We originally published this piece in September of 2010, but because we still get comments from climate science deniers, as a service to our readers, we've just updated it and published it again. -- Editor We've all had the experience: Arguing with somebody who doesn't believe that climate change is real. You know there's no way to win. You'll never convince a real science … [Read more...]
This old trick used by climate science deniers still works
Public relations firms are expensive, but for big corporations doing bad stuff to the public, PR is a good investment. For more than half a century, PR guys have been smart in shielding their corporate clients from harm, earning their fees many times over by helping keep profits high for corporate poisoners and corporate polluters. Take cigarettes, for example. In the … [Read more...]
Typhoons, climate talks and denial
It’s a good day to write about climate science and climate denial. A typhoon of historically unprecedented strength hit the Philippines last weekend, with reports of 2,000 to 2,500 dead. Homes and lives are devastated, corpses hang from trees and litter the rubble of houses and buildings. At the UN Climate Talks being held in Warsaw this week, the lead negotiator from the … [Read more...]
Humanity’s heating of planet is planting seeds of hunger: Report
Ahead of IPCC report on global warming, Oxfam warns of dangerous spiral of poverty and food scarcity It is nearly a cliché to declare that the failure of the world's governments to respond to the repeated warnings by scientists and environmentalists about the perils of climate change is a crime against future generations. However, as a new study released Monday by Oxfam … [Read more...]
Everything old will be new again
If global warming were an election, we'd all be nodding sagely and pontificating, “People vote their pocketbooks. That’s what everyone cares about.” Money tends to reduce all arguments to the basics; either you’ve got enough, or you haven’t. What happens, then, when climate change is found to be a pocketbook issue? To what degree can we expect people to understand that the … [Read more...]