TagsTagsThe WSJ published an op-ed several days ago, in which several notable scientists and luminaries claimed there was no need to panic about global warming. They included former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmidt, Burt Rutan, and several other scientists. The rebuttal today comes from actual climatologists who study climatology, not scientists from ...
Here's a vastly important subject guaranteed not to come up in tonight's debate (the sixth debate this month): the precipitous decline in American science. Neil deGrasse Tyson really brings the point home with maps showing the amounts of peer reviewed scientific research in different areas of the globe. Exceptionally poor at ...
A team of researchers led by UC Berkeley physicist Richard Muller (a self-described "skeptic" on global warming) has dealt a crushing blow to the climate change denial machine. Their exhaustive study of millions of pieces of data, ironically funded by the far right billionaire Koch brothers, discovered that ... gasp ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Richard Muller, Science, Climate Change Denial
For me, the most memorable moment of last night's debate was Rick Perry's comparison of himself to Galileo -- because Perry refuses to accept the science of climate change. The cynical deceptiveness of this comment is mind-boggling. Galileo fought for years to defend the scientific theory of heliocentrism, and the people ...
Lying, Anti-Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, Galileo, Rick Perry
Climate change denial websites immediately jumped all over a recent paper from the CERN CLOUD project, about the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation. I knew they had jumped, actually, before I even read "Watts Up With That" or any of the other blogs dedicated to discrediting climate science, because ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, CERN, Cosmic Rays
The National Science Foundation has concluded yet another investigation into the work of climate scientist Michael Mann (creator of the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph you see above), whose research and personal character have been targeted in a years-long, relentless smear campaign by energy industry front groups and the right ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Michael Mann
The world's plants and animals are migrating as the climate changes. “The more warming there’s been in an area, the more you would expect a species to move, and the more they have moved,” said Chris D. Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of York in England, who led ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
One of the latest front groups organized by the Koch Brothers has the lofty-yet-innocuous sounding name, "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," and Think Progress has a photo of the ugly anti-scientific literature they're distributing: At Koch’s ALEC Conference: ‘The Many Benefits Of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment’. Also see: VIDEO: Security Guards At ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Koch Brothers
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Monty Python
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Al Gore's piece for Rolling Stone has already provoked a chorus of ignorant derision from the bleachers, but I recommend it as a call to action while we still have time, in the face of the Republican Party and the right wing's Climate of Denial. ... Scientists have been warning ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
Here's a classic example of the bizarre reality-denying cognitive dissonance of right wing climate change deniers. In the Minnesota State Senate, one of the loudest voices against accepting the scientific reality of climate change is Michael Jungbauer, who's known for making grand pronouncements about "not being convinced" by the science, and ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Minnesota, Heartland Institute
It's become both an article of faith and a litmus test for conservatives to claim that global warming is a "hoax," presumably staged by evil scientists bent on world domination. This incredibly dangerous ostrich-like thinking is nearly universal on the right wing and in the Republican Party, and yesterday we ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
Today at UCLA, a group of high profile climate change deniers are featured at a conference titled: "Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny?" By itself this is nothing special; climate "skeptics" are always having these echo chamber conferences, to keep the deluded masses fully stocked up with hooey. But this ...
Global Warming, Science, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Creationism, Anti-Muslim, American Freedom Alliance
Here's some potentially very exciting news from MIT, where a breakthrough in battery design could lead to truly viable electric cars: New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt. A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive ...
In Australia, climate scientists are being targeted with a rabid hate mail campaign and death threats. The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety. Scientists at universities in NSW and Queensland have ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science, Death Threats
A fatuous post by the anonymous blogger "Allahpundit" full of debunked right wing tropes (Climategate? he must be kidding) leads to a deluge of stunningly ignorant, hateful comments directed toward Mitt Romney for stating that he accepts the science of climate change: Romney: Sure, I believe in man-made global warming ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Hot Air, Idiocy
DERPIn a congressional hearing this week titled "UN Climate Talks and Power Politics — It's Not About the Temperature," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came up with one of the more bizarre right wing climate change denial fantasies in recent memory; Rohrabacher says scientists need to start addressing the greenhouse gases emitted ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Dana Rohrabacher
In this video from Australia's Hungry Beast, climate scientists prove that they can kick it like the Beasties. Sort of.
Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, Rap, Comedy, Australia
In the opinion of top climate scientist Dr. Kevin Trenberth, it's "irresponsible not to mention climate change" in the context of the killer tornadoes this week in the South. It is irresponsible not to mention climate change. ... The environment in which all of these storms and the tornadoes are ...
President Obama kicked the right wing hornet's nest again today, with a long overdue jab at 'climate change deniers'. "There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama continued, speaking at the home of Salesforce.com CEO Marc ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, President Obama
Al Gore gave a speech at Power Shift 2011, a conference for student activists, and stated some powerful truths that will now be mocked and derided by the ignorant, anti-science right wing: Gore to young advocates: Battle industry lobbyists to turn the tide on climate. “It’s true that governments by ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Al Gore
The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research in Seattle posted this computer model of the 2011 Honshu tsunami, as it propagated across the Pacific Ocean.
Science, Pacific Ocean, NOAA, Video, disaster, Tsunami, Japan
Here's Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) with a terrific mockery of the GOP's proudly ignorant war on science.
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
On February 18, the Department of Commerce released the results of yet another independent investigation into the "Climategate" nontroversy, and again (as in the previous four investigations by various agencies) the climate scientists involved were totally cleared of wrongdoing. The latest redundant investigation was requested by arch climate denier Sen. James ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Denial, Fraud, Climategate, Right Wing, James Inhofe