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The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard

Posted by Climate change 15 Feb 2012

Source: Al Jazeera. If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet – as we shall see – it’s unfortunately largely invisible to us. In compensation, though, we have some truly beautiful images made possible by new technology. [...]

Conservatives Use Creationist Playbook to Attack Climate Change Education in Schools

Posted by News, Top Stories 26 Jan 2012

Source: AlterNet. A few years ago, Cheryl Manning assigned a research project on climate change to her high school environmental science class in Evergreen, Colo. She presented the basic facts and data from peer-reviewed studies, then asked the students to look into the issue themselves and report back on what they learned. Halfway through the unit, three students came to class up in arms.

To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

Posted by Climate change 28 Nov 2011

Source: The Nation. There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, [...]

The ‘Green Dragon’ Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection

Posted by Climate change, Papers 1 May 2011

Source: People For the American Way. While people across the world celebrate their commitment to environmental protection and sustainability, a powerful coalition of corporate and religious right organizations are seeking to radically redefine our relationship with the environment. In a new report, The ‘Green Dragon’ Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection, [...]

The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science

Posted by Belief, Features 18 Apr 2011

Source: Mother Jones. A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.” So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger, in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial — the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, [...]

What Motivates a Climate Skeptic?

Posted by Climate change, Opinion 13 Apr 2011

Source: DeSmogBlog. I always like digging around in the academic literature for insights about today’s politicized science battles. Now that social scientists have begun to apply themselves to public fights over the hard sciences, I find that they have a great deal to offer. The latest exhibit: The work of Andrew J. Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.

Naomi Klein: Why Climate Change Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues

Posted by Climate change, Features 4 Apr 2011

Source: Alternet. Amy Goodman: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She’s writing a new book on climate change and the climate change deniers. Naomi, take it from there. Naomi Klein: The book is not about the deniers, but it does get into it, because I started trying [...]

Why the BBC’s ‘impartial’ stance on climate science is irresponsible

Posted by Climate change, Top Stories 5 Mar 2011

Source: The Guardian. A bizarre performance by former TV presenter Johnny Ball on Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Politics show has once again highlighted the BBC‘s unsuccessful struggle to balance accuracy and impartiality when it comes to climate change.

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Posted by Books, Highlights 19 Feb 2011

Exclusive excerpt from “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. This book tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

UK’s Prince Charles blasts climate-change skeptics

Posted by Climate change, Papers 9 Feb 2011

Source: AP. Prince Charles lashed out Wednesday at climate change skeptics, saying they are playing “a reckless game of roulette” with the planet’s future. Skeptics are having a “corrosive effect” on public opinion, the British heir to the throne added. “Their suggestion, that hundreds of scientists around the world … are somehow unconsciously biased, creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine [...]

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