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Weekend Roundup – August 14, 2010

There’s so much gold on them thar climate blogs, whether climate science or denialist/skeptic, that a poor policy lass can hardly keep up! However, there were a few choice tidbits that I wanted to note. I read a lot of blogs, daily and some less often, and here is a round up of my response […]

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Deniersberggate, Molehills and other Denialist Amuse Bouche

Sometimes, you have to laugh or you’ll poke your eyes out with a rusty spork… I thought that, for fun, I’d do a bit of a summary of posts I found amusing, in the funny or satirical or farcical sense. My top two climate science “skeptic” bloggers, Anthony Watts and Steven McIntyre, provide much material. […]

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Like Waiting For Godot…

I’ve been waiting for the deniers and skeptics to start backtracking for a while now, given that report after report has exonerated climate scientists like Michael Mann,  and Phil Jones, but it feels like a fool’s errand – bloggers like Anthony Watts , Monckton and newspaper giants like Delingpole keep cranking out the denial like […]

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Barton, Apologies and Apologetics

For others, it might have been a shake-head, face-palm moment but not for me. Barton obviously gave away his true feelings when he apologized to poor BP over the terrible treatment it has received at the hands of the Obama administration. Boo hoo. He knows who butters his bread. Finally a bit of truth, and […]

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The Climate Files

Just a quick post about Fred Pearce’s book “The Climate Files” on Climategate and the Guardian podcast interview with him, in which he discusses some of what he sees as the main issues in the whole saga. First, I was a bit disappointed that the core of the matter wasn’t addressed except tangentially — and […]

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Tricks, Hiding Declines and Other Sleights of Hand

McI has a new post up about the “trick”. You’d think he’d develop some different material — this bleating on about the “trick” is getting pretty old, but I guess if it feeds the audience (and tip jar) well, why do real science? Besides, there is another trick being played on us all right now […]

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