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Media partly to blame for climate confusion

November 23, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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My Clean Break column today takes a look at the media’s role in spreading confusion regarding the science of climate change. I decided to write this column after reading Climate Cover-Up by James Hoggan of DesSmogBlog.com, but also after getting a chance to talk to some front-line U.S. government scientists during my recent retreat... [read more]

Media tipping point (at long last)?

October 27, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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I have to admit, I was already very impressed with the smattering of mainstream media pieces I’ve seen that treated the superfreaks, a.k.a. Levitt and Dubner, the authors of the (apparently) spectacularly bad Superfreakonimics, like the truth abusers they are. The best example I had seen until the other day was Eric Pooley’s Bloomburg... [read more]

Myth of Cooling Globe shattered by AP-sponsored ‘blind’ test

October 26, 2009 by A Siegel
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Just over the weekend, my inbox was filled with a discussion attacking climate science with assertions that “none of the models predicted the current cooling period” and, therefore, the entire concept of Global Warming rests on very shaky grounds. Sigh … Those involved in that discussion have now received links to an excellent article... [read more]