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How to Talk to a Climate ‘Skeptic’

By Erik Curren | September 10, 2019

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...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate skeptics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Oct 2010, United Nations

This old trick used by climate science deniers still works

By Erik Curren | February 14, 2014

doubt graffitti

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...]

Filed Under: Books, Climate Tagged With: climate science deniers, corporate profits, David Michaels, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, public relations industry

Typhoons, climate talks and denial

By Staff Reports | November 13, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan damage

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...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate science deniers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Naderev Saño, Phiippines, Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan

Humanity’s heating of planet is planting seeds of hunger: Report

By Staff Reports | September 27, 2013

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...]

Filed Under: Climate, Food Tagged With: Bangladesh, famine, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nepal, Oxfam, Pakistan, Russia

Everything old will be new again

By Vicki Lipski | December 1, 2010

Global warming graphic.

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...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate skeptics, conservation, Dec 2010, energy policy, global climate disruption, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, peak oil

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