Fred Seitz: Death of an Icon
Dr. Frederick Seitz, who died yesterday at the age of 96, was a great scientist, a President-Emeritus at Rockefeller University and a past pr...

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Hansen throws cold water on cooling climate claim
NASA’s James Hansen has weighed in to expose the recent nonsense that has appeared in the blogosphere, to the effect that recent cooling has wiped o...

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Fred Singer: Let’s Lie About Global Warming
In his opening presentation to the Heartland Institute's climate change quibblefest, the ever-unreliable Dr. S. Fred Singer says, "Let's co...

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Arctic expert predicts I will win $1000 this year
OK, he didn’t say that directly: The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the ...

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The plot to destroy America
Suppose you knew about a plot whose inevitable outcome would be to undermine the health and well-being of your children, their children and the next 50 generations. Yes, hundred...

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:60 Seconds to Save Earth: Falling Elephants
The Alliance for Climate Protection and Current TV had a contest for provocative ecospots — short video messages to motivate friends, comm...

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The Deficit Model Bites Back
We have often argued that efforts to communicate science in order to realize political objectives rarely work and sometimes backfire. This is...

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Information Request - NSF and a Lack of Data Protection
Update - 3/3 I managed to find the relevant GAO report. It turns out that I was mistaken to assume that the report was released...

DeSmog on the Ground for Denial-a-palooza
DeSmogBlog has hit New York City for the Heartland Institute's climate change denial-a-palooza to mingle with the conspiracy theorists, ind...

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Media enable denier spin 1: A (sort of) cold January doesn’t mean climate stopped warming
I fully understand why the spreaders of climate disinformation have hyped up a (sort-of) cold January as if it somehow provided scientific ev...

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