Climate change skeptics say fund unfairly singled out | Calgary | News | Calgary Sun

On Thursday, Leahey and Cooper defended their work.

“Part of the job of an academic is to promote public debate,” said Cooper.

“What I find so bizarre is the amount of money put into producing this one DVD is absolutely minute compared to the publicity and propaganda published by various alarmists.”

Seeking Reality on Climate - NYTimes.com

Will this effort silence or sideline professional naysayers/deniers/skeptics and the many people who, for all kinds of reasons unrelated to money, reject calls to make cutting greenhouses a prime priority?

I doubt it.  [So do I]

Revkin: The Gore-a-thon Was Good, Actually It Was Bad « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Apologies for being even slower than usual Andy but…could you please explain exactly what “usefulness” these soon-to-be-forgotten 24 hours have had?

I can see you criticize the Gore-athon’s polarizing stance, oversimplification, mix-up of science and policy, and finally silence about “fossil fuels”. Unless of course the first few praising paragraphs are there simply to make your life simpler, by making sure nobody can accuse you of Gore-bashing.

Climate Quitters: Sorry You Lose : Discovery News

Unfortunately, the evidence [like what, specifically?] that human activities are changing the climate is voluminous and compelling. Wishful thinking and excited headlines may sow confusion, but they can't change the facts.

C3: New Research: Human CO2 Emissions Not Causing Ocean Acidification Hotspots

Since atmospheric CO2 is considered a well-mixed greenhouse gas, it's hard to fathom how it could then cause specific "hotspots" of acidification in coastal waters.

Climate Common Sense: Poison Pills in Carbon Tax

With one of the most disgusting and cynical acts by any Government in this country Labor has inserted in the Carbon Tax poison pill clauses to make sure that once we have this economy-destroying tax it will be almost impossible to remove. Labor and their Green cohorts have been crowing about how much it will cost for Abbott to undo the damage but only now can we see the new depths to which this worst government in Australian history has sunk.