This guest post was originally published at DeSmogBlog from the keyboard of the diligent and thoughtful Steve Horn.
On January 16, the Los Angeles Times revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of climate change denial or “skepticism” as a credible “theoretical alternative” to human caused [...]
Entries Tagged as 'skeptic'
Is Alec Baldwin up to something nefarious when it comes to climate denial?
January 26th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Tags: Energy · anti-science syndrome · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · global warming deniers · republican party · skeptic
Reality confronts reality …
September 14th, 2011 · No Comments
At this time, the Climate Reality program is on a 24-hour long world-wide tour. Organized by (Vice) President Gore, this program moves time-zone by time-zone around the world, laying out the truth of climate science, things that are occurring to help turn the tide on Global Warming’s rising seas, realities of the time zone [...]
Tags: Al Gore · Energy · Global Warming · climate change · climate zombies · republican party · sarah palin · science · skeptic
Energy Bookshelf: A power hungry gushing of lies
August 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments
On reading the opening paragraphs of Robert Bryce’s author’s note, I felt a kindred soul:
.. just how lucky I am. There is no more complex or fascinating topic than energy. … the scale of energy use and the complexity and the importance of the energy business are unmatched by any industry. The study of energy [...]
Tags: Energy · climate delayers · energy bookshelf · skeptic · truthiness
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate delayers · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness
Glenn Beck = Stalin: Assassination of a Climate Scientist
March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: climate change · global warming deniers · skeptic · truthiness