At a recent conference, a scientist made a comment during his presentation about how we need to understand trade-offs in investments, advocating action on climate change but noting that we need to understand opportunity costs. In doing this, he referenced Bjorn LomborgĀ (with a somewhat condescending tone). In my bag, as he spoke, Howard Friel’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'climate delayers'
Energy Bookshelf: The Lomborg Deception … leads to a question: “Does the Washington Post have any honor left?”
April 21st, 2010 · 8 Comments
Tags: bjorn lomborg · climate change · climate delayers · Energy · energy bookshelf · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · politics · Washington Post
“If the glove won’t fit …” Deniers advocates vs skeptical scientists
February 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on “If the glove won’t fit …” Deniers advocates vs skeptical scientists
Bill McKibben‘s LATimes OPED today makes a searing, and truthful, analogy. The title gives it away The O.J. tactic Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson’s lawyers: If the winter glove won’t fit, you must acquit. Opinion Yes, those who are fighting so mightedly to confuse the public about the state of climate scientists are like […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · political symbols
Washington Post editorial board … confusion is bad (even if we’re at fault)
February 22nd, 2010 · 7 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 […]
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Climate Denialists Beware: President Obama speaks clearly — without a teleprompter
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Those seeking to undermine knowledge and respect for science, whether it is those who decry Charles Darwin’s laying out of evolution or fossil-foolish interests attacking Nobel Prize winners, have something to fear when Barack Obama chooses to speak (with or without a teleprompter). While there were many reasons for his election, his ability to speak […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · President Barack Obama
A voice of sanity silenced …
February 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on A voice of sanity silenced …
A (sometimes too) calm of voice of sanity has been silenced before his time. Martin Bosworth has passed away, a victim in the nation’s health care wars, the perfect patient for the health care system: he worked mightedly to keep himself healthy and away from doctors’ offices, a strategy that worked well when he was […]
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Some Sanity amid the Commonwealth’s Insanity
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
At times, the expression ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ seems all too relevant to the governance process and is sadly too true when it comes to the Commonwealth of Virignia. Yesterday, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared that his “belief” system evidently trumps science as he committed the Commonwealth and its citizens’ taxes to […]
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · virginia
Daily Mail Distortions Deluding Denialosphere
February 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Denialosphere is in rapture due to a Daily Mail story earlier today which, in a very distorted write-up, claims that a major climate scientist has stated that there is no warming since 1995. The title of this travesty of something claiming to be journalism: Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There […]
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POSTal Schizophrenia re Climate Science strikes again
February 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post has an incredibly uneven nature when it comes to the science related to Climate Change. The editorial page will publish an absolutely dishonest piece, be challenged to such an extent that they will publish multiple letters (including from misquoted scientists/scientific institutions) calling out the fraudulent material, and then give George “Will-ful Deceit” […]
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Climate Disruption: Airlifting snow from Washington, DC, to Vancouver, British Columbia
February 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Climate Disruption: Airlifting snow from Washington, DC, to Vancouver, British Columbia
Prominent elements Republican Party and associated anti-science syndrome sufferers are gleefully (and ignorantly) making jokes about the Washington, DC, area’s record snow levels, using this to confuse people about the realities of Global Warming. The reality of Global Warming is that “warmth” isn’t what all of us will feel with each moment, after all that […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Energy · Global Warming · James Inhofe
Business Week Careless About Facts in Misrepresentation of Climate Science
January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Poor misunderstood Bob Lutz. How dare Lutz be castigated for stating that “Global warming is a crock of s*%t!” After all, he follow this with “”Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not a climate denier.” This is, in essence, the opening for an atrociously error-filled Business week column by Ed Wallace that piles misrepresentation on top of […]
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