The climatologist Richard A. Muller became a celebrity among climate change denialists, for arguing that temperature measurements are inaccurate. So, denialists were really anxious to see the results of his ambitious and well-financed project, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) (link), which aimed at reviewing the data on climate and checking out whether or not the current [...]
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The difference between a skeptic and a denialist
Posted in climate change denialism on November 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Another “skeptic” covered in oil
Posted in climate change denialism on August 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics has the distinction of being one of the very few climate “skeptics” that has published papers in peer-reviewed journals. He argues that climate change is caused by solar variation, that polar bears aren’t threatened by climate [...]
The “skepticgate”
Posted in climate change denialism on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In February 2009, there was a congressional hearing in the US regarding climate change policies. From the body of experts that presented a testimony, only the well-known denier Patrick Michaels argued against climate action. At the time, he also stated that only about 3% of his funding came from the industry. Well, surprise surprise, he lied. [...]
How Fox misinforms the public
Posted in climate change denialism on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A report from the Program on International Policy Attitudes found that, in the US, those who have greater exposure to news are generally better informed. No surprises here, right? But there’s an important caveat: in a number of cases, greater exposure to news increased misinformation on a specific issue. This is particularly relevant for Fox News, the favorite [...]
“Climategate” scientists exonerated by inquiry
Posted in climate change denialism on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite all the scandal surrounding the stolen e-mails from the University of East Anglia, there is no evidence that scientists manipulated data or otherwise engaged in scientific fraud. This is the conclusion of the third independent inquiry on the so-called “Climategate” scandal, led by former U.K. civil servant Muir Russell (Common Dreams). The report from [...]
Noam Chomsky on climate change denialism
Posted in climate change denialism on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How a tabloid invented the “Amazongate”
Posted in climate change denialism on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After a formal complaint by Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Leeds, the Sunday Times eventually recognized that the “Amazongate” story was false (Realclimate). The article “UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim” accused the IPCC of falsely claiming that 40% of the Amazon rainforest could be in danger [...]
Denialgate
Posted in climate change denialism on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After the House of Commons inquiry exonerated Phil Jones, another investigation on the so-called “Climategate” concluded that there is no evidence of data manipulation (AccuWeather). But it would be naive to think that denialists will admit they were (once again) wrong. Rather, they’ll do what they always do: deny the evidence. Johann Hari reacted to [...]
Phil Jones exonerated by the House of commons
Posted in climate change denialism on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The inquiry on the “Climategate” scandal by the UK House of Commons showed that the media hysteria wasn’t based on facts. Some of the findings are (Climate Progress): We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced…. In the context of the sharing of [...]
The story of climate denialism
Posted in climate change denialism on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Greenpeace has issued a report covering the evolution of climate denialism in the last two decades (link). From the Global Climate Coalition to the recent Climategate, the report analyses how denialism became viral and more ubiquitous and how we got to the ridiculous situation of having “Lord” Mockton discussing climate change with scientists as if [...]
