COLUMN-Keystone vote underlines greens’ isolation: John Kemp | JunkScience.com

Only intense lobbying by the president himself ensured the latest congressional bid to approve the Keystone XL pipeline was defeated in the U.S. Senate last week.  

But if Keystone’s opponents won the latest skirmish, it appears they are losing the war. The vote revealed deep divisions among Senate Democrats as well as the waning influence of environmentalists and the growing power of the oil and gas lobby in Congress.

In History, Climate Skepticism Begins With Climate Scientists | JunkScience.com

“Before there was global warming theory, there was the “polar warming theory.” 

Jeff McMahon writes at Forbes:

The world’s pioneering climate scientists doubted humans were causing the changes they noticed in the Arctic, a Swedish environmental historian said in Chicago Friday—and so climate scientists themselves were among the first to resist emerging evidence of anthropogenic climate change…

Old-School Socialist: Mann a hero beyond Galileo, Sagan, Gould, Carson | JunkScience.com

Just in case you wondering what a charter member of Democratic Socialists of America was thinking.

Deniergate Accusation: Heartland entrapped Gleick? | JunkScience.com

Heartland may have written the document with the express intention of “leaking” it to Gleick as a form of entrapment – it even mentions him by name. It would have been merely a printout, composed and printed elsewhere so it would not appear in any Heartland computer or server. Then it would have been easy to mail it to a Heartland agent on the West Coast. This would also explain the Pacific time zone stamp and the different format of the PDF compared to other Heartland documents. Had Gleick immediately published it, Heartland could then have convincingly denied it as a fraud, thus legitimising the climate science denial industry. As it happened, Gleick outsmarted them with one of the oldest tricks in the book, and got hold of the truth Heartland needed to protect… [Emphasis added]