PBS News Hour’s public service: demonstrating the shallowness of mainstream...
In a year with seeming unending demonstrations of mounting climate disruption and increasingly on-target science-based reporting on climate change, this PBS News Hour chose to present to the public a...
View ArticleFaux Watching Climate Denier Recants After Watch “Chasing the Ice”
“There must be something I can do … to help our children, to help my grandchildren…. I thought it [global warming] was bullshit … and that is because I listened, I believed Bill O’Reilly … and I saw...
View ArticleCharge of the (dirty) Light Brigade
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d ? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Lord...
View Article“Send the entire bill to the flat-earthers”
This guest post comes from DWG. And, well, the Star-Ledger‘s editorial board is now my favorite editorial board in the nation. Thanks to damage from recent north Atlantic superstorms, a major New...
View Article@OFA “Call Out Climate Change Deniers”
Organizing for America (OFA) is moving toward an ever-more aggressive positioning when it comes to clean energy and climate change issues. Added this past week to the website, “Call Out Climate Change...
View Article“Where’s the Global Warming?” thought Buffalonian; then they looked at a map
The continental United States has been slammed by cold temperatures and it is difficult to escape images of Buffalo’s massive snowfall. When there is a big snowstorm, climate science deniers gleefully...
View ArticlePontiff going #UFC on #Climate Change
This Thursday, the Vatican will release the Papal Encyclical “Laudato si’, on the care of our common home”. Pope Francis’ decision to take such a serious stance on climate change (on the need to take...
View ArticleMarie (@JudithCurry) Antoinette’s solution to #Climate #heatwaves +...
Sometimes comedians come too close to the truth. There are people who, it seems, truly thinks that the “solution” for climate change is something like Futurama’s ice cubes into the sea … Absurd, no?...
View ArticleClimate reality debunking
Debunking deceit is difficult business. Among other things: Deceit and dishonesty is easier than thoughtful, substantive, truthful engagement. As Winston Churchill put it, “A lie gets halfway around...
View ArticleA call to journalists: treat #climate like a #sex scandal
This guest post from Dean Baker provides a different perspective on inadequate media discussion and coverage of climate change issues. In short, Dean reminds us that journalists do know how to dig to...
View ArticleOklahoma desperately needs @JimInhofe’s snowballs
From Donald Trump to Sean Hannity to Harold Hamm to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Exxon), one of the favorite global warming science denial idiocies is “Ha … if there’s so much warming, why’s there snow outside.”...
View ArticleTownhalls unpleasant for @HouseGOP as constituents challenge them on #climate...
Much has been made of how Republicans, writ large (not universally, but a very large share) have been avoiding face-to-face encounters with their constituents — their massively frustrated, angry,...
View ArticleJournalism entails more than stenography: PBS Newshour malfeasance re Clean...
The Trump Administration’s decision to undermine America’s economy and future prospects by its announced intent to reverse the Clean Power Plan and expand its denial of that Chinese Hoax, climate...
View Article#VA #Climate Forum: #Science-Denier @CoreyStewartVA Showed Up, Looked People...
Erev Yom Kippur’s Virginia Climate Crisis Forum (full event video) featured Senate candidates Senator Tim Kaine (D) and his climate-science-denying opponent, Corey Stewart (R). The several hundred...
View ArticleNo, @WSJ, #GiletJaune is not about #carbontax
Paris is burning and the Wall Street Journal editorial page is gleeful in its misrepresentation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) flames. Along with so many others in the fossil-foolish climate-science...
View ArticleHuman action once cooled the planet (the wrong way but …)
While most discussions of climate change focus on modern history, discussing the change from pre-industrial CO2 levels of roughly 275 parts per million to today’s 410 (or so), humanity has been...
View ArticleTrumpian climate science denial: a national security affair
Trump’s inane rejection of climate science (and, well, fundamental statement that he is clueless about the most basic concepts of science and the scientific method) are well known, provide a comedic...
View ArticleDoes the grass get greener when a ‘lukewarmer’ is in your backyard?
When it comes to climate discussions, a “Lukewarmer” represents a dangerous portion of the climate discussion spectrum. While stringent climate denial, like Donald Trump’s, can be quickly pigeon-holed...
View ArticleGoing to war to pollute more …
Many aware of climate change science and the (mounting) risks of climate catastrophe have long analogized the situation to World War II mobilization — in expressing the scale of the challenge, that the...
View ArticleGok isn’t Grok (Or, Dept. of Interior Climate Science Denial)
“To grok something” states a deep understanding and implies an incorporation of actual knowledge so deeply “that it has become part of you, part of your identity”. “To Gok something” is a far newer and...
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