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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Climate Change: the bigger the lie

BPSDB FABIAN:  If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. SIR TOBY BELCH : His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man. Twelfth Night Act III, Scene 4 . It is a perverse fact that often the sheer idiocy of many of the climate [...]

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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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Climate Justice Fast, ripples and waves

A drop of water blood BPSDB Mother Are you crying? Forgive us our sins For we know not what we have done Forgive me So I can give the last drop to my brother Horizontal Because he is your son And I am not your daughter. Maybe I forgot Your daughters feed the world. They [...]

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Climate Justice Fast is to be … indefinite

BPSDB This morning two amazing women, Anna Keenan and Sara Svensson, gave a press conference in Barcelona about the Climate Justice Fast. Nothing I might say could compare to their words and actions. I can’t embed the webcast, so please click the link below and hear why they are putting their health and lives on [...]

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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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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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“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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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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Talkin’ bout a revolution

BPSDB Today is the mass civil disobedience coinciding with Powershift’09 in Washington DC. (live coverage at Capital Climate Action and Greenpeace). The nonviolent resistance and the reasons for it, from the political “Climate Code Red“  to the personal  “See you in jail: It’s not symbolism when you live in D.C.”, Why civil disobedience may be [...]

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Climate News: Crude and Screwed

Crude Hopping down the Bunny Trail Screwed Christmas shopping Crude The Way Things Break has posted Crude – The Incredible Journey of Oil which  turned out to be much better than I anticipated.  Good, accessible presentation of the carbon cycle, geological history, anoxic oceans, and the last 30 min are quite heavy hitting on climate change.  [...]

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Clutching at Straws

BPSDB Clutching/grasping at Straws: 1. to try any method, even those that are not likely to succeed, because you are in such a bad situation. He’s hoping that this new treatment will help him but I think he’s clutching at straws. (usually in continuous tenses) 2. to try to find reasons to feel hopeful about [...]

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