Last week, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed a resolution to “urge” public schools to teach astrology. Brad Johnson has the amazing story in this Think Progress repost.
Boykoff on “Exaggerating Denialism: Media Representations of Outlier Views on Climate Change”
Freudenburg: “Reporters need to learn that, if they wish to discuss ‘both sides’ of the climate issue, the scientifically legitimate “other side” is that, if anything, global climate disruption is likely to be significantly worse than has been suggested in scientific consensus estimates to date.”
Mass media have been a key vehicle by which climate change contrarianism has traveled, according to Maxwell Boykoff, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.
Good news: “Met Office wants re-examination of 150 years of climate data”
Now let’s hope they’ll fix the problems that have caused them to lowball recent warming.
Great idea, especially since an independent December 2009 analysis found “The global temperature rise calculated by the Met Office’s HadCRUT record is at the lower end of likely warming.”
Everybody but the anti-science disinformers has known for a long time that the Hadley/CRU (Climatic Research Unit) temperature data UNDERestimates “” not OVERestimates “” the recent global temperature rise. Why?
HOME STAR: Putting Americans Back to Work
The HOME STAR program is a new initiative to create jobs in the construction industry and make it easy for every American homeowner to quickly and immediately cut their rising monthly energy bills by improving the energy efficiency of their homes. HOME STAR will empower homeowners to seize control of skyrocketing energy costs, create good living-wage jobs, and drive economic recovery in the United States.
CAP’s Bracken Hendricks and Tom Kenworthy explain HOME STAR in this repost.
Energy and Global Warming News for February 25: Obama: ‘Price on carbon pollution’ key to ‘competitive America’; Projects across US turn landfill gas to energy; World warming unhindered by cold spells — scientists
Obama: “Price on carbon pollution” key to “competitive America”
President Barack Obama reiterated his support for putting a price on carbon during an address to the Business Roundtable today.
Sen. Inhofe inquisition seeking ways to criminalize and prosecute 17 leading climate scientists
Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long-notorious global warming denialist propaganda. He is now using the resources of the Senate committee to seek opportunities to criminalize the actions of 17 leading scientists who have been associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports. A report released by Inhofe’s staff on February 23 outlines this classic Joe McCarthyite witch-hunt: page after page of incorrect and misleading statements, a list of federal laws that allegedly may make scientists subject to prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department, and a list of names and affiliations of 17 “key players” in the “CRU Controversy” over stolen e-mails and their connections with IPCC reports.
That’s from Rick Piltz, the guy who blew the whistle on the Bush Administration’s censorship of federal climate science. This is a repost from his website, Climatesciencewatch.org:
Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
