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Category Archives: Global Warming Denial Machine
"4 Pinocchios" for Rep. Chris Stewart's dishonest statement about climate science experts
The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog awarded "Four Pinocchios" to Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), chair of the House Science Subcommittee on Environment, for a "whopper" of dishonesty: cherry-picking one survey in an attempt to misrepresent the overwhelming view of the … Continue reading
Tired, disproven argument on “benefits” of CO2 resurfaces in Wall Street Journal
Carbon dioxide concentrations are approaching 400 parts per million, higher than any found in at least 800,000 years. To commemorate the occasion, a Wall Street Journal op-ed has revived an old, repeatedly debunked argument about the benefits of CO2. Authors Harrison Schmitt and … Continue reading
The connection between climate change denial books and right-wing think tanks
Books denying human-caused climate change and its significance are one key means of creating an aura of credibility around manufactured uncertainty and attacks on climate science and scientists. New research published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist finds a strong … Continue reading
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German public television story on German corporate support for the denial machine
A story on ZDF, the German national public television channel, talked about two German companies that contribute money to global warming denialists in U.S. politics. I told ZDF that a number of U.S. corporations try to have it both ways … Continue reading
"Greedy Lying Bastards" opens in theaters nationwide
"Greedy Lying Bastards," a new documentary film about global climate disruption and the global warming denial machine, opened in theaters in 29 cities nationwide on March 8. In addition to dramatic footage of extreme events, the film has a large … Continue reading
James Taylor misinterprets study by 180 degrees
In a Forbes op-ed, James Taylor takes a study that prominently reveals the anti-science influence of oil and gas companies, and spins it to suggest that serious, substantive disagreement exists among relevant scientists on climate change. This could not be … Continue reading
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Michael Mann on “Ken Cuccinelli’s Cloudy Judgment”
“Virginians deserve a governor who can take a sober look at scientific findings and recognize the threat to his own state,” writes Prof. Michael Mann, Penn State climate scientist and author of Dire Predictions and The Hockey Stick and the Climate … Continue reading
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James Taylor's deceptive attempt to discredit National Climate Assessment experts
In a new Forbes op-ed, James Taylor denigrates the validity of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) on the grounds that seven of its directors have past connections to groups he considers to be biased. His accusations are thoroughly misleading and … Continue reading
New National Climate Assessment draft report a reminder of the first NCA and the Bush White House denial machine
The new draft U.S. National Climate Assessment report is a threat to the global warming denial machine because it takes projected global warming seriously and focuses on the implications of climatic disruption, region by region and across socioeconomic and natural … Continue reading
Scientists respond to the Wall Street Journal's latest junk-science climate predictions
The Wall Street Journal has published yet another Op-ed distorting climate science and twisting the latest evidence to reach conclusions flatly opposite the state of knowledge: the Earth is on track to see dangerously high temperature increases with damaging impacts.
