In the space of six days, Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper has published five news stories and an opinion piece attacking the credibility of the Australian government’s weather and climate…
CLEAN COAL, it’s the two-word catch phrase the coal industry has used for years as it tries to convince the world its climate changing energy source has a future. While…
Put up your hand if you’ve been a follower of news about climate change in recent years and haven’t heard of the “hockey stick” graph. Nobody? No, didn’t think so.…
The headline on The Australian newspaper’s story about a leak of a major United Nations climate change report read “We got it wrong on warming, says IPCC”. But an investigation…
In early 2012, it seemed like the future of Bjørn Lomborg’s influential think tank was in serious doubt. The Danish Government had changed its political stripes and the millions in…
AN Australian Federal MP is planning to join some of the world’s noisiest deniers of the science of climate change at a conference in Las Vegas in a few weeks…
One of the most consistent of all the attacks from climate science sceptics and deniers is the one which tries to convince the public that expert scientists are divided on…
THERE’S an old proverb that suggests it’s always the lie that gets half way around the world while the truth is still pulling its boots on. But if evidence from…
“Some are calling it the new Climategate,” said Fox News’ Washington reporter Doug McElway. McElway was reporting on a story published in the UK’s The Times newspaper that claimed climate…
With his thumbs pointing almost permanently skywards, the copyrighted mascot Hector the Lump of Coal wants to talk to kids about the arts, dental hygiene, bullying, sun safety and pretty…
Both online and on television, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers is telling Australians that it cares more about the environment than energy. How this message might…
It’s amazing what qualifies for a tax break in Australia these days. The climate science misinformation promotion unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, a Melbourne-based “free market” think tank,…
Three university professors are resigning as editors at a scientific publisher in protest at its decision to retract research linking climate change scepticism to conspiratorial thinking. Professors Ugo Bardi, of…
A university has criticized conservative media for a serious misrepresentation of one of its academics that sparked a torrent of abuse from climate science deniers. As revealed by DeSmogBlog, Rochester…
“DIE you maggot,” reads one of the hundreds of emails from climate science deniers that have dropped into philosopher Lawrence Torcello’s inbox in recent days. “Fortunately, your kind will be…
A psychology journal is said to be preparing to retract a scientific paper that found a link between conspiratorial thinking and the rejection of global warming science after climate sceptics…
Prince Charles is a “global warming Nazi” and, apparently, so is U.S. President Barack Obama. That’s according to Dr. Roy Spencer, one of the world’s most often cited deniers of…
ONE block east of Grand Central station, in a skyscraper on 42nd St, is the office of Australia’s Consul General. It’s a high profile diplomatic role and one that gives…
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) seems a confusing and confused organisation of major coal miners and burners – even if you only consider its oxymoronic title. When…
WHAT follows are some thoughts about coal from a report just published in Australia. A longer-term concern relates to the environmental impacts of large-scale coal use, especially its climate consequences….…
