UPDATE: See Peter Sinclair’s insightful on the phony case made by the denialists and their inability to accept the results of the NSF inquiry: “Climategate” Debunked Again. Climate Deniers: Mike Mann born in Kenya“. JAMES FALLOWS – Aug 24 2011 – … Continue reading
JO Chandler, The Age, June 29 2011 The myth of Climate-gate has endured because of media failings. GEOLOGIST and long-time climate change denialist Bob Carter materialised on this page on Monday, reprising a weary routine – tiptoeing through the scientific … Continue reading
Sounds familiar. Wonder who is getting similar support? Interesting question. They mention “Bob, Randy, Walter, Sallie and Dave”? Could it be? No, surely not. Of all the climate deniers, one scientist has been particularly closely involved in the campaign against the … Continue reading
STEPHAN LEWANDOWSKY ABC DRUM Much confusion and spin infects current public discussion of “peer reviewed” research: first we had Maurice Newman, the Chairman of the ABC, who suggested that “distinguished scientists” challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change by … Continue reading
I have been reading Paul Gilding’s excellent book, “The Great Disruption”. In it he talks about a major switching of market activity and strategy driven by sudden and reduced access to resources. What do the market experts think? A … Continue reading
The following was recently posted by shock jock Andrew Bolt who has just been given his own TV program by Australia’s richest person, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. For those overseas – Greg Combet is our Federal Minister for Climate Change. For those … Continue reading
A very interesting episode of Media Watch screened tonight which threw a spotlight on the waves of climate skepticism that are the norm across Australian talk back radio. Apart from recently chastising the Prime Minister for being 10 minutes late to a … Continue reading
A fairly convoluted (but interesting none the less) paper just got published in PNAS by Anderegg et al (2010) looking at climate change and scientific credibility (more coverage by the Guardian here). Why don’t we trust climate scientists? To answer … Continue reading
I have just returned from a series of off-campus meetings to find that there has been little excitement in my absence. Apparently, I have been portrayed as some sort of hothead who tried to interfere with the “Watts up with … Continue reading
I was sent this insightful article by ANU academic Andrew Glikson about denialism written by two medical scientists, Pascal Diethelm and Martin McKee. Whether it is the belief that the world is only a few thousands of years old, that … Continue reading