Bytes and Blogs IV

BPSDB Lots of bad news Where we are, a summary Some Good news Denier Watch Some Debunking The solution Lots of bad news Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting speaks for itself in terms of ‘what’. The ‘why’ it matters is that a billion people from China to Afghanistan depend on the melt waters to feed themselves [...]

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Evolution & Climate Deniers: The Redux Edition

I am reminded with some frequency that the term “Denier” is offensive. I am aware of that. Why does no one raise the question of whether the term is accurate? Shouldn’t that be the real question? This question keeps coming up and in returning to it I will not simply be rehashing the same old [...]

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Paul Revere – Alarmist!

.BPSDB What if climate change / global warning Deniers1 (as opposed to doubters or skeptics) had been around in 1775? No, this is not a cheap way to try and cast climate change scientists as revolutionary heroes, but rather a serious way to reveal some truths about the Denier arguments. What I have done below [...]

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Skeptics Society debunks climate “skeptics” and other tales …

.BPSDB Climate “skeptics” get debunked on Skeptics Society site Gunter’s Gas Meme Watch: Carbon Black It’s not just length that matters A climate of change . Climate “Skeptics” get debunked on Skeptics Society site In what can only be described as delicious irony the Skeptics Society has published a debunking of  the ghastly Oregon Petition. [...]

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Bytes and Blogs III

Greenfyre’s was right about “The data is all corrupt!” meme was right about Richard Keen has more on ‘the global warming has stopped’ meme has been following Hansen’s ferret wonders if the Denier’s will report these …

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Pandas, Polar Bears, and Penguins

There is no question that people are very interested in and concerned about species such as pandas, polar bears, penguins and similar species under threat from anthropogenic climate change. Watching various social networking sites you can see articles about these species quickly become ‘popular’ as they are variously noted, dugg, hugged, buzzed, stumbled, etc (ie [...]

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‘Skeptic’ scientist is CENSORED! … or not.

The Denialosphere1 is all atwitter (when isn’t it?).  Roy Spencer has had two papers rejected by Geophysical Research Letters. Marohasy has the basic non-story with a sensationalistic title “How To Censor a Climate Sceptic” and no mention of censorship in the actual post. No such problem in the rest of the Denialosphere. The course is [...]

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Bytes and Blogs II

Notes from the blogosphere New Denier1 Memes One Dead Meme (we hope) More ‘Global Cooling’ debunked (and quantifying crackpots) Confusing the Global Warming Signal New Denier Memes 1)  “We prevented the next ice age” The Way Things Break barely got the prediction posted and the meme was already taking off.  This one springs from a new [...]

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Mind prisons and prisms: CO2 lag and Global Warming

Mind prisons and prisms are ways of thinking, the mental models that we use to understand the world. They determine what we think of information by shaping how we think about it. Mind Prisons are suffocating models that blind us, confining us to a single, often inaccurate perception of reality. A Mind Prison prevents us [...]

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Bytes and Blogs I

Just a short note to share a few of the days finds. Johnny Rook over a Climaticide Chronicles has what he aptly called “Stunning Photos of Retreating Glaciers.” “Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born” W.B. Yeats Easter 1916 Lord knows how I missed this one “The narrow temperature window that gave us modern [...]

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“Global Cooling” myth gets fried

The climate change / global warming Denier “Global Cooling” myth just get’s more and more obviously ridiculous every day. Just a week ago I blogged about the recent Denier spam fest about media reports of local cold snaps.  Several of the points I made then have gotten more empirical support since, so this is a [...]

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Global Warming – Did You Know?

Good, fast paced visually exciting video with lots of information about the livestock industry’s impact on climate change. At under four minutes this is high impact education that you can share in a lot of places. It is produced by MEATtheFACTS.org and you should link to them if you are going to direct people. for [...]

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David Bellamy: victim! but of who?

Botanist and environmentalist David Bellamy was a relatively successful broadcaster until 1994 when his broadcasting career tanked.  More recently he has been a climate change / global warming Denier who got some attention when some sloppy writing on his part led to a major new Denier myth. Now we learn that Bellamy is the new [...]

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The $500,000 Climate Carny Scam

The Ultimate Global Warming Challenge! “$500,000 will be awarded to the first person to prove, in a scientific manner, that humans are causing harmful global warming.” That’s the challenge on Steven Milloy’s junkscience website. An easy $500,000 for someone, right? So why no takers? The name Steven Milloy should be familiar as the former tobacco [...]

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Drinking the iced Kool-aid

According to recent posts in the Denialosphere1 the Arctic ice is well on it’s way to a full recovery. Here are a few examples, Anthony Watts Arctic sea ice continues rebound, Another Global Warming Hoax Deconstructed “a gigantic 30 per cent increase in Arctic sea ice coverage”,74 Years Since Oct Snowfalls – Deprogramming Global Warming “the [...]

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Evolution / Global Warming Deniers just don’t get it

Evolution is a hoax I tell you!
Evolution is a hoax I tell you!

All too often we are “treated” to yet another story about some ‘study’ that has definitively refuted Evolution or Anthropogenic Climate Change. Generally the mere claim tells you with 99.99% certainty that the ‘study’ is wrong or grossly misrepresented.

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Global Warming is Over … Again

That’s right! The Denialosphere is all a twitter again as parts of the earth have been experiencing some record cold from London to Florida. Climate change is over! as long as you are willing to ignore reality in at least four ways. So certain are they of this absurdity that Marc Morano was apparently willing [...]

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