‘Climate’ Archives
CA economists to Meg Whitman: Your “policy proposals will deepen California’s budget crisis and are likely to reduce employment and economic growth.”
Guest blogger Rebecca Lefton is writing regularly to keep us up to date about Big Oil’s tricky proposition 23 initiative to kill California’s clean energy economy. Read more on Prop 23’s national repercussions and funding from Texas oil companies. A group of California economists signed an open letter to Californians warning that [...]
Distorting science while invoking science – Debating science shouldn’t enable antiscience disinformation
Guest authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway share some research from their recent must-read book “Merchants of Doubt,” which is reviewed here. The book documents how the cast of characters peddling pseudo-science had been stunningly consistent over the years, from secondhand smoke skeptics to “Star Wars” missile defense [...]
Rebutting climate science disinformer talking points in a single line
Please offer suggestions for improving the one liners below. Progressives should know the most commonly used arguments by the disinformers and doubters — and how to answer them. You should know as much of the science behind those rebuttals as possible, and a great place to start is SkepticalScience.com. BUT most of the time your best [...]
Monckton makes it up
Guest commentary by Barry R. Bickmore, Brigham Young University If you look around the websites dedicated to debunking mainstream climate science, it is very common to find Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley, cited profusely. Indeed, he has twice testified about climate change before committees of the U.S. Congress, even though [...]
Expert Credibility in Climate Change – Responses to Comments
Guest commentary by William R. L. Anderegg, Jim Prall, Jacob Harold, Stephen H. Schneider Note: Before Stephen Schneider’s untimely passing, he and his co-authors were working on a response to the conversation sparked by their recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on climate change expertise. One of Dr. [...]
Atlantic shocker: Senior editor Clive Crook fabricates another quote to smear Michael Mann
The Atlantic’s Clive Crook has written the most embarrassing and libelous piece published by the media, “More on Climategate.” The fact that the Atlantic continues to allow him to make up stuff and print it (without fact-checking) for the sole purpose of smearing Michael Mann — after the editors were informed of the libelous [...]
BP the latest culprit in “America’s Dumping Ground” – Meet a community that gets oil spilled in their front AND backyard – and find out how we can stop the damage.
Guest bloggers Van Jones and Jorge Madrid reveal some dirty secrets BP doesn’t want us to know about where the oil goes once it is “cleaned up.” Jones is a senior fellow and former adviser to President Obama on Green Jobs, and Madrid is a research assistant at the Center for American Progress. While the oil-spewing hole in the middle of [...]
Energy and Global Warming News for August 3rd: Fossil fuel subsidies are 12 times that of renewables; Chamber goes after climate dissenters in its ranks; Ten fights on global warming now that Senate cops out
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are 12 Times Support for Renewables, Study Shows Global subsidies for fossil fuels dwarf support given to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. Governments last year gave $43 billion to $46 billion of support to renewable energy through tax credits, guaranteed [...]
Finding vegetables in unexpected places
“In the city of Detroit, the most accessible food-related establishments are party stores, dollar stores, fast-food restaurants, and gas stations,” states the city’s Food Security Policy, which lays out Detroit’s plan for ensuring its residents have access to healthy and affordable food. Urban agriculture is an important part of the [...]
Be wary of “Mission Accomplished” claims for BP disaster clean up
Back in early May, I interviewed experts on dispersants and oil spill clean up and wrote “Out of Sight: BP’s dispersants are toxic — but not as toxic as dispersed oil.” Chemically dispersing oil spills “solves the political problem of visible oil but not the environmental problem,” Robert Brulle, a 20-year Coast Guard [...]
