate science from being believed.

Fiddling While the Planet Burns: Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change? By Jeffrey D. Sachs

The trouble with sunspots

Why greenhouse gases heat the ocean

Chinese whispers in Australia

Followup to the ‘Hockeystick’ Hearings

Andrew Bolt gets a perfect score on global warming

James Glassman is incorrigible

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review

Synopsis: One thing is for sure, Jonathan Wells is too modest. His recently published, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, is not only politically incorrect but incorrect in most other ways as well: scientifically, logically, historically, legally, academically, and morally.

July 2006

A critique of Wood on global warming

Disinformation? You want it, IREA’s got it

Peter Doran and how misleading talking points propagate

Medieval warmth and English wine

Quark soup is back

April 2006

Heat Rising at the Washington Post from RealClimate

Eric Pianka has become the latest victim of a right-wing smear campaign, claiming that he wants to kill 90% of the population. Several posts have set the record straight, including:

· UT Professor Clearing The Record On Speech

· Forrest Mims: ‘crazy kook’, says Pianka

· “Mr. Hyperbole” Meets “Dr. Doom”

Incurious George from RealClimate looks at another bit of nonsense from George Will

Several comments on President Bush's statement that there is a "fundamental debate" about the cause of the recent global warming:

· Bush on “The Fundamental Debate” from RealClimate

· Bush Claims There's a "Debate" on Human-Caused Global Warming by Chris Mooney

· More incomprehensible Bush on GW by William Connolley

February 2006

Coby Beck tells us How to talk to a global warming sceptic as part of his A Few Things Ill Considered blog

Learning to Speak "Science" Chris Mooney offers a few suggestions on how the scientific community can win back its political influence in America

contrarian has been added to the Skeptic's dictionary

From Tim Lambert

· The Chromium-6 Fraud

· The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Fumento

January 2006

Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him by ANDREW C. REVKIN

· "The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming."

And reaction from RealClimate: Hansen in the New York Times

John Quiggin and Tim Lambert react to the latest revelation that Steven Milloy has been taking corporate money.

Via Chris Mooney this article by Dennis Myers on politicians abusing the science of mercury pollution.

Kåre Fog has added a page on What is wrong about the "Copenhagen Consensus" ? to the Lomborg errors site.

In Calculating the greenhouse effect Gavin Schmidt of RealClimate debunks a favorite "skeptic" argument, that humans are responsible for just a small amount of the greenhouse effect. This version of the myth originated with Steven Milloy.

Science Friday: Real Climate by DarkSyde is an interview of three RealClimate regulars.

Several science blogers have joined together at Scienceblogs.com including:

· Chris Mooney

· Tim Lambert

· P.Z. Myers

DeSmogBlog is another interesting blog

From Tim Lambert:

· Disinformation cycle

· Global warming roundup

· DDT ban myth bingo

· Pat Michaels on frogs and global warming

· Fumento gets himself fired

· Fumento: a uniter, not a divider

· Julian Simon's DDT deceit

On Truth, Fact, Values, Climate Change, and Doughnuts by Peter H. Gleick

The end of the global warming debate by John Quiggin

Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam by Jim Hoggan

December 2005

Anthony Kendall reviews The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

John Quiggin had the same thought I did

How to be a real sceptic from RealClimate

Upping the Anti: Tom Bethell takes the modern political right's "war on science" to a whole new level. by Chris Mooney;

Quote Mining, Near and Far by Carl Zimmer

November 2005

The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney, Basic Books, 2005

In Mea Culpa: secondhand smoke and the politics of science Robert Carroll debunks one of the favorite claims of the junk science crowd, that second-hand smoke is not a health hazard. He also apologizes for repeating this claim.

The False Objectivity of “Balance” from Realclimate

The Skeptic's dictionary reports on the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act

July 2005

Even more on the Bartan inquisition, summarized by RealClimate and Chris Mooney. Highlights include:

· A response from the House Committee on Science

· Responses from Michael Mann (especially good), Ray Bradley and Malcolm Hughes

So Three Judges Walk Into a Car ... by Amanda Griscom Little

Brian Schmidt has tracked down another bogus quote.

The has been much criticism of the Bartan inquisition. Some of the highlights:

· AAAS concerned over House inquiry of climate scientists (press release)

· Letter from AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner (pdf)

· Mann Hunt: A Texas congressman isn't just going after global-warming science -- he's got the scientists in his crosshairs too. by Chris Mooney

· Congressman unmoved by peer review, asks to see raw data

· Nature on Barton

· Henry Waxman's letter to Barton. (pdf)

The D.C. Circuit Flunks Global Warming, Chris Mooney takes a look at a recent court decision

Expose Exxon, find out what the oil giant is up to

Disclosure Schmosure by Chris Mooney

Supreme Court Abolishes OSHA, EPA looks at what the business community wants in a Supreme Court nominee

From RealClimate

· The Acid Ocean – the Other Problem with CO2 Emission

· Climate sensitivity and aerosol forcings

· The lure of solar forcing

I still get the occasional comment. Most of the negative ones are similar to this, no facts, no references, just I'm right and you are wrong:

Bet you thought no one would ever visit your website, huh? Well, with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight (it's been over 10-years since Dixie Lee Ray made her speech you joyfully tear asunder) I'd like to congratulate you on getting everything wrong. Not only has time proven Dr. Ray (and Rush Limbaugh - just why did you mention him?) right, but it has also proven your "experts" agonizingly wrong.

Can't win 'em all.

Have a nice life jimn469897 - and don't forget your sunblock.

[name deleted to protect the guilty]

p.s., I knew Dixie Lee, and, believe me, you're no Dixie Lee Ray.

June 2005

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal has caused quite a stir. RealClimate takes the editorial apart, showing that just about every claim in it is wrong. And now Chris Mooney has added his thoughts, see Debunking the Debunkers: The Wall Street Journal's take on global warming gets more desperate all the time.

Still more outrage this month. This time Congressman Joe Bartan has sent a series of questions to a handful of leading climate scientists. While some of the questions may be legitimate requests for information, the overall effect seems to be harassment. See Chris Mooney's comments, along with reader comments on his post. James Annan, a climatologist living in Japan, seems sure that the questions are harassment.

Chris Mooney has more on DDT and malaria

Mmm … DDT … Yum!

Blowing the whistle on climate change: Interview with Rick Piltz

New ExxonMobil Giving Numbers from Chris Mooney

The Assault on Scientific Freedom from the ACLU

Democrats Unveil Initiative to Keep Science Out of Politics

The big news this month is that Philip A. Cooney, a former oil industry lawyer who was caught editing scientific reports on climate change, resigned from the White House and has taken a job with Exxon/Mobile. Chris Mooney has a number of posts on his blog about this story.

Low-Ball Warming: There should be a special circle in hell for people who mess with scientific data. by Chris Mooney

Global warming and the categorical imperative also by Mooney has more about the abuse of uncertainty by the "skeptics"

James Annan reports on attempts to get the global warming "skeptics" to bet on future clim