Hydropolitics: climate change and the Afghan War

BPSDB Like all tragedies, the most terrible thing about the Afghan War is the utter futility of the suffering. Our determination to do nothing meaningful about anthropogenic climate change means that none of the sacrifices by any of those involved in Afghanistan are going to accomplish anything, not unless we honour those sacrifices by doing [...]

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Climate Deniers demand Stalinist style political show trial

BPSDBOthers are comparing this story to the famous Tennessee Scopes trial on the teaching of evolution. There are very good reasons to suggest that it has far more in common with the Soviet show trials of dissident scientists. The bare bones of the story is that the U.S Chamber of Commerce (hereafter CoC) would like [...]

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Why real skeptics detest global warming Deniers

BPSDBTo some that might seem to be self-loathing, but contrary to the climate change Denier claims, the fact is that real skeptics are not climate change deniers, and vice versa. In this post I hope to convince you of that, then discuss the perspective real skeptics have on climate change science, and finally issue a [...]

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Bulls are but inflated frogs

BPSDB The Plimer / Monbiot debate saga continues.  In brief, climate change Denier Ian Plimer challenged prominent (climate) journalist George Monbiot to a debate. Monbiot accepted but with the condition of the submission of written questions prior to the debate. Monbiot submitted a rational and reasonable set of questions directly related to Plimer’s book. Plimer [...]

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Climate Deniers, both wrong and …

BPSDBGrab the popcorn, it’s another videos blog Denial was a River in Africa I am so glad to see that Sinclair’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week series has taken on the climate change Denier attempt to co-opt the poor and marginalized, particularly from the Developing World. I have blogged on this before and most certainly [...]

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Where there’s smoke, the climate change Denial lobby

BPSDB“ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Director of Strategy & Policy. “A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just [...]

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Zen and the art of planetary maintenance

BPSDB When I was first exposed to real Zen practice I was initially struck, and eventually awed at the deep ecological wisdom that is central to life within a Zen monastic community. Not merely taught, but lived. The supposedly simple act of taking a meal is done in a way that grounds the practitioner in [...]

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Climate change Debate Wars

BPSDB .Last week Ian Plimer seemed to be just another climate change Denier who apparently wouldn’t know real science if it chewed his leg off. Now with the evolving debate with Monbiot it seems to me that there are three major aspects to the Plimer story, which like all good stories is really about meta-stories [...]

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Climate Denier meme watch and other gossip

BPSDB . Meme watch Inhofe APS, ACS & AGU PETM McLean, de Freitas and Carter . It’s all just the sun cosmic rays orbit A new paper in Science, Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II has already become “Wobbling Earth Triggers Climate Change“. No doubt it is an interesting contribution to our understanding [...]

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Monbiot is wrong about Plimer’s questions

BPSDB Update: Here There has been a development of sorts in the “debate” between  George Monbiot and Ian Plimer (climate change / global warming Denier de jour), which is to say Plimer has sent Monbiot a series of questions for Monbiot to answer. In response to Monbiot’s Queen pawn opening Plimer has answered “I like [...]

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Hurry home early, hurry on home, “Boom boom” Monbiot’s fighting …

BPSDB Let battle commence! Climate change denialist ready for the fight From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini A lightweight contender, like father like son He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas And he put him away in round number one So hurry home early hurry on home Boom Boom Mancini’s fighting Bobby [...]

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It’s not just the evolution denying Creationists!

BPSDB Over at Pharyngula Meyers has been discussing The dilemma of the anti-creationist, loosely the question of how does one apply the recommended strategies for engaging ones opponents effectively when they’re all crazy? The context for what Meyer has to say is the grid below. ” … it is a bad idea for critics to [...]

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Jamming with reality

BPSDB Ain’t no rules, ain’t no vow, we can do it anyhow I and I will see you through, ‘Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice Jamming till the jam is through. Bob Marley. Jamming. “Culture jamming: is a tactic in which an activist attempts to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural [...]

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Vancouver Sun Climate Denier opts for the “George Will Defense”

BPSDBThe “George Will Defense” is, having been caught in a series of flagrantly ridiculous lies, tell some more in an attempt to justify them.  It seems that Manthrope’s uncritical idolizing of Ian Plimer’s climate change Denial discussed in Vancouver Sun: Perpetual Motion Works, Earth is Flat! has upset some of the Vancouver Sun‘s readers. So [...]

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Vancouver Sun: Perpetual Motion Works, Earth is Flat!

BPSDB The headline may as well have read like that since the actual one was just as idiotic; “Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites.” The article in question is allegedly reporting on the “science” of Ian Plimer, “an unremitting critic of “anthropogenic global warming”.” The article by Jonathan Manthorpe is [...]

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kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. Friedrich von Schiller, (Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.) BPSDB Apparently “ …60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming…”, at least according to Climate Despot and the Heartland Institute, so I was pretty sure that it was a load of [...]

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Climate change Blogs and Bytes VII

Creepy at the EPA BPSDB The latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week is up with Sinclair taking on the EPA censorship hoax, discussed in detail in Carlin Lives! Funnier than ever Added to: Climate Denial Crock of the Week and Carlin Lives! Funnier than ever APS to blame humans, not God, for climate change [...]

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APS to blame humans, not God, for climate change

BPSDB In “Outpouring of Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears!” I discussed how the climate change Deniers spin the ignorance of a few cranks into fantasies of wide spread skepticism, censorship, and a demand for an institutional review. The “there’s a storm of protest, we need a review” tactic is naturally not limited to the American [...]

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Climate change Denier conspiracy theories explained

BPSDB I blame Bad Astronomy for this one, which is odd because for this sort of thing Frankbi is the usual culprit. Phil Plait is right though, this is too good not to share with a community plagued by the conspiracy nuts. Needless to say, just as with Climate Denier Crackpot Index and Denier Conspiracy [...]

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“Outpouring of Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears!”

Or so the headline at Climate Despot claimed. BPSDB Dog bites Man Win-win for the Goebbels wannabes . The headline is referring to a non-story about some letters of protest that Chemical & Engineering News, the publication of the American Chemical Society, received regarding the June 22nd editorial “Climate-Change News“. The editorial in question is [...]

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