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February 15, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
The meaning of HeartlandGate It will take some time before the meaning of HeartlandGate is realized. The released confidential documents are not extensive, but they are current, mainly related to a meeting that happened less than a month before their release. They don't tell us anything that we didn't...
Class M
The Heart(land) of the Denial Campaign Someone has leaked a treasure trove of insider documents from the Heartland Institute, which until now has been a major source of climate change obfuscation in the U.S. There's plenty of illuminating information to chew on, including detailed budgets and...
February 14, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets It is almost like ClimateGate but in reverse! Sort of.
A Few Things Ill Considered
Another Week of GW News, February 12, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
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Full Speed Ahead? On We Beasties, Kevin Bonham reports that scientists have genetically enabled E. coli to digest a sugar found in algae. Bonham writes, "Scientists have been picking this bug's locks for decades, and it's already been engineered to make not just...
February 12, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Looking for stuff about birds? All of my Bird Book Reviews are Here, and some of the reviews include broader discussions that go beyond the book, so do browse through them. Feeding Birds: Should you even be feeding the birds to begin with? Birders get annoyed at squirrels for obvious...
February 10, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Is climate change a leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America? According to Rick Santorum, it is. Strange. Brad Johnson has context and analysis here. I think Rick Santorum is trying to destroy America....
USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog
Just in Time for Valentine's Day: The Science Behind the Kiss It's both funny and remarkable how some of the most simple and natural acts we do each day are teeming in science.
February 9, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Wild Mississippi A new multi-part special, Wild Mississippi will be first aired on February 12 at 6 Central on National Geographic Wild. I can't watch this when it is on because I don't get the channel on my TV, but I copped a review copy and...
February 8, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Has Global Warming Stopped? The following is a short version of the litany of global warming denialists' current rhetoric: "Current pause in global warming" "lack of global warming for well over 10 years now." "There is no credible (statistically significant) data that says global warming is occurring" "fifteen years...
Greg Laden's Blog
Melting Ice and Sea Level Rise If all the water currently trapped in all the glaciers across the entire world melted, the sea level would rise far more than most people imagine. Almost everyone living anywhere in the world at an elevation of below about 500 feet with a direct drainage...
Greg Laden's Blog
Global Warming Affects Albatross Ecology At the moment, the Wandering Albatross of the Southern Ocean is getting a free ride; Changes in wind patterns due to Global Warming seem to enhance the efficiency of foraging of this pelagic bird. However, as Global Warming continues, this rare case of a positive...
Greg Laden's Blog
So What's A Teacher to Do? There is a guest commentary by Genie Scott at Real Climate: Imagine you're a middle-school science teacher, and you get to the section of the course where you're to talk about climate change. You mention the "C" words, and two students walk out of the...
February 7, 2012
denialism blog
The Great UN Conspiracy to (gasp) increase green space! You heard me. There is a shocking conspiracy, directly from the nefarious leaders of the one world government at the...
February 6, 2012
Aardvarchaeology
My Autumn's And Winter's Work I haven't actually said much about what I've been doing in my study these past months.
Class M
If you're reading the Wall Street Journal, you're part of the problem For reasons that can only reflect poorly on the paper, the Wall Street Journal recently decided it was a good idea to publish an op-ed that recycled some the of the most soundly discredited notions associated with the climate change...
February 4, 2012
Class M
Calling it like it is Two examples of why blogs are better than mainstream news coverage, when it comes to confronting reality and doing something about it, one from the climate wars, one from the front lines of women's health. First, Andy Revkin, a former...
Class M
Tea Party shenanigans As if you needed another reason to lament the state of American politics: Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They...
February 2, 2012
Dynamics of Cats
Planetary Habitability Laboratory The University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a very interesting facility that has put out some fun stuff...
February 1, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Minnesotan Republicans Disrupt Attempts to Save Civilization From Itself State Legislator Ellen Anderson is an energy expert, who authored seven energy related bills one of which became a national model, all of which were signed into law by a Republican Governor. She was recently appointed by Governor Dayton to the Public Utilities Commission. Republicans,...
Greg Laden's Blog
William M. Briggs has misunderstood a high-school level data graph And I suspect he's done so willingly. Well, you know what they say about statistics and liars. Here's the story. The Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail independently published highly misleading and blatantly idiotic pieces on climate change. We've covered this extensively already over...
January 31, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Actual Scientists Respond to Fake Scientists at Wall Street Journal It starts like this: Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in...
Greg Laden's Blog
Meteorologist Exposed as Scientific Fraud (And a really cool graphic) Brad Johnson at Think Progress has written a piece on Meteorologist Mark Johnson, of ABC's WEWS-TV in Cleveland Ohio. Johnson has apparently purposefully misrepresented data that was previously pre-misrepresented by the Daily Mail to make the statement that the earth has been cooling since 1998....
Greg Laden's Blog
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Michael Mann, famous climate scientist, has released a book called The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (also available as a Kindle edition). I've not read it yet but I thought you'd like to know about it. Michael Mann is...
Greg Laden's Blog
Unless you really know what you are doing stay off the ice! The following is a fictionalized version of a true story recently told to me by two of the people involved. All the names of those still living have been changed. Please do not let this happen to you....
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