James Taylor of the Heartland Institute compound his original mistake of distorting a peer-reviewed survey by repeating his distortions and choosing to attack his critics instead of correcting his many original mistakes.
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Media Trackers writer ignorant of academia and climate issues, hypocritical regarding ethics
Alyssa Carducci of Media Trackers-Florida and The Heartland Institute revealed her ignorance of academia and climate issues and her hypocrisy regarding ethics when she misrepresented herself in order to obtain information on scientist Michael Mann’s speaking fees.
Climate disruption denial: a natural by-product of libertarian values
Libertarians who feel that their personal liberty is threatened by industrial climate disruption are more susceptible than most to confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. That’s why so many libertarians deny the reality of industrial climate disruption.
Marc Morano abets emailed threats of violence
Marc Morano condones threats of violence against climate scientists and their families. That tells you everything you need to know about his character, and about the character of the people who employ or work with him.
Latest hearing shows GOP is the Ministry of Magic to climate disruption's Death Eaters
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic eases Voldmort’s rise to power by refusing to admit he’s back and his Death Eaters are dangerous. The March 31 climate hearing showed that the GOP has become the Ministry of Magic to human-caused climate disruption’s Death Eaters.
Climate scientists still besieged
S&R interviewed Martin Vermeer, first author of a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper on sea level rise, about how much context the published CRU emails contained. In addition to answering questions about the emails’ context, Vermeer pointed out that some of the context “bears the mark of a scientific community under […]
Gingrich lies to Congress about climate legislation
S&R has been following Newt Gingrich’s lies about energy and climate since last year when he pushed the “Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.” lie in response to last summer’s oil price woes. On Friday, Gingrich appeared as a minority witness, on a panel all by himself, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee – […]
The Weekly Carboholic: California report recommends changes to adapt to rising sea level
California report recommends changes to adapt to rising sea level “Virtual” water exports a problem for Australia and the world An update on high voltage direct current transmission lines MIT develops new Li-ion battery that charges really, really fast New biodiesel stays liquid at colder temperatures Limit development in low-lying coastal areas. Consider abandoning existing […]
The Weekly Carboholic: new data reveals human-caused warming at both poles
New data reveals human-caused warming at both poles Methane concentrations increase globally in 2007 Architect of Berkeley’s new solar plan gives Grist an update Two useful climate change maps According to a new paper published in Nature Geoscience and available online here, scientists from the UK, US, and Australia have detected anthropogenic influence on the […]
The Weekly Carboholic: David Evans' climate facts hardly factual
I’ve started to read a number of commentators around editorial pages, blogs, and letters to the editor that are quoting an Australian by the name of David Evans. In case you’re unfamiliar, Evans wrote an op-ed in The Australian titled “No smoking hot spot” where he raises a number of issues with the science of […]
Google and MIT tackle global heating
What do you do when your government does nothing to incentivize clean energy and is attached at the hip to coal and oil companies? You go your own way and start developing your own clean energy. And what do you do if you’re a NYTimes commentator who has been frustrated over the lack of government […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- S&R Fiction: “The Treehouse,” by Aimee Stahlberg
- Republicans perpetuate myths to keep Cold War alive
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- “See You in Hell” and the dominatrix garage: The Lost Patrol drops a new video, and btw, the CD is fantastic
- Iran’s election nuclear, but not nuked
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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