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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part II
For those outside the US, “birtherism” is the conspiracy among the paranoid conservative base that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake. Some believe that this is because Obama wasn’t born in the...
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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part III
This is not a spoof or comedy bit. This is Monckton appearing for BirtherReport.com. Wearing a US flag shirt. And a cowboy hat. And a (prop?) gun. He also titillated Heartland‘s annual climate...
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No one could have predicted
Remember how a few years back, supporters of aggressive climate mitigation legislation were castigated for being shrill, tribal, hippies? And how if only we tried a “third way” of making incremental...
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My apology to the field of economics
Image courtesy of Flickr user “Marie Laveaux”, used under Creative Commons. I didn’t pay that much attention to Paul Krugman prior to about 2008- not coincidentally, around the time of the Great...
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Reality’s “Liberal” Bias – Presidential Polling Edition
I’ve been trying to avoid discussing the 2012 Presidential Election in the US for a number of reasons. I don’t think the Romney-Ryan ticket has been as terrible as the addition of Palin to the McCain...
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Fox “News” is Beyond Parody
On the heels of what I was saying about conservative conspiracy mongering about polling data… News Corp/Fox are beyond parody. Their own polls show the same leads they’re conspiracy theorizing about:...
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Christopher Monckton, birther – Part IV
Words fail. Previous entries here, here, and here.
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Matt Ridley and the Wall Street Journal misrepresent paper cited in Ridley...
Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) evaluated from paleoclimatic data (PALAEOSENS group, Rohling et al., 2012). There’s more to say about the latest attempt to deny the mainstream estimate of...
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Same sh|t, different year
Image courtesy of Flickr user “epSos.de”, used under Creative Commons. Hey, look! It’s Daniel Sarewitz recycling a column from back in 2010 about how Republicans and science don’t mix and how it’s...
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What the government shutdown can tell us about the politics of climate...
This past Friday, the Diane Rehm show had a discussion about the recent shutdown of the Federal Government as Republicans tried to defund the Affordable Care Act. There was a brief exchange that...
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What the 2014 US Midterm Elections Do and Don’t Mean for Climate
Almost everything you read about what the 2014 midterm elections results “mean” will be wrong. The results are being over-interpreted This was always going to be true. It has been the case for...
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