By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. As Todd Bentley moved on from Wales and prepares to visit a meeting place that is advertised as not far from London, we can mention that other British newspapers have not found the evangelist’s return to Britain to be newsworthy yet.
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DeSmogBlog: Small Island States Fear "Annihilation" From Failed Climate Negotiations, Protests Mark COP17 Closing Hours
Karl Hood, Grenada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), responded to a question from veteran ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore about the fact that climate scientists believe it is impossible to keep global warming below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels: "If they're saying that
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: ChristianWeek covers Prairie Bible Institute but leaves out the wounded
While Canadian media was part of a blitz of coverage about abuse allegations at Prairie Bible Institute, evangelical media in Canada has been silent, until now. ChristianWeek is finally covering the story. For the most part the coverage is fair, using one of their writers for the main story and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: U.S. 2020 climate treaty proposal isn’t a delay—it’s a death sentence
Ed note: Originally published by our friends at Grist.org. by Jamie Henn of 350.org The U.N. climate talks desperately need a crisis. For the last 10 days, negotiations here in Durban, South Africa, have made little progress on the fundamental challenge these talks were set up to confront: how the world
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Jeanette Hawkins vs Daystar Television update
Last year Daystar Television founders Joni and Marcus Lamb used their television show Celebration and appearances on other network shows to claim they were being extorted by former employees who filed civil suits against them. Police investigated the extortion claim and found no wrongdoing; the lawyer for former employee Jeanette
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Sky Is Falling! Climate Deniers Parachute Into COP17 In Durban
Screen shot 2011-12-07 at 12.14.09 AM.png What’s that falling from the sky? A bird? A plane? No! It’s just crazy climate denier Christopher “Lord" Monckton! Apparently trying to one-up himself after the "Hitler Youth" debacle in Copenhagen in 2009. Monckton and his compatriots from the climate-denying, pollution-loving Committee For A
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Denial Of Facts Is No Way To Understand Science
On Thursday December 1st, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente declared herself a defender of scientific integrity by calling upon the scientific community to replace the “rhetoric” of climate change with open, honest debate. According to Ms. Wente, the impacts of climate change remain a future fantasy, unquantifiable by data collected
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Radio Topics, December 6th
Happy Tuesday! December has arrived, and we are into the final few shows of the year. Tune in to CKCU from 7-9 as we wind down the year. You may have missed it, but IKEA had built a new store in Ottawa. It sits next to the Queensway near pinecrest,
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “Beware of the tattoo preacher [Todd Bentley]“, Britian’s Sunday Express newspaper warns its readers
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. I can imagine that Todd Bentley might have been running around to every grocery and newsagents in Cwmbran, Wales, hoping that he could buy every copy of the Sunday Express that he could find before anyone read the newspaper’s story about
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Eddie Long divorce – on again, off again
Friday morning; I’m divorcing my husband. Court papers filed. Vanessa Long has been married to Eddie Long, head of the Atlanta New Birth Missionary Baptist Church since 1990, it is Eddie Long’s second marriage. Vanessa Long stated in the filing that the Long marriage was irretrievably broken with no hope
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Science of Debiasing: The New “Debunking Handbook” Is a Treasure Trove For Defenders of Reason
dbh_large.gif For quite some time here at DeSmogBlog, I’ve been writing about the growing science of irrationality—in other words, our ever-better scientific understanding of why people reject clearly correct information. I believe we can’t possibly get to a better place, in debates over issues like global warming, until we understand
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Skeptics Prefer Pal Review Over Peer Review: Chris de Freitas, Pat Michaels And Their Pals, 1997-2003
shutterstock_30172213.png Imagine for a moment that climate change skeptics actually submitted their anti-science arguments for publication in a credible peer-reviewed journal. Now imagine that, after thorough examination and debunking by their peers, these skeptics finally admitted their many false claims and assumptions, and perhaps some or all moved on to
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Radio Topics, November 29
It’s the end of November! We’ve got an exciting show lined up. At 8:05, we’ll hear from the executive director of the Canadian Museums Association. They’ll be in Ottawa this week to talk about the state of museums in Canada. We’ll also touch on some of the following: A lobbyist
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Do Developing Nation Journalists Cover Climate Science Better (or at Least Better Than U.S. and U.K. Papers)?
ronaldo-brazil-world-cup-top-scorer.jpg As the European debt crisis scrapes along, there has been talk about the possible need for developing nations, like China and Brazil, to ultimately help bail out some spendthrift “developed” nations. A new study suggests that maybe they should also help bail out some of our media. The study comes from
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: 30 million dead would perhaps be a “shaking”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission These days, there is a lot of talk in charismatic circles about whether there will be great shortages of food and water in the future. My e-mail inbox attests to that. It lists 19 diiferent e-mails regarding “shortages” send to me
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The view from here
I thought the white chunk in this picture was ice so I ignored it for awhile. Curiousity got the best of me and I went outside to take another look. It was a bit odd, the seagulls had taken off, and a raven had landed and squawked. Ravens don’t land on
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Polygamy is still illegal, B.C. Supreme Court rules
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission The fundamentalist Mormon sect in B.C. that has allowed its male members to practice polygamy for years has been told, again, that what they are doing is illegal in a B.C. Supreme Court ruling today. Justice Robert Bauman ruled that laws
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: East Anglia SwiftHack Email Nontroversy Returns: What You Need To Know
The desparate attempt by climate change deniers to sully climate scientists returns today with the release of 5,000 emails stolen back in 2009 during the original "Climategate" hacking of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit email servers. Other than a great attempt at ruining another Thanksgiving holiday for American
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: 2011 Canadian Blog Awards
It’s time to appeal to BDBO readers again. Comeon, you didn’t think I’d let this go, did you?;^) Voting is open in the 2011 Canadian Blog Awards, and as some of you know, BDBO is up in the Religion and Philosophy category. The folks who put this blog appreciation fest on yearly
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It (and to Vindicate Jon Stewart!)
cavuto-20070117-global-2.jpg Two of my most popular posts here at DeSmogBlog were a pair of items documenting 1) just how many surveys have found Fox News viewers to be more misinformed about factual reality and 2) taking PolitiFact to task for giving Jon Stewart a “false” rating when he pointed this out.
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