Heartland, Gleick, and the Law
The Columbia Journalism Review talks to *gasp* actual lawyers in an attempt to answer the legal questions surrounding the Gleick/Heartland document leak. Related posts (randomly generated) Telcos Respond to Spying…
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Climate denial at a Canadian university
One of the most troubling aspects of the leaked Heartland Institute documents was the revelation that they were planning to create a school curriculum for K-12 students that “that shows…
Who’s writing style most closely matches the Heartland memo
One of the early claims made accusing Peter Gleick of faking the Heartland memo (before he admitted to being the source of the other documents) had to do with his…
Ethical considerations regarding Heartland/Gleick
Note: This is just a personal account of my thinking and subject to change upon further reflection. First I need to stress that I have no real journalism training. I…
Double standards
This excerpt of a comment by climatehawk1 gets to an important point that usually doesn’t get enough attention and deserves to be promoted: If Gleick’s reputation is “in ruins,” what…
New lows?
Keith Kloor is claiming that the Gleick/Heartland stolen documents incident is a new low in the climate wars. But is it? Is tricking Heartland into sending some documents really any…
Here come the lawyers
Over the weekend Planet3.0 reported that the Heartland Institute was threatening to sue anyone who commented on the leaked documents. Well yesterday they sent letters to Desmogblog, Greg Landen, David…
The send-packs-of-lawyers strategy
The Heartland Institute is obviously not happy about those leaked documents. In fact they are so unhappy that they have threatened to sue anyone who has dared comment on the…
The Debunking Handbook
Debunking myths and falsehoods is not always as straight forward as it might seem. Thankfully John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky have produced a Debunking Handbook that is straight forward. Related…
Of emails and scientific research
Here we go again. Just like in 2009, on the eve of a major UN climate conference some hacker or group of hackers released a bunch of emails illegally obtained…
The science behind a climate headline
The scope of the science that goes behind a single headline is greater than almost anyone realizes. Related Posts (auto generated and almost random): Sea will rise ‘to levels of…
The unethical proponents of ethical oil
The decision to approve the keystone XL pipeline might have been delayed until 2013 (which the cynic in me says is just so that it can then be approved without…
A picture is worth a thousand words… a graph more so
Click to embiggen Going Down the Up Escalator: Created by dana1981 at Skeptical Science (here and here). Temperature data are noisy, it isn’t hard to find a few years where…
Greenhouse Gases Worse Than Worst Prediction: Reactions
Global greenhouse gas emissions saw their biggest single-year jump ever between 2009 and 2010, exceeding worst-case scenario projections with an increase of 564 million tons. A newspaper collected interesting person-on-the-street…
NEW FEATURE: What’s New In Science
Edited by “ThingsBreak”, we introduce a new feature of Planet3.0, the What’s New in Science page, which will feature abstracts of recent peer reviewed publications that may be of interest…
Planet3.0 Launches!!!
This news is a little stale by now, but the big skunk-works project that has monopolized my time and prevented me from getting podcasts out has launched. Planet3.0 is a…
Where is the podcast?
I haven’t released a podcast in a long time and you, my loyal fans, deserve an explanation. And while I have a good explanation, I can’t really tell you about…