Provocative author and scholar Clive Hamilton will discuss why facing up to Climate Change is “Just too Hard” in a public lecture this month hosted by the newly established Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland. There have been … Continue reading
This awesome essay is by Bill McKibben. It originally appeared here and is being widely circulated. It is from his forthcoming book “Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet”. I was in LA (doing my masters degree at … Continue reading
Here is Part 5 of Clive Hamilton’s excellent series of articles on ABC unleashed: The sustained assault on climate science, detailed in this series, spread from the loonier corners of the internet first into certain media outlets with an ideological … Continue reading
Here is the part 3 of Clive Hamilton’s expose of the denialist movement. He explores the role of special interests funded ‘think tanks’ … Clive Hamilton, ABC Unleashed. The army of denialist bloggers and cyber-bullies is sometimes accused of being the … Continue reading
Here is part 2 of Clive Hamilton’s series on the right-wing denial movement: The floods of offensive and threatening emails aimed at intimidating climate scientists have all the signs of an orchestrated campaign by sceptics groups. The links are well-hidden … Continue reading
Amen. That is precisely how I feel. Overwhelmed and outgunned. Still, this great editorial by veteran ABC producer and reporter Jonathan Holmes of Media Watch is uplifting. The only thing I think he got wrong was to suggest Andrew Bolt “knows far … Continue reading
No really, i’m not kidding. Remember that CO2 satellite NASA lost after a launch failure last October? (click here for the video). Well, according to Lord Monckton, the crash was “extremely dissapointing” for other more nefarious reasons: ”Not greatly to … Continue reading
Dennis Jensen replied to OveHG Sun 31 Jan 10 (12:50pm) Ove, your comparison with flight is particularly apropo. Around the turn of the 20th century Samuel Langley, a scientist supported by the Smithsonian was seen to be the most likely … Continue reading
The consistent attempts by a well organised and well funded denialist movement have recently focused on the sources of information used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through an transparent set of guidelines to how to deal with literature … Continue reading
Ever laughed at the deniers who claim that climate scientists are in it for the money? Why not ask this: to what extent are the climate change deniers profiting from pedaling their anti-science spin? Just ask Lord Monckton, when his … Continue reading