http://climatedenial.org Charting the disconnect between climate science and action Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:47:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en George Marshall argues that the carefully stage managed involvement of civil society in Copenhagen fails to speak in any meaningful way to the people who really hold the balance of power. For many of us Brits the journey to Copenhagen has required the trials of true carbon penitence. We eschewed the ... http://climatedenial.org/2009/12/18/carbon-supplicants-on-the-copenhagen-pilgrimage/ The theft of 1,000 private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that deniers have learned lessons from dirty politics and are running a new campaign to undermine public trust in climate scientists. The feeble response from the UEA and the climate science ... http://climatedenial.org/2009/11/22/swiftboating-the-climate-scientists/ At a recent dinner at Oxford University a senior researcher in atmospheric physics was telling me about his coming holiday in Thailand. I asked him whether he was concerned that this would make a contribution to climate change (we had, after all, just sat through a two hour presentation on ... http://climatedenial.org/2009/07/24/why-we-still-dont-believe-in-climate-change/ Dr Adam Corner argues that geo-engineered solutions to climate change are ‘capitalism’s ultimate parlour trick....an impressive leap from a desperate denial of the causes of climate change, to a triumphant denial of the consequences' In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein joined the dots between the commercial manufacture of military ... http://climatedenial.org/2009/06/02/geo-engineering-denial-on-a-global-scale/ George Marshall seeks to understand the psychology of people who deny the existence of climate change- and finds some very common and very human failings. It is true that nearly 80% of people claim to be concerned about climate change. However, delve deeper and one finds that people have a remarkable ... http://climatedenial.org/2009/04/09/what-makes-climate-change-deniers-tick/ Guest blogger Roman Krznaric argues for a revolution in empathy to tackle climate change. 'We seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit – our ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, to see the world through those who are different from us.’ – Barack Obama Occasionally – just occasionally ... http://climatedenial.org/2008/12/03/climate-change-and-the-empathy-deficit/ Lucy Michaels, our guest blogger, gives an expert insiders view on the threat and the denial of climate change in Israel. Greetings from our little corner of the Eastern Mediterranean. I live in a small kibbutz, in a hyper-arid desert valley on the borders of Israel and Jordan near the Gulf ... http://climatedenial.org/2008/11/13/postcard-from-israel/ George Marshall in short interview argues that we must stop refering to climate change as an environmental issue arguing that this provides a handy denial strategy for people to argue that it has nothing to do with them.. The original is on youtube at link... For those with nothing better to do, ... http://climatedenial.org/2008/10/07/stop-talking-about-the-environment/ Review of The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so), Lawrence Solomon, Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 There’s a flood of cookbooks in the UK, (and climate change denial books too) so let’s start with ... http://climatedenial.org/2008/09/16/cooking-the-books-how-to-write-a-contrarian-polemic-on-climate-change/ These adverts are not greenwash or misinformation. They manage to use the images and language of climate change without in any way recognising the scale of the threat or their own responsibility for the problem. Innocent, cynical or deeply disturbed? What do you think? Last year General Motors hit a ... http://climatedenial.org/2008/08/18/five-more-appalling-climate-denial-ads/