Tag Archives: politics
Remember “How to Lie with Statistics” ?
The tax Americans love
General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real,
“…dissuading teachers from teaching science.”
More on that WSJ Editorial
(Referring to this post)
While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower
The WSJ OpEd makes a lot of hay from having 16 scientists sign it, but of those only 4 are actually climate scientists. And that bragging right is crushed to dust when you find out that the WSJ turned down an article about the reality of global warming that was signed by 255 actual climate scientists. In fact, as Media Matters reports, more of the signers of the WSJ OpEd have ties to oil interests than actually publish peer-reviewed climate research.
Why does Newt Gingrich want to build a moon base?
Dismal Science at the Wall Street Journal
Also see the links here.
State of the Climate
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
Reported in NASA Finds 2011 is Ninth-Warmest Year on Record and 2011: The 9th hottest year on record.
Also 2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts
MIT Climate Scientist’s Wife Threatened in a “Frenzy of Hate” and Cyberbullying Fomented by Deniers
Newt Note
From the Bad Astronomer
For those saying we should launch Newt to the Moon, please be serious. We don’t have that kind of launch capacity for his ego.