Authors of Wall Street Journal climate piece downplay industry ties. Half of the 16 scientists who penned a controversial Wall Street Journal opinion piece proclaiming there is "no need to panic" about global warming have ties to either the oil and gas industry or groups dedicated to debunking climate science, a DailyClimate.org investigation has found. Daily Climate 2012-02-02T09:00-05:00
Texas Tech scientist sees intimidation effort in hate mail. At Texas Climate News’ request, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe provided a sample of recent emails to illustrate the exponential escalation of the "virulence, hatred and nastiness." Caution: Some of the language is offensive. Texas Climate News 2012-02-02T09:00-05:00
Romney takes Fla. with variety of weapons, including a climate attack . Mitt Romney's crushing victory in Florida spoiled Newt Gingrich's southern momentum with a barrage of personal attacks, including one about the former speaker's views on climate change that the son of Ronald Reagan said gives conservatives "cardiac arrest." ClimateWire 2012-02-02T09:00-05:00
Check with climate scientists for views on climate. Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. The Journal failed to do its homework. Wall Street Journal 2012-02-02T09:00-05:00
Global warming caused mostly by humans. A new NASA study tries to lay to rest the skepticism about climate change, especially vocal this year on the GOP presidential campaign trail. USA Today 2012-02-01T09:00-05:00
Wall Street Journal under attack for climate op-ed. The Wall Street Journal is under scrutiny for publishing an op-ed attacking climate science last Friday, while turning down another op-ed explaining climate change and signed by 255 researchers with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was eventually published in the journal Science. Mongabay 2012-02-01T09:00-05:00
Study that questioned antibiotic bans may have had serious flaws. Debate over the role of farm animals in spreading superbugs has intensified as a University of Glasgow study downplaying antimicrobial fears has been seen as containing serious flaws by some representatives of the World Health Organization. Ecologist 2012-01-31T09:00-05:00
Did global warming cause Sidney Crosby's concussion? People in hockey who want absolute certainty about concussions are sacrificing players' health, despite growing certainty that the news will only get worse. Climate skeptics are doing the same with the health of our planet. Climate Central 2012-01-31T09:00-05:00
Remarkable bias on science at the Wall Street Journal. The most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but accurate) essay on climate change and on the need for improved public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down. Forbes 2012-01-30T09:00-05:00
Skeptics to take center stage in Portland. That a scientific body in one of America's greenest states would host a panel of global warming skeptics - with no rebuttal built in - might come as a surprise. But it reflects the country's increasingly sharp divisions on climate change. Portland Oregonian 2012-01-25T09:00-05:00
Breaking through to climate change skeptics. Anthony Leiserowitz directs the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. He says the vast majority of scientists agree that climate change is real. It’s mostly caused by people. And it’s serious. But... he says his studies and others show the number of Americans who believe climate change is happening has declined. Environment Report 2012-01-24T09:00-05:00
Scientific miconduct and it's wide-ranging effect. News earlier this month that an investigation of University of Connecticut researcher Dipak Das found 145 instances of scientific misconduct traveled fast through the world of academia. Hartford Courant 2012-01-23T09:00-05:00
Climate scientists back call for sceptic thinktank to reveal backers. Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson. The Guardian 2012-01-23T09:00-05:00
Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms. A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools. Los Angeles Times 2012-01-16T09:00-05:00
Michael Mann: The climate scientist whom deniers have in their sights. He is one of the most vilified men in the highly vilified field of climate science, yet Professor Michael Mann is surprisingly jolly. Despite being the focus of a brutal campaign orchestrated by the fossil-fuel industry, Mann's cheery stoicism is positively infectious. London Independent 2012-01-16T09:00-05:00
U.K. looks for way through misconduct maze. Scientific misconduct is "alive and well" in the United Kingdom, according to around 30 ethicists, researchers, journal editors, advocates, and funders attending a meeting on that topic sponsored by the British Medical Journal and the Committee on Publication Ethics, an organization of journal editors and publishers, here yesterday. Science 2012-01-14T09:00-05:00
Tobacco scientist's election tars academy's image. Within hours of the election of Xie Jianping to the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering on Dec. 8, the Internet here was buzzing with wild accusations. On the popular microblog Tencent Weibo, Liu Zhifeng got an early jump, questioning the anointment of a scientist whose research, he charged, is used “to more effectively kill people.” Science 2012-01-13T09:00-05:00
As Santorum surges, sound science sags. In the contest to see which GOP candidate can be the biggest doubter of the science of climate change, Rick Santorum is the unchallenged leader of the pack. Climate Central 2012-01-09T09:00-05:00
Newt dumps Christian climate scientist. The denial crowd has picked a tough opponent in texas Tech University atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe. Her credentials are impeccable. Yet she approaches climate science from an interesting point of view. Mother Jones 2012-01-07T09:00-05:00
Author of discredited vaccine-autism report sues for libel. Gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield has filed a defamation lawsuit in Austin, Texas, against the authors of a series of articles appearing in the British Medical Journal exactly 1 year ago that accused him of fraud. Science 2012-01-06T09:00-05:00
Climate scientist disowned by Gingrich speaks out over book spat. Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, learned on 7 December that her chapter on climate change for Newt Gingrich's upcoming book of essays had been accepted without major changes. Days later, the chapter was on the scrap heap. The Guardian 2012-01-06T09:00-05:00
The 2011 climate B.S. of the year awards. While much of the opposition to addressing climate change is political, it often hides behind pseudo-scientific claims, with persistent efforts to intentionally mislead the public and policymakers with bad science. Here are the most notable examples. Forbes 2012-01-06T09:00-05:00
TCEQ finally gets it right. We were heartened this past week to see the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality correct one of its embarrassing misjudgment of altering a scientific report about sea-level rise in Galveston Bay, removing sections about human impact on climate change and sea-level rates in the bay. Houston Chronicle 2011-12-28T09:00-05:00