A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand emails and three thousand files which had been stolen from the backup server of the Climatic Research Unit in the UK, a top centre for global temperature analysis and climate change studies. As [...]
Posts Tagged ‘denial’
The Real Story of Climategate
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged al gore, anthony watts, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, communication, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, cuccinelli, debate, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, inhofe, journalism, media, nasa, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states on November 17, 2010 | 145 Comments »
What If…?
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, inhofe, mccain, midterm election, obama, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, swifthack, tea party, united states on November 1, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal Let’s start with the obvious – the U.S. midterm elections are upon us, and it’s quite likely that the Republicans will win a majority. (My American friends tell me that this is possible even with Barack Obama remaining president. Please bear with my limited knowledge of the American political system. It [...]
Odds and Ends
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged alda, climate change, communication, denial, education, environment, giss, global warming, hansen, human rights, journalism, kennedy, mckibben, media, nasa, NCDC, politics, republican, science on October 18, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I must thank Michael Tobis for two pieces of reading that his blog recently pointed me to. First, a fantastic article by Bill McKibben, which everyone should print out and stick to their fridge. Here’s a taste: Read the comments on one of the representative websites: Global warming is a “fraud” or a “plot.” Scientists [...]
Ads Past and Present
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged advertising, cigarettes, climate change, communication, credibility, denial, environment, global warming, heartland institute, media, science, smoking, tobacco, tobacco institute, washington post on October 3, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Check out these unbelievable ads from the Tobacco Institute, which I found from the Tobacco Documents database. Click to enlarge.
Party Line
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, News and Reports, tagged al gore, arctic, carbon dioxide, climate change, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, jim demint, john mccain, john raese, ken buck, marco rubio, pat toomey, politics, rand paul, republican, ron johnson, roy blunt, science, senate, sharron angle, skeptic, statements, united states on September 19, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Brad Johnson from The Wonk Room recently released a comprehensive list of what Republican contenders for the U.S. Senate understand about climate change, inferred from their public statements. The result? 47 of the 48 deny the existence of anthropogenic climate change and/or oppose mitigating action to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Take a look – many [...]
A Fabulous Contribution
Posted in Other Advocates, Science Lessons, tagged anthony watts, carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, credibility, dana1981, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, science, skeptical science on September 12, 2010 | 19 Comments »
I’ve really been enjoying the Advanced versions of Skeptical Science’s rebuttals to common misconceptions about climate change. So far, they have all been written by someone going by the name of dana1981, who I would like to give a huge shout-out to. I am a new B.Sc. student who is interested in pursuing a career [...]
Priorities
Posted in Musings, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, politics, quote, science, swifthack on September 6, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I’m sick of all the politics surrounding climate science. I wish it could go back to just being science, the way it was in the 1970s, without all these people trying to sabotage it for us. I wish we could concentrate on the joy and fascination we feel when we learn about the climate system, [...]
The Best Cartoons Ever
Posted in Cartoons, Musings, tagged cartoonist group, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, houston chronicle, humour, journalism, lee judge, media, nick anderson, swifthack on August 23, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Over the past year, I have seen far too many political cartoons on the editorial pages of newspapers accusing climate scientists of fraud. It amazes me what is allowed to be published without evidence in respected media publications. However, there are still some great cartoons about climate change, sans libel. Here are two of my [...]
Deniers?
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged 9/11, climate change, communication, conservative, credibility, debate, denial, education, evolution, global warming, H1N1, liberal, media, politics, science, swine flu, vaccines, youth on June 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I really enjoyed New Scientist’s Special Report: Living in Denial. What a fascinating phenomenon, and a fascinating batch of articles exploring it. The denial of science is a growing problem. It’s not restricted to a particular ideology – while denying the harmful effects of smoking or the existence of climate change is typically a position [...]
A Must-Read Letter to Science
Posted in News and Reports, tagged agreement, canada, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, leake, media, NAS, politics, risk management, science, united states on May 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I must say that I feel proud of the mainstream media when CBC News picks this up before any of the blogs I read. A letter to be published in tomorrow’s edition of Science, defending the integrity of climate science and calling for an end to “McCarthy-like threats” to scientists, has been signed by 225 [...]
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