Pausing for fun in DenierLand

XKCD always! BPSDB hat tip to MindofDan (how many climate change Deniers will actually get it?) Rabett Runs Eli has a totally fun flow chart in Rejection is fungable

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“Hide the decline” … in Denier intelligence

OK, make that “Highlight the decline” BPSDB Almost a year and a half after the CRUde Hack incident (“Climategate” to Fox News fans) the scientifically illiterate (aka climate change Deniers) are still obsessing on, and lying about this incident. I suppose that is what you do when you have no facts and don’t understand the [...]

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Are you disrespectin my family?

Does this face look bovvered? BPSDB Sometimes it takes a cartoon character to help understand a cartoon. Recently I was introduced to the comic character Lauren Cooper,  a fictitious character created and performed by British comedic actress Catherine Tate. While I enjoyed the comedy I was also struck by how much Lauren’s conflict dynamic mimicked [...]

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Richard Muller is a well bad tosser

BPSDB Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools. Let me begin by saying I have enormous respect for William M. Connolley (aka Stoat) and generally do not significantly disagree with him. However, in his Apr 5th piece “Muller [...]

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Happy Eaarth Day?

BPSDB (hat tip to Quark Soup and Climate Progress) Maybe you celebrated Earth Day, maybe you ignored it. Maybe you share the cynicism that has been becoming overt on more than a few environmental sites, or at least noticed it. For the international celebration of a cause that we are working for, articles like (just [...]

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Adapting to Climate Change Now

BPSDB Mark Hertsgaard and James Hansen hat tip to Growth is not sustainable Future Climate Change with Dr Richard Alley, always worth hearing and this is pretty cool too; consider it within the context of the two preceding talks.

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Judith Curry’s disingenuous blame game

BPSDB Judith Curry’s latest post Polyclimate is actually about an interesting and important topic that deserves real discussion, but that is apparently not the real purpose of her post, and as a consequence not of this one either. The topic in question is the clear, effective communication of climate change science, and I just want [...]

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Climate change denial, between a Koch and a hard place

BPSDB I admit it, I have underestimated the virulence of the climate change Deniers. I had thought that they were merely  politically motivated, close minded, frightened people egged on by a corporate driven profit agenda. Increasingly I am convinced (by them) that we are dealing with a hysteric, desperate, terrified mob driven by ideologues. My [...]

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There is grandeur in this view of life

BPSDB As we hurtle into the catastrophe of the sixth great mass extinction that defines the Anthropocene, it is interesting to note just how recently we only just began to understand that which we are now annihilating, and why it is so important to preserve it. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with [...]

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Poptart gets burned again, 900 times

BPSDB  . Just over a year ago I did two posts documenting at length that uber climate change Denier PopTech’s (aka PopTart) list of “skeptic” science was blithering nonsense of the worst kind: . Poptart’s 450 climate change Denier lies 450 more lies from the climate change Deniers Those who have any experience with PopTech [...]

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A Fierce Greenfyre ;-)

BPSDB  This trailer for a new documentary that is still in production popped up five days ago and it looks interesting. Clips from the interviews have been being posted every day since (selection below). See what you think. Oooh, they just added Elizabeth Kolbert and Barbara Bramble (The Birth of the Rainforest Action Network) (and [...]

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Love, blood and rhetoric

BPSDB In the dim mists of time hundreds of us were gathered by a foundation to discuss how we were going to move from our then state of impending environmental crisis to a sustainable society. Demographically we were a sampling of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business people, NGO staffers, and community organizers. We talked and worked [...]

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“Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth”

BPSDB Mark Hertsgaard (author of  On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency) is interviewed by Democracy Now about his new book “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” Some worthwhile points that he makes: It’s a crime Our inaction on climate change is a crime. It is and should be treated as [...]

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Koch blocking the Tea Party

BPSDB . Head . Heart . Hands . . If by any remote chance you have not heard of them, Koch Industries is a major funder of many right wing agendas including climate change Denial (The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science) and a core driver of the Tea Party movement. Of course it is unlikely that you [...]

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Plutotocracy Rising, be very, very pi$$ed off

BPSDB  “…we manipulate the medium … that’s how you control the online dialogue.” American Majority trainer This clip exposes one of the many tactics that the right wing is using to control the information that the public gets, the information that you get. This is how The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science is operationalizing the corporate agenda, [...]

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The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science

BPSDB Last week John Mashey did an excellent talk on “The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science” at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. John is an incurable geek (my highest praise) who has been a tireless bulldog in going after the power networks that support the professional world of climate change denial (and just a really [...]

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Because they got that way

BPSDB I feel a little awkward in that M’s comment on the post “Sciencey Spice Etc” is such a perfect set up for the post I was intending to write regardless that even I am a bit suspicious about it’s authenticity (it is a real comment nonetheless). In a nutshell, the comment reveals a naive [...]

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One of us …. a total nerd!

I have to out myself now as a Daniel Radcliffe fan. Having never seen a Harry Potter movie I had no idea until yesterday, but then I happened upon a youtube clip of an interview he did on a British talk show. In this interview Radcliffe opted to sing a Tom Lehrer song. Lehrer was [...]

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Sciencey Spice Etc

BPSDB Guest post by Martha Martha has been a frequent participant in discussions on Judith Curry‘s blog and shares with us some thoughts and observations. It seems like only yesterday that American scientist Judith Curry announced her arrival on the blogosphere. She has created a blog based on the idea that climate change deniers are [...]

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Path of Resistance, because to feel something is to be alive

Simple people,people who don’t exist,prefer things which don’t exist,simple things. e.e. cummings; six nonlectures Al Gore had a few minor errors of no particular consequence in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth“, but his book “The Assault on Reason” was wildly wrong in at least two important respects: i) The internet has proven to be a [...]

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