‘Climate’ Archives
Purported eco-terrorist shot and killed by police
UPDATE: Shockingly, Anthony Watts stands behind his offensive post and comments. Comments are stopped on this post as of 10:31 pm ET, resuming around 6 am, for reasons discussed below. Today, a demented, violent individual held people hostage with a gun and bombs strapped to his body at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, MD. [...]
Arctic sea ice area and volume drop near record lows – WattsUpWithThat breaks its own record for fastest overturning of a prediction by reality
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, click to enlarge) has a widely used plot of sea ice area. The notion that the Arctic sea ice was somehow on a long-term recovery trend based on a short-term two-dimensional analysis (i.e. sea ice area or extent just over the last 2 years) — had no basis in fact. That goes double (triple?) [...]
New climate disinformer fad: Ocean acidification denial
As oceanic CO2 rises, pH falls. The burning of billions of tons of fossil fuels every year is altering our planet — not only by making our atmosphere trap more heat, but also by changing the chemistry of the ocean. For background, see 2010 Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago [...]
Breaking: Judge rules against Cuccinelli’s witch-hunt aimed at Michael Mann and climate science
An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has ruled that the Virginia attorney general’s office has not demonstrated a “reason to believe” that the University of Virginia has documents and materials that are relevant to its investigation into possible fraud by former U. Va. climate science professor Michael Mann. In a six-page [...]
Washington Post ombudsman slams mistake-filled media: “As errors grow, so does a credibility gap”
A single major error can damage a news organization. But incessant lesser ones can be more harmful. Like a cancer, they gradually destroy credibility and eventually sever the organization’s bond of trust with its audience. Many readers say that’s happening with The Post…. It’s an industrywide problem. Teresa Schmedding, [...]
KPMG review finds IPCC chief Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings or conflict of interest, UK Telegraph apologizes for smearing him – Monbiot: "A scrupulously honest man has been much maligned"
“No evidence was found that indicated personal fiduciary benefits accruing to Pachauri from his various advisory roles that would have led to a conflict of interest.” That’s the finding of a detailed report by KPMG on the finances of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A great many U.S. [...]
Justice Department asks Supreme Court to vacate environmental victory against greenhouse gas emitters
Another day, another in a long line of mesmerizingly message-muddying moves by the Obama administration on the environment. As with the decision to embrace offshore drilling, we’ll no doubt eventually learn that this decision — which lies somewhere on the scale between between unproductive and counter-productive — was made [...]
Alaska firestorm: Leading GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller says “We haven’t heard there’s man-made global warming.”
The leading Republican candidate for Senate from the state that’s Ground Zero for climate change is a flat-out denier of human-caused global warming. He apparently thinks the term “greenhouse gases” is just a figure of speech (see “10 indicators of a human fingerprint on climate change“). Hard to believe that anti-EPA Lisa “dirty [...]
The entire American economy, including renewable energy, benefited from the stimulus bill
Vice President Biden and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday both released reports showing how much the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, also known as the “stimulus bill”) helped the U.S. economy. The reports are a stunning rebuke to all of those who say the stimulus bill has been ineffective. CAP’s Richard W. [...]
New Mexico GOP candidates deny global warming reality
We’ve seen that every GOP Senate candidate in NH is a global warming denier. We’ve seen that Republicans across the country are embracing pro-pollution, anti-science candidates. And so it is with New Mexico, as Brad Johnson explains. Even though New Mexico is facing a future of perpetual drought, killer heat waves, water scarcity, [...]
