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Obama’s Four-Letter Words and Cushing, Oklahoma

March 22nd, 2012 · 6 Comments

President Barack Obama is barnstorming the nation promoting his “all-of-the-above” energy policy. Watching this parade reinforces that ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Global Warming’ (let alone climate chaos or catastrophic climate chaos or …) appear to be banned four-letter phrases in the Obama Administation lexicon. Yesterday, the President was in Boulder City, Nevada, standing in front of a solar electricity […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate zombies · Global Warming · Obama Administration · political symbols · President Barack Obama

ALEC lets Inhofe have it …

March 19th, 2012 · 2 Comments

No, we’re not talking about the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin. Perhaps sparked by global warming denier Jim Inhofe’s recent appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Baldwin launched a series of tweets attacking Inhofe: […]

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Energy · global warming deniers · James Inhofe

Cherry Blossoms: Another Global Warming Canary …

March 15th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming’s increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the ‘luxury’ symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions.  Global Warming’s threat to  skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to wine making and bourbon and beer and chocolate  and  maple syrup and […]

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Tags: climate change · environmental · journalism · science · Washington Post

The disappearing Great Lakes Ice

March 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on The disappearing Great Lakes Ice

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · guest post

Climate change science: a simple table

February 20th, 2012 · 25 Comments

There is a strong scientific consensus supporting the scientific Theory of Global Warming and these key points: There is warming Humanity is contributing to that warming This warming could create significant harm. While scientific “debate” always continued and there are debates over many elements within and around climate science (How fast will the Arctic Ice […]

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Tags: climate change · science

Climate Scientist Empathy for Climate-Denier Heartland Institute’s travails …

February 17th, 2012 · 3 Comments

In light of Heartland Institute’s inadvertently sending out a hundred pages of internal confidential documents, which lay out their budget and name many of their otherwise anonymous Corporate contributors (but not their major ‘anonymous donor’), seven leading climate scientists have sent Heartland an open letter expressing sympathy for the challenges of having seemingly private material […]

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Tags: climate change · science

Breaking Heartless-news for Valentine’s Day: “Dissuading teachers from teaching science …”

February 15th, 2012 · 20 Comments

An anonymous leaker sent a number of climate-science related bloggers/blog sites a trove of internal documents from libertarian Heartland Institute. While the material points to many nefarious Heartland Institute efforts, such as supporting undermining of Wisconsin’s public education, the most extensive material is about Heartland’s heartless efforts to foster disinformation about climate science, to undermine […]

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“the climate has shifted to a new state” …

February 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments

  Barath provides a guest post building on Jeff Masters’ observation about our extreme weather disruption likely providing tangible demonstration of human impacts on the climate system. The media is talking about the weird weather we’ve been having, but they tend to ignore the elephant in the room.  Take this story from NPR: News cameras […]

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Tags: climate change · weather

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

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” […]

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