The head of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, Professor Phil Jones, has stepped aside from his directorship for a temporary period to enable a faster and more comprehensive investigation of the Center’s electronic security and of how he (and others) managed the CRU (and their email correspondence) in the face of determined […]
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Does John Broder know that Media Matters exists?
December 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · James Inhofe · jim hansen · journalism · political symbols · politics
Will CBS celebrate in public or hide in shame?
February 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on Will CBS celebrate in public or hide in shame?
A question to ponder: If you received an “award” from a shoddy institution celebrating some of your weakest work, would you go proudly proclaim the stained medallion or would you bury the award in a closet hoping to never hear about it again? CBS faces such a conundrum … As per Media Matters reporting, a […]
Tags: journalism
Whacking Moles: A Smörgåsbord of Sanity About “The WSJ 16”:
February 5th, 2012 · 3 Comments
As noted in Whacking 16 Moles, flaring anti-science syndrome suffering climate denier and delayer inanities often divert people from valuable and productive activities. Prominent eruptions of this malady, however, drive white-cell like effort to respond and dampen the damage. With the publication of “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”, “The Wall Street Journal 16” […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · science
Breaking: Greenpeace sends SEC complaint re TransCanada’s inflated jobs claims
January 26th, 2012 · 4 Comments
A correspondent just provided the text of material that Greenpeace has sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) making a case that TransCanada is potentially in violation of security laws due to its use of inflated job figures as part of a strategic influence campaign to drive the Obama Administration into supporting this misguided […]
Tags: Energy
Satter and Eilperin failure to demonstrate learning
November 22nd, 2011 · 11 Comments
When delivered, on a silver platter, an opportunity to demonstrate learning and fulfill the Fourth Estate’s essential role of fostering a more informed public, Associate Press reporter Raphael Satter and Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin trip over themselves in a rush to press and disseminate deceptive truthiness rather than engage in truthful reporting. Satter seems […]
Tags: Energy
“ClimateGate” redux: An opportunity to show learning …
November 22nd, 2011 · 4 Comments
There is a term out there in common use: lessons learned. The term, in fact, is fundamentally flawed: we should speak in terms of “lessons identified” (pdf). Years ago, a British Army general explained to me that the United Kingdom (U.K.) has a “lessons identified” rather than “lessons learned” program. “We identify lessons, only […]
Tags: Energy
Creating Scandal: Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal
September 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This guest post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. Dave Johnson is a Fellow with CAF. Well here’s a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President […]
Tags: department of energy · Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · renewable energy · republican party · Right Wing Sound Machine (RWSM) · solar · Solar Energy
Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374)
April 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments
The release of Matt Nisbet’s Climate Shift report (and the opening of the Climate Shift Project website) has been surrounded by a storm of controversy, opened by Joe Romm’s critique of Nisbet’s financial analysis (follow up here and here; Chris Mooney on science ‘balance’, and Media Matters’ critique of Nisbet’s media analysis). I read a […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · George Will · journalism · Washington Post
Village Truthiness on the Death Gusher’s impact on public opinion … need to look behind the curtain
July 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Village Truthiness on the Death Gusher’s impact on public opinion … need to look behind the curtain
Progressive bloggers have been, as per David Waldman (Kagro X) at Daily Kos, quoting from a Washington Post article about how the oil in the Gulf isn’t shifting public opinion on energy issues like environmentalists desire. Not surprisingly, The Post article is rather mediocre in a balanced journalism sort-of way: legitimate and interesting material is […]
Tags: Energy · Washington Post
Climate Denialists Beware: President Obama speaks clearly — without a teleprompter
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Those seeking to undermine knowledge and respect for science, whether it is those who decry Charles Darwin’s laying out of evolution or fossil-foolish interests attacking Nobel Prize winners, have something to fear when Barack Obama chooses to speak (with or without a teleprompter). While there were many reasons for his election, his ability to speak […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · President Barack Obama