For years, certain climate contrarians and self-styled skeptics have suggested that the temperature records have been contaminated by illegitimate adjustments, poor siting of instruments and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, such that the increase in temperature observed during the past century is due, not to greenhouse gas associated warming, but to non-GHG factors, fudging […]
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Witch Hunts, Inquisitions and the Denialist Attack on Climate Science
October 3, 2011 
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Here’s a post by the American Tradition Institute (ATI) up at WTFIUWT about James Hansen “raking it in“. I guess that if you can’t destroy a scientist’s work, you can always try to destroy the scientist’s reputation and thus attempt via an ad hominem attack to cast a shadow of doubt in the public’s mind […]
Continue readingThe Eternal Return or: The Unbearable Wrongness of Spencer and Braswell
September 6, 2011 26 Comments
There is a concept in philosophy that posits that the universe will repeat itself, in an endless cycle of recurrence. This means that everything in your life will be repeated again and again and again… All your hard work trying to arrive at some vestige of truth, some facts you can rely on, some firm […]
Continue readingKeystone XL Pipeline — Game Over?
August 31, 2011 5 Comments
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the climate blogosphere. Perhaps the biggest news that has hardly garnered any headlines is the protest taking place on a daily basis and acts of civil disobedience by those hoping to call attention to the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is still under review by the Obama Admin. […]
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