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What Big Oil knew about climate change
This fifteen minute video details what the oil industry has known, for decades, about how its activities would affect the planet — and what they did about it. Their activities were profoundly successful, as evidenced by the multitudes who are, … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Economics, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, memetics, People, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged deniers, Exxon
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What happens when a climate skeptic discerns reality
Partial transcript: Richard Muller, Phd: I didn’t know whether global warming was real, whether it was completely bogus or maybe it was twice as bad as people said. So my daughter and I … decided we would set up a … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Drama, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, History, memetics, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged 2015, AGW, Best, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, deniers, environment, Hottest Year, Richard Muller
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How Man’s Effect On Nature Will Change Your Life
Further musings on the absurd antics of the dominant extant species on the only life-bearing planet known to said species. Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, News and politics, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy, Water
Tagged AGW, boundaries, Change, climate change, cognitive dissonance, deniers, energy, global warming, perception, risk, stupid
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Skeptics: Stop Calling Deniers “Skeptics”
This call by (real) sceptics to stop conflating ‘skeptic’ and ‘denier’ deserves to be better publicised. Denial of scientific fact is not scepticism! For clarification, I’ll steal the words of one of the commenters, lesliegraham1: The word denier dates from … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Climate, Communication, Drama, GCD: Global climate disruption
Tagged 'common' sense, AGW, communication, deniers, sceptic, skeptic
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Who’s on first?
Abbott and Costello: [snipped for brevity] Lou Costello: I love baseball. Bud Abbott: We all love baseball. Lou Costello: When we get to St. Louis, will you tell me the guys’ names on the team? So when I go to … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, GCD: Global climate disruption, Just for laughs
Tagged Abbott, AGW, baseball, Costello, deniers, transcription, Who's on first?
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Seeing the real world
I seem to have hit a period of recurring themes, coming back to haunt me like a Sierpinski triangle. A boss of mine some years ago (nice chap) was adamant that he had reached a stage in his life in … Continue reading
Lies, damn lies and climate deniers
Donald (thanks, Donald) pointed me to a highly illuminating post on Dogs of Doubt, entitled The Politics of Climate Warming. Don’t be fooled by the 2007 datestamp in the ‘Frontline’ PBS video documentary that site links to; although this isn’t … Continue reading
Deniergate burbles on below the mass media radar
The fizzling of the scandal not yet formally known as ‘deniergate’ continues to fester in the murky fringes of reality, as revealed recently in Desmogblog, Huffingtonpost and Peter Sinclair’s Crock of the Week. That the devious deceptions, threats and prevarications … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, News and politics
Tagged deniers, FUD, habituation, manufacturing doubt, stupid
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Wibble 