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Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack

December 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Linked from CNN.com’s home page, David Frm weighs in with a disingenuous discussion of ClimateGATE (SwiftHack) with The Distorted Global Warming Debate that is a combination of truthful insight and distorting truthiness.
Frum’s argument that the United States (and, well, likely elsewhere) is descending into self-ghettoization intellectually, with people seeking ‘facts’ that support their beliefs rather [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · journalism · republican party · skeptic · truthiness

McExpertise and the ClimateGate manufactured crisis of confidence

December 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s under ten minutes … And, for any rational person, that ten minutes will shatter any chance of belief that there is a substantive basis for concern about climate science’s foundations due to ClimateGate (SwiftHack).

Several moments of particular skill in this takedown of McExperts making noise about ClimateGate

7 minutes in there is the simple point, [...]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · google · skeptic

Scientific Inquiry concludes: Inhofe List “Not credible …”

July 17th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon) has misused the power of his chairmanship and, now, Ranking Minority status on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee to expend taxpayer resources on distorting, misleading, and outright deceiving when it comes to scientific issues, most notably in relation to questions of Global Warming. One of the most infamous [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic

Will Writes, Will Whines

April 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments

Whenever George Will sets his pen to paper with words “climate change” or “global warming” anywhere on the page, the BS detector alarms should be going off. In today’s Climate Change’s Dim Bulbs, Will launches deceptive broadsides at compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), using “facts” to pander truthiness and confuse the public discussion on [...]

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Tags: global warming deniers · journalism · lighting · skeptic · truthiness

Obstinate idiocy: C02 = Life

March 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments

The latest fad, it seems, amid the denier/skeptic/delayer community is to be emphasizing that Co2 is plant life. This has been seen in the past weeks from witnesses in Senate testimony, from Republican Congressmen in hearings, in blog posts galore, and in conservative columns and editorial pages.
For example, this was core to [...]

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Tags: carbon dioxide · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness

Glenn Beck = Stalin: Assassination of a Climate Scientist

March 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A guest post from the ever-insightful and passionate about science APSmith.

That would be character assassination of course - we’re talking about wingers here.
So, this past Wednesday morning on Glenn Beck’s TV show, he bizarrely focuses on a climate blogger and scientist, Michael Tobis of Only In It For The Gold. Beck claims [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic

Inhofe’s 98.5 on the Inhofe Scale echoing Ambler’s 100

January 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

While Huffington Post editors would likely want to see the Ambler incident simply disappear off the radar scope, the global warming sound machine doesn’t seem interested in cooperating in that aim.  One of the key megaphones, Senator James Inhofe (R-Exxon), blared out on this today. And, in a path that seems to rate quite [...]

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Tags: climate change · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness

HuffPost scores a 100 on the Inhofe Scale

January 5th, 2009 · 7 Comments

The New Year began with a bang over at the Huffington Post: the explosion of a new poster with a diatribe meriting a solid 100 on the Inhofe scale. [To DIGG this post.]
As a reminder, thoughtful energy blogger Lou Grinzo (Cost of Energy) developed the concept of The Inhofe Scale.
The Inhofe Scale [...]

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Tags: Al Gore · Energy · Global Warming · James Inhofe · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness

Denier’s quote: True, but not truthful

December 20th, 2008 · Comments Off

Links can come in from all over the blogosphere and any/all material one writes on the web are open for quick and easy citation/linkage/quotation. The other day, a prominent Australian climate denier columnist (a good example of a mass media distorter of science who is in the Hall of Shame) chose to quote from [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · journalism · skeptic

Revisiting Inhofian Deception

December 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

It must be that time of year again. [DIGG this story.]
Just like last year, the Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R-Exxon)) has just released another “report” somehow proving that the globe isn’t warming or, if that fails, that humanity has nothing to do [...]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · James Inhofe · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · global warming deniers · journalism · politics · republican party · skeptic · truthiness