Month: December 2010

Bill Sammon, the Washington managing editor and vice president of Fox News, has dictated the groundrules for reporters covering issues of climate change. As Media Matters notes, Sammon broadcast an email outlining ideological parameters for climate reporting – a mere 15 minutes after Fox News correspondent Wendell Goler reported from Copenhagen that the World Meteorological Organization found the last decade is “expected to turn out to be the warmest decade on record”, conflicting with Fox’s preferred “Climate Gate” narrative. Goler noted that temperature data from primary research groups across the planet are consistent, and show similar warming trends.

Continue reading “Fox News: Where Climate Lies are Official Policy”

Potholer54 is over on the other side of the pond doing basically what I’m trying to do on YouTube, offer sane, balanced, well documented, reasonable, and hopefully entertaining antidotes to the horrific tide of denialist ignorance and garbage on the internet.

I’m glad Potholer had the time to take this one on- it’s a recent variant of the “CO2 is Plant Food Crock”.

Knocking down denialist myths is like shooting fish in a barrel, but there are so many barrels, and so little time.  Potholer’s description and sources after the jump.

Continue reading “Potholer on the Newest Climate Denialist’s Crock”

Well, that didn’t take long.

If you saw my first post of the day you read that I opened comments up for more info on the wild temperature swings we’ve been seeing this winter and last.
Within minutes, I got bumped with a link to Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog, excerpted here.

Continue reading “Jeff Masters on Winter Cold”

A friend sends me a picture from his backyard in Jacksonville Florida.
Obviously, not what is generally expected this time of year.

Continue reading “Day-um! It’s Cold in Florida”

The New York Times may or may not follow this blog, but a story today underlines Jeff Rubin’s take on the economics of global oil.
Detroit’s Monsters Thrive on Cheap Oil is the message of Simon Romero’s piece, in which he describes the consequences of Venezuela’s state supported gas prices, which might moisten the eye of drive-in cruising era Americans.
Continue reading “Rusty Old American Dream Survives in Venezuela”

During the original climate gate hack, we know that several other climate centers were also targeted. Now, french journalists following the wiki leaks story have found evidence of more attacks against climate research agencies. I am reprinting the post from the Plains Justice Today blog below.

Continue reading “Wiki-Leaks: Climate Scientists subject to Cyber attack”

For your denialist uncle, you can point out that very non tree-huggery, hard headed and successful capitalists are now getting it on climate change.
After dithering for some years on the edge of the issue, Bill Gates has finally gotten it, and jumped in to the climate debate with both feet. The rub is that he might have a little too much faith in some kind of magical technofix, whereas many thinkers believe we already have all the technology we need to make the transition, or at least get a long way down the road.
If you’re looking at carbon sequestration, and nuclear, as he does, you might indeed need a miracle.
Important to get it that we don’t need to wait for a magic bullet.
More in his recent interview in Rolling Stone.

Peak oil prices are already beginning to shift the Global Economy back to local and regional economies.

Economist Jeff Rubin explains.

Continue reading ““Archie Bunker is about to get into Bed with Al Gore””

Science magazine reports that Chinese scientists are fighting the invasion and impending takeover of the Yellow Sea by blooms of enormous jellyfish.
Over recent decades, jelly fish populations have soared in several corners of the global oceans, fueled by pollution, fertilizers, low oxygen zones, and global warming.

Continue reading “I, for One, Welcome our New Gelatinous Overlords”