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“How can you tell the difference?”

December 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on “How can you tell the difference?”

In a post discussing FactCheck.org’s take on ClimateGate, Little Green Footballs begins: FactCheck.org takes an in-depth look at “Climategate,” and notices something: there’s no “there” there. No conspiracies, no cover-ups, no fakery. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. After extensively quoting FactCheck re ClimateGate/Swifthack, the post concludes: here’s a pop quiz for LGF readers — who said […]

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Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers

Somewhere Between Falsehoods and Science, Fred Hiatt finds truth?

December 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Within journalism, there is a real challenge. Are there, truly, two sides to every issue? Should all voices be treated equally? Do journalists have a responsibility to assess statements for truthfulness or is the job simply to be a transcriber and “reporter” of whatever is told to them? How can one be “objective”, be “honest”, […]

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Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism · Washington Post

If flat earthers had unlimited funds, would we fly around the globe?

December 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn’t take place, I’m sure we’d have a robust debate about it right now. This is […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics

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 […]

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

Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack

December 7th, 2009 · 5 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 […]

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

The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE

December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Times joins the Truthiness choir when it comes to ClimateGATE

The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate: The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails. This is serious, isn’t it? One of the key government institutions, […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · truthiness

McExpertise and the ClimateGate manufactured crisis of confidence

December 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s under ten minutes … And, for any rational person, that ten minutes will shatter any chance of belief that there is a substantive basis for concern about climate science’s foundations due to ClimateGate (SwiftHack). Several moments of particular skill in this takedown of McExperts making noise about ClimateGate 7 minutes in there is the […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · global warming deniers · google · skeptic

Is a graphic worth 1000 words? WashPost temperature chart & ClimateGATE

December 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The old adage: A picture is worth 1,000 words.  Does this apply to graphics as well? Today’s Washington Post has a front-page article on ClimateGATE (more appropriately, perhaps SwiftHack) In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate. Showing the heat of the debate, the article already has 255 comments as of 7:55 on a Saturday […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · Global Warming · government energy policy · Washington Post

Sarah Palin’s zombie charm …

December 3rd, 2009 · 14 Comments

Sarah “Energy Exert” Palin has weighed in on ClimateGate, using Facebook to jump in with her perspective on SwiftHack.  Let’s take a moment to parse this statement.

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Tags: Energy

ClimateGATE: Some tastes of Truth rather than truthiness

December 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments

Sadly, we need to spend time on the anti-science syndrome sound machine’s efforts to spin and promote ClimateGate / SwiftHack as something meriting focus rather than recognizing that every serious piece of work in the field is highlighting that the situation of climate change is getting more dire (essentially) on every front of the climate […]

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