Climate Change Denialists vs. SCIENCE — Science Wins!

One of the key papers trying to debunk the work of Climate Change scientists (the so-called Hockey Stick controversy) by Edward Wegman at GMU (paid for by your tax dollars) has been retracted by the journal it was published in due to plagiarism.

Best Laid Plans Could Bring Cleaner Air

The New Republic explains that the Environmental Protection Agency would have broken the law if they did stood around and did nothing.

Science vs “But… But It Snowed Last Winter”

I’d pay good money to watch this debate.

Reporting from Washington —
Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The still-evolving efforts reveal a shift among [...]

Climate Scientists Cleared

Not that this will matter to the educationally challenged.
A British panel issued a sweeping exoneration on Wednesday of scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate, saying it found no evidence that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming.
John Cole states that the damage is already done, and I [...]

Innovating to Zero

This is a talk by Bill Gates at the TED conference discussing the need and the challenges of getting enough renewable energy to power not only those who are energy rich now, but those who need to be energy rich. He does a nice job here, I think, in contextualizing the problem, then spends a good deal of time talking about Terrapower.

Climate Change = Weird Weather

Funny how last weeks snow storms were all the rage on Right blogs while not a word was uttered concerning the unseasonably warm weather in Vancouver.  Typically Republican.  And while I think Thomas Friedman’s NYT Op-Ed is a step in the right direction I doubt it will change any minds on the Right – mainly [...]

Busted!

Eugene Robinson digs up this gem:
Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it’s no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a “global challenge.” He might entertain “opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas [...]

Note to the Media — The Science of Climate Change is NOT a Horserace

And I guess that I should cop to the fact that this note is to Allan Loudell who I heard do an appalling report on the tempest in a teapot that are these emails that wingnuts are insisting are some kind of catastrophe.

In this interview, Allan was speaking to a reported from the Christian Science Monitor and their entire conversation was largely organized to talk about climate change as though it is a horserace. Particularly appalling was a question I heard Allan ask ( paraphrasing) noting that there are scientists who are the gatekeepers of the journals and they don’t let the deniers publish — is there anyone who can be trusted to talk about this issue or to definitively answer the questions?

Late Night Video — What Global Warming Looks Like

This is one of the great TED talks, this one accompanied by time lapse imagery by James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey. This is remarkable imagery from a remarkable project. Worth all 19 minutes of this video.

Anti-Cap & Trade Lobbying Group Sends Fake Opposition Letters

I’m sure you’re shocked to hear that a group lobbying against the ACES (American Clean Energy & Security Act) cap & trade legislation, sent forged letters to a U.S. Congressman.
As U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello was considering how to vote on an important piece of climate change legislation in June, the freshman congressman’s office received at [...]

How To Spot Climate Change Deniers

I love this blog post from the Guardian. It is a compilation of the yeoman’s work done over at the Denialism blog (and every bit of it is true) detailing how climate change deniers operate.  As the author notes here, the markings of the climate change denialist, actually extend to any Grand Conspiracy Theorist [...]

Al Gore and John Warner Testimony on Waxman-Markey — Part 2

This is Senator Warner’s testimony. Video is of his opening remarks only:
Transcript of his complete remarks after the jump. Warner’s take on addressing climate change as a question of national security is interesting and worth thinking about.