Merchants of Doubt Film Debuts, Textbook Denial Attack Campaign Led By Fred Singer Ensues
Merchants of Doubt, a new film from Food Inc. director Robert Kenner, hits the big screen nationwide this week and it is already making controversial headlines as the climate deniers go on the attack as predictably as possible. Merchants of Doubt zooms in on the anti-science campaign outlined in Naomi Oreskes’ book of the same name, and […]
Tar Sands by Rail Disasters: The Latest Wave in the Bomb Train Assault
With the first crash and explosion of a unit train of tar sands oil in Canada in February, we learned that the conventional wisdom among people covering the oil-by-rail industry regarding the flammability of tar sands oil has been dead wrong. A second derailment and explosion on March 7th involved synbit, which is a form […]
Court Lifts Gag Order On Coal Baron Don Blankenship in Criminal Trial
The media will finally get a glimpse into the criminal activity of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, as a federal appeals court has decided to lift a gag order that had been in place on the court proceedings that began with a criminal indictment against Blankenship in November 2014. The gag order prevented the court […]
Lilley Feels the Heat Over Climate Denial and Links to Torture Regime
Peter Lilley has come under attack for his paid work for the oil-rich Kazakhstan regime responsible for torture and the suppression of free speech. Rachel Burgin is fighting Lilley for his Hitchin and Harpenden seat at the general election, and early in the campaign, criticised his £15,000-a-year post advising the Kazakh government-funded Eurasian Council on Foreign […]
Will New Mexico Double Down On Dirty Energy?
The future of energy development in New Mexico’s Four Corners region is at a crossroads. The San Juan Generating Plant is slated to shut down half of its coal-burning capacity in 2017 and a new energy replacement plan must be decided upon. The Four Corners, where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah intersect, was dubbed […]
Climate Deniers Double Down on Doubt In Defense of Willie Soon
This is a guest post by Peter Dykstra cross-posted from Environmental Health News/The Daily Climate The most remarkable aspect of Willie Soon’s soiled science scandal is that in the light of damning evidence of a serious ethical lapse, the climate denial camp shows no interest in self-policing. When documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act showed Soon was promising […]
This is When Hockey Stick Author Michael Mann First Realised the True Magnitude of Climate Change
In Part II of our intimate interview with Professor Michael Mann he tells of the exact moment he fully acknowledged humans were driving climate change – and how his conversion was thanks to the invention of the colour printer. Read Part I here. The interview forms part of our Epic History of climate denial. Michael Mann, […]
Denial For Hire: Richard Lindzen Cites Debunked Science to Defend Willie Soon in Wall Street Journal
This is a guest post by Climate Nexus that originally appeared at Huffington Post. Richard Lindzen, an MIT professor and longtime climate contrarian, turned to the Wall Street Journal to rehash a series of oft-disproved claims that deny the growing and now unequivocal evidence of climate change, all in defense of a fellow “skeptic” whose […]
Ghost Town Left in the Wake of the Bayou Corne Sinkhole in Louisiana
Bayou Corne, 77 miles west of New Orleans, can be added to the growing list of communities destroyed by industrial accidents. “I wanted to stay in Bayou Corne for the rest of my life. I wanted to die here,” Mike Schaff, who recently moved out, told DeSmogBlog. “Texas Brine took that away from me. It’s […]
Fracking is Being Hyped by ‘Crazy Conservatives’ Says Ed Davey
Ed Davey, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, has criticised David Cameron’s Conservative party for over-hyping shale gas. “There are those people who think it’s the silver bullet. I call them the ‘frack-baby-frackers’ – some of the Conservative party who, you know, would frack every bit of croquet lawn if they possibly could,” […]