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The WSJ 16’s “usual techniques” of vague, disingenuous climate denial arguments

February 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment

This guest post comes from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor of geological sciences at Cornell University.  It was originally posted as a comment to a post at the Dot Earth blog of The New York Times which discussed one angle of The WSJ 16’s climate disinformation OPED.  RE that monstrocity, see Whacking 16 Moles [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · analysis · anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · global warming deniers · guest post · science · truthiness

“Comfortable History” subset of “Sound Science”?

January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ discussion of confronting Civil War ‘Comfortable History’ from such ’sound Historians’ as Ron Paul makes interesting reading. About the asymmetric nature of this conflict, Coates concludes:
The problem debating this sort of thing is the side of dishonesty and intellectual laziness is at an advantage. It will likely take more effort for me to [...]

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Tags: Energy · science · truthiness

CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation

December 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The United States is now a net exporter of petroleum products.  Simply put, the United States exports more post refinery products than it imports. (E.g., it exports more diesel and gasoline, for example, than imported of these types of products.) This is real news, after all this reverses a net import refinery product balance of [...]

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Tags: Energy · oil · truthiness

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 [...]

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Tags: Energy · climate delayers · energy bookshelf · skeptic · truthiness

FRACK YOU, Mother Earth …

June 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

For too long, on my “to do” list has been to post on the serious questions related to the booming in America’s natural gas reserves due to the development of “Fracking” (hydraulic fracturing) technology and approaches that have enabled exploitation of the massive amount of carbon atoms in shale natural gas.
We know that “Clean Coal” [...]

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Tags: Energy · astroturfing · truthiness

WashPost, yet again: some true items spun into truthiness

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

The Washington Post asked the other day “what’s going on” that people are confused about climate and energy issues. Well, today’s The Washington Post provided yet another example, in a distressingly long list of examples, as to why that confusion.
Entitled The Green Jobs Myth, former GE Smart Grid engineer Sunil Sharan argues that (as [...]

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Tags: Washington Post · clean energy jobs · truthiness

Washington Post editorial board … confusion is bad (even if we’re at fault)

February 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments

The Washington Post editorial board came out with a strong statement about climate change that, even with its few errors, would be an important statement if it weren’t such a monumental travesty in the face of actual Washington Post editorial policy and practices.
Entitled Climate Insurance, the editorial begins.
THE EARTH is warming. A chief cause is [...]

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Tags: Energy · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · sarah palin · truthiness

Fred Hiatt jumps the shark in dragging Washington Post into the sewers: Publishes Sarah Palin OPED contradicted by links within the OPED

December 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments

As someone weaned on the Watergate-era Washington Post, The Washington Post opinion section has  been abysmal in its ‘faux and balanced’ nature in recent years. And, it is sinking to a new low in its fostering of a ClimateGate era.
Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt’s utter disdain for truthful discourse has been evidenced not just [...]

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Tags: George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · truthiness

Breaking News: Global Warming Not Occurring — 2009 Likely to Only be 5th Warmest Year on Record

December 8th, 2009 · Comments Off

This guest post from Colt45 is an excellent addition to the discussion of George Will’s serial deceits. (Re The George Will Affair see annotated discussions of dissections of George will-ful deceit Will with my struggling to keep up or Greenfyre’s George Will goes platinum.)

A new report by the UN confirms what many other studies have [...]

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Tags: Energy · Global Warming · Washington Post · global warming deniers · 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 [...]

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