TagsTagsEnvironmentalist Peter Sinclair fires off some pretty good snark at the climate change denial community in his new video, “Flogging the Scientists.” The title comes from denial mob leader Marc Morano, who said about climate scientists, “They deserve to be publicly flogged.” (Morano’s extreme punishment fantasy sounds oddly similar to what ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Cold Weather, Denial, Science, Climatology, Peter Sinclair
An excellent post at Deep Climate looks into the exaggerated and false claims being made about the computer code released along with those stolen “Climategate” emails: McClimategate continues: Yet another false accusation from McIntyre and McKitrick. How do they get away with it? That’s the inevitable question as I examine ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, CRU, Deception
In the latest example in a long line of dishonest attempts to smear the science of climate change, one of the main critical witnesses in the UK Parliament’s hearings on the CRU email leaks is a shill for the oil and gas industries. And of course, he didn’t disclose this fact ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, CRU, Britain
Here’s another excellent video by ‘potholer54’ on the latest wildly overblown climate change denial claims; this one deals with the BBC’s interview with Phil Jones, and the absurd distortions touted by the Daily Mail and uncritically parroted by a host of right wing bloggers. [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Medieval Warming, Phil Jones, BBC, Daily Mail, Denial
An all-star panel of former tobacco industry shills and current energy industry shills, now beginning at “CPAC 2010, The John Birch Edition:” [Video moved to newer thread…] Saving Freedom from the Hoax of Global Warming Marriott Ballroom Chris Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming Ann McElhinney, Not Evil Just ...
CPAC, Right Wing, Republican Party, social conservatism, Religious Right, John Birch Society, Global Warming, Climate Change, Denial
One of the most ignorant (and often intentionally deceptive) “common sense” talking points promoted by the climate denial industry is that cold weather proves global warming theories are a hoax. Every time there’s a blizzard, this hoary old chestnut is taken out of the freezer, thawed out, and hyped by ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Weather, Denial
One of the most maddeningly ignorant talking points of the deniers is that cold temperatures prove there’s no such thing as global warming. I received two emails today parroting this silliness (example: “record cold temperatures all over Europe and you still believe in your global warming cult? Idiot! Moron! Hahahaha!” ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Cold Weather, Denial, Science, Climatology
Must-read of the day: The Climate Killers, subtitled, “Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming.”
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Deception, Denial
At the Daily Beast, Joe Mathews has an interesting take on the recent climate change dust-up between Sarah “Ions” Palin and Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Palin-Schwarzenegger Smackdown. Palin seemed to see Schwarzenegger as an easy target, the sort of Republican In Name Only that her conservative partisans love to hate. But ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Denial, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sarah Palin is sharing her bizarre views on climate change with the world via Twitter: Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter. These little tweets are more revealing than Palin knows; it’s clear that her objections to climate change stem from her radical religious right view that mankind cannot affect God’s creation, and ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Denial, Religious Right
Dominionist Senator and hardcore climate change denier James Inhofe went to the Copenhagen climate summit to subvert the Obama administration’s policies, but nobody was interested. COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Copenhagen, James Inhofe, Denial
Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took a well-deserved shot at Sarah Palin for her ditzy Washington Post op-ed denying that climate change is caused by human beings: “You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?” Schwarzenegger, in Copenhagen for the international climate change summit, told the Financial Times. ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Denial, Arnold Schwarzenegger
All the right wing blogs and climate change denial sites are linking to this story: Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don’t add up. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, Al Gore, Ice Caps
New Scientist turns the tables on climate skeptics, in an article that documents a few of the many examples of lies, distortions and disinformation emitted by the global warming denial industry - lies and distortions that never seem to result in any consequences for the liars, and are endlessly repeated ...
For a perfect example of the willfully, pig-headedly ignorant Republican position on climate change, check out this video from C-SPAN of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tx). The first question from C-SPAN’s moderator: “What causes, in your perspective, global warming?” Barton’s reply: Well, the short answer would be God. Which might be OK if ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, GOP, Denial, Joe Barton, Creationism
Now here’s an initiative we can really get behind — a call for Sarah Palin to put her money where her mouth is, and debate Al Gore on climate change: Sarah vs Al: The People Want This One. No time to be shy, “little” Sarah. Shooting spitballs and then hiding ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Denial, Al Gore
The one-woman factory of stupid and unapologetic creationist continues to demonstrate her total cluelessness on science, in the latest post at her Facebook page: Sarah Palin | Facebook. The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Denial
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hit the nail directly on the head in a statement about the phony “Climategate” scandal: Climate-gate global warming doubts ‘silly’. WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday dismissed as “silly” the notion that global warming science had been compromised by emails exposing a row between ...
Right wingers screaming for investigations into “Climategate” are on the same side as the apartheid theocracy of Saudi Arabia. COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate” Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here. “We believe this scandal — ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, Saudi Arabia
Here’s a new book I highly recommend to anyone interested in learning about the deceptive personalities and industry-funded groups behind the flood of global warming denial propaganda: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore. Hoggan and Littlemore are two of the writers at DeSmogBlog, ...
A few years ago, I used to doubt that there really were climate change denialists. But then I started posting at LGF about the scientific evidence for global warming, and lo, the denialists began to appear. Hordes of them. Posting one comment after another full of talking points, false claims, diversions, and complete ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Deception, Denial
A very good presentation on the proposed solution to global warming known as “cap and trade.” [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, Cap and Trade
New Scientist has an excellent article titled: Why there’s no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails. The leaking of emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, UK, has led to a media and political storm. The affair is being ...
Scientific American has an excellent article debunking seven of the main climate change denial talking points promoted by people like James Inhofe: Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense. The introduction to the article draws the distinction between honest skeptics and deniers, a topic that’s frequently raised in our threads about climate ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, James Inhofe
But you just know there’s a catch, and as usual it comes down to the remarkably flexible definition of “terrorism,” and the need to shift the blame: Muslims commit themselves to fight terrorism. Agra, June 14 (IANS) Representatives of different Muslim sects committed themselves to fight terrorism and promote peace ...