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Normally I’d ignore this, but “Ace” has posted something so moronically misguided and false it calls for a response: Charles Johnson Now Deleting Posts for Mentioning Hacked Global Warming Fraud Emails. “Ace” says I deleted this comment by LGF reader ‘bosforus’ with “no explanation,” and that I’m “suppressing the data.” ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
On his front page today, Rush Limbaugh has a prominent link to “Prison Planet,” the website of whacked out conspiracy freakazoid Alex Jones, titled: Algore Photoshops Fake Earth. And possibly even more ridiculous, Limbaugh says his “official climatologist” is Dr. Roy Spencer — a notorious climate change denier and creationist, ...
Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on new research on the Greenland ice sheet (cross-checked with two different methods that yielded the same result), showing that the ice is disappearing much faster than previously believed. The dimensions of this frosty giant go way beyond human imagination. With a surface area spanning ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Greenland, ICE
The leaders of an upcoming conference on global warming have met with President Obama in Singapore and decided to scale back their expectations: Leaders Will Delay Deal on Climate Change. SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Copenhagen
Associated Press writer H. Josef Hebert has an interesting piece about the importance of nuclear power in the debate over global warming, not just as a technical means to generate power without CO2 emissions, but as a political bargaining chip. The industry’s long-standing campaign to rebrand itself as green ...
The Associated Press commissioned a review of years of temperature data by independent statisticians, and they’ve definitively refuted the often-repeated canard that the temperature of the Earth is decreasing: Statistics experts reject global cooling claims. The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures ...
Yesterday, the leaders of 18 major American scientific organizations — some of the most reputable and respected organizations in the world — sent the following letter to the US Senate, strongly urging Senators to address the issue of human-caused climate change and offering their help to become better informed. ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide
Here’s NPR’s coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s ugly, distorted attack on New York Times climate change reporter Andrew Revkin: Innovative ‘Times’ Reporter Draws Limbaugh’s Ire. [Audio]
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment, Andrew Revkin
Science Daily has more details on the alarming Caltech study we noted earlier this week, led by Aradhna Tripati: Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide, Caltech
Andrew Revkin comments on Rush Limbaugh’s ugly remark that Revkin should commit suicide because he brought up the subject of birth control: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death. As I put it in the Wilson event: “Should you get credit — if we’re going to become carbon-centric — for ...
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment
A few weeks ago, New York Times environmental blogger Andrew Revkin made a relatively straightforward observation, that “more children equal more carbon dioxide emissions.” Revkin went on to suggest that family planning and contraception might be an important part of any plan to limit CO2 emissions: Are Condoms the Ultimate ...
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment
A new study by Caltech scientists led by geochemist Aradhna Tripati shows that there hasn’t been this much carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere for at least 15 Million Years. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and were sustained at those ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide, Caltech
Here’s Peter Sinclair’s video on the scientific evidence showing that the decline in the Arctic icecap is very real, is not due to “natural causes,” and is not reversing (as several people tried to argue in recent LGF threads on climate change). On the contrary, in the past two years ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Arctic Ice, Arctic Ocean
Several major news organizations fell for a hoax today, when a left wing group put out a phony press release announcing that the US Chamber of Commerce had dropped its opposition to the climate change legislation currently in the US Senate: CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax. An email ...
Uh oh. Arctic ice to vanish in summer. LONDON, England (CNN) — New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade. The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Arctic Ice, Arctic Ocean
Time for an update on one of the latest claims by climate change deniers — that the “hockey stick” graph demonstrating dramatic global warming has been shown to be a “lie.” Well, it turns out that there was some dishonesty involved here, but it wasn’t on the side of the ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Disinformation, Hockey Stick
Last Saturday in a thread about climate change, I wrote: Again, I’m struck by the similarity between the techniques of global warming deniers and creationists; they both use cherry-picked data, they both make outrageous claims couched in pseudo-scientific language that sounds convincing to gullible people, they both compile lists ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Propaganda
Peter Sinclair’s new video is a scathing exposé of the right wing’s deliberate distortion of a statement by climate modeler Mojib Latif — led by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and George Will. [Video]
Climate Change, Global Warming, Mojib Latif, Peter Sinclair, Video, Glenn Beck
In every LGF thread related to climate change, people show up to float the absurd claim that CO2 is a good thing. We need more of it, not less. Those tricksy scientists are just lying to you again. You know how they are. You can’t trust 'em. Except that the ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, Peter Sinclair, Video
Last week we suddenly saw a barrage of articles about the climate change “hockey stick” graph, with absurdly overheated headlines like this one at Britain’s Telegraph: How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie. Not just a lie, but a MASSIVE lie. Wow. That sounds really bad. ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Disinformation
Peter Sinclair has another excellent “remixed” video (an improved version of an earlier release) on what scientists know about rising sea levels — and the deliberate misrepresentations being promoted by the anti-AGW crowd. [Video]
Climate Change, Global Warming, Peter Sinclair, Sea Levels, Video
Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK), a far right politician with ties to the Dominionist movement, on record comparing environmentalists to the Third Reich and the EPA to the Gestapo, is organizing a junket of climate change deniers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December: Inhofe: I’m Bringing ...
Denmark, GOP, James Inhofe, Religious Right, AGW, Science, Global Warming, Climate Change
Denmark’s Minister of Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard, is considered a “conservative” in that country — and she’s quoted in the New York Times with an interesting remark that makes me wonder if she’s been reading Little Green Footballs (OK, not really — but I can dream, can’t I?): Danish ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Religious Right, Disinformation, GOP
New research into ancient CO2 levels is confirming climate models, and linking declines in CO2 to Antarctic ice cap formation. SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Antarctica, Ice Shelf