Climate Change Denial

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Leaving the Carnival of Climate Change Denial to Join the Next Great Cause of …

In a previous blog, "Camping Out at the Carnival of Climate Denial," I discussed how we seem to have come to a strange place as a society on climate change, where scientists have been telling us for over a decade how serious the problem is, because the fact is, matt, they are not a cohesive loving group. that family was a carnival of dysfunctionality. most families in america are dysfunctional and have their problems. theirs was worse. all it took was a defense to show a little bit of...Read Full Story

The Earth Is Full, and I'm Too Hot (almost) to Care

By Mary Soderstrom on | From marysoderstrom.blogspot.com

Today it is hot, heading for the low 30s (the mid 80s F) with humidity that makes the temperatures much more uncomfortable. Last night it was cooler and about 2 a.m. I opened several windows, tryng to fill the place with a reserve of coolness. As I write, that reserve is exhausted and I fell like rag doll. This is the kind of weather which brings the reality of climate change to mind. Not that it is unusual for Montreal this time of year, but the prospect of lots more than "usual" has been...Read Full Story

No Longer Hot Stuff: Fireplaces and Urban Living

By Mary Soderstrom on | From marysoderstrom.blogspot.com

One of the interesting things about our temporary digs is the fireplace. The building was built in 2000, and it's clear from bits and pieces that we've come across (papers written for a class and stuck in the bookcase, for example) that the Brazilian who owns the apartment passed the winter of 1997-98 in Montreal. That was the year of the Ice Storm, when most of Montreal was without power for two weeks, and aftewards there was a big jump in the number of people who put in wood stoves and...Read Full Story

Taking a Lesson from Martin Luther: The Need for a Climate Change 'Narrative'

By Mary Soderstrom on | From marysoderstrom.blogspot.com

The New York Times blogger and environmental writer Andrew Revkin had an interesting piece yesterday about the need to create a coherent narrative framework for discussion of climate change. What he suggests is that the matter should be viewed "a challenge of generations, with today’s efforts focused on what’s feasible now, on rebuilding a culture of innovation in which energy matters and setting the stage for grander de-carbonization efforts down the line." He'll get no argument from me...Read Full Story

Global Warming Disproved!

By Joe Markowitz on | From hopeandchange.net

There is no need to study climate science for years to be an expert on global warming and get quoted in the papers. No need to waste your time doing research or conducting experiments. You just have to know what you're talking about, like Donald Trump, for example. Trump demonstrated at a recent speech at a golf club in Westchester that recent severe snowstorms have disproved the theory of global warming! The Nobel Committee should take back Al Gore's prize, says Trump. So how does Trump know...Read Full Story

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Wall Street Journal attacked over climate change denial

Climatologists question credentials of scientists who claimed in WSJ that global warming is no big deal First Post LAST UPDATED AT 15:51 ON Thu 2 Feb 2012 A GROUP of leading climate scientists has slapped down The Wall Street Journal for publishing an article which claimed that (a) global warming is used by governments to raise taxes and (b) climate change sceptics are like the Soviet scientists who were...

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The Wall Street Journal and Climate Change Denial

A January 27 op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal contains the usual drivel about climate change denial. Signed by 16 scientists, the op-ed piece claims that the number of “scientific heretics” continues to grow every year. A cursory glance at the exact field of the 16 scientists is very telling. Only a couple of [...]

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Why the energy industry is so invested in climate change denial | Bill McKibben

The world most's profitable companies are valued by their carbon reserves – never mind the resulting ruin to the planetIf we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet – as we shall see – it's unfortunately largely invisible to us.In compensation...

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A case study of the tactics of climate change denial, in which I am the...

Over the years I have pointed out the fallacious arguments of climate change deniers when they attack legitimate climatologists like James Hansen and Michael Mann. This is, of course, like kicking at a bee hive, and whenever I do the comments section of my posts fill with lots of angry buzzing. But now, for what [...]

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