The Curious Incident of the Denier in the Night-time

BPSDBGiven the rather bizarre nature of the ongoing Plimer vs Monbiot debate saga I have been curious about how the climate change Deniers have viewed it. Monbiot describes the lack of response from Plimer as “Answers Come There None.” As it happens “silence” is the best description for the typical climate change Denier response to [...]

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An empty head for The Spectator

BPSDB Since posting “Spectator cancels Monbiot vs Plimer debate” I have encountered Fraser Nelson’s (The Spectator‘s new editor) disingenuous and utterly dishonest post “An empty chair for Monbiot.” His attempt to take Monbiot to task for being true to his word and the conditions set for the debate is such a brain dead, duplicitous outrage that [...]

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Spectator cancels Monbiot vs Plimer debate

BPSDBWhile organizing Monbiot vs Plimer debate (full background here) The Spectator put Monbiot in an impossible position which forced the cancellation of the event. They clearly knew more about Plimer’s intentions than they were telling. The only real question is whether they colluded with Plimer in doing this, as some evidence suggests, or if it [...]

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The insufferable immaturity of Ian Plimer

BPSDBAs part of analysing the Plimer Monbiot debate I thought it would be useful to critically examine Plimer’s final communication with Monbiot. As Plimer’s letter is rather lengthy I am posting this as a separate piece. Having set this debate in motion Plimer is caught and is  seeking a way out, but we’ll let Plimer [...]

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Outpouring of Denialists Rejecting DenialDepot Denial Elitism!

BPSDB Flashback: Climate Denial Revolt: World’s Largest Blog Science Group ‘Startled’ By  Clamor for Editor to Be Removed! Denialists seek to remove denial elitist promoting editor and ‘trade him to New York Times or Washington Post’ [Update Sept 15, 2009: Denialist Accuses DenialDepot Editor of 'censoring of articles and letters' that reject man-made global warming [...]

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Climate change Deniers are NOT from Mars

BPSDBIf  Climate change Deniers actually were from Mars they would know better than to claim that warming on Mars or any other planets was evidence that solar variability had anything to do with climate change on Earth. Given that warming has been detected on only 6 out of the over 100 bodies in the solar [...]

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DenialDepot challenges Poe’s Law

BPSDB Poe’s Law states: “ Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.” Poe’s Law makes the clear point that it is hard to tell parodies of fundamentalism from the real thing, since they both seem [...]

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“Global warming stopped in 1998″ Revisited, and Plimergate

BPSDB “1998 Revisited” “Even some of our most distinguished journalists …” In the latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week Sinclair has once again debunked the ‘Climate change ended in 1998′  aka ‘it’s been cooling for a decade’ etc climate change Denier meme. If you missed his earlier one Party like it’s 1998 here it [...]

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The Assault on Science: I. Climate, evolution, and the EPA “Scopes” trial

BPSDB Do some areas of science matter more? Should we ignore some of the attacks on science and focus on others? Can evolution be wrong and geology right? or astronomy wrong and climate science right? Does the US Chamber of Commerce attack on climate science matter more than the assault on evolution? No, because these [...]

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Climate change denial in context

BPSDBA number of folks have had a look at the more recent Yale Project on Climate Change “Six America’s” study, the breakdown on public perceptions of climate change science. While I am not quite ready to start discussing this, I think it is important that we remember the broader context within which we operate. For [...]

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Global Warming and the sun, JAQing off with NRO’s Jonah Goldberg

BPSDBClimate change Denier writers and journalists like Jonah Goldberg have a very difficult challenge. How to report a story such that you can end with a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the obvious truth? Often they don’t have the luxury of too much outright lying such as much of the Denialosphere practices, at [...]

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Pro-Con | Is global warming a real threat to the planet? – Kansas City Star

BPSDB Climate Despot has targeted Rudy Baum, so how about showing him a little love? Baum is the editor of Chemical & Engineering News, the publication of the American Chemical Society. About a month ago I reported on the tempest in a teapot that got raised because Baum had the gall to talk rationally about [...]

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Plimer to Monbiot, what was the question again?

BPSDB Is the climate change Denialosphere running some sort of “Incoherence Contest” that the rest of us are unaware of? Granted Deniers are never a source for much in the way of rational thought, but how to understand the flood of gibberish and convoluted bafflegab that we are experiencing today? Just a quick update on [...]

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Deniers denying denial, the EPA Scopes trial on trial

BPSDB Der Prozess Next in the docket for being criminally bewildered, the climate change Deniers at the US Chamber of Commerce (hearafter CoC). We have some updates from the blogosphere, and a jaw dropping attempt at revisionist damage control by the CoC to consider. A few days ago I reported how the US Chamber was [...]

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Watts to do if you’re not Mann enough?

BPSDBPerhaps I give climate change Denier Anthony Watts too little credit for craft and and deceit. His clumsy handling of the Sinclair video incident suggests definite ineptitude, yet I detect a certain cunning in how he  handles topics on his web site. He certainly seems to be an avid student of Sir Humphrey Appleby of [...]

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Godwin, itlerhay, and other icons

BPSDBIf the only image we can hope to evoke by using certain references is that of the most cartoonish caricature of iconic figures, then we lose an important element of our ability to learn from history. Is is there any point to even trying? or should such analogies and references simply be avoided because they [...]

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