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A Black Hole of Denial?

February 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on A Black Hole of Denial?

Black holes collapse on themselves, with a such a density that they change the path of light with no light escaping them.  In coming days, the Global Warming disinformation organization, the Heartland Institute (“the leading propaganda mill sowing confusion about climate science“), will convene a Global Warming skeptic/delayer/denier coven with the 2008 International Conference on Climate […]

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Tags: environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Heartland · skeptic

GM’s Lutz: Still a Putz on Global Warming

February 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

General Motors’ Vice-Chairman Bob Lutz is a bit perturbed about how the blogosphere called him out for calling Global Warming a “total crock of s–t” in a meeting with reporters.  In a post entitled Talk about a Crock, Lutz takes on those who had the audacity to criticize him for his idiocy and calls on […]

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Tags: automobiles · Global Warming · global warming deniers · skeptic

Another notch in the “Inhofe Scale”

December 21st, 2007 · 7 Comments

Giving credit where credit is due is, to me, a quite pleasurable task.  Lou Grinzo’s Inhofe Scale captures the delusional nature of the Senator from Exxon.  The Inhofe Scale will be used to measure statements (but most definitely not the speakers who make them) that exhibit a noticeable and willing detachment from reality. The scale […]

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Tags: Global Warming · James Inhofe · skeptic · truthiness

Inhofian Reporting: Peerless work?

December 21st, 2007 · 29 Comments

The Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R-Exxon)) has just released a “report”: 0ver 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007.  As a taxpayer, to start with, I am outraged that my taxes are used to support such truthiness and distortions. As a human being, […]

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Tags: Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · politics · skeptic

“What’s the wisest thing to do …”

November 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on “What’s the wisest thing to do …”

What’s the wisest thing to do given the uncertainties and risk? That is the core question that science teacher wonderingmind42 asks in his latest video discussing the challenges of considering Global Warming and how best to deal with the challenges before us. For some, those who are able to step back and approach problems with […]

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Tags: Global Warming · skeptic

Truthiness strikes the Post again … revisited

October 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last week, Washington Post subscribers awoke to an Outlook section dominated by a disingenuous article by Bjorn Lomborg.  This morning, the front-page of this influential opinion section is graced with a truthiness piece on urban heat islands:  Hot World? Blame Cities. The article, basically, asserts that suburbia is getting unfairly singled out re Global Warming […]

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Tags: Global Warming · skeptic · Washington Post

George Allen’s Global Warming Denying Friend Fired?

September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Pat Michaels is no longer the Commonwealth of Virginia’s official Climatologist. As per DeSmogBlog’s discussion, Pat Michaels, whose utility industry funding, private research and controversial views on global warming made him a lightning rod on climate change issues, left the office too politicized, according to officials at the University of Virgina.

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Tags: Global Warming · skeptic

Is Lomborg’s world heating up?

September 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Is Lomborg’s world heating up?

Bjorn Lomborg is a reckless economist, pursuing disingenuous truthiness in arguing that fighting global warming isn’t worth the effort.  While, Lomborg has received serious criticism after serious criticism of his work all over the globe, it looks like his world is heating up a bit as the Post-Carbon Institute has put together a collection of […]

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Tags: bjorn lomborg · skeptic

The Klaus-Gore Global Warming Ad that people should see …

September 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Klaus-Gore Global Warming Ad that people should see …

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Tags: Global Warming · skeptic · vaclav klaus

Will Congress condemn this ad?

September 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Will Congress condemn this ad?

The Heartland Institute is investing $1 million in advertisements that headline: Freedom, not Climate, is at Risk Global Warming is NOT A CRISIS These ads will be promoting Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who rivals Dick Cheney for his climate denialist attitudes. Klaus had a despicable OPED in Financial Times earlier this year, discussed by Jerome […]

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Tags: Global Warming · skeptic