CRUde hack, meme and the “smoking” gun

BPSDB “While the administrative effort imposed by these legal moves can be burdensome, there was a much more sinister tactic available to the tobacco industry – baseless accusations of scientific fraud made against individual researchers.“ Tobacco, part 4: subpoenas and legal chill . The meme Whistleblower The Code Official inquiries Ironic and illustrative Harassment & intimidation [...]

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Climate Change — isn’t it natural?

Climate Change — isn’t it natural? BPSDB Potholer54 is back with a good one (he exposes Bob Carter for openers … what’s not to love?). Here he takes out several Denier Fables, including the “it’s not CO2″ and “it’s just the Sun.” While Crock of the Week takes on the related issue of water vapour [...]

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CJF, climate change, food and equity

by Anna Keenan (CJF Hunger Strike, Day 21) BPSDB It’s been a little while since I’ve written – been very busy preparing for COP, moving houses in Copenhagen, and so on. But with all this ‘not eating’, it’s encouraged me to reflect on diets and their contribution to the climate problem. In truth, the indulgent [...]

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CRUde Hack, everybody loves a charade

BPSDB The view from the knowledgeable and informed the rational and sane the climate change Deniers In keeping up with the theft and release of the emails from the Climate Research Unit I have collected a number of posts that did not fit into any of themes I have planned, but which are of interest [...]

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How do you change the world?

BPSDB The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report We only have months, not years, to save civilisation from climate change

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CJF Hunger Strike, Day 20

Michael, Day 20 BPSDB Michael talks about various aspects of the Fast, such as the stages he has been experiencing the risks involved where the determination comes from (the “why”) Very useful if you are planning to fast for Copenhagen Dec 6th – 18th. If you don’t know about the Climate Justice Fast hunger strike [...]

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CRU hack, Paul Hudson … Time Lord!

Paul Hudon of BPSDB The BBC asks “What happened to global warming?” during the hottest decade in recorded history! What happened to global warming? The BBC should report climate change facts rather than political spin Hudson’s choice says: “I was forwarded the chain of e-mails on the 12th October.” Oh really? before 24 of them [...]

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CRU hack, science, crime and ethics

The story so far: BPSDB CRU research computer hacked, many emails copied, claims are made that they reveal broad scientific fraud; Emails released, much sound and fury told by idiots, claims seem to be all innuendo and speculation; More and more nothing as people search for something, anything of substance in the emails. “I’m going [...]

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CRU Hack, time to hit back … hard

BPSDB So Solid CRU – ride wid us The Frame Sun Tzu Habeas corpus The story so far: CRU research computer hacked, many emails copied, claims are made that they reveal broad scientific fraud; Emails released, much sound and fury told by idiots, claims seem to be all innuendo and speculation; More and more nothing [...]

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“Mike’s Nature trick … to hide the decline.”

BPSDB One of the supposedly most damning quotes from the CRU Hack “scandal” is: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” Phil Jones which the Deniers are citing as [...]

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Climate change Deniers hoax themselves … again.

BPSDB I’m going to go out on a short limb here, but frankly more and more it is sounding like the correct response to “Have you seen the emails?” is “Yeah, have you?“ I refer to the uproar about the hacked CRU site which I posted about a few hours ago. For all the Sturm [...]

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This is not good, the CRU computer hack

BPSDB Yup, looks like it was yet another Denier dirigible … sure looked big, but once again it turns out that it’s just full of air. See this post for the basic story, and Climate change Deniers hoax themselves …again for the analysis. ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists Evidently [...]

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Digg users hoaxed by Earthsuckers, again

BPSDB Digg.com is probably the largest social news sharing site on the web. As such it is an attractive target for the climate change Deniers to try and use it to reach a huge audience with their frauds. Their most recent success was the ‘Latif global cooling trend‘ hoax. For the most part the Denier [...]

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Political action I: how it actually works

BPSDB “The politicians won’t care.“ How often have we heard that with reference to some action we are taking? How often has it proved to be true? Why does anyone think that it matters? The problem isn’t the tools that we have available for political action don’t work. The problem is that generally we have [...]

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Hunger Strike Day 13, retrospectives and reflections

PSDB Climate Justice Fast hunger striker Anna Keenan takes some time to reflect about where she has been for her last three birthdays, aspects of the UNFCCC process, COP 14 in Poznan, Poland, 350.org, the rise in civil disobedience and climate camps, the future of the movement and where it needs to go at COP [...]

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Poptart’s 450 climate change Denier lies

BPSDB The other day I posted “450 more lies from the climate change Deniers” and the response has been interesting. This has given fodder for sharing some more examples and reasons why the list is total nonsense. By sampling approximately one third of the references from “450 320 299 286 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” [...]

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Deniers record high incoherence ratio increasing?

BPSDB The climate change Deniers make four attempts to refute the Meehl et al NCAR: Record high temperatures far outpace record lows study. Four tries, four epic FAILS! In reporting on the study which showed that “…daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United [...]

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450 more lies from the climate change Deniers

BPSDB A week ago this “450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming” appeared and I figured it was just a matter of days before it started making the rounds of the climate change Denialosphere.  Sure enough it has turned up at Wattsupmybutt so I guess it’s time to state the obvious, that it’s [...]

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Only 0.45% of Physicists sign Denier Petition

BPSDB Despite seven months of intense effort to recruit physicists to sign a politically motivated petition disputing anthropogenic climate change, a mere, 0.45% of the American Physical Society‘s 47,000 members signed on. It’s a humiliating defeat for the climate change Deniers who make such false claims as ”many scientists dispute’ and ‘there is no consensus. [...]

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Have you stopped debating your climate science?

BPSDB Of course most people will recognize this phony argument  (logical fallacy) in it’s more popular form “have you stopped beating your wife?“ In this verbal trap, if you answer ‘Yes‘ you are admitting to having beaten your wife before, and if you answer ‘No‘ you are admitting that you still beat her. The climate [...]

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