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BHP is throwing its weight around to stop the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) saying what most miners want on climate change. What coal company wants lobbyists not to lobby for coal? The gauntlet is down — Which...

I nearly headlined this:  Climate grief group meets at someone’s house, Grist covers it. That’s pretty much all this program is. No one even counts to nine in this story.

The chilling Milgram experiments have been replicated, and yet again, 9 out of 10 are willing to inflict electric shocks and pain on another person. In these infamous experiments the power of a white lab coat was enough to...

A new MIT report suggests a better way to use coal in power-stations and potentially cut CO2 emissions by 50%. The process involves gasifying coal and producing electricity in one process at the same site. The coal only has...

Across the West, there is a layer of smart-but-busy intellects who have not been involved in the climate debate. For one reason or another they’ve been too busy setting up IPO’s, doing research projects, or directing...

UPDATE Dan Kahan has replied in Comment #54. So much for the theory that skeptics are dumb or uninformed.  Fox News reports that a new study shows that when people are quizzed about climate science, the skeptics outscored...

So much for the theory that skeptics are dumb or uninformed.  Fox News reports that a new study shows that when people are quizzed about climate science, the skeptics outscored the believers.

So much for the theory that skeptics are dumb or uninformed.  Fox News reports that a new study shows that when people are quizzed about climate science, the skeptics outscored the believers.

So much for the consensus.  In 2012 The Geological Society of Australia (GSA) was one of the few associations to make a slightly skeptical position on climate. For poking their heads above the parapet they’ve had years...

Agnotology is the study of how ignorance grows through repetition of misleading misinformation. You might never have heard of it, but it’s the perfect term for the climate science “debate”. Predictably its...

We know the answer is always that they are smart, and that if we don’t “get their vision” they just need to explain it better.

Gillard once lauded the genius of the carbon market. That part of the “free” market which is free to move, is moving — and right out. The smart money is saying that carbon trading is a dead dog. It’s...

Frustrated cult members know they can’t explain their faith to the rational.

BREAKING: As Jeff ID says, “The Empire Strikes Back” Tallbloke’s computers were confiscated by police today, allegedly in the search for the climategate leaker...

Enron was jubilant when the Kyoto agreement was put forward Here’s a legacy exhibit from the historical annals of How the Global Warming Scam Grew...