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Christopher Horner is demonstrably wrong

Christopher Horner must correct his written statements about Michael Mann and the National Science Foundation investigation that independently cleared Mann of allegations of academic misconduct.

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Heartland Institute billboard feeds critics, drives away allies and donors

Heartland Institute billboard featuring Unabomber Ted Kaczynski feeds Heartland’s critics and drives away their allies and donors.

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Serious errors and shortcomings void climate letter by 49 former NASA employees

Six errors plus two shortcomings equals 49 former NASA employees with no climate science credentials damaging their own reputations.

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The Heartland Institute: updates on the documents, memo authorship, and another example of hypocrisy [Corrected]

The published Heartland Institute documents are now authentic, the authorship of the allegedly fabricated memo is still unknown, and Heartland’s hypocrisy sinks to new depths.

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Climate science discussion between Burt Rutan and Brian Angliss

S&R’s collection of a discussion on human-caused climate disruption between Brian Angliss, S&R climate/science writer and electrical engineer, and Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer and former CEO of Scaled Composites.

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The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards (corrected)

Peter H. Gleick collects the five most outrageous examples of climate BS (Bad Science) from 2011, with several runners-up. Number one? All the Republican presidential candidates.

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Heartland Institute's latest climate-related media advisory filled with the usual distortions

The Heartland Institute has a history of distorting climate science and lying about climate scientists. Their latest climate-related media advisory is no exception.

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Mann's critics not appeased by NSF investigation, extend unfounded "whitewash" accusations to NSF itself

The OIG confirmed Penn State’s result that Michael Mann was not guilty of research misconduct. So where are all Mann’s critics admitting they were wrong about him?

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Most speakers at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change misidentified as scientists

The sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), a large gathering of human-caused climate disruption deniers that is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, opens tomorrow morning. The frontpage for the conference website makes a number of misleading or false statements, but one phrase that caught my eye was “The scientists speaking at this conference…” This […]

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Milloy's latest climate op-ed riddled with errors

Today, the Washington Times ran an op-ed by science-denier-for-hire Steve Milloy titled “2012 GOP guide to the climate debate.” Based on the number of errors and irrelevancies masquerading as serious concerns I discovered while reading it, the Washington Times should have titled the op-ed “How to lie to voters about climate disruption.” Here’s a brief […]

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Three of four misconduct allegations against Michael Mann found to be without merit (updated)

Update: I’ve added a few more examples of spin and accusations of bias against PSU as well as some good reporting examples that were not posted as of last night. After the CRU emails were released in November, 2009, there was widespread accusations of misconduct against most of the scientists mentioned in the emails. Today, […]

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It's Climategate 2.0! (…not)

In December, the Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS) published over 200 pages of internal emails as required by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The emails involved how the GISS handled responding to a number of requests for information, data, and code from Steve McIntyre, founder of […]

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The Weekly Carboholic: "heat island" effect is minimal

One of the more common arguments you hear from global heating deniers and skeptics is that the urban heat island effect is causing global temperature measurements to look a lot hotter than they actually are. This is such a powerful argument because there is some truth to it – when you plop down a new […]

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