What's New
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November 2007
Did we call it or what Realclimate points out more deception from Steven Milloy
100 things about DDT: Dissecting #10 even more deception from Milloy
ACSH is a joke. No really. Like, Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho!
Stossel's tall tales about global warming
Update on the nine alleged errors in An Inconvenient Truth
Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal
Global warming crankery from co-founder of the weather channel
May 2007
Start here-Realclimate provides links to global warming resources. Including "serious discussion of common contrarian talking points."
· Coby Beck's How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic
· New Scientist: Climate Change: A guide for the perplexed
· RealClimate: Response to common contrarian arguments
· NERC (UK): Climate change debate summary
· UK Met Office: Climate Change Myths
Glacier Mass Balance: equilibrium or disequilibrium response?
Reasic debunks Michael Crichton's “Aliens Cause Global Warming” speech Wkile the speech is silly propaganda, it has become a favorite with denialists.
denialism blog has joined science blogs. Be sure to visit often
This Week from RealClimate
Berlau and insecticide resistance
Compact Fluorescent Lights are gonna kill you … NOT.
Global Warming: Misinformation Action Center
April 2007
The Great Global Warming Swindle: open letter to Martin Durkin
Misrepresentations of scientific evidence
Joint statement by Rive and Friis-Christensen on "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
“The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle
The lag between temperature and CO2. (Gore’s got it right.)
If Richard Lindzen shows up at your door, slam it.
· The Denialists' Deck of Cards
Global Warming: Cretaceous Quote-Mining
Another bad day for delusionists
Conservapedia Redux: Reality Matters
Another op-ed on climate change
Ozone Hole Leaks and Other Tales
Does a Global Temperature Exist?
Dennis Avery, wrong about everything
A new flavour of Global Warming denial
Bob Carter claims it's not warming
WSJ in denial about Global Warming
March 2007
A number of posts on the TV show "The Great Global Warming Swindle":
· The great global warming swindle?
· Global warming: An inconvenient truth or hot air?
· Deconstructing Channel 4's Great Global Warming Swindle
· Carl Wunch is an unhappy camper
‘Cosmoclimatology’ - tired old arguments in new clothes
February 2007
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
WSJ Editorial Board: Head Still Buried in the Sand
Fraser Institute fires off a damp squib
The IPCC Fourth Assessment SPM
The Human Hand in Climate Change
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!
November 2006
How much CO2 emission is too much?
October 2006
Global cooling: Inhofe talking sh*t* again
How not to attribute climate change
Attribution of 20th Century climate change to CO2
Carl Wunsch, The Economist and the Gulf Stream
NRSP: Not Really Science People
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
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
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
Why greenhouse gases heat the ocean
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
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 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:
DeSmogBlog is another interesting blog
From Tim Lambert:
· Pat Michaels on frogs and global warming
· Fumento: a uniter, not a divider
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
· 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
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
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