Good question, and good answer, fromĀ Australian journalism student Matt Bush has an excellent piece on the horrid reporting around āClimategate 2.0.ā Hereās the intro as a taster: Did you hear about this Climategate 2.0 bullshit? Why are journalists not getting fired for all this ridiculously irresponsible misreporting? Over the last couple of days, weāve been
Another fun one I found on Climate Progress (click to enlarge):
Ā 1. Activists occupied KFC on two continents last week. More from the Dogwood Alliance: āColonel Sanders and various woodland creatures made appearances at over 150 KFC restaurants across the country and various locations in Europe to deliver a message, āStop destroying Southern forests for your throwaway packaging.ā The iconic KFC bucket and other KFC
One more excellent post from Skeptical Science this week that I just had to repost in full. Tellinā it like it is: by dana1981 A number of climate not-so-skeptics have recently been exploiting global sea level data in their latest attempt to hide the incline.Ā Skeptical Science readers will be very familiar with the tactics
Other than the 50+ stories we covered in the past week, here are 15 more green stories I thought were worth a share:
Anyone with a moral conscience who digs into climate science at all (not snake science from global warming denier websites, but real climate science), will find that humans are causing global warming, the effects of global warming are serious, and we should be doing something NOW to address the issue.
Iāve been covering stories on a number of āclimate science skepticsā and conservatives who, after delving into the science for real, found that the evidence for the above was overwhelming and āchanged sidesā (starting working to address climate change not hide from it).
Hereās a bit from a piece by another former global warming skeptic, former Republican Party officer and author Michael Staffordā¦.
From our favorite climate denial de-crocker on the web, hereās another great video from him (recently updated). As he summarizes on Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
āFor a lot of climate deniers, this is their penultimate argument, the master climate crock. They think itās the stroke to end all arguments. Ā Itās only the most outrageous and dishonest cherry pick of all time.ā
I know how frustrating and disheartening it can be discussing climate science and politics with a so-called climate skeptics. I get comments from them on Planetsave daily (although, my guess is a lot of them arenāt actually human). Furthermore, though, Iāve got a good friend who is one. Heās caught up on conspiracy theory communities that spout climate change misinformation as some of their conspiracy theories (and donāt get me wrong, I believe a number of conspiracy theories, but the idea that thousands of climate scientists around the world are tricking the public for money or to create a āone world governmentā is not one of them).
Anyway, when I ran across this article on a climate skeptic who came around after actually researching the topic, it gave me a bit of hope for humanity and even some of the most die-hard climate skeptics.
