Jean Goodwin teaches English somewhere in Iowa. She’s also written a paper about the “manufacture” of consensus in the IPCC reports on climate change. Its crap, but its a typical variety of crap, and so possibly interesting for that reason….
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: The State Of Climate Change Denial In Australia
The target is Hans Schellnhuber, advisr to the German government:. My Australian is a bit weak, but a loose translation of the guy in the clip is: “Before you begin, Mr Schellnhuber, I would like to present you a gift … I’d like to present…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Venues Cancel On Lord Monckton
No longer a big draw in the U.K, Climate Change Denier Chris Monckton (3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has spend the last couple of summers touring the former colonies. This summer, he’s back in Australia. But there’s a wee pr…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Scientists Swapping Data: Climate Scientists About As Open As Other Scientists!
This paper is based on a survey of scientists from various disciplines in regards to their hopes/dreams/fears/bitches whines/complaints re data sharing in their particular discipline. Having read it through, I don’t see anything too shoc…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: E&E Distances Itself From Peiser, GWPF And AGW Denialist Movement
E&E = Energy And Environment, the climate change denialists journal of choice. Peiser = Benny Peiser,up until recently co-editer of the journal, but now also working for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Rupert Murdoch Should Listen To His Momma
A group of prominent Australians has published an open letter calling for a price on carbon to help deal with climate change.
The letter is signed by four former Australians of the year – including Professor Fiona Stanley, Ian Kiernan, Professor Pat M…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dr. James Hansen
….on the Keystone XL pipe-line. Nothing you haven’t heard before, other than his opinion that the State Dept. is likely to give its approval. In any case, its the Northern Gateway that really needs to be stopped. It’s the one o…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Battling Ontario’s Anti-Wind NIMBYs
Environmental Defence has a nice take-down of John LaForet and the gang at Wind Concerns Ontario. Below is my favourite bit, because it answers a question that has bothered me for awhile:A big part of the anti-wind activists’ argument regarding viabi…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Edward Wegman: The Retraction
The following is the Elsevier retraction statement that will appear shortly. Retraction notice This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor in Chief and co‑Editors, as it contain portions of other authors’ writings on the same topic i…
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