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Roy Spencer reveals his motivation for rejecting the climate mainstream- not...
Straight from the horse’s mouth, emphasis Spencer’s: [Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin] provided several paragraphs alluding to why scientists on the [mainstream] side of the issue speak out,...
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Due diligence – Gleick edition
I didn’t blog about the Gleick/Heartland stuff initially because, well, I didn’t think there was a lot of “there” there. The people who are clued into what front groups like Heartland do have...
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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part II
For those outside the US, “birtherism” is the conspiracy among the paranoid conservative base that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake. Some believe that this is because Obama wasn’t born in the...
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Short Answers to Stupid Questions – Watts Up With That Edition
At the execrable WUWT: From the paper in question: The world’s most-viewed “skeptic” blog, ladies and gentleman. Reference: Liu, Y., J. R. Key, Z. Liu, X. Wang, and S. J. Vavrus (2012), A cloudier...
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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part III
This is not a spoof or comedy bit. This is Monckton appearing for BirtherReport.com. Wearing a US flag shirt. And a cowboy hat. And a (prop?) gun. He also titillated Heartland‘s annual climate...
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Would geoengineering really have NO impact on ocean acidification?
It’s often repeated uncritically that aerosol geoengineering will “do nothing” to prevent ocean acidification, but the reality is more complex. We know from past volcanic eruptions that the diffuse...
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No one could have predicted
Remember how a few years back, supporters of aggressive climate mitigation legislation were castigated for being shrill, tribal, hippies? And how if only we tried a “third way” of making incremental...
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Common sense gets Rogered
Roger Pielke Sr. has spent the past few days casting about for anything to which he can latch onto in hopes of promoting an upcoming paper that supposedly shows how terrible the surface instrumental...
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My apology to the field of economics
I didn’t pay that much attention to Paul Krugman prior to about 2008- not coincidentally, around the time of the Great Recession and the bizarre situation wherein political decision-making seemed to be...
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Should the eastern US be dreaming of a White Christmas?
The latest ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) Diagnostic Discussion forecast has been published (PDF) by NCEP and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. As they have in previous weeks, most models are...
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Natural Gas Doesn’t Mean the End of Global Warming
Recently, a number of articles have been published gushing about the drop in US carbon emissions due to cheap natural gas. The recent glut of US natural gas has largely come from fracking. You can see...
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Reality’s “Liberal” Bias – Presidential Polling Edition
I’ve been trying to avoid discussing the 2012 Presidential Election in the US for a number of reasons. I don’t think the Romney-Ryan ticket has been as terrible as the addition of Palin to the McCain...
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Fox “News” is Beyond Parody
On the heels of what I was saying about conservative conspiracy mongering about polling data… News Corp/Fox are beyond parody. Their own polls show the same leads they’re conspiracy theorizing about:...
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A new LGM reconstruction, with implications for climate sensitivity
First off, it’s important to note that the paper has only appeared in CPD, it still has to pass review. However, I’m going to comment on the results for two reasons. Mundanely, I have a sliver of free...
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Fred Pearce continues to be rubbish
Not content with lying about positions scientists don’t actually hold, passing off his opinions as reporting, engaging in the kind of “he said, she said” false equivalency that has been so toxic in...
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Tom Fuller and Malaria – A Case Study of Denialism and the Backfire Effect
[I'm going to assume that most people who visit this blog are familiar with denialism and its hallmarks. If not, check out a good rundown from Denialism blog.] Longtime readers are already familiar...
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Making an honest hack out of Fred Pearce in five easy steps
Attempting to convince those in the grip of denialism is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Take the case of the DDT-holocaust lie. No sooner has one false claim been thrown out (e.g. DDT ban in...
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Hurricane Sandy and the Climate Hens
Hurricane Sandy is one for the record books in a number of senses, and as New York and the world struggle to grapple with its enormity, some discussion has turned to climate change. A topic that has...
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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part IV
Words fail. Previous entries here, here, and here.
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Friendly Reminder: The DDT-Holocaust Hoax promoters don’t actually care about...
As previously discussed on this blog and elsewhere (e.g. Deltoid, Slate), there is a form of denialism based on the lie that hippies are responsible for millions of deaths due to malaria because they...
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