Heartland Institute leak exposes strategies of climate attack machine
Bob Ward: The documents show how groups play up controversy to undermine confidence in well-established scientific findings the Guardian
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Leaked files expose Heartland Institute’s secrets
he tables have been well and truly turned in “deniergate”, the leak of documents from a key climate-sceptic think tank in the US New Scientist
Anthropogenic global warming ‘stopped’ in 1997…and in 1996, 1995, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978 and 1972
Self-proclaimed climate change ‘sceptics’ have for the past few years been recycling the myth that anthropogenic global warming has ‘stopped’. But these ‘sceptics’ always fail to point out is that, based on their logic, manmade global warming has actually ‘stopped’ nine times since 1970, in 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1995, 1996 and 1997. And they fail to mention that the underlying anthropogenic warming trend is clear and unambiguous when temperature data for the past four decades are taken into account. read more »
Comment: Why climate equity matters in India
One of the defining moments of the Durban conference was the Indian Minister Jayanthi Natarajan’s passionate speech on equity in the international negotiations. Responding to Climate Change
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Deadline 2015 (PDF)
A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change — we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.
Le chemin qu’il reste à parcourir après le sommet de Durban
La conférence de Durban s’est terminée à l’arraché par un résultat modeste mais porteur d’une nouvelle dynamique pour la négociation climat. Ce résultat doit beaucoup à l’Europe emmenée par la … read more »
Why academic researchers should scrutinise the lobbying of climate change ‘sceptics’
A recent exchange of letters has revealed the tactics which so-called climate change ‘sceptics’ from the Global Warming Policy Foundation are using to lobby the UK Government in a bid … read more »
A Year of Revolution
In a year of revolution, causes have been easier to identify than consequences. In 1989, following the end of the Cold War, the American political… Irish Left Review
False Sea Level Articles Expose Failure of UK Press Self-Regulation
Recent editions of the right-wing magazine The Spectator have helped to clearly expose the utterly farcical failure of self-regulation of the British Press. The Huffington Post UK