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A Look at the Shills, Skeptics and Hobbyists Lumped Together in Climate Denialism
2014-02-19 18:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: n his contribution to the recent discussion of Secretary of State John Kerrys speech on global warming, David Victor of the University of California, San Diego, included this line: [T]he whole climate science and policy community is spending too much time thinking about the denialists and imagining that if we could just muzzle or convince these outliers that policy would be different. Thats not rightin part because the denialists arent such a hearty band and in part because the real barriers...
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Bill Maher, Bill Nye hit climate change skeptics
2014-02-15 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Scientist Bill Nye "the Science Guy' and liberal comic Bill Maher criticized creationists and climate change deniers, but said the biggest issue is what is being taught in school. 'My concern is for the students for the kids...that are brought up with this,' Nye said Friday on his HBO program "Real Time with Bill Maher.' Nye, who debated creationist Ken Ham this week said he respects Ham's passion but added what was difficult about it "was not slapping my forehead, not freaking out.' Maher,...
Manhattan-Sized Ice Chunk Breaks Off Glacier, Sends Message to Climate Change Skeptics
2014-02-03 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: When the documentary Chasing Ice came out in 2012, it included footage of the largest glacier calving event ever caught on film. Two years later, the filmmakers hope to use that monumental capture as visual proof of climate change. In March they begin a several-month tour, stopping in the Congressional districts of climate-change denying legislators. The idea is to shift the debate back from politics to science, to determine what happens when people can actually see rather than just hear about...
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Climate-Change Skeptics Have Right to Free Speech, Too
2014-01-31 07:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: I find myself tugged in two directions by the latest ruling in the defamation suit filed by climatologist Michael Mann. A professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, Mann has long been an object of ire among climate-change skeptics. Now it seems they have let their ire get out of hand. The lawsuit centers around an article published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and reprinted by the National Review that labeled Mann -- co-author of the well-known hockey-stick graph --...
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Democrats prepare to square off with climate change skeptics
2014-01-13 12:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Fossil fuel emissions, buoyed by a slight increase in coal usage, despite President Barack Obamas Republican-dubbed war on coal, rose by 2 percent in 2013, officials announced on Monday. According to a report in The Hill, it is the first increase in carbon emissions in three years. "Coal has regained some market share from natural gas since a low in April 2013; however the impact on overall emissions trends remains fairly small," the Energy Information Administration statement. Last week,...
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