September 6, 2012 – 4:20 pm
Total bummer (HuffPo) (Climate refugee) has primarily been an academic debate until now. New Zealand immigration authorities have just refused refugee status to a man from the drowning island country of Kiribati. The 36-year-old man sought refuge in New Zealand from climate change related harm, saying on his application that he fears for his children’s […]
September 2, 2012 – 1:55 pm
First, this one via Tom Nelson (Examiner) “The thought that popcorn cost me almost nothing to make, made me furious! The raw popcorn kernels have skyrocketed in cost because we are having global warming, hurricanes, floods, and all of that affects the cost of popcorn. Can anyone remember when the price of popcorn was cheap? […]
September 1, 2012 – 7:22 pm
They’re quite cool with offering both sides, as long as a heavily pro-AGW spin is provided (via Tom Nelson) (CounterPunch) Journalists can tell both sides of the story by saying virtually every major meteorological scientist in the world says global warming exists and is caused by industrial emissions and quoting “mercenary confusionists†who are paid […]
August 30, 2012 – 11:55 am
Well, first, if you’re referring to it using a political phrase, climate change, rather than a scientific one, anthropogenic global warming, yeah, we ignore it. Second, when you start blaming snow storms on the release of greenhouse gases, well, then you truly are a brainwashed moron. Witness Patrick Doyle at Boston Magazine Why Does the […]
August 25, 2012 – 12:29 pm
They really can’t help themselves (Washington Post) After this summer’s many shooting incidents — the massacre in Aurora, Colo., followed by attacks near Texas A&M, at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, at the Family Research Council in Washington and at the Empire State Building on Friday — Americans have pondered possible explanations. Gun laws. Psychological […]
August 23, 2012 – 10:48 am
They just can’t help themselves, and really don’t think about what they are saying/writing. Here’s NRDC’s Kelly Henderson going a bit bat guano insane (via Climate Depot) Global Climate Change: A 24 year Snapshot In 1988 (the year I was born) James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified before the […]
August 22, 2012 – 3:31 pm
Silly me, I thought the answer was for people who Believe to practice what they preach. Anyhow, it looks like yet another warmist, Andrew Brown, wants to position globull warming as a religion. After a long preamble we get (Guardian) Underlying all this confusion is the problem that we don’t have a way of ranking […]
August 18, 2012 – 2:02 pm
ManCrush by Warmist Chris Mooney (Grist) I don’t normally do this. But right now, I am going to come out and gushingly endorse a book: climate blogger Joe Romm’s Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga. Everybody who cares about why science doesn’t get through to the public should read it. […]
August 17, 2012 – 4:57 pm
Warmists who refuse to give up their fossil fueled travel and big “carbon” lives hit hardest (Grist) There’s a new scientific paper out in the journal Nature called “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere.†In a sane world, it would be front page news. This is from the abstract: Localized ecological systems are known […]
August 16, 2012 – 12:54 pm
Um, oops? The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study’s author. In the United States, the main […]
