Here’s a classy way to slam people you disagree with: compare them to terrorists, dictators, and mass murderers. Such was the focus of a recent billboard campaign by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, a PR group that denies the existence of human-caused climate change. The only billboard that was actually displayed featured Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘skeptic’
Stalin believed in gravity. Do you?
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged charles manson, chicago, climate changed, denial, fidel castro, global warming, gm, heartland institute, osama bin laden, skeptic, state farm, ted kaczynski, unabomber on May 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Denial in the Classroom
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, carleton, cass, climate change, education, geology, global warming, heartland institute, international climate science coalition, maclean's, ottawa, science, skeptic, tom harris, university, youth on February 28, 2012 | 16 Comments »
At one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities, a well-known climate change denier was recently discovered “educating” a class of undergraduate students about global warming. The Instructor Tom Harris spent much of his career acting as a PR consultant for fossil fuel companies. Today he directs the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), an advocacy group closely [...]
Labels
Posted in Musings, tagged AGU, climate change, contrarian, denial, education, environment, global warming, john cook, science, skeptic, skeptical science on December 13, 2011 | 39 Comments »
For a long time I have struggled with what to call the people who insist that climate change is natural/nonexistent/a global conspiracy. “Skeptics” is their preferred term, but I refuse to give such a compliment to those who don’t deserve it. Skepticism is a good thing in science, and it’s not being applied by self-professed [...]
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, communication, cook, denial, education, environment, global warming, hansen, postmodernism, science, skeptic, skeptical science, venus, washington on August 11, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I recently finished reading Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington and Skeptical Science founder John Cook. Given that I am a longtime reader of (and occasional contributor to) Skeptical Science, I didn’t expect to find much in this book that was new to me. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Right from [...]
Who are the Skeptics?
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged antarctica, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenland, IPCC, lindzen, media, michaels, politics, s. fred singer, science, skeptic, skeptical science on August 4, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Part 3 in a series of 5 for NextGen Journal Adapted from part of an earlier post As we discussed last time, there is a remarkable level of scientific consensus on the reality and severity of human-caused global warming. However, most members of the public are unaware of this consensus – a topic which we [...]
What Can One Person Do?
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hansen, ice age, IPCC, journalism, media, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, united states, youth on May 5, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Next week, I will be giving a speech on climate change to the green committee of a local United Church. They are particularly interested in science and solutions, so I wrote the following script, drawing heavily from my previous presentations. I would really appreciate feedback and suggestions for this presentation. Citations will be on the [...]
The Pendulum
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged al gore, an inconvenient truth, arctic, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, debate, democrat, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, human rights, hurricane katrina, journalism, kyoto, media, obama, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, Stephen Harper, sustainability, swifthack, united states on January 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal A few years ago, climate change mitigation became a major political issue. Before 2005, governments certainly knew that human-caused climate change was a serious problem – but the public knew next to nothing about it, so there was no incentive to act. However, between 2005 and 2007, a perfect storm of [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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