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“Many , including us, find deniers’ claims irresponsible.”

Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers. A hacker stole and released scores of documents, including personal e-mail exchanges, from a server at Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) […]

New Energy Finance: Solar power 50% cheaper by year end

  By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost–i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies–of solar power, and a 10% reduction […]

CEI to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy

Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without […]

NASA figures compare 2009 to the two hottest years on record

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies posted these fascinating figures last week (click for PDF).  Yes, the one place in the world where it warmed the least this year is, […]

Contest — Rename “Climategate” after the crime, not the victim

Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder […]

Satellite data suggests "that EAST Antarctica is losing mass"

The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission. That’s from the BBC story.  […]

UK Guardian: "Scientists must stop sanitising their message”

I’m updating this post from April since so many in the media and elsewhere still seem to be pushing the myth that climate scientists have been overhyping the threat posed […]

Will the Washington Post ever fact check a George Will column?

The Washington Post has published an easily fact-checked falsehood about clean energy — for the umpteenth time (see “WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy […]

Vinod Khosla Nonesense

Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense.  I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who […]

AP: Since 1997 “climate change has worsened and accelerated"

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland […]