Ian Plimer: the poster boy for seething shock jocksIan Plimer is one of the most imperious purveyors of climate scepticism in the world and has carved out significant influence in media and political circles, writes Tom Cowie.
Climate change sceptics
New Climategate emails reveal life is tough for scientists
The cache of emails reveals the difficulties that climate scientists have in going about their everyday work, particular under a constant barrage of Freedom of Information requests and public criticism, writes freelancer Graham Readfearn.
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.
The science of denial
From climate change to evolution, New Scientist is running a great series of special reports into denialism: how it works, how it spreads, how companies manufacture it, and why it’s so hard to fight.
An open letter to climate sceptics from scientists
250 members of the National Academies of Science have published a letter hitting back against the assaults and “McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution” against climate scientists over the Climategate scandal.
Climate science: a field in crisis
The entire field of climate research is facing a crisis of confidence, says Der Spiegel. Can scientists save themselves in time to save the planet?
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Greenpeace: The billionaires behind the climate denial industry
Greenpeace has released an extensive expose on oil industry kingpins David and Charles Koch, who it says have quietly pumped $50 million into “climate-denial front groups”.
ABC chairman: climate reporting just an exercise in group-think
Climate change has become an issue where contrary views are not tolerated and sceptics are mocked in the media. This shouldn’t happen at the ABC, said ABC chairman — and known climate change denier — Maurice Newman, in a speech to journos.
Are you now or have you ever been a climate scientist?
Accusation of criminality against leading climate scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and intimidation to new lows.
Jonathan Holmes: Does climate change reporting need to be balanced?
Jonathan Holmes jumps in to the recent Crikey debate about climate change reporting on the ABC. Does the ABC need to balance climate change scientists with climate change sceptics to reflect public opinion?
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.
Roskam and the truth: he stands by Q & A claim on climate change
Free market think tank director John Roskam is the latest Australian climate change sceptic to be caught out using distorted quotes to undermine the existence of global warming, writes Crikey intern Matthew Knott.
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?
Is Piers Akerman fabricating quotes from the IPCC?
Is News Ltd’s Piers Akerman the source of an alarmist climate change quote that has for years been attributed to the first head of the IPCC, Sir John Houghton? That’s what the UK’s Independent is claiming.
Climategate: The Book, written by you
The Guardian is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and “peer review” the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?
Abbott to the lunatic fringe: it’s OK, I’m one of you
Tony Abbott’s decision to meet Lord Monckton was contemptible — but smart politics. Abbott is just doing what he has been hired to do: dog-whistle to the extreme right of the party.
Sheehan: The 10 anti-commandments of global warming
Paul Sheehan looks at 10 questionable “facts” from the global warming war that have been largely ignored. What do they prove? Ideology and science don’t belong together — on either side of the debate.
More dodgy IPCC claims?
The IPCC faced a fresh round of criticism in the British media over the weekend, with revelations of more spurious sources and that its chief, Rajendra Pachauri, may have known about the false claims before Copenhagen.
Britain declares war on climate sceptics
In an interview with the Observer, UK climate secretary Ed Miliband declares a “battle” against climate change deniers and defends the IPCC.
Hamilton: Fran Kelly falls for Monckton’s media manipulation
Fran Kelly and the ABC are the latest victims to fall prey to notorious climate change sceptic Lord Monckton’s media manipulation. Why did Kelly not question her controversial guest and his preposterous claims?
Scientists, the IPCC wants you
Nomination to the IPCC process is an invitation for public smears, threats and routine attacks on your credibility — not by your peers, but by newspaper columnists, bloggers and conspiracy theorists.
Crikey Says: Growing battlefield momentum inside the Sceptics Army
Of the two climate change wars currently being waged across the globe — the war against climate change and the war about climate change — it’s War 2 that’s now occupying the most territory.
Monckton and Plimer: publish or perish
Climate change sceptics Lord Monckton and Ian Plimer have every right to their opinions. But if they want us to take them seriously, they must submit them to credible peer-reviewed journals, says scientist Alex Cook.
Labor is losing the ground war on global warming opinion
Possum Comitatus digs deeper into a recent poll on Australians’ attitudes to CPRS and global warming, and finds that the ALP’s failure to strongly combat climate change scepticism is klling its CPRS hopes.
Crikey Blogs / Thursday, 1 April 2010
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