Climate Illogic: Appealing to history to predict the future is often illogical
Arguing that something happening one way in the past means it can only happen that way is an illogical appeal to history. Continue reading →…
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Climate Science for Everyone: How do scientists measure the temperature of the Earth?
Scientists measure the Earth's temperature three ways - stationary surface thermometers, satellite-based microwave detectors, and balloon-carried thermometers. Continue reading →…
Large cuts to NOAA research, satellite operations will degrade weather forecasting and military preparedness
Donald wants to dramatically cut government funded research and satellite operations performed by NOAA without affecting the military. It won't work. Continue reading →…
Steve Milloy, a liar-for-hire and immoral hypocrite, was part of Donald’s EPA transition team
The fact that Steve Milloy was part of Donald's EPA transition team is one of the most disturbing things I've yet heard about out of the Administration. Continue reading →…
I’ve been keeping my powder dry
There’s an old phrase that comes from the 1800s – “keep your powder dry.” It harks back to a time when firearms were fired with black gunpowder, and wet gunpowder wouldn’t fire. The idea was that you wouldn’t be able…
When reaching out to better understand my fellow Americans, facts are non-negotiable
A shared, common understanding of the facts is a prerequisite for any attempts at understanding the perspectives of my fellow Americans. Continue reading →…
Newsmax has misrepresented the OISM’s Global Warming Petition Project 18 times since May 2008
Since May 2008, Newsmax has published 128 consistently biased and inaccurate articles, commentaries, and "native advertising" masquerading as investigative journalism about the Global Warming Petition Project. Continue reading →…
Five more conservative media sites have misrepresented OISM’s Global Warming Petition Project
The Independent Journal Review, The Blaze, the Wall Street Journal, Breitbart.com, and the New York Post have collectively misrepresented the Global Warming Petition Project eight times since 2008. Continue reading →…
Top conservative media sites regularly misrepresent OISM’s Global Warming Petition Project
S&R investigated the top 15 conservative and/or libertarian media sites for mentions of the Global Warming Petition Project. We found over 80 since May 2008, but only five were on Fox News. Continue reading →…
Two Senators and three supposed climate experts repeat errors or lies about the Global Warming Petition Project
Senators Michael Crapo and Orrin Hatch have implied that they agree with the Global Warming Petition Project's false, anti-consensus narrative while climate "experts" J. Scott Amstrong, Kesten C. Green, and Patrick Moore gave wrong and misleading testimony on the subject.…
Six more Congressmen make false statements about OISM’s Global Warming Petition Project
Representatives Conaway, Luetkemeyer, McKinley, Pearce, and Poe and Senator Inhofe have all made serious factual errors and repeated the false narrative that the Global Warming Petition Project represents an anti-climate change counter-consensus. Continue reading →…
Aderholt, King, Rohrbacher, Sessions, and Wicker have made incorrect statements about the Global Warming Petition Project
Combined, Robert Aderholt and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Dana Rohrbacher of California, Steve King of Iowa, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi have made ten false or misleading statements about the OISM's Global Warming Petition Project. Continue reading →…
Former Congressmen John Linder and Ron Paul made wrong and misleading claims about OISM Global Warming Petition Project
While Representatives John Linder of Georgia and Ron Paul of Texas are no longer representing their states, while they were in the House, they both made misleading and incorrect statements regarding the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's Global Warming…
The OISM’s climate change-denying Petition Project is a small percentage of the AMS, AGU, APS, ACS, and IEEE membership
No matter how you look at it – degrees awarded, employees working, or membership in professional organizations – the 31,487 names collected by the Global Warming Petition Project don't disprove the evidence-based scientific consensus that climate change is real. Continue…
Stranded Assets and the Bank of England
Mark Carney, the former Goldman Sachs banker and head of the Bank of Canada who now heads up the Bank of England, threw the City of London financial community into a bit of a tizzy recently. Carney picked up on…
Federal employment data also shows OISM’s climate change-denying Petition Project is a tiny minority
Not only do the 31,487 names collected by the Global Warming Petition Project represent a tiny minority of degrees issued, they also represent less than one half of one percent (0.44%) of people employed in their selected science and engineering…
Federal education data shows OISM’s climate change denying Petition Project actually a tiny minority
Far from being an alleged “counter-consensus,” the 31,487 names collected by the Global Warming Petition Project represent only 0.25% of science and engineering degrees awarded since 1970. Continue reading →…
Chill, baby, chill: Arctic oil exploration and climate security
My wife’s engagement ring contains a marquis cut diamond appraised at $2000. I bought it at a pawn shop for $600. The pawn broker was ready to shoot me dead if I tried to steal it. When I paid him…
Pulitzer-winning Colorado Springs Gazette ignores calls to correct their falsehood-filled global warming editorial
The Pulitzer-winning Colorado Springs Gazette has been informed twice about blatant falsehoods in their recent global warming editorial. The editorial board has failed to even acknowledge their error, never mind correct or retract the editorial. Continue reading →…
Pulitzer-winning Colorado Springs Gazette publishes error-filled global warming editorial
Four errors of fact, two innuendos, one serious distortion, and one uncredited image, any one of which should render an editorial unpublishable. Yet the Gazette's editorial contained all of them. Continue reading →…
Walking the walk on global warming – Renewable Journal for 2/25/2015
Leasing solar panels and acquiring an electric vehicle helped clear a mental block that had kept me from writing much about industrial climate disruption for about two years. Continue reading →…
Peddlers of climate change deceit have significant advantages over climate realists
Scientists are as sure of industrial climate disruption as they are that smoking causes lung cancer. So why hasn't the international community made progress toward addressing climate disruption? There are at least four reasons. Continue reading →…
Tom Harris’ commentaries intended to impede, not advance, public understanding of climate science
Harris' stated goals in his commentaries are diametrically opposed to the language and arguments he uses in support of those goals. Either he's incompetent at public relations, or he's not actually interested in moving forward the public debate on industrial…
Tom Harris distorts the maturity of global warming science and imagines expertise where little exists
Tom Harris' recent commentaries distort the maturity of the science underlying industrial climate disruption and conflate the real expertise of climate scientists with the imagined expertise of most "opinion leaders," engineers, and economists. Part Four of Six. Continue reading →…
Tom Harris places absurd limits on scientific truths and elevates ignorance to equal knowledge
Recent commentaries by Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition invoke a bizarro world where ignorance equals knowledge, where climate science can't be true unless it's transcendently True, and where there can be no unequivocal conclusions. Part Three of…
Tom Harris’ recent commentaries rife with errors and illogic
Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition is calling for the end of illogical arguments in the public discussion about climate disruption. But it's hard to take his calls serious given all the illogical arguments and errors he makes…
Tom Harris – hypocritical peddler of deceitful climate change editorials
S&R reviewed eight related commentaries written by Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition since mid-December. We found that the commentaries represent tone trolling and are packed them with distortions, errors, hypocrisy, and more. Part One of Six. Continue…
The Daily Caller distorts the results of the latest CNN/Gallup poll on global warming
While Bastach quoted extensively from the CNN story about the new poll, his story shows no indication that he dove any deeper than copying and pasting from CNN. When S&R dug into the poll itself, we found that those details…
War on Christmas: Let’s chop down the big tree.
Almost everything you buy in a retail store is made in China. The retail market is cornered. Let’s send the retail stores a message that we want our jobs back. This Christmas, don’t buy any gifts made with slave labor.…
Open Letter To America
What if I told you that all wars were waged over resources, that at the moment the most important resource in the world is oil, and that the war in the middle east and the trade war over the Alberta…