Act III Scene 1: But but (from the Watts)

BPSDBPrologue: (the story so far) Peter Sinclair produced a video debunking the climate change Denier “surface station” fable. The main champion of that fable Anthony Watts filed a DMCA complaint and Youtube removed the video. Kevin Grandia and DeSmogBlog checked with the lawyers, reposted it, and many blogs and Monbiot at the Guardian spread the [...]

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Climate lying and fraud moves from science to politics

BPSDBOK, climate change denial has always been about politics, not science, but the climate change Deniers are expanding the scope of their lying and frauds. Now they are forging letters allegedly from groups representing marginalized populations in an attempt to prevent any meaningful action on climate change. The letters to members of the U.S. Congress [...]

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Guardian covers Anthony Watts’ hypocrisy

Monbiot: Climate change deniers claim they’re censored. What hypocrites BPSDBOne of the allegations made repeatedly by climate change deniers is that they are being censored. There’s just one problem with this claim: they have yet to produce a single valid example. Monbiot’s latest column is worth spreading far and wide for two reasons: to keep [...]

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Watts that? it’s quiet … too quiet…

BPSDB For those who were not aware of it, two days ago climate change Denier Anthony Watts filed a complaint causing the removal of from youtube of Peter Sinclair’s excellent video Whats up with Anthony Watts?. You can follow the developments from here if you wish. The video was reposted and an informal campaign to [...]

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Climate maniac Jim Prall, informative and dangerous

BPSDB The Great Climate “Skeptics” Swindle “ I also note where each author ranked in my overall listings [of climate research papers]. None of these four [skeptics] even made it into the top 200. Meanwhile the skeptics include three names with zero hits on “climate” and another two with just one match.” Jim Prall Actually [...]

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But, but (from the Watts)

BPSDB So what what’s up with watts? UPDATE: July 28th Watts update: “Watts Up With Watts?” video checked for copyright, reposted Climate Crock of the Week: What’s Up with Anthony Watts [take 2] “The video has since been reviewed by a number of US copyright experts and (big surprise) there appears to be nothing that [...]

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Climate change Bytes and Blogs V

Watts Up With Watts? Error! BPSDB Kevin Grandia recently profiled Peter Sinclair’s Climate Crock video “Watts up with Watts?” that I shared in Mixed Media; Kevin gave you a choice of Debunking Another Climate Change Crock: What’s Up with Anthony Watts? [video] or [flame war edition]. The Watts Up With That readers are an “emotional” [...]

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Is our whole dissembly appeared?*

BPSDB A discussion of the “Influence of the Southern Oscillation and tropospheric temperature on climate change Deniers and their delusions, bad science and general unethical behaviour”. Sigh. Yet another “New Study” that doesn’t say what the climate change Deniers claim it does. Or more curiously, the study “says” it, it just doesn’t have any evidence [...]

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Sun, Sun, Sun … here it comes – NOT

BPSDBLately we have been experiencing another rash of news from the “Dept of the Obvious Dept”, coupled with the other climate change Denier tactic of offering “New Improved Lipstick on a Dead Pig” (act now, operators are waiting!). “New! Improved!” Lipstick on a Dead Pig Dept of the Obvious Dept . Collected Resource Links Sunspot [...]

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Visualize World Climate

BPSDB The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for June, breaking the previous high mark set in 2005. NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 5-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies – 1880 to 2008

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Global Warming? why is it so freaking cold?

BPSDB June 2009 was the second warmest on record for June and the January-June year-to-date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record. (NCDC: Climate of 2009 – June Global Analysis). But it’s been cold and wet here, how is that possible? There are several layers to that question; the explicit question of how [...]

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Comments policy – the Sequel

Sigh. Like Coby and ScruffyDan (and probably every climate blogger at one point or another) I find that I have to rethink comments policy on this blog.  Not surprisingly the issue is the same as elsewhere, the proverbial “shouting match” over the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The “problem” is perfectly evident on these threads [...]

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“Mostly” Open Comment Thread

Please be advised: This thread is for most comments that are not relevant to a particular post on this site; IF your comment is an attempt to challenge the core science of anthropogenic climate change then it belongs on the “Challenging the Core Science” Comment Thread, NOT HERE. Violators will simply be deleted. Comments will [...]

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“Challenging the Core Science” Comment Thread

This thread is for comments that purport to challenge the core science of anthropogenic climate change (use the IPCC  The IPCC Assessment Reports as a baseline). Please be advised: Your comment will be ignored without mercy &/or have one of the following texts appended, or even substituted for it IF: It does not fully reference [...]

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New study, climate Deniers are “fundamentally wrong”

BPSDB The fraud fad ‘meme de jour’ in climate science Denier tabloid media this week is the hoary old chestnut: ‘New Study disproves/overturns/undermines global warming / climate change science/models/theory!“ . . Never mind that: they repeat this meme every few weeks with a completely different study; none of the Deniers seem to even remotely understand [...]

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Climate Change – Mixed Media

BPSDB . The Bill Watts Up With Watts? Very disappointing State of the science 2009 The Physics that we Know Climate Wars Global Warming Art Just for fun Dejas vu all over again . This 4 1/2 minute movie can seem a bit dry and pedantic at first, but trust me, you’re being set up. [...]

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Climate Deniers literally are “Flat Earthers”

BPSDB Yes, I know calling climate change Deniers “Flat Earthers1” is usually used as a epithet to describe those who brainlessly dismiss the obvious facts, such as in “Sir Nicholas Stern: Climate change deniers are ‘flat-earthers’.” However, what I mean is that the climate change Deniers literally are Flat Earthers; bear with me please. . [...]

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What if the Oregon Petition names were real?

BPSDB The infamous “Oregon Petition” is the source of the various climate change Denier claims that 17,000, 31,000, 60,000 etc scientists “have signed a petition that…” Peter Sinclair does a nice presentation telling the basic story of the Oregon Petition, so I leave it to him:

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Climate Denier Crock Catch Up

BPSDBSix more of the climate change Denier fables have been nicely debunked in Peter Sinclair’s excellent Climate Crock of the Week series. I cannot recommend these enough for popping into comment threads and forums where the various fables appear. Of particular value are “Party like it’s 1998” debunking the ‘clmate change ended in … ‘ [...]

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Carlin Lives! Funnier than ever

BPSDB . The climate change Denialosphere is all a twitter over their latest fraud. It seems Carlin co-authored an internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) climate change / global warming report with John Davidson that was suppressed and censored until the courageous Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blew the whistle on the EPA. . .OK, except it’s [...]

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