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Monthly Archives: March 2009

How to assassinate the truth

The Gravityloss blog has an excellent post on how deniers can, and do, effectively assassinate the truth.

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It’s OK, if you are a climate change denier

Remember the outcry when Micheal Tobis merely asked the question ‘is unfairly criticizing those pushing for action on climate change and thus delaying action morally equivalent to killing people’? And then answered only by saying “It’s not all that obvious to me that it isn’t.”

Deniers like Marc Morano instantly claimed that: “Scientists claim that criticizing Al Gore is equal to killing 1000 people!

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Why the fairness doctrine is a stupendously bad idea

Just in case you still weren’t convinced:

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Canada’s creationism problem

Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology (who was already on shaky grounds with scientists), recently caused quite a stir when he refused to say whether or not he accepted evolution.

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Good news from the Greenland ice sheet, bad news from elsewhere

From Climate Feedback:

Jonathan Bamber of Bristol University was talking about the stability of the Greenland ice sheet at a session on tipping points. There was a widely cited Brief Communication in Nature that came out just after the Exeter meeting and was discussed there which suggested that if global temperatures rose above 3 degrees the ice sheet was effectively doomed.

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An illustration of the climate change debate

Is it any wonder why a disconnect exists between the public and the scientific positions in regards to climate change?

Graph created by Michael Tobis

The horizontal axis above refers to an unconstrained emissions (“business as usual”) scenario.

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Oregon Coast Pictures

The best of my pictures from my recent trip to the Oregon Coast.

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Monckton’s silly graph: Part 3

Monckton just can’t help himself.

Monckton has updated his silly graph, and now the Cuffey and Clow graph (correctly cited this time around!), has been adapted from the original which represented temperatures in Greenland, to represent Antarctic temperatures.

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Why I accept the scientific consensus on global warming, and what would change my mind

It will come as no surprise to those who read my blog, that I fully accept the scientific consensus on climate change. The question is why? And what would cause me to change my mind.

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