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Category Archives: Global Warming Denial Machine
“Like dentists practicing cardiology” – Climate scientists respond to Wall Street Journal disinformer op-ed. When you’re talking about planetary life suppport, it really matters what your credentials are.
In a letter to the WSJ, 38 climate science experts call down Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper for publishing an op-ed ("No Need to Panic About Global Warming") "by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields," … Continue reading
Stephen Schneider: Science and Distortion
This short film by San Francisco filmmaker Stephen Thomson pays tribute to our dear friend, the eminent climate scientist Stephen Schneider (1945-2010). Thank you to Peter Sinclair at the excellent Climate Denial Crock of the Week for calling this to our … Continue reading
“Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America”
Shawn Lawrence Otto’s Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America is a fascinating look at the status of science in American society. Otto’s explanation of the climate change denial machine provides a compelling narrative that places the … Continue reading
On finding one's email in the hacked climate science email files
A search of the files of climate science emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia finds Climate Science Watch working with scientists to set the record straight in pushing back on the denial machine.
Texas state officials give a preview of climate science censorship to expect under a Perry administration
Shades of Phil Cooney. High-level state officials under Texas Governor Rick Perry have censored a chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program, to remove discussion of climate change and sea level … Continue reading
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MacCracken v. Happer: The Real Truth about Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
Michael MacCracken In “The Real Truth about Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Paragraph-by-Paragraph Comments on an Article by Dr. William Happer,” Dr. Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs at the Climate Institute in Washington, DC, takes on the … Continue reading
Talking about the Texas disasters -- climate and political
“The whole state of Texas is under some kind of weather-related disaster declaration,” we said in a Los Angeles radio interview yesterday. “But part of that disaster declaration ought to include Governor Perry. He’s a disaster.” A year of record-breaking … Continue reading
"The Inquisition of Climate Science" takes down the denialists
In The Inquisition of Climate Science, James Lawrence Powell clearly outlines the climate denial movement that has “duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science.” His thorough and enlightening text is useful both as a tool … Continue reading
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Dangerously Unprepared: Congressional Budget Cuts are Leaving Americans Vulnerable to Climate Extremes
In 2011, the U.S. has been hammered by climate extremes, with economic damages by mid-June approaching a record $32 billion. Yet determined Congressional opponents of federal climate change efforts are doggedly impeding Federal activities to inform and engage the public … Continue reading
Did Murdoch’s News Corp hack the East Anglia CRU climate scientist e-mails?
Climatic Research Unit building, University of East Anglia Climate Science Watch supports the call for an independent investigation into the stolen climate scientist e-mails at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. As Joe Romm at Climate Progress wrote on … Continue reading
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