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For me, it was in 2009. I had been invited to speak at a meeting called "The Festival of Energy;" a thinly disguised public relation stunt for the fossil fuel lobby, designed to show that renewable energy is a cute…

Good time to review my interview of a year ago with Uber Climate Denier Marc Morano. If you’re talking to Morano, who is unapologetically frank about his agenda – you are hearing the voice of fossil fuel Megalith. Some readers…

Impossible to write climate stories these days with out using the words “surprising” and “not expecting”. One of the key differences between Greenland in the norht, and Antarctica in the south, has been that Greenland, because of its geography and…

Earlier this month the WUWT blog treated us to a bizarre post about how this year didn’t set a new record for lowest Arctic sea ice extent (it only came in 2nd-lowest), in spite of “two very strong storms.” Doubling…

Planes. Trains. Automobiles. Spacecrafts: ‘We have to inhabit other planets’: Gary Johnson offers libertarian solution to climate change https://t.co/Gz1bdYFDRg pic.twitter.com/8HGQlnN5My — Raw Story (@RawStory) September 25, 2016 Discuss.…

New button: Preparation H.Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Debate wrap. Still work to do, but I slept pretty well last night. If anyone still needs proof of how stupid Donald Trump thinks his climate denying audience is, it’s here. Clinton: "Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax,…

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“They both do it.” No. They don’t.Filed under: Crock of the Week…

"It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin…

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One of the most odious, rabid, brainworm-infected rotting zombie skunk-weasels in a nest full of diseased, vermin-encrusted  rabid, brainworm-infected rotting zombie skunk-weasels is Myron Ebell. He now will head Donald Trump’s EPA “transition” team. For those of you that think…

Above, Candy Crowley of CNN, who moderated a Presidential debate in 2012, explains that she didn’t ask any questions about climate change, because, among other things, the price of gas. Btw, “media people”, by “climate people”, did you mean the…

Just one more reason GOP drums up the hate. ThinkProgress: Violeta Maya lives on the west side of Brooklyn, along a busy highway, in a neighborhood spare of trees and green spaces. Now 80, Maya emigrated from Puerto Rico when…

With India ratifying the Paris Agreement countries with 51.89% of the world's CO2 emissions have joined the club.  The agreement comes into force when the 55% level is reached.  The World Resources Institute has a nice interactive map which allows…

O'Donnell [top-level Trump staffer] had seen the same kind of reaction when Trump once launched into a tirade against an accountant who was black. "I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza - black guys counting my money!"…

The 2016 US presidential race seems particularly consequential. Many of my friends have expressed dismay at the choices available for president this year. I've read and thought about this a great deal, and feel I should express what I've learned,…

Christiana Figueres is executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Pere Estupinyà is a Catalan science journalist trained in the US, director of a documentary on the energy transition funded by the national Spanish TV. At the…

On the issue of climate change @HillaryClinton has a strong plan to transform our energy system. Donald Trump? He thinks it's a hoax. pic.twitter.com/mgTOsJhyPm — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 25, 2016 Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Sara Penryhn Jones was with us on the first Dark Snow Project Greenland trip in 2013. She recently sent along a link to this piece – a meditation on climate impacts from the coast of Wales, to Greenland, to the…

Somebody turned up this 2011 speech by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson the other day – it’s making the rounds enough that it got the attention of billionaire Tom Steyer – resulting in this web ad aimed at millennials.Filed under: Crock…

Some news stories buried the lede about how many people may have been offed by VW lying about its NOx emissions. Headlines say "Volkswagen emissions cheat may lead to 50 premature deaths", and only deeper in the apparently-a-press-release mention that…

Phys.org: Tiny ocean fossils distributed widely across rock surfaces in the Transantarctic Mountains point to the potential for a substantial rise in global sea levels under conditions of continued global warming, according to a new study. The study, led by…

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Political conservatives are embracing new technologies such as solar and wind, as well as energy efficiency technologies. “For young conservatives, clean and efficient energy isn’t something fringe or futuristic. It’s a regular and growing part of their…

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Sun Sep 18, 2016 After a decade, UN chief disappointed in many world leaders by Edith M Lederer, AP Big Story, Sep 13,…

Is the New Zealand Government’s plan to ratify the Paris Agreement in 2016 consistent with a two degrees Celsius (2C) carbon budget? Since the December 2015 Paris Agreement, the British climate scientist Kevin Anderson has given a couple of talks…

Comforting news for your children from Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson. In 4 billion years the sun will expand to engulf planet earth, so why worry about climate change? Don’t laugh – I hear versions of this argument all the…

The minor downside is that it would be illegal, but still a worthwhile act of civil disobedience.Johnson says we're warming the planet but shouldn't do anything about it because the sun will expand and encompass the earth (ed. note: in…

Reviewing my investigations of the climate denial movement has convinced me that it’s been a proving ground for the Alt/Right hate groups behind madman Donald Trump. One reason: here we are in a critical Presidential election – what has the…

Sometimes, climate science deniers will tell you that we can’t predict global temperatures in the future. Sometimes, they’ll say we’re heading for an ice age. Occasionally, contrarians will say that no single weather event can prove human-caused global warming. But…