Lewandowsky – Shows “skeptics” are nutters by asking alarmists to fill out survey « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

If he really wanted to know what skeptics thought, surely he would have asked the main skeptical bloggers?
Stephan claims he asked five skeptical sites “who all refused to promote it”, but I hear he has so far refused to reveal which blogs turned him down. He didn’t ask me, nor Jeff ID, GWPF, Tom Nelson, CarbonSense and he didn’t ask Anthony Watts. It’s as if Stephan did not want to know what real skeptics think.
How many posts or articles or links to Lady Di, HIV doubt, and claims that smoking does not cause cancer would be found in a 2 minutes search of the highest traffic web sites? Would that be zero or is it less?

Twitter / aDissentient: You can't do a survey of ...

You can't do a survey of non-sceptic blogs and then *accidentally* say that it tells you something about sceptic opinions.

Curtis Brainard: CBS goofs up the green beat | JunkScience.com

Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor, allowing him to interview a fire ecologist from The Nature Conservancy without mentioning that the contributor is the lead scientist at the very same group.

Quadrant Online - Here today, drowned tomorrow

People of Melbourne and Sydney: do not panic about CO2-induced sea rises that will allegedly put tens of thousands of homes, shops and offices under water. The Federal Department of Climate Change (DCC) has the situation in hand...The department’s practical answer to Melbourne’s impending “Venice effect”: a $10 billion dyke from Pt Nepean to Pt Lonsdale at the entrance to Port Phillip. The department concedes it would be “challenging to construct”, as The Rip between the heads would require a dyke some three kilometres long and constructed in water some 20 metres deep.
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The department, with its 920 staff (full-time equivalent), has thought of everything. It notes that wharfies are allowed to down tools at 38 deg, so if hot days increase as they predict, ports will get less efficient.

Follow the warming money | Watts Up With That?

$1.9 million in environmental justice grants 10th May 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1.9 million in environmental justice grants to 76 non-profit organizations and local governments working on environmental justice issues nationwide. The grant program supports Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priority to expand the conversation on environmentalism and work for environmental justice.

And it isn’t just in the USA, the EPA is giving US taxpayer money to Brazilian programs. Think that’s bad? They are giving money to China too, as if the Chinese need our help.