Comfortably Dumb: The TGDaily MIT/Methane Fraud

The latest climate change / global warming Denier fraud is sucking them in like hayseeds in Vegas. It is an obvious and ridiculous fraud; far from being skeptics they are are so ridiculously gullible it is pathetic.

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Climate Change Deniers “Top Ten List”

Put simply, if paper A is true, then B cannot be. So by accepting some of the papers as valid the Deniers are necessarily saying that others on the list are false. If they are false, why are they on the “ten best” list?

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American Spectator: Dumbing Down American Conservatism

Is the American Spectator trying to appeal to stupid people? to foster more stupidity? or to merely alienate the more intelligent segment of the conservative wing? I have to ask based on the recent article Climate Alarmism’s Flimsy Foundation by climate change / global warming Denier1 Paul Chesser published Oct 24th. It’s not simply that [...]

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Climate Change and Picking Cherries with Richard Keen

On October 14, 2008 Pielke posted ‘Dr. Richard Keen’s “Global Warming Quiz”‘ Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at the University of Colorado has a very interesting set of questions that he has posted with respect to global warming. It can be viewed at http://atoc.colorado.edu/wxlab/atoc1050/1050%20ppt/Global%20warming%20quiz.ppt His class website, which [...]

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Lorne Gunter and the “National Pest” Debunked … Again

So one of the great bastions of climate change / global warming ignorance is at it again. The National Post and Lorne Gunter in particular  have been exposed repeatedly before (and here), but like Undead Zombies they simply rise again, this time with “Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof“. I apologise in [...]

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Climate Deniers and Freedom of Screech

Does the right of freedom of speech extend to shouting “Hoax” on a burning planet? The climate change / global warming Deniers1 made much hysterical arm waving out of James Hansen’s “call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature” and David [...]

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Climate Denier Crackpot Index

In his latest update on Lord VoldeMonckton (“Monckton on the commie plot against him“) Tim Lambert over at Deltoid idly ponders what Monckton’s Crackpot score would be, thereby drawing my attention to John Baez’s The Crackpot Index. It struck me that Lambert is right in that the index is very apropos, not just of Monckton [...]

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More Climate Denier Undead Zombie “Science”

Once again the climate change / global warming Deniers are trying to revive the dead; this time the ridiculous “Scientists predicted Global Cooling in the 1970′s” myth. This myth has been thoroughly debunked as having been nothing more than media sensationalism over the beliefs of a handful of scientists based on a limited number of [...]

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Deniers and Rationalists: A Tale of Two Citation Indexes

OK, not really citation indexes so much as weekly round ups of the internet with respect to climate change. I thought it  would be interesting to compare and contrast the Climate Rationalist news roundup with the Climate Change /Global Warming Denier1 equivalent, just to see what we’ve got. Curiously, both are from Canada as am [...]

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Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger

A tip  of the hat to AccuWeather for recommending “Climate Change Deniers: “But They Are Scientists!” in thier post Alarmist and Denier Scientists. A possible wag of the finger … Since they also recommended Lindzin’s Climate of Fear I attempted to comment suggesting that these three commentaries were pertinent: * “Ambiguous scientific statements about climate [...]

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Climate Change Ended in 1998!

As an addendum to Deniers Prove Staircases are Level! I thought I’t throw out a little bit of history. OK, not history, more current events actually: One of the things that is totally baffling is that the Deniers even bother with the “Climate Change Ended in 1998!” meme; you would imagine it would be an [...]

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Oct 12/08 Updates from the Blogosphere:

Added To: Dee Norris in her comment responded to a call for actual science with “How about we start with something recent: David H. Douglass and John R. Christy 2008″ RealClimate discusses that paper: Tropical tropospheric trends again (again) —- Added to: “Climate Change Denial: Nothing but Lies and Frauds“ Why Climate Denialists are Blind [...]

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Denier Conspiracy Theories: More Paranoid Than Thou

You may think that Climate Change / Global Warming Denier[1] Conspiracy Theories are the same “boring” as all the other whacko conspiracy theories, but I suggest that you would be wrong. They have their own special character that is particularly revealing about Denier culture. You have probably heard at least one or more of the [...]

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Deniers Prove Staircases are Level!

Climate Change / Global Warming Deniers prove staircases are flat, they don’t go up anymore … and they have been like that since 1998! OK, as usual the Deniers have proved nothing more than their own gullibility, and in some cases their duplicity and/or gross incompetence. This would not be very interesting if it was [...]

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British Wit goes after a Climate Change Denier Twit

Of course that dreadful abomination The Great Global Warming Swindle has been thoroughly exposed as a fraud so there’s no real need to flog that dead pig, but Brian D has brought to my attention that there is still a bit of fun to be gotten out of it. What do you get when British [...]

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Climate Change Denial: Nothing but Lies and Frauds

The Challenge I have a little challenge … I’m looking for anything from the climate change Deniers that is not a lie, distortion, misrepresentation, or out and out fraud. I am trying to find something, anything, anything at all pertaining to the climate change that we  are currently experiencing that: Alleges that it refutes a [...]

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Climate Change Deniers: “But They Are Scientists!”

One of the Deniers1 favourite tactics is to throw out this or that list or petition of “scientists” who are Climate Deniers (eg “The Deniers“). After you discard the obvious frauds (eg the Oregon Petition), cull out the names that are made up, the ones who are not scientists, the ones who are dead, the [...]

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Climate Deniers Can Prove there is no Financial Crisis

Over at IJI Frank Bi uses the same presentation techniques on the Dow Jones Average that the Deniers use with climate data to show that there is no financial crisis – “Wall Street crisis” cancelled! See? what are you worried about?

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Climate Change / Global Warming: Heated Denials

The Organized Effort to Cast Doubt on Climate Change If you have not yet seen “Smoke and CO2: How to Spin Global Warming.” then it is time you did, and read the excellent article Global Warming: Heated Denials from The Center for Public Integrity. For the most part Climate Denial is not about legitimate doubt [...]

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The Gods Themselves Struggle in Vain

It is easy to be dismissive of the Climate Change / Global Warming Deniers1, but it is a mistake to ignore them. The fact is the Denial machine has been effective, that’s why industry funds it. Polls show almost half of US citizen’s think that the current warming / climate change is natural. Lest you [...]

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