When CERN last week announced that it had experimental results suggesting that neutrino could travel faster than light — thus breaking Einstein’s theory of relativity — the only thing that moved faster than the particles in question was climate-change sceptics.
Climate change deniers
Guy Rundle: No making light of the stupid party riding again
The climate sceptic salesmen
The science might not agree with them, but climate sceptics have managed to grab a giant chunk of the media spotlight. It may be just a handful of people but they scream louder than most and are effective at getting their views heard.
Bernardi: Malcolm misled us
There’s no partyroom secrets when Cory Bernardi’s on tour, as he gives the US Heartland Institute the good oil on Malcolm Turnbull’s many faults and how he personally saved Australia from an ETS.
Balance without judgement: your ABC
The ABC continues its habit of “balancing” mainstream climate science with the views of bloggers and professional denialists rather than climate scientists.
More fuel for the sceptics: climate scientists admit stuff up
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rises due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. Will this be another Climategate for the deniers?
What do vaccine sceptics have in common with climate change deniers?
The climate change issue could learn a lot from immunisation debates. Both have a pressing need for action, a minority element attempting to stymie progress and a scientific community looking on in dismay, writes Dr Julie Leask.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Dads get a raw deal after divorce
Dads being involved with their kids’ lives after a divorce isn’t something that should be viewed negatively, argue several Crikey readers (and dads). Plus, the age of climate change deniers and the success of leagues tables.
Age shall not weary them: this is the face of climate denialism
If your average climate denialist stopped and thought about what they have to win and lose from climate change action, they might reconsider their hostility.
Cold comfort on climate change
While SA and Victoria swelters with high temperatures, north-Western Europe are suffering with a cold winter snap, with the media reporting the freeze along with a discussion of how it has given heart to greenhouse denialists.
The other Copenhagen conference: 50 climate change sceptics
With 15,000 scientists, politicians and lobby groups gathered for the Copenhagen climate change conference, just down the road 50 climate sceptic scientists are running their own influential gathering.
Cage match: Rudd on climate sceptics — a step forward or pure politics?
Rudd’s a speech about climate change sceptics was clever politics, and statesmanlike to boot, writes Tony Kevin. But Tim Hollo doesn’t agree — in fact, he says Rudd might be the worst kind of climate sceptic.
Is Clive James a climate change sceptic because he’s a senile old sucker?
Clive James may have praised the need for scepticism with climate change, but that just proves him as a old sucker, not a sceptic, writes George Monbiot. Do old people think more positively about climate change effects because they are closer to death?
