While it’s usually not particularly difficult to track how dirty-money think tanks, pseudo-media outlets and advocacy groups are related, we recently stumbled across a group that makes it all too easy: Talent Market. Admittedly, we’re a little late to the party. Noam Scheiber at the New York Times called it the “right wing’s casting agency” back […]
The world experienced a few centuries of apocalyptic conditions 42,000 years ago, triggered by a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles combined with changes in the Sun’s behaviour. That’s the key finding of our new multidisciplinary study, published in Science. By Chris Fogwill, Keele University; Alan Hogg, University of Waikato; Chris Turney, UNSW, and Zoë […]
Facebook is finally working with some of the experts like John Cook who the Denier Roundup’s been telling you about for years now, announcing last week that they’re starting to incorporate more thorough fact checking measures. Better late than never! By Climate Denier Roundup But this also means that the complaints from deniers are about to […]
Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless. Roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s suitable land surface is used for cropland and grazing. The number of domestic animals far outweighs remaining wild populations. Every day, more primary forest falls against a tide of crops and pasture and each year an area as large […]
This week, a blast of Arctic air has engulfed much of the central US, bringing freezing conditions and record low temperatures to many states. Texas, in particular, has been badly affected, with grid operators hit by power outages and struggling to provide electricity to millions of residents. The events have triggered a wave of media reaction […]
Since this week has been nothing but wall-to-wall Texas disinformation (the Wall Street Journal has yet another editorial tripling down on the lie, and a column doing the same) today we’re catching up on a great piece from last week. Zahra Hirji spoke to a variety of EPA veterans for Buzzfeed to get a sense of just how bad it […]
As legitimate media has struggled to catch up with the professional liars who blamed wind for gas and coal’s failure to perform to expectations in Texas, those committed to the party line will keep on lying, as evidenced by a second Wall Street Journal editorial on the topic, just as false as the first. When the Republican […]
The coal, gas and nuclear power plants that generate most of the world’s electricity have to be kept cool in order to function properly. However, this will be increasingly challenging as the world gets warmer. By Dr Ethan Coffel and Dr Justin Mankin Carbon Brief Waste heat from these facilities is typically released into the atmosphere or nearby […]
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Monday highlighted a Wall Street Journal story on Deb Haaland—President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior—with a tweet accurately stating: “Interior secretary nominee has joined pipeline protests and opposed fracking.” Interior secretary nominee has joined pipeline protests and opposed fracking https://t.co/IDFBD1bOgk — Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) February 15, […]
The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon – the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In […]
Editor’s note: This post from last winter is getting a lot of fresh attention thanks to its appearance somewhere in the Google news feed last week. Although the details of the state of the tropospheric and stratospheric vortexes in this post are from last year, the explanation of the basic science of these atmospheric features […]
Big companies donated to climate deniers in Congress – even while claiming to care about climate change. When those same lawmakers denied the results of the election, the bill came due. By Molly Taft and Matteo Farinella Nexus Media News At the 2018 UN climate conference in Poland, visitors could watch a virtual forest degrade […]
For the first time, Shell has released a “pathway” showing how the world could potentially meet the Paris Agreement’s ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C. This marks a significant shift in attitude towards action on climate change, given that only six years ago executives at the oil-and-gas major were sceptical about warming not […]
For decades, polluters and their apologists have conducted a concerted campaign to discredit and destroy science they knew showed how burning fossil fuels is a public health threat. (There’s even a pithy hashtag!) Then, in the 1990s, when the EPA considered regulating second-hand smoke, the tobacco industry devised a plan to substantially restrict the science EPA […]
More than eight years ago, noted Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann threatened to sue two right-wing bloggers and their publishers for defamation. Both the anti-regulation think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the National Review magazine defended attacks on Mann’s scientific conclusions and compared him to Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State assistant football coach convicted of child sexual abuse. By Meteor […]