It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds

Debunking myths and falsehoods is not always as straight forward as it might seem. Thankfully John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky have produced a Debunking Handbook that is straight forward. [more]

Emails, regardless of what they might say, do not have the capability to overturn decades of climate science done by thousands of individual scientists. Only more scientific research has that capability. [more]

The scope of the science that goes behind a single headline is greater than almost anyone realizes. [more]

As the approval of Keystone XL pipeline stalls expect to hear the pro tar sand lobby use every trick they have to promote the dirty oil, including the argument that the tar sands somehow represent ethical oil. However the very notion than the oil from the tar sands is ethical is absurd and deeply hypocritical. [more]

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Going Down the Up Escalator: Created by dana1981 at Skeptical Science (here and here). Temperature data are noisy, it isn’t hard to find a few years where this noise drowns out the slow and steady warming signal. This is expected. Bottom line: this graph makes it abundantly clear that any claims of cooling are wrong.... [more]

Global greenhouse gas emissions saw their biggest single-year jump ever between 2009 and 2010, exceeding worst-case scenario projections with an increase of 564 million tons. A newspaper collected interesting person-on-the-street reactions. [more]

In between teaching classes, reviewing papers, attending committee meetings, and trying to take over the world, what is it that climate scientists actually do? Find out by checking out our new feature, the What's New in Science page, edited by "ThingsBreak". [more]

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This news is a little stale by now, but the big skunk-works project that has monopolized my time and prevented me from getting podcasts out has launched. Planet3.0 is a new attempt at sustainability journalism. An attempt to present the news that should be on the front page. An attempt to remove the sense of... [more]

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Recently particle physicists provided a crystal clear example of what real skepticism looks like, If only the self-described climate skeptics would employ something similar more often. [more]

I haven’t released a podcast in a long time and you, my loyal fans, deserve an explanation. And while I have a good explanation, I can’t really tell you about it. All I can say is that I have not been idle this past while, I am working on something that has the potential to... [more]

A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal [more]

David Mitchell does it again: More Mitchell goodness here and here [more]

David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes using… furniture as an example? Yes furniture! Just watch it. And if you liked that, then you will love this. [more]

The connection between cosmic rays and clouds has always been tenuous. The connection between cosmic rays and climate even more so. But that hasn’t stopped the cosmic ray driven climate (and therefor not caused by GHG emissions) theory from getting more attention than it deserves. From every single study that doesn’t outright disprove the notion... [more]

Here we go again! Time after time the claims made by deniers about the conduct of climate scientists (in this case Michael Mann) fail to live up to the hype. This time it is the National Science Foundation that found that, like all the previous investigations that resulted from the leaked climategate emails, the scientists involved... [more]

By now it is all over the internet, and I am late getting to it. But it is still worth mentioning. Apparently some people are offended by the fact that Al Gore called a spade a spade the bullshit coming from deniers exactly what it is: Bullshit. The model they’re using in that effort was... [more]

More sense coming from John Huntsman: The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we... [more]

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy. – Jon Huntsman, 2012 Republican presidential candidate This is what real conservatism looks like. And we need more of it, lots more. (h/t Joe Romm) [more]

Scott Denning is not the type of person who you would expect to give talks at the Heartland Institute’s  Climate Change Conference. After all Scott Denning is a well respected climate scientist, a professor in the department of atmospheric science at Colorado state university. While The Heartland institute is a bastion of anti-science denialism, not only denying the... [more]

John Abraham is at it again: part 2 And part 3  And for those who missed part 1 here it is. [more]

Peter Sinclair hits another home run: [more]

Like it or not (I obviously don’t) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all depend on, it has failed to make the public understand the gravity and scale of our current environmental problems, and it has failed to get politicians to do anything... [more]

We’ve won the public opinion debate, and we’ve won the political debate as well, … But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration. -Joe Bast, president and co-founder of the Heartland Institute Both public opinion and political debates are frequently, affected by things other than reality. The scientific debate on the other hand isn’t.... [more]

This episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, the Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious... [more]

In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun. [more]

Of course the same applies for coal. More-so actually because coal pollutes far more than gasoline. The fact is that thanks to negative externalities the price of fossil fuels is artificially low. And that is the main reason why we use so many, and why clean energy has a hard time catching on. But as... [more]

Potholer54 is at it again: Sceptical Science provides us with a nice graph that explains all of this in detail: And Real Climate sums it up: According to these results, a 21st-century Maunder Minimum would only slightly diminish future warming. Moreover, it would be only a temporary effect since all known grand solar minima have... [more]