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Guest smack-down by David Middleton Funny thing… The writing of this post was disrupted by a preview of the Green New Deal in Dallas over the past 5 days… More on this later...

The Guardian’s editor has just issued this new guidance to all staff on language to use when writing about climate change and the environment…and it is full-on alarmism...

Guest geological storytelling by David Middleton In my recent post, How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, we discussed the rifting that enabled the opening of the Gulf of Mexico...

Guest commentary by David Middleton People send Charles things and they sometimes wind up in my inbox… The Shale Boom Is About To Go Bust by Tyler Durden Fri, 05/10/2019 Authored by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com,...

If you’re a person who watched Walt Disney on TV as a kid, you probably remember one of the most epic wildlife films ever produced by Disney where a steady stream of lemmings was jumping over a cliff...

Reposted from Climate Etc. by Judith Curry ” ‘I believe in science’ is an homage given to science by people who generally don’t understand much about it. Science is used here not to describe specific methods or theories,...

You may have heard that NASA announced over the weekend at a conference that a large meteor exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea on December 18th, 2018, which had gone unnoticed due to the location of entry...

Australia’s ABC News and Marty McCarthy not only jumps the shark, but makes a mockery of science reporting. Ross Hyland writes to Climate Depot (which was forwarded to me for analysis) about a claim about climate change...

Guest jab by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America… Brazil’s new president has scientists worried...

Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer once again demonstrates a music major’s grasp of science… SCIENCE There’s Snow on TV, so Trump’s Tweeting About Climate Change Alas,...

Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Houston can’t afford to accept Trump’s view of climate change [Editorial] By The Editorial Board Dec. 1, 2018 Updated: Dec. 4, 2018 President Trump frequently acts like he knows what...

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   The NY Times is obsessed with the President — it cannot report anything without taking a pot shot at him. In this case, NY Times Climate journalist, Kendra “Gloom is My Beat”...

Guest oy vey by David Middleton First we learn that climate change is dissolving the seafloor and now we find out that Earth is devouring its own oceans (like it could be devouring some other planet’s oceans)…...

From the GWPF: A week ago, we were told that climate change was worse than we thought. But the underlying science contains a major error. Independent climate scientist Nicholas Lewis has uncovered a major error in a recent...

Opinion by DR. TIM BALL Seth Borenstein has a journalism degree but claims to be a science reporter. He might have claim to the journalism label except that everything he writes is biased, misleading, distorted, and wrong...