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Dirty money bought one coal company a whole lot of denial
It wasn't enough to keep Peabody Energy from filing for bankruptcy.
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The Washington Post goes tabloid
It is no longer possible to hide the decline of a once great newspaper, no longer possible to hide the decline of the paper that broke the Watergate story, but is now hanging itself on the Climategate story (see James Fallows’ blog). The newspaper that just editorialized, “Many — including us — find global warming […]
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Science historian Weart on global warming
Spencer Weart: My most interesting conversations were with historians who have been studying the history of the tobacco companies that did their best, and quite successfully for many years, to cover up the fact that smoking kills people by the million. Some interesting parallels, but… So begins a fascinating interview of Weart on the illegally […]
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CEI to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy
Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the Competitive Enterprise Institute intends to sue him. That’s computer scientist Tim Lambert aka Deltoid […]
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Contest — Rename “Climategate” after the crime, not the victim
Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for passage or efforts to forge a global climate change […]
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Will the Washington Post ever fact check a George Will column?
The Washington Post has published an easily fact-checked falsehood about clean energy — for the umpteenth time (see “WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy and global warming“). Not surprisingly, columnist George Will is the source (see “WashPost lets George Will publish a third time global warming lies debunked on […]
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Vinod Khosla Nonesense
Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense. I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who said it. In any case, you simply can’t top solar for clean power, especially Concentrated solar thermal power Solar Baseload — a core climate solution. […]
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In other UK news: “Rain like this happens once every 1,000 years”
A bunch of illegally hacked UK e-mails storm the anti-scientific side of the blogosphere at the same time as an uber-extreme weather event hits Britain. I guess when it rains, it pours — literally: Forecasters said the rainfall was unprecedented. Britain’s Meteorological Office said a record 12.3 inches of rain fell in 24 hours […]
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Let’s look at one of the illegally hacked emails in more detail
The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails — the one by Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in […]
