Amy Ridenour forgets Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 3:56 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 15:56

From time to time I hear from a small DC group with the impressive sounding name: the"National Centre for Public Policy Research" (NCPPR).

Their president Amy Ridenour took a jab at me the other day with this strange sentence - obviously crafted to incite controversy:

"Kindness is not usually a term one associates with the anti-Holocaust global warming denier website DeSmogBlog, but its staff has made an exception today."

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Saturday January 16, 2010 · 9:51 AM PST

2010/01/16 · 09:51

The climate denial echo chamber is again in high gear trying to assassinate the character of respected scientist Michael Mann of Penn State. Their latest ruse is to squawk that Dr. Mann is the indirect recipient of federal stimulus dollars.

That is not at all surprising since last year $3 billion in federal stimulus funds was provided to the National Science Foundation in addition to their normal budget of about $6 billion. That means that about one third of all research grants from the NSF nation-wide benefited from stimulus money.

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 2:01 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 14:01

Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE), the 4th largest coal producer in the country is running political-style attacks in West Virginia claiming that "tree hugging extremists and self-serving politicians" are killing jobs, while the coal industry is "fighting hard for Appalachian jobs" and "what's right."

I am assuming that when Massey talks about fighting for Appalachian jobs they aren't referring to the fact that earlier in 2009 they cut employee pay by 6% and then recently increased the performance bonus for Massey's CEO, Don Blankenship, by $600,000.

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 10:04 AM PST

2009/12/17 · 10:04

Cross your fingers that this latest revelation is another Yes Men hoax. [update: I've confirmed that this was NOT a Yes Men hoax]

A draft copy of a confidential memo to the UNFCCC Secretariat has surfaced here at the Copenhagen climate talks that has some pretty disturbing analysis. The memo dated December 15, concludes that at this point in the climate talks:

"Unless the remaining gap of around 1.9 to 4.2 Gt is closed and Parties commit themselves to strong action prior and after 2020, global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550ppm with the related temperature raise around 3 degrees Celsius." [my emphasis]

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 3:01 AM PST

2009/12/13 · 03:01

Last week at the Copenhagen climate summit, we saw Christopher Monckton, the head of the delegation for the oil industry-friendly Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), accuse young climate change activists of being "Nazis" and the "Hitler youth."

Another member of Monckton's Copendenier delegation is a gentleman by the name of S. Fred Singer, who is well known to our team at the DeSmogBlog.

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Thursday December 10, 2009 · 12:30 PM PST

2009/12/10 · 12:30

Fifty young U.S. clean energy activists stormed the stage today in Copenhagen during a live webcast organized by Americans for Prosperity and featuring climate denier Lord Christopher Monckton.

When the youth group interrupted the webcast to deliver the message that real Americans want clean energy and a fair climate treaty, Monckton went ballistic, calling the students "crazed Hitler youth" and "Nazis."

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Tuesday December 08, 2009 · 9:21 PM PST

2009/12/08 · 21:21

At least one of the scientists being accused by industry groups and right-wing think tanks of hiding their climate research data, appears in an email we found in the stolen files to be more than happy with sharing his data.

Not only does he share it, but he does so with a person he's never even met before!

Now that our research team has completed a thorough analysis of the entire 1000+ email record, we'll be publishing a lot of the information in the coming days that runs counter to the claims made by those using these leaked emails to further their own political agendas.

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 12:34 PM PST

2009/12/07 · 12:34

One of the more egregious examples of the public relations spin on the East Anglia hacked email story involves a six-year-old research paper authored by Sallie Baliunas, an American astrophysicist affiliated with at least nine oil-industry-funded organizations.

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Sunday December 06, 2009 · 1:45 PM PST

2009/12/06 · 13:45

Watch this video and tell me how anyone can still think the stolen climate change email controversy is anything more than manufactured by the right-wing media echo machine and their fossil fuel friends in the free market think tanks:

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 4:15 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 16:15

On the heels of the controversial story about emails and data stolen by hackers from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, it has now been revealed that individuals posing as network technicians recently attempted to infiltrate another climate data center operated by the Government of Canada.

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Thursday December 03, 2009 · 3:34 PM PST

2009/12/03 · 15:34

The most vocal organizations around the University of East Anglia hacked email story (aka. "climategate") have been involved in a decade-plus campaign to delay action on climate change.

The goal of this campaign, which began around the time of the first Kyoto Protocol negotiations, was to assemble a group of like-minded "free-market" think tanks and pseudo-experts that would bring into question the scientific realities of climate change, create doubt with the public and politicians and effectively delay the introduction of clean energy policy in the United States.

It's no coincidence that the groups pushing this story the hardest have a long history of taking money from oil and coal companies to attack the conclusions made by climate scientists.

What I wouldn't do to have a few of these organizations private emails over the years!

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Tuesday December 01, 2009 · 7:52 PM PST

2009/12/01 · 19:52

Phil Jones, the Director of the Climate Research Unit, announced today that he will step down from his position pending investigation into the matter of the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia servers.

Normally I post long detailed articles, but tonight's is very simple and more about hearing what the Kos community has to say.

Should Phil Jones have stepped down?

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