Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Speaks Truth to Power at Conclusion of COP17 in Durban
Perhaps the most powerful speech made in all of COP17 at Durban came at the very end, a statement by Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic…
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Why the Sunday Express newshounds are on the trail of the Todd Bentley fox?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…