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The Crank-Off

Order Valium Online Speaking of contests, Orac has winnowed a list of “terminal terminator cranks” into the top three and asks readers to pick a winner: Anti-vaccine loons Tobacco/secondhand smoke denialists Anthropogenic global warming denialists

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Chance Encounters at Cancun

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/womans-health/ What a sweet picture. Somebody should draw up thought clouds for each of these guys and have a contest for the funniest strip.

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Fearing the Findings on Fear Messaging

https://www.munshinegroup.com/home-nonprofit/clients/ UPDATE: Joe Romm and Brad Johnson respond in the comment thread. If you’re a climate blogger who often plays up the most potentially catastrophic consequences of global warming, and a new sociological study finds that “dire messages warning of the severity of global warming and its presumed dangers can backfire,” what do you do? You…Continue Reading…

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Blood is Thicker than Crankery

Order Soma Online There’s an interesting food fight taking place at ScienceBlogs. Orac is dismayed that Coby Beck allowed his father to “hijack” his blog with this “case against flouride” post. Orac is all over the irony of this. I have to agree. It’s akin to Coby handing over his blog to an anti-vaxxer.

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Getting Serious about Adaptation

Order Ultram Online The Economist explains why adaptation has long been marginalized in the climate debate: The green pressure groups and politicians who have driven the debate on climate change have often been loath to see attention paid to adaptation, on the ground that the more people thought about it, the less motivated they would be to push…Continue Reading…

A Climate Treaty Analogue?

Christina Larsen at Foreign Policy has a nifty silver lining take on the U.N. climate talks now underway in Cancun, Mexico. It boils down to the “absence of delusions” this time around, or more charitably, no expectations of any breakthrough agreement, much less any significant progress. More interestingly, Larsen considers when, if ever, any similar…Continue Reading…

Can We Buy Time?

Much of the discussion on the “low-hanging fruit” post revolved around a hypothetical question: would tackling secondary climate forcings (such as soot and methane) pave the way for stronger climate policies down the road, or further defray action on carbon dioxide, which happens to be the more pressing long-term threat? At this juncture, political and…Continue Reading…

Wall to Wall Leakage

No doubt readers of this blog are getting their fill of the big Wikileaks story elsewhere. But I can’t resist linking to this smart post by Stephen Budiansky, a writer I’ve been familiar with for a long time. He offers a measured perspective that is critical of both “excessive secrecy” by the U.S. government and…Continue Reading…

The Low-Hanging Climate Fruit

https://advogadoemresende.com/audiencia-publica-maes-em-carcere/ Paul Kelly tries talking sense to the all-or-nothing crowd over at Bart’s place. The usual suspects snarl and prance. The bloggy dialogue is set up by this op-ed in yesterday’s NYT, which Kelly refers to as a good example of effective science communication. It would be interesting to hear from climate scientists if they agree….Continue Reading…

Fisking Friedman

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