Climate Denial Playbook: Marc Morano's History of Bullying Scientists
If you’ve even heard of Marc Morano, you probably watched him angrily attacking a climate scientist, journalist or Al Gore on Fox News or on his blog Climate Depot, a project of the Donors Trust and oil industry-funded CFACT. Morano is so agitated in his climate denial that he once advocated that climate scientists be “publicly […]
Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to release its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) – the latest installment of its comprehensive assessment of climate science – early next year, the science is already under attack. As the U.S. Global Change Research Program puts the final draft of the third National Climate Assessment together, also […]
University of Tennessee "Frackademia" Program Put to Rest, For Now
University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s “frackademia” program proposal – set to transform UT‘s Institute of Agriculture into a de facto fracking land leasing agency – has been put to rest for now, according to The Tennesseean. In short: the university’s premiere leasing proposal for acreage didn’t recieve a single bid. UT-Knoxville’s proposed program – as revealed in a DeSmogBlog investigation – intended to research wells […]
Louisiana Governor Jindal Not Buying BP Spin on Gulf Coast Impacts
Have environmental priorities finally trumped extreme right wing politics in the deep south? Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal has heard enough from oil giant BP, taking them to task recently for destroying sensitive coastal areas during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. For those of us who live along the Gulf Coast, it’s good to see that Louisiana Governor Bobby […]
Harper’s Climate Concession: Canada Increasingly Desperate to Secure Keystone XL Approval
Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s hopes for the approval and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport Alberta tar sands crude across the US to refineries and export facilities in the Gulf Coast, hit a stumbling block this summer when Obama announced he will take Canada’s growing emissions problem into account when considering the […]
Uncontrolled CNRL Tar Sands Spill Ongoing, 1.4M Litres Recovered
New figures released yesterday from the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) show a concerted effort is still underway to clean up the growing amount of bitumen emulsion – a mixture of tar sands oil and water – that is pooling in a forested area surrounding Canada Natural Resource Ltd.’s Cold Lake project. The cause of the […]
Fracking Away Our Water Supply
As many areas of the country experience severe droughts, the fight for clean, fresh water is becoming vital to survival for many American citizens. The problem has been made worse by the expansion of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which gobbles up hundreds of millions (billions, according to some estimates) of gallons of potable water every month. The […]
Conspiracies Fuel Climate Change Denial and Belief in Chemtrails
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails”. Some also claimed the column supported geoengineering, which it didn’t. The reaction got me wondering […]
"Frackademia" By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it’s another year of academia for professors across the United States – and another year of “frackademia” for an increasingly large swath of “frackademics” under federal law. “Frackademia” is best defined as flawed but seemingly legitimate science and economic studies on the controversial oil and gas horizontal drilling […]
Judge Denies National Review's Motion to Reconsider Ruling in Michael Mann's Defamation Case
Cross-posted with permission from Climate Science Watch. “The Court finds that there is sufficient evidence in the record to demonstrate that Plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits,” said a DC Superior Court judge in her latest procedural ruling in the defamation case of Michael Mann v. National Review, et al. “The evidence before the […]