The Denialist’s barrel has no bottom

BPSDBA few days ago Tim Lambert at Deltoid discussed Christopher Booker‘s latest contribution to climate ignorance as “Denialists scraping the bottom of the barrel”; little did he know.   The Telegraph continues it’s war on reality, intelligence and science with “Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist.” The piece is a farce and easily [...]

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Death by fire and ice

One of the climate change Denier claims that keeps resurfacing is that more people die from cold than from heat, therefore warming is a good thing. I am not sure who started this one, but there is little question Bjorn Lomborg popularized it (and here). Recently this meme is turning up again thanks to a [...]

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Climate change ignorance caused by humans!

BPSDB Climate change ignorance caused by humans This weeks stupidity harvest Some Useful Tools Old memes, new life . . Climate change ignorance caused by humans It has been confirmed, climate change ignorance is caused by humans! The belief that it could be due to natural causes probably applies to only 10-15% of the population. [...]

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Hey Weatherman – where’s the beef?

BPSDBThe Business and Media Institute reports that “CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory ‘Arrogant’, and of course the freepers and other Denier wingnuts are off! As one would expect Chad Myers’s statements are devoid of any factual basis, consisting of the usual moronic “aw shucks” barroom tales spiced with a few irrelevant factoids. This nonsense [...]

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WMDs: The Poisoned Post

BPSDBIn their war on science Deniers rely heavily on Weapons of Mass Deception. One such weapon is the “Poisoned Post”. To understand how this weapon works it is necessary to have the 30 second understanding of news sharing sites. News sharing sites are places that you can submit a link to a site with a [...]

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Ice and Inhofe’s List – both melting fast

BPSDB Good news Denier Watch Arctic melt Senator Ko-Ko Good News’ ‘gas 2.0′ announced “America’s Love Affair With Cars is Ending” which is a short description of a new report out of the Brookings Institute “The Road…Less Traveled: An Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled Trends in the U.S.” According to ‘gas 2.0′ the report states [...]

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Climate News: Crude and Screwed

Crude Hopping down the Bunny Trail Screwed Christmas shopping Crude The Way Things Break has posted Crude – The Incredible Journey of Oil which  turned out to be much better than I anticipated.  Good, accessible presentation of the carbon cycle, geological history, anoxic oceans, and the last 30 min are quite heavy hitting on climate change.  [...]

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Inhofe’s “Mauvais Blague”

BPSDB The Inhofe files More corpses Changing Planet It takes a cyber-village The Inhofe Files (in this instance “files” being an anagram of “F’ Lies”) Beau Geste is a classic story about French Foreign Legionnaires who successfully defend a fort by propping corpses and dummies up in the parapets to make the enemy believe the [...]

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Climate change and your lying eyes

BPSDB Your lying eyes Climate change performance index Climate Safety: In case of emergency… Your lying eyes Let’s begin with a simple visual presentation using graphs of where we are with respect to climate change: Global Temperature

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I am Ngudima Madriguru, Climate Minister of …

BPSDBI am Ngudima Madriguru, Climate Minister of my country. On behalf of my  family (the Abacha’s), my country and the Free World  I would like to seek your advice and help. I have data that proves human caused climate change is a hoax, but UN thugs intent on world domination are keeping me from sharing [...]

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Fooled ‘em once, trying twice … who’s the fool?

BPSDBAs promised yesterday James Inhofe released his list of  ‘650 climate skeptics‘ this morning, and it caused far less of a furor than the promise of it did. Small wonder, even for Inhofe it is pretty pathetic. In fairness this is done in Inhofe’s name, but undoubtely most of the work is actually that of [...]

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Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin: Verse 1

מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין Verse 1: The Denier Scientists BPSDB“you have been weighed (counted) on the scales and found wanting” In a recent attempt to mock this site a Denier blog  stated: “My favorite part is when he links to a Wikipedia page in an attempt to convince us that there are only a “few [...]

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Clutching at Straws

BPSDB Clutching/grasping at Straws: 1. to try any method, even those that are not likely to succeed, because you are in such a bad situation. He’s hoping that this new treatment will help him but I think he’s clutching at straws. (usually in continuous tenses) 2. to try to find reasons to feel hopeful about [...]

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Vox Populi: Blogs I

Personally I do not find many blogrolls and link lists are as helpful as I think they are intended to be. In most cases they have too many links with no indication of how to distinguish them. Moreover, they almost inevitably reward “Aaron’s Aardvark” Blog by being alphabetical. And of course now I am falling [...]

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They’ll bet your life, but not their money!

BPSDBWhen it comes to climate change the stakes for humanity are high in the extreme, so you might think the people advising a laissez faire approach (aka Deniers) to the problem would want to be absolutely certain of their facts. Something they would be willing to bet their money on for example. Not phony challenges [...]

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“I did not have sex with that red herring”

BPSDBThe last post looked at the presentation of the 2008 temperature records as “coolest in a decade” and sea levels as “shrinking” as truth being reported in such a way as to lead to false conclusions. Let’s continue with the “William Jefferson Clinton” Climate Denial Series, ie telling the truth in such a disingenuous and [...]

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2008 will probably be 10th Hottest year on record

BPSDB New and improved old memes New debunkings Arctic Update New and improved old memes 2008 will probably be 10th Hottest year since 1880. Of course that is not how the Guardian reported it, they said “2008 will be coolest year of the decade“, but in this case those are the same thing. Already the [...]

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Global Warming is over! once every decade or so …

It’s true, just like the Deniers say, Global Warming is over … again, and again, and again. Not as often as they claim it is, but pretty often! As any fool can see climate change ended at least 15 times in the last 150 years, even before it started. I just don’t understand why the [...]

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Each one teach one

BPSDB . This blogs for you What do you want to see? It’s a tool Be a part of it This blogs for you Well, yes and no. In trying to address the huge amount of misinformation being spread by the Deniers I kept a collection of links, then created a small wiki, and then [...]

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The scope and scale of climate science

BPSDB . Time and again climate Deniers parade how little they understand climate science when they claim that some “new study has proven climate change theory is wrong”.  Two reasons for this, both relating to the scale and scope of climate science. The Deniers seem to think that climate science is a three legged stool, [...]

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