Amazingly enough, there are still people who claim to understand the science behind global warming, yet make the mistake of thinking localized cold temperatures, such as the recent snowstorms in the Eastern United States, are somehow a refutation of global warming. It’s almost as if they don’t understand the meaning of the key word “global.” Jon [...]

Via The Intersection blog, Chris Mooney made me aware of a great brochure (pdf) from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that gives some basic climate science literacy information. It’s a great introduction to the multifaceted complexities of climate science, how climate works, how it’s measured, and how humans effect it. It starts out with [...]

Homer’s reaction pretty much sums up the climate change denialists’ behavior.

As PZ Myers said, “Isn’t this what the global warming debate is actually all about?”

The “ClimateGate” email “scandal” about climate change reminds me very much about the manufactured controversy about evolution and Charles Darwin. How so? In the case of evolution, deniers will frequently make accusations that Darwin was racist, or misogynistic, or anti-Semitic as “evidence” that evolution by natural selection is unreliable (or untrue). Whether those...

Great editorial by Chris Mooney on the Science Progress blog about global warming and the deniers’ campaign to discredit the real science that supports it. (via)

Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy is pretty science-minded (intentionally understated for dramatic effect). One of his latest posts deals with the email "scandal" at the CRU and as usual, Phil makes his point both decisively and eloquently. Here are a few choice bits, but the entire post is well worth reading. On what the CRU [...]

Instead of re-posting the entire entry here, I’m going to link to my Rationality Now post with my commentary about the CRU email hack and what, if any, implications the emails have on climate change research.