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 […]
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Shooting the Messenger — Denialism and the EPA Endangerment Finding
September 28, 2011 
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This is how it’s done, folks. You don’t like the findings of science? It’s too ‘inconvenient’ to you for whatever reason — economic, political, ideological? Too many billions of dollars in profits to make? Too many lush political contributions to garner? Too many ideological beliefs that threaten your identity if shattered? Two options: like George […]
Continue readingMore lies, damned lies and statistics…
February 17, 2010 17 Comments
Over at Open Mind, Tamino has done it again – pointing out errors in the “skeptic” so-called science used to deny global warming. He reviews the work of Steven Goddard posted at Watts Up With That, which claims that it’s getting increasingly snowy over the Northern Hemisphere — an increase according to his data of […]
Continue readingTurtles all the way down
February 15, 2010 32 Comments
One of the favorite claims of ‘skeptics’ — and I’m growing more and more hesitant about using that term without scary quotes because there just doesn’t seem to be any real ones around, at least as far as I can see — is that NASA or NOAA or CRU or other climate researchers selectively alter […]
Continue readingTrolls, drawing and quartering, and other vexatious characters
February 9, 2010 16 Comments
A bit of a roundup of interesting posts of late: An interesting post over at Rabett Run — one of my favorite parts of the climate briar patch — reposting Jorg Zimmerman’s post on the nature of trolls, and in particular “concern trolls”. Here is an excerpt: In internet jargon, there is the English term […]
Continue readingInteresting Note on the FOIs
February 8, 2010 8 Comments
Eli Rabett has a great post over at Rabett Run on the FOI requests and the CRU data issue. Here, for old time’s sake, is the link to the CA thread on the CRU data, in which Steve McIntyre urges people to issue FOI requests for confidentiality agreements. Here is McI: Let me review the […]
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