Deconstructing climate denial — #1. De cudgel
Forearmed is forewarned.Argumentum ad baculum (Latin for argument to the cudgel or appeal to the stick), also known as appeal to force, is an argument where force, coercion, or the threat of force, is...
View ArticleChina pings climate denial as extreme, Aussies agree
ABC - The Drum: Current Poll ResultsDo you agree with China's view that man-made climate change denial is an extreme stance and out of touch with mainstream thought?Yes73%No27%3000 votes countedThat's...
View ArticleHow climate denial really works
Desmogblog carries the results of Stanford study which shows how including a "skeptic" view to balance a climate science news report affects the audience.Providing climate skeptics a voice in...
View ArticleHow climate denial really works #2: 50% of news is spin
We learned in the first post that by just turning up in a media report, skeptical views gain enough credibility to influence audiences' views. But, how do they turn up in the first place?Crikey has...
View ArticleOur problem is climate change is not our problem
"... it is hard to make people value the long-term future as much as the immediate future."and other pearls of wisdom from the mind of Lord Rees of Ludlow, astrophysicist and Astronomer Royal, can be...
View ArticleLimber up for the pre-election backflip season
The Australian Labor Government may have abandoned the ETS field in the lead up the election. Ironically leaving Malcolm Turnbull as the only pro-CPRS player left, but on his way out. Not content with...
View ArticleEmissions down, interest up: Banking on a carbon neutral future
It's highly unlikely that the thing to bring me back out of my grumpy hiatus from blogging about climate change (after ex-PM Rudd stalled on the ETS), would be a press release. Particular one from a...
View ArticleAGW deniers' astroturfing campaign underway
First it was picked up in the MSM by Andrew Bolt, climate denial's Don Quixote.Why are schools promoting this deceitful film?220 CommentsAndrew BoltWednesday, October 27, 2010 at 11:46amThe film is...
View ArticleA professional climate denier replies
I have received a nice comment from Geoff Brown of the Climate Skeptic Party (TCS) astroturfing outfit in my comments section of my piece about their covert astroturfing campaign: Geoff Brown said...To...
View ArticleWikileaks, eat your heart out
I may soon have in my hands hot evidence that suggests The Climate Sceptic (TCS) party is not a political party, but a covert black-pr operation designed to influence the public into thinking there is...
View ArticleFox News journos directed to promote AGW denial
While News Corp proudly advertised three years ago that it would be carbon neutral by now, Fox News can't even serve up a neutral report on the state of climate science.Literally.They are not simply...
View ArticleIPCC attack: US house Republicans win day, risk epoch
US Republicans may have won the day in the recent house vote to cut all their funds to the UN IPCC, the planet's leading climate science synthesis body, but they risk losing the Holocene. For...
View ArticleHidden carbon price: We already pay $170 a tonne
Every since Gillard's unsurprising statement a week ago that there will be a carbon price set by the end of next financial year (in preparation for an ETS in a few years) there has been Federal mayhem....
View ArticleDumb, dumber, and dumbed right down
I doubt my challenge to Andrew Bolt Blog's winged monkeys will be published in the readers' comments section following another post about Tim Flannery's alleged failed climate change "predictions"....
View ArticleYour blog is a load of crap
I received this in my comments section of my last post.The Sciolist said...since you are running this awesome blog.....maybe you can just read what i have to say on global warming and tell me wat u...
View ArticleIce sheets melting faster than predicted
... causing a greater rate of sea-level rise:The pace at which the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting is "accelerating rapidly" and raising the global sea level, according to findings of a...
View ArticleLiberal's global warming history: fair weathered and fickle
Rod Tiffen is emeritus professor, government and international relations, at the University of Sydney.He catalogues the Australian Liberal party's shameful record on climate change and pens a...
View ArticleTony Abbott supports a carbon tax
It's hard to believe than Tony Abbott ever endorsed a carbon tax, even tacitly, given the ferocity of his sustained attack on Julia Gillard for announcing her government's intention to set a carbon...
View ArticleAndy Pitman mops up misinformation mess
The proposed Carbon Dioxide tax has caused big fossil fuel to put a lot of misinformation about carbon dioxide out into radio-land. Every shock-jock around the country is plugging denier talking...
View ArticleBeat the carbon tax before it gets here
Buy this book:The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook – How to save energy, save money and reduce your carbon footprintThe CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook is a practical guide designed to help...
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