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Denier Sickened Over Supposedly Subliminal Suggestion That Deniers Are Pedophiles
Trigger Warning: this post discusses sexual harassment and child abuse On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Lawrence Krauss criticizing the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual “Doomsday Clock” warning. While it’s no surprise to...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/24/2020 3
Renewable Friday: California Leads the Nation, as Usual
The last time Right wing Republicans were in charge in California, under Gov. Pete Wilson, they pushed through the infamously anti-immigrant Prop. 187 , and destroyed themselves in the state. Then ...
Mokurai 01/24/2020 15
Deniers Double Down On Debunked-For-Decades Myth that ‘CO2 is Plant Food That’s Good For The Planet’
While elected Republicans struggle to find a way to make it look as though they’re doing something about climate change without actually doing anything to upset their fossil fuel funders, for die-hard deniers it’s more of the same: repeating the...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/23/2020 13
Renewable Thursday: New Battery Technologies Drive EV and Grid Storage Markets
Batteries for EVs and grid storage are coming down in price at a startling rate, and also increasing in energy density, lifetime, and safety. Cobalt is being engineered out of high-density batteries.
Mokurai 01/23/2020 17
Trump And GOP Ignore Climate Forest For a Trillion Trees
Yesterday, President Trump told Davos that the US would join the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Trees initiative to offset climate change by planting trees. In doing so, he used exactly the sort of Christian-friendly language we discussed earlier this...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/22/2020 6
Renewable Wednesday: Arbitrage in the US Electrical Grid
Renewable electricity needs the widest possible interconnections. There are two major US interconnections, and one smaller one for Texas. The Tres Amigas SuperStation proposed to intertie all three, but Texas pulled out, and the intertie between the...
Mokurai 01/22/2020 9
Taking A Peek At Upcoming Fossil Fuel Propaganda and Policy on Methane, Gas Bans, Coal and Protests
We hit the ground running this year, so today we’re going to do a bit of stock-taking about what 2020 is going to bring us from the fossil fuel industry. Right now, the industry is not exactly in a happy place. Public polling from Yale shows that the...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/21/2020 2
Renewable Tuesday: Decarbonizing the Yale Campus
Yale came late to the environmental movement, but has since taken a leadership position, greening the campus, adding environmental courses and research programs, and creating the Yale Program on ...
Mokurai 01/21/2020 4
USS Doris Miller: Navy to name Aircraft Carrier for African American Hero.
There is an old (at least partially true) adage in national security circles: When an international crisis occurs, the President asks: Where’s the carrier? For over 70 years, aircraft carriers have been one of the most important military tools...
A Siegel 01/20/2020 138
Renewable Monday: Oil Rigs to Reefs and Bases for Wind Turbines
Several countries have turned oil drilling platforms into highly productive and diverse reefs. Now the idea is going around of replacing the above-water structures with wind turbines on 5,000 such ...
Mokurai 01/20/2020 8
Stalin would be proud: National Archives secretly censors Women's March photo
The 2017 Women’s March was an extremely powerful event to participate in and a powerful statement that the majority of voters who did not vote for the narcissistic criminal-in-chief (now #ImPOTUS) Trump weren’t going to go quietly into the night. Today...
A Siegel 01/18/2020 218
Australian PM Morrison: "we are working to - outlaw these indulgent and selfish" Climate Protests
Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of coal. Australia's Leader Called For A Crackdown On Environmentalists Before Fires Broke Out Governments are increasingly casting environmental activism as a new kind of extremism, punishing and marginalizing...
Lefty Coaster 01/17/2020 97
Cartoon: Climate action distractions
You know Joe Kennedy is to the right of Senator Ed Markey when half of the establishment already endorsed his primary challenge while I’m in favor of the incumbent. Here's a cartoon I did for The ...
BrianMcFadden 01/17/2020 7
With Big 2020 Push, Koch Group Leader Admits Koch Folk Lied About Shift Away From Politcs
Hey remember back in 2018 when Politico ran a whole big feature about how fortunate son Chase Koch isn’t passionate about politics, and we were skeptical that it signaled the network’s direction would change as Politico suggested? Or what about in 2019...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/17/2020 3
Renewable Friday: Scotland to Reach 100% Renewable Energy This Year
They said it couldn't be done, but you don't tell a Scottish engineer that when there is money-saving technology to deploy. So if the UK Brexits from the EU, and Scotland secedes from the UK, how ...
Mokurai 01/17/2020 156
When it Comes to Ocean Warming, Deniers Prefer Over-Simplified Models To Hard Data
Who to trust, thermometers, or oversimplified one-dimensional climate models? One might think that deniers, with their regular assailing of climate models as being unreliable, would prefer a study based on actual temperature measurements to one based...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/16/2020 7
Renewable Thursday: Yes, Oil and Gaslighting, But Coal, Too
"Coal is good for you and the environment," say coal profiteers, not least the greedy, lying railroads. They also carry exploding tar sands oil . And sometimes spill chlorine , metam sodium ,
Mokurai 01/16/2020 8
The Other NAS Complains In WSJ Of Cancel Culture In Science, Where False Ideas Apparently Never Die
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (often referred to as NAS) is the collective scientific body created by President Abraham Lincoln to keep the country on the cutting edge of science, and it publishes PNAS, one of the premier...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/15/2020 3
Renewable Wednesday: How to Stick Trump's Finger in His Eye
Donald J. "Jerk-in-Office" Trump, Republicans generally, the fossil fool industry, the MSM, and some national Energy Ministers don't want it known that we are solving Global Warming. But there are ...
Mokurai 01/15/2020 5
Beaten Down By Science, Deniers Turning To Science Fiction To Scare Their Followers
Yesterday, WUWT reposted an entry from Judith Curry’s blog by some random guy named Frank Bosse, discussing a paper published last year and arguing that climate sensitivity is lower than what models (and paleoclimatology) are telling us. We could get...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/14/2020 6
Renewable Tuesday: Divest from Evil, Invest in Good
I have called attention to various moves to divest tens of trillions of dollars from fossil foolishness and the MIC. Everybody also needs to invest in the clean economy, whether in corporate ...
Mokurai 01/14/2020 10
EV Tuesday: Drivers and Passengers Love Electric Taxis. What about Republicans?
Safer, more luxurious for drivers and passengers both, much cheaper to run, silent, no diesel stink…Even Republicans will have to accept enjoy riding in electric cabs, saving tax money, and seeing solar panels on taxi garages. There will be charging...
Mokurai 01/14/2020 18
Cartoon: This is fine
Even before Australia erupted in wildfire, the European Space Agency was asking, “Is the earth on fire?,” as multiple fires burned across the globe. Read more about 2019 fires, and fire-tracking ...
Nick Anderson 01/13/2020 19
New Study Confirms Value of Consensus Messaging, Review Paper Summarizes Ways to Reach Skeptics
Two new studies on denial came out last week. While they’re not exactly breaking new ground, confirmation is always nice. The first is a literature review led by Stanford’s Gabrielle Wong-Parodi that examines psychological studies on climate denial in...
ClimateDenierRoundup 01/13/2020 6
Renewable Monday: Nevada Elections have Consequences, Hooray!
Nevada shows us what can happen when we put Democrats, particularly women, in charge. We tip the tipping point, and all of a sudden, everything seems to start improving at once. Renewables, EVs, ...
Mokurai 01/13/2020 6

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