Ragin' Roberts

Over at Gristmill, the angry David Roberts gets his knickers in a twist about an email list: Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James...

Fat Polar Bears Are Killing the Penguins

This is funny. Funnier is the outrage expressed by Grist readers, of whom Newscloud is funniest: If there is a hell, Inhofe belongs there  The Grists need to watch out. And not only on 1 April. All those stuffy, old-fashioned churches want their congregations back....

Do Environmentalists Want to Save the Planet or What?

They like their weird analogies at Gristmill. The latest comes from scientist and Green oracle Joseph Romm, in an introduction to a tirade about geo-engineering by guest poster Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project: Geo-engineering...

'Science' – Environmentalism's Fig Leaf

On The Nation blog, David Roberts of Gristmill (another blog) writes: Long-time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of global warming skeptics are like zombies in a '70s B movie. They get shot, stabbed, and crushed, over and over again, but they just keep...

Dessler’s Grist to the Sceptics’ Mill

On Gristmill, Andrew Dessler provides us with an excuse for a self-indulgent recap: I was at a meeting earlier this week and was talking to one of the coordinating lead authors of the recent IPCC working group 1 report on the physical science of climate change. He...

Save the Planet or the Puppy Gets It

Over at Gristmill, Andrew Dessler complains about the list of 400 sceptical scientists who seem to challenge the "scientific consensus": The question is: does their opinion matter? Should you revise your views about climate change accordingly?  The question is then,...

Nobody Expects the Cimate Inquisition

'Sustainable' blogging (geddit?) is a bit difficult when even the green news-makers have jetted off to catch some sun... This isn't climate change, it's silly season, and there's not much news around. We have reported before how the environmentalist's view of the...