2012 SkS Weekly Digest #7

SkS Highlights

Denialgate* captured the rapt attention of people thoughout the world who closely follow climate science news, especially via electonic media. SkS authors posted three investigative articles on the matter.

  1. Denialgate - Internal Heartland Documents Expose Climate Denial Funding Network by Dana
  2. DenialGate Highlights Heartland's Selective NIPCC Science by Dana
  3. DenialGate - Infographic Illustrating the Heartland Denial Funding Machine  by Dana & jg 

*Denialgate: revelations about the Heartland Institute's ongoing propaganda war on climate science and climate scientists. (The Heartlnd Institute is an arch-conservative, US "think-tank" located in Chicago, Illinois.) DeSmog Blog broke the story with the posting of Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy on Valentine's Day, Feb 14.

Toon of the Week

Climate Scientists

Issue of the Week

Should the SkS Comment Policy be amended to explicitly prohibit the hi-jacking of a comment thread by an individual commentator?

The Week in Review

A complete listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.

  • Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt by John Hartz
  • Search For 'Missing Heat' Confirms More Global Warming 'In The Pipeline' by Rob Painting
  • A mishmash of Monckton misrepresentation by John Cook
  • DenialGate - Infographic Illustrating the Heartland Denial Funding Machine by Dana & jg
  • DenialGate Highlights Heartland's Selective NIPCC Science by Dana
  • Climate Insights: a series of bite sized videos on climate science by John Cook
  • Breaking News…The Earth Is Warming…Still! by Glenn Tamblyn
  • Video of Chuck Kutscher debunking climate skeptic arguments by John Cook
  • Tropical Thermostats and Global Warming by Chris Colose
  • Denialgate - Internal Heartland Documents Expose Climate Denial Funding Network by Dana
  • Fritz Vahrenholt - Duped on Climate Change by Dana
  • New research from last week 6/2012 Ari Jokimäki
  • Climate mythbusting at Lane Cove, Sydney on Feb 28 by John Cook
  • 2000 Years of Climate Reconstructed from Pollen by Robert Way
  • Finnish translation of The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism by John Cook
  • Coming Soon

    A list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most of these articles, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.

    SkS in the News

    Dana's Fritz Vahrenholt - Duped on Climate Change was re-posted on PlanetSave and Lies.com.

    SkS Spotlights 

    An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign is a four-part analysis by Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor, Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law, at Penn State University (USA). 

    The purpose of the series has been to distinguish between responsible scientific skepticism, an approach to climate change science that should be encouraged, and the tactics of the climate change disinformation campaign, strategies deployed to undermine mainstream climate change science that are often deeply ethically offensive.

    This series makes particualry interesting reading in light of the Denialgate affair discussed in the first section of this digest. 

    Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 20 February, 2012


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