Science

U.S. Skeptic Has a European Outing

by Bob Burton — November 19, 2009 - 5:21am

Fred Singer is one of the veteran climate change skeptics appearing at the Have Humans Changed the Climate? conference in Brussels hosted by Roger Helmer, a British Conservative Party representative in the European Parliament. Billed as speaking on the topic of "Why can’t we trust IPCC?" [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], Singer staked out a position that even other sceptics disagree with.

Main Source: 
Telegraph.co.uk, November 18, 2009

Ian Plimer's Mining Connections

by Bob Burton — November 12, 2009 - 2:02pm
  • Topics: Global Warming, International, Science

    • Since the publication in May of his book, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - The Missing Science, Ian Plimer has been the darling of conservative media commentators and the global network of climate change skeptics. Plimer, an Australian geologist, has been strongly criticized by climate scientists for errors in his book. More recently, he has been in the news over his challenge to British journalist, George Monbiot, for a debate over climate science. Monbiot agreed, subject to Plimer answering some questions in writing ahead of a debate, but Plimer retreated.

    While a few news stories have made a passing mention that Plimer is a director of several mining companies, none have looked with any detail at which companies he is involved with, and how substantial his interest is. Recently, a volunteer editor on SourceWatch (hat-tip to Scribe), did some digging into Plimer's directorships with three mining companies, Ivanhoe Australia, CBH Resources and Kefi Minerals.

    Cap-and-Trade Gag

    by Bob Burton — November 3, 2009 - 6:00pm

    The Australian government's peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has suppressed a research paper by one of its own environmental economists because it is critical of the design of the proposed 'cap and trade' greenhouse gas emissions reduction scheme. A paper by Dr. Clive Spash had been accepted for publication by the journal, New Political Economy. However, CSIRO managers wrote to the editor insisting that it not be published. In his paper, Dr.

    Main Source: 
    The Australian, November 2, 2009

    U.S. Chamber of Commerce Downsized

    by Bob Burton — September 23, 2009 - 6:46am

    Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a California-based power utility, has resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over what the utility's chairman and CEO, Peter Darbee, describes as "fundamental differences" over climate change policy.

    Main Source: 
    NEXT100 (Pacific Gas and Electric Company Blog), September 22, 2009

    The Cato Institute's Generous Funding of Patrick Michaels

    by Bob Burton — May 24, 2009 - 11:08pm
  • Topics: Global Warming, Science, Think Tanks

    • Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow with the the Cato Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank, is one of the leading global warming skeptics.

    Another Bone to Pick with Merck

    by Diane Farsetta — May 5, 2009 - 3:55pm

    The pharmaceutical company Merck "paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles -- most of which presented data favorable to Merck products." The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine carried "ads for Fosamax, a Merck drug for osteoporosis, and Vioxx" and "appeared to act solely as marketing t

    Main Source: 
    The Scientist magazine, April 30, 2009

    Climate Front Group Ignored Its Own Scientists

    by Bob Burton — April 28, 2009 - 6:11am

    An internal document (pdf) of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) -- an industry front group that disbanded in 2002 -- reveals that when the group chose to promote doubt about the reality of global warming it was ignoring the views of its own scientific advi

    Main Source: 
    New York Times, April 23, 2009
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