‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d ? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade stands as one of the most famous English-language historical poems. It also could […]
Entries Tagged as 'climate delayers'
Charge of the (dirty) Light Brigade
February 15th, 2013 · 5 Comments
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Faux Watching Climate Denier Recants After Watch “Chasing the Ice”
November 28th, 2012 · 3 Comments
“There must be something I can do … to help our children, to help my grandchildren…. I thought it [global warming] was bullshit … and that is because I listened, I believed Bill O’Reilly … and I saw this movie and now I will apologize to anyone I ever talked into not believing in global […]
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PBS News Hour’s public service: demonstrating the shallowness of mainstream modern American journalism
September 17th, 2012 · Comments Off on PBS News Hour’s public service: demonstrating the shallowness of mainstream modern American journalism
In a year with seeming unending demonstrations of mounting climate disruption and increasingly on-target science-based reporting on climate change, this PBS News Hour chose to present to the public a shallow ‘he-said, she-said’ report giving visibility to one of the blogosphere’s most prominent anti-science syndrome sufferers without providing the casual viewer any context for understanding […]
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Have you ever asked: “How do people reject climate science?”
September 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on Have you ever asked: “How do people reject climate science?”
This guest post comes from John Cook, University of Queensland and was originally published at The Conversation. In a previous article on The Conversation, Stephan Lewandowsky asked, why do people reject science? I’m going to take a slightly different angle and consider how people are able to reject climate science in the face of strong […]
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“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire …” Differentiating Skeptic from Denier
July 16th, 2012 · 5 Comments
In discussion of one of my recent posts, Kyril reacted to a questionable question from another commentator with perhaps the clearest differentiation between a science skeptic and denier that I have ever seen. As we seek to inform others about the perils of anti-science syndrome, such a clear (if perhaps sophomoric) differentiation might have value. Kyril’s […]
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Calling on (out) Arianna
April 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
This is a full reposting, at request, of a post by insightful science writer Shawn Lawrence Otto. The problems of questionable publishing on science issues is far (sadly) from limited to the mediocre post re the Denialist 49’s letter to NASA. There was, for example, Harold Ambler’s post re Vice President Gore which led Arianna […]
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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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According to Joe Bastardi, humanity must live in the mountains?
March 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on According to Joe Bastardi, humanity must live in the mountains?
Joe Bastardi, who has a long record of dissembling truthiness and truthlessness when it comes to climate science issues, appeared on Fox News (yet again). Of of his comments has received much attention: BASTARDI: CO2 cannot cause global warming. I’ll tell you why. It doesn’t mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its […]
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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 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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