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Covert Bombing Kills Iranian Nuclear Scientist

January 19, 2012 by Dan Yurman
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An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in Tehran on January 11 by a bomb that was magnetically attached to his car. A driver, who doubles as a body guard, was also killed in the blast. The scientist was identified as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, age 32, who was a departmental manager at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. According to... [read more]

A Climate Change Reminder From 1956

March 24, 2011 by Lou Grinzo
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I’ve often linked to videos from Pete Sinclair’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week video series, because I think he does an outstanding job of focusing on specific topics in educational and often very entertaining ways. But one of his videos really stands out for me, Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past, which I’ve linked to here... [read more]

Speak no Evil

November 6, 2010 by Michael Tobis
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It's hard to stop thinking about all the oddities coming from Judith Curry. I think one could easily fill a blog just cataloguing them.Astonishingly, after all that she has said in the last few months, whe writes a piece today asking "how we can end the war with skeptics", where the collective pronoun includes herself not among skeptics... [read more]

Were world leaders misled when they decided to ban CFCs?

June 18, 2010 by Rod Adams
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Every once in a while, I write up an observation or thought that cannot be directly related to the kinds of energy discussions appropriate for Atomic Insights. I occasionally publish those observations on a separate blog called Questioning Attitude that is named after one of the life philosophies that Admiral Rickover encouraged in his... [read more]

How scientists think — and fight

March 29, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Today’s guest blogger is the best science writer in the country named Easterbrook.  Steve is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto.  He wrote a much admired comment on RealClimate, which offers a rare look into the scientific mindset. In the interest of bridging the two cultures, I asked if I could... [read more]

Open letter to U.S. government from over 250 U.S. scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports

March 15, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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[If you are a scientist wishing to sign the letter, please fill out the form on the this page.] It is our intention in offering this open letter to bring the focus back to credible science, rather than invented hyperbole, so that it can bear on the policy debate in the United States and throughout the world.  We first discuss some... [read more]

Scientists and economists call on Senate

March 11, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists and Economists Call on Senate to Address Climate Change Now: Nobel Prize-winning economists and scientists will deliver a letter to the U.S. Senate today, urging lawmakers to require immediate cuts in global warming emissions. The letter was signed by more than 2,000 prominent U.S. economists and climate... [read more]

Long Strange Trip

March 9, 2010 by Michael Tobis
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It's been a little less than three years since I started discussing the failures of climate communication on this blog. In that time, it has gone from an obscure obsession of my own to the front pages of newspapers around the world. It's been about a year and three weeks since I moved from being exasperated about how the press has been... [read more]

Sen. Inhofe inquisition seeking ways to criminalize and prosecute 17 leading climate scientists

February 25, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long-notorious global warming denialist propaganda. He is now using the resources of the Senate committee to seek opportunities to criminalize the actions of 17 leading scientists who have been associated with... [read more]

The Rochester Project

January 20, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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The Rochester Project is an attempt to bridge one of the two critical gaps inherent in our climate change challenge, namely the gap between what climate scientists know and what everyone else knows. In our increasingly polarized world, this gap, combined with the poor outreach skills of “our side”, allows delayers and deniers to slow... [read more]

Fighting Bad Science

November 23, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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One of the issues with how the UEA emails are perceived is whether the reader understands the context of the dubious pseudoscience and constant harassment the field faces. If you understand that, the emails are understandable and mostly excusable. If you don't, if you think that normal science is being stymied, then you come away with a... [read more]

UK Guardian: “To stop a climate catastrophe … Scientists must stop sanitising their message”

April 15, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Far from over-playing their hand to swell their research coffers, scientists have been toning down their message in an attempt to avoid public despair and inaction. The global warming deniers and their enablers and some in the media want you to believe that scientists are exaggerating the threat — which is why conservatives and... [read more]