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Carterist “science”: Bob’s self-plagiarism, misrepresentation and misquotations

by Gareth 11 March 2010

The crank web is all atwitter with the news that Bob Carter’s been censored by Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC. But an exclusive Hot Topic investigation reveals that the supposed “censorship” looks a lot more like prudent quality control. Carter’s submission plagiarises his own writings, misquotes and misrepresents James Hansen, and joins the recent baseless [...]

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Merchants of doubt: Oreskes on the history of climate denial

by Gareth 9 March 2010

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Science historian Naomi Oreskes, well known for her work on consensus in science (and climate science in particular) has a new book, Merchants of Doubt, due out in a couple of months. Helpfully sub-titled How a [...]

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Denialism’s allies: nasty work in Australia

by Bryan Walker 24 February 2010

 Climate change denialism has plugged into some very sick strains in society according to  the behaviour described by Clive Hamilton in the first of a series of articles in the debate forum on the ABC website.  He describes how Australia’s most distinguished climate scientists have been subjected to a torrent of  aggressive, abusive and at [...]

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Economist says climate science deserves praise

by Bryan Walker 20 February 2010

A forthright article from economist Jeffrey Sachs in today’s Guardian acknowledges that recent harsh attacks on the science of climate change have disconcerted the global public. 
But the fact is that the critics, few in number but aggressive in their attacks, are deploying tactics that they have honed for more than 25 years. They greatly [...]

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La-la Land again: Jim Hopkins gets it wrong

by Gareth 19 February 2010

It must be sceptic idiot week at the Herald. Not content with allowing Garth George to make stuff up, today they unleash that mighty wit (or should that be twit?) Jim Hopkins, who has been reading the Daily Mail’s daft coverage of a BBC interview with Phil Jones, the man at the centre of the [...]

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A visitor from La-la Land: Garth George gets it wrong (again)

by Gareth 18 February 2010

I suppose it was inevitable that the feeding frenzy about various “gates” in the British press would attract the attention of the wise old man of Rotorua, Garth George. In today’s Herald he emerges from his sulphurous lair to add his muted sqeak to the hubbub. It’s not much different to his last few columns [...]

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The annotated Rodney Hide: treating parliament with contempt

by Gareth 10 February 2010

How far can a Minister of the Crown go in misrepresenting the facts of a matter before he is guilty of misleading the House? That’s not an easy question to answer, but any sensible reading of Rodney Hide’s speech in response to prime minister John Key’s statement to the House yesterday would suggest that if [...]

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Treadgold and the NZ CSC: dogging a fled horse

by Gareth 8 February 2010

The campaign by the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition and Richard Treadgold’s “Climate Conversation Group” to cast doubt on the NZ temperature record and to smear the scientists who have worked on it has stepped up a notch or two in recent days, following a response by NIWA to an Official Information Act request from NZ [...]

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Spot the “sceptic”

by Gareth 5 February 2010

Morten Morland, TimesOnline: click the image for a gallery of fine cartoons. Meanwhile: I wonder who provided the model for this fine example of a “sceptic”? [H/T Ian]

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Monckton in Australia: Picnic at Hanging Sock

by Gareth 4 February 2010

Plimer’s bronzed body arced through the brutal Brisbane air and knifed into the pool with a barely perceptible splash — no belly flops for the silver-haired Adonis of climate scepticism. Monckton, in solar topee and camouflage Army & Navy shorts, clutched his glass of gin & tonic and tried to repress boarding school thoughts. He [...]

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