Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded. Full Story »
Posted by Subramanya Sastry - via Markos Moulitsas, FactCheck
Superb -- the best I've seen from FactCheck. In addition to providing extensive sourcing and analysis, the authors discuss this explosive issue with such grace I doubt many will find this story dismissible, whatever their position in the debate.
And even if they showed what the critics claim, there remains ample evidence that the earth in getting warmer. More »
Excellent fact-checking about "Climategate." This thorough and well-researched report effectively debunks claims by climate change skeptics that stolen emails from East Anglia confirm their conspiracy theories. These claims are researched one at a time, and the report acknowledges that errors were made by some scientists, but also pointis to the vast body of scientific evidence about global warming, collected by many other credible sources.
An excellent article which takes an unbiased, straight forward look at "Climate" swift boating, refutting critics' major points one by one. A major point implicit in the story is that detractors are overjoyed to take scientists' slang and rhetoric literally to prove their claim about climate change being nothing but a gigantic hoax-- thus preserving their carbon-polluting special interest friends' profits.
This is an excellent, well-referenced review of some of the content of the emails from climate researchers stolen by hackers. It explains how scientists communicate with each other--sometimes badly or nastily in emails. It reiterates the important facts: human influenced global climate change can be scientifically proven. It also notes that the media handling of the release of these emails has (wrongly) led to public skepticism of the science.
The fact checking supports what climate scientists have been saying. Hopefully, a few readers of this will be dissuaded from the Exxon/Fox disinformation.
The climate change debate appears to be about all the wrong things. Since there is a vocal minority that insists that there is no such thing, we can't actually have meaningful public conversations about the real impacts, and what degree of climate change is acceptable.
The emails have been examined critically, not as the sceptics did, searching for any straw suggesting malfeasance.
This story addresses a major developing news story in a thoughtful and analytical manner. It addresses the major claims made about the "Climategate" scandal, highlighting the relevant facts and providing appropriate context to understand the implications of the story. The e-mails that are the topic of the article are provided for reference and sources are available for both the climate change claims and claims about on-going investigations. Ultimately, this article is effective in communicating its central thesis using data from multiple sources to fortify the argument.
The “trick” that Jones was writing about in his 1999 e-mail was simply adding the actual, measured instrumental data into a graph of historic temperatures. ... More »
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