Tag: climate change
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Watch James Hansen's TED talk
I think it’s a nice, succinct description of the problem of climate change from one of the leaders of the field. On a related note the nation of Kiribati is relocating to Fiji as their island nation is disappearing.
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Are Liberals really more likely to accept science than conservatives Part II?
About a month ago I asked if denialism is truly more frequent on the right or is it that the issues of the day are ones that are more likely to be targets of right wing denialism? After all, one can think of slightly more left wing sources of denialism like GMO paranoia, 9/11 conspiracies,…
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The Heartland Documents, Doubt is their Product
Everyone is writing about desmogblog’s leak of internal documents from the Heartland Institute. But to me I think leaked documents are nothing compared to their fully public, out-in-the-open history of being openly contemptuous of science, funding cranks with advanced degrees (though not in climate) to disparage the field, and their hosting of denialpalooza. James rightly…