New Research: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists and Climate Change Deniers : The New Yorker

bring a bunch of climate change doubters into a room together, and they will leave the room even more skeptical than before, more confident and more extreme in the their views.

EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers, senator slams agency | Fox News

The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the release could endanger their safety.

Rep. Ralph Hall lectures enviro at House hearing on Keystone XL: ‘We listen to scientists… liberal media doesn’t report that’ | JunkScience.com

From today’s House hearing. Hall got miffed when Canadian enviro prof Mark Jaccard stated that he believed in global warming because he “listens to scientists.”

MIchael Mann effort to exploit balmy weather in Wash DC backfires; Possibly 89F today, but was 90F in March 1907 | JunkScience.com

For Michael Mann, today’s warm weather in DC infers global warming… except his “evidence” shows it was warmer, earlier more than 100 years ago!

Let’s Talk Climate, Mr. President | ThinkProgress

Since it’s so hard to put carbon back in the smokestack or to put the pieces back after our super-storms, let’s have a national conversation about climate change in the coming months rather than the coming years.