fred singer new.jpg S. Fred Singer Lied to the IRS about identity of his chair The new report by computer scientist, researcher and DeSmogBlog contributor John Mashey (next post), completely corroborates the authenticity of leaked Heartland Institute budget, planning and fundraising documents released on the DeSmogBlog earlier today. Mashey's report also
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DeSmogBlog: Heartland Insider Exposes Institute’s Budget and Strategy
heartland.gif An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self "Heartland Insider" has released the Heartland Institute's budget, fundraising plan, its Climate Strategy for 2012 and sundry other documents (all attached) that prove all of the worst allegations that have been levelled against the organization. read more
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Enbridge Board: A foreign Special Interest Group
Joe Oliver.jpg If Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is looking for ideologues and "foreign special interest groups" who are trying to interfere with the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline hearings, he need look no farther than the Board of Directors of pipeline proponent Enbridge Inc. Oliver got his lapels all flecked
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: NCC: Not Much Blood on Canada’s Hands!
NCC logo.jpg It's Christmastime in Canada – when all self-satisfied ideologues take a moment to lift the finger of blame and point it at somebody else. "Credit" for outstanding performance in this regard must go to National Citizens Coalition President andf CEO Peter Coleman. In ringing defence of the former NCC
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: DeSmogger "Caught" in Climategate Emails
Eagle catching fish.jpg The heretofore anonymous blogger Tom Nelson REVEALED today that even the DeSmogBlog has been caught in the talons of the DenierMobsters who are responsible for stealing the Climategate emails (two years ago) and retreading the bumptious "scandal" this year. The (partial) quote now making the rounds (see also
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Franke James Video: Give Harper the Call
0_FrankeOnTheHill_2_web.jpg Even as the Harper government works overtime to represent the oil industry (and humiliate Canadians) at climate talks in Durban, South Africa, the tireless and ridiculously optimistic Franke James tries again to make her point: that tying the Canadian economy – and the world's future – to dirty oil
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climategate Hackers Slither Again in the Night
climategate_cartoon.jpg Steal More; Reveal Less The Climagegate hackers appear to be at it again, spraying the internet with dozens of out-of-context quotes from a new batch of stolen emails – in a transparent attempt to disrupt the climate talks starting next week in Durban, South Africa. The emails, from a source that
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: BEST busts Urban Heat Island Myth
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Richard Muller not a Koch lackey after all …
During all the bad days when people were coughing up chunks of lung while the TV still touted Camels, it was never…
DeSmogBlog: Talisman funded Friends of Science skeptic film
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Calgary oil company Talisman Energy has been outed as the major funder behind a Friends of Science video series that falsely tried to claim legitimacy by tacking a University o…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: National Science Foundation vindicates Michael Mann
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Carbon steel “hockey stick” stronger than ever
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of the Inspector General, having conducted a thorough review and investigation into al…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: NAS President Peter Wood: wrong, dishonest or hopelessly compromised?
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New Mashey Report Disrobes Climate Disinformer
What would cause a senior anthropologist such as Peter Wood to stagger outside his field of expertise and launch a bitchy, perso…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Artist Franke James has Harper quaking in fear
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If Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is this frightened, then we can only assume that the visual artist from Toronto, Franke James, is THAT scary!
As reported most recentl…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Petermann iceberg visible from Labrador – and from space
The Petermann Ice Island, a Manhattan-sized iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland last August, has since traveled almost 4,800 kilometres (3,000 miles) and is currently bumping off the Canadian coast of Labrador.
The glacier is so …
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Canadian Geologists Embarrass Themselves on Climate
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The joint conference of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) and the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) included a DenierFest sideshow worthy of the Heartland Inst…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Al Gore Roasts Obama Over Climate Position
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In a scorching, 7000-word article in the coming issue of Rolling Stone, Al Gore savages mainstream media for its incompetent reporting of climate change and roasts President Barack Obam…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: UK Climate Denial Tank Shuts its Doors
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The International Policy Network, one of the U.K.’s most prominent climate-change-denying think tanks, has shut its doors, apparently after an internal battle during which scienc…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Ice Age Cancelled: Deniers Destined for Disappointment
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The web is alive with idiotic commentary this week after the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division heard three new studies, all pointing towards declin…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Skeptical Science launches interactive history
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The great Australian blog SkepticalScience has launched an Interactive History of Climate Science that provides an instant – and visual – reference for the overwhelmi…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Science article recognizes John Mashey
Updated: With complete list of Mashey Papers
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, periodic DeSmogBlog contributor and “one of the good guys” John Mashey is the subject of an extremely favorable profile this week in Science.
Science writer Eli Kintis…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Wegman Report: Not just plagiarism, misrepresentation
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New Mashey Report Drills into Academic Misconduct
The 2006 Wegman Report to Congress, already under investigation for extensive plagiarism, also appears to be guilty of falsificati…