Tag Archives: activist propaganda

Bill McKibben: A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal

Ol’ maniacal is sticking to form. Looks like there isn’t an idiotic claim he now won’t make. Continue reading

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Lewandowsky – Shows “skeptics” are nutters by asking alarmists to fill out survey

I‘m putting on a conservative, understated hat. This could be the worst paper  I have seen — an ad hom argument taken to its absurd extreme, rebadged as “science”. Continue reading

Just for laughs: Climate change deniers ‘are either extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists’

Lewandowsky, ‘nuf said.

An Australian study says avid climate change deniers tend to be either extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landing was faked or Princess Diana was murdered.Continue reading

Sarah Wolpow: Telling my children about climate change

These poor kids are apparently being raised by a gibbering lunatic. I had thought the piece was an enviro-spoof – funny and almost plausible but no, this dipstick is actually trying to terrorize her own children on the basis of PlayStation® climatology: Continue reading

Bryan Walsh: Why West Nile Virus Is a Self-Inflicted Wound

A tropical disease rages in a decidedly untropical place —Texas. Both science and politics play roles.

Well gosh, Walsh does gorebull warbling, again. Aren’t we all surprised… Continue reading

Compulsive namecallers: nutter, conspiracy theorist, anti-semitic, denier – trying to censor through denigration

Got no evidence? Can’t hold a rational discussion? Just call people names — smear them.

David Evans (my other half) pointed out that anyone who opposed the regulating class gets called a racist sooner or later (see those quotes at the end). Now it’s happened to him. Continue reading

Activists in Argentina Expect Landmark Ruling against Agrochemicals

Over glyphosate? It’s safe to say this ruling is consistent with complete nonsense. Continue reading

Propaganda alert! Maryland gets grant to help teach climate change

Teachers in Maryland are about to get new help and encouragement to talk about the touchy topic of global warming in their classrooms. The National Science Foundation announced Wednesday that it is awarding $5.8 million for improving climate-change education in Maryland and Delaware through a partnership including universities and school systems from both states. Continue reading

UWA sponsors world wide junkets for poor research, inept smears: Oreskes

I wondered who was funding Oreskes to fly all the way around the world to deliver two seminars in Perth to audiences of mostly evangelical believers. Continue reading

Steven Hayward: “The Damage To The Credibility Of My Profession Is Huge”

That’s the takeaway line from meteorologist Cliff Mass on his Cliff Mass Weather Blog today, delivering a savage beatdown on the latest global warming scaremongering from NASA’s egregious James Hansen about recent summer heat waves: Continue reading

Oreskes, the Queen of Climate Smear, ignores the big money, has no evidence, throws names

You’d expect a professor to have done the basic research. Continue reading

Tim Ball: NASA Scientist Out of Control

James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, personifies American author Mary McCarthy’s observation that

“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”

Hansen used his bureaucratic position to misdirect public policy on climate change for 24 years. Continue reading

Climate Catastrophe or Media Hype?

Are extreme weather events on the rise? Continue reading

Ray Evans reviews The Denialist Victory

Ray Evans writes a review below of Robert Manne’s essay in The Monthly entitled A Dark Victory: How vested interests defeated climate science. Continue reading

Phelim McAleer: Rewarded for breast-cancer lies

Breast cancer is uniquely frightening. Almost everyone knows someone who’s had it, and too many of us know someone it’s killed. Continue reading

Plan to get bureaucrats savvy to climate-change risks easy to ignore: documents

Environment Canada is worried that the Harper government’s own effort to encourage public servants to more carefully consider the risks and possible impacts of climate change is falling on deaf ears, documents show. Continue reading

The “Science” Behind Generating Headlines

Last December, EPA released a draft report on water quality in tiny Pavillion, Wyo., which was immediately seized upon by opponents of natural gas development in the United States (and even around the world) as smoking-gun proof that hydraulic fracturing pollutes drinking water. Continue reading

Climate Institute Poll finds we are all stupid, confused. Gillard must sell The Carbon Pox better!

We know the answer is always that they are smart, and that if we don’t “get their vision” they just need to explain it better. Continue reading

Donna Laframboise: US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’

A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists. Continue reading

Opinion: Scientists’ Intuitive Failures

Much of what researchers believe about the public and effective communication is wrong.

Actually I suspect public trust in science has been largely eroded and this is so because media sensationalize (Doom! -scientists), institutions publicize (science by press release) and activists manipulate (alar, biotech, chemical du jour, global warming… ). The public are tired of the hysterics and rightly so Continue reading