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Steve Milloy is an Evil Motherfucker
So someone decided to email me a book description of Green Hell by Steve Milloy because someone posted it as a reply to an article about the White House climate plans cost.
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/03/24/white-house-ups-estimate-of-climate-plan-costs/
So who is Steve Milloy? Steve Milloy is one of the most evil motherfuckers on the face of the planet. He’s a corporate hack for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which funds his junkscience.com website, which of course is not accredited by any science organization in the world. His career was started in 1993 when Philip Morris created a phony citizens group to discredit EPA research showing the dangers of second-hand smoke, the Orwellian-named, “the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.” Not only that, but he ALSO runs CSRWatch.com, which monitors and criticizes the corporate social responsibility movement — because if its one thing that’s brought about this financial crisis, it’s corporate social responsibility. But that’s not all. He ALSO campaigned on the 1972 ban on DDT by knowingly propagating the lie that millions would die from malaria despite the fact that it was only a nationwide ban. Don’t think he’s an evil motherfucker yet? Well he also blamed the Twin Towers falling on a ban on asbestos fireproofing. Are his deeds not yet vile enough that they should be compared to Oedipal psychosis? Well, he also runs the Free Enterprise Action Fund, which — get this — criticizes companies like Microsoft, General Electric, and even Business Roundtable (a pro-business organization of CEOs) for VOLUNTARILY adopting higher environmental standards. Well, you might say, at least it’s still legal, right? Actually, Slate magazine has done a report on how the “mutual fund” is really a lobbying enterprise set up to “broadcast their views on corporate governance, global warming, and a host of other issues.”
With a history like that of Steve Milloy, it’s a wonder if the dirty energy lobbyists hired him due to his proven track record of propagandizing abilities distinguished by a sizable death count.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/01/12/denier-industrial-complex-kooks-dicks-scream-czar-browner-is-a-socialist/
http://www.slate.com/id/2140997/
Global Warming Links
Climate Change Fight “Can’t Wait”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096084.stm
Climate Change is Not a Consensus of Opinion
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers/
Antarctic Ice Shows Earth Carbon Dioxide at an 800,000-Year High
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5314592.stm
How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php
List of Scientific Organizations That Accept Man-Made Global Warming
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/there-is-no-consensus.php
Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
Climate Change Questions Answered
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/302176_whatabout02.html
Climate Change FAQs
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change_FAQs
http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/globalwarmingfaq.htm
Climate Change Timeline
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_Timeline
Guide to Fact and Fiction About Climate Change
http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=1630
Climate Change Outline of Topic
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change:_outline_of_topics
IPCC Drafting Process
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/index.htm
IPCC Summary for Policy Makers
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/WG1AR4_SPM_Approved_05Feb.pdf
IPCC 2007 Reports
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
IPCC Predicts Climate Change Disaster If Action Not Taken By 2012
http://climateprogress.org/2007/11/17/must-read-ipcc-synthesis-report-debate-over-delay-fatal-action-not-costly/
NASA on Global Warming
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalWarmingUpdate/
NASA Says Climate Change Approaching “Tipping Point”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531073748.htm
NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/world_warmth.html
NASA Head Looks Back on 20 Years of Climate Change Denial
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf
NASA Describes How Lost Arctic Ice Causes a Warming Feedback Loop
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html
REPORT: First Identification of Model-Predicted “Fingerprint” of Tropopause Height Changes
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/santertext.pdf
REPORT: New Detection Studies Show Anthropogenic Climate Change is Detectable
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/315840.pdf
Detection and Attribution of Climate Change
http://www.research.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_ccdetect.html
Ice Cores Reveal Greenhouse Gases at an 800,000-Year-High
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080514131131.htm
Royal United Services Institute Warns Global Warming May Cause World Wars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/eaclimate123.xml
North Pole “Melting Faster Than Ever”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2349041.htm
North Pole Will Be Ice Free In 5 Years Instead of 60
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.arctic
Antarctica is Losing Ice to Oceans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4767296.stm
Rate of Greenland Ice Melting Increased 250% Between 2004 and 2006
http://climateprogress.org/2006/11/26/the-glaciers-are-melting-and-we-are-the-cause/
Drought Has Doubled in Past 30 Years
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2005/drought_research.shtml
Fresh Water Supplies Are Already Drying Up
Studies Warn Global Warming is Rapidly Raising Sea Levels
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0323_060323_global_warming.html
2006 Was 5th Warmest Year in Century
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17553
2004: The Year Global Warming Got Respect
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1229_041229_climate_change_consensus.html
Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502150.html
Former Surgeon General Discusses Republican Adversity Towards Science
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/surg-j17.shtml
Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange
List of 400 “Climate Skeptics” Includes the Unqualified and People Who Want Off the List
http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/16/more-on-the-laughable-padded-inhofe-400/
“Republicans have shown a marked preference for politically inspired fringe theories over the findings of long-established and world-renowned scientific bodies”
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/09/chris_mooney.html
Mar. 2006: “The partisan gap on global warming seems to be shifting, according to the poll. In 1998, 31% of Republicans and independents alike were sure that global warming was happening, compared with 39% among Democrats. Today, 46% of Democrats and 45% of independents are certain, but only 26% of Republicans feel that way, according to the poll.”
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1176967,00.html
May 2008: “Only 49% of Republican now even believe that the earth is warming!”
http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/09/the-deniers-are-winning-especially-with-the-gop/
“In the history of global climate research, the research budget in Lindzen’s native United States has been inflated twice — once during the presidency of the first President Bush and once during that of his son, George W. Bush. In both cases the injection of funding was preceded by a sentence uttered by the president: We know too little. If climate researchers wish to secure or expand their budgets, they shouldn’t be saying: We are 90 percent certain that the lion’s share of climate change is manmade. Instead, they should say: We know too little.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,480766,00.html
The Cruel Off-Shore Drilling Hoax
http://climateprogress.org/2008/07/10/the-cruel-offshore-drilling-hoax-part-1/
Inaction on Climate Change Will HURT Our Economy
http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/29/inaction-on-climate-change-will-hurt-our-economy/
Energy Efficiency R&D Could Return 75-to-1 on Investment
http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/08/energy-efficiency-part-5-the-highest-documented-rate-of-return-of-any-federal-program/
Mammoth Dung and Prehistoric Goo May Speed Global Warming
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1076886120070917?sp=true
Dirty Snow May Warm Arctic as Much as Greenhouse Gases
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070606113327.htm
Animals Already Evolving to Keep Pace With Global Warming
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article673034.ece
Ancient Warming Caused Chain Reaction in Temperature Growth
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071219-ancient-warming.html
Climate Change May Have Helped Bring Down Neandertals, Mammoths, and the Maya
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080103-neanderthals.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331223843.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080229-servir-maya.html
Ten Reasons Why Climate Change May Be More Severe Than Projected
http://climateprogress.org/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-climate-change-may-be-more-severe-than-projected/
Standards of Proof for Global Warming
http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/11/how-do-we-really-know-humans-are-causing-global-warming/
Sunspots at 50 Year Low
Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1978
Global Warming or Climate Change?
http://bahumuth.bitfreedom.com/global-warming-climate-change
Global Warming Disinformation Tries to Match “Lord Monckton” With Gore
http://bahumuth.bitfreedom.com/global-warming-disinformation
Washed Up Viscount Manages to Publish Crackpot Theory on Non-Peer-Reviewed Newsletter
http://bahumuth.bitfreedom.com/lord-monckton-ur-blog-dising-ur-cred
Lord Monckton Is In Ur Blog, Dising Ur Cred
Here’s an idea of how badly conservatives are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their attempts to get their propaganda passed off as legitimate science and legitimate “news.” Conservative circles became very excited about the American Physical Society apparently making an about face to their long-held stance supporting the science behind global warming. The story was pushed off by Drudge Report, Jonah Goldberg, and conservative blogs on — of all days — the same day Gore is giving a speech on the subject, using headlines like “Group Repping 50,000 Physicists Opens Global Warming Debate…” and “Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate”! The title of this “exploding” news story should actually read: “Washed-Up British Viscount Manages to Publish Crackpot Theory on Non-Peer-Reviewed Online Newsletter.”
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/19/the-rights-misguided-frenzy-over-the-american-physical-society/
The editor didn’t even bother to get a scientist. “Lord Monckton” has no degrees in the subject. He inherited his title from his dead father and was a former policy adviser to Margret Thatcher. The bogus news story has forced the association to put a disclaimer on both the header of the article and the front page of their website. The front page points out the newsletter is from the “APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS.” Hardly something that represents all 50,000 members. The writings themselves are not new and have long been debunked as a “sleight-of-hand.” Quoting from the Sunday Times and the Times, Monckton’s science is “self-taught and his paper qualifications nonexistent” and “he is trying to take on the global scientific establishment on the strength of a classics degree from Cambridge.” One of the models used by Monckton was made up by himself, but another one comes from JunkScience.com, a front end for Steve Milloy, a long time tobacco, drug, and oil industry lobbyist, which has published other ‘cuckoo science’ pieces over the years.
http://climateprogress.org/2008/07/19/american-physical-society-stomps-on-monckton-disinformation-thank-you-climate-progress-readers/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton%2C_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley
http://www.aps.org/
If you recognize the name, that’s because Lord Monckton is the same guy that the Heartland Institute was using as their resident expert when they were trying to double dog dare Gore to get into a debate with him in that ludicrously-titled article “Gore Confronted by Own Scientists- ‘Confusion Between Hypothesis and Evidence’,” which was raked over the coals in one of the first posts I made on this blog. (Although only 5 short paragraphs long, I still somehow managed to elicit 5 pages worth of explainable errors with the article.) It kind of gives you an idea about how pathetically low conservative hacks are stooping that they aren’t even bothering to switch out the henchmen they use to fictionalize the news.
Here is a good article by a real scientist:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers/index.html
Global Warming or Climate Change?
I’ve heard it been said that “Global Warming” was changed to “Climate Change” because liberals wanted to prepare to keep up the Global Warming scare even after temperatures start getting colder. But the funny thing is, the reason the Bush Administration started using the term “Climate Change” was because Frank Luntz advised them to:
“Luntz advises use of the term “climate change” rather than “global warming,” which he says is more frightening.”
http://www.desmogblog.com/bushs-chief-climate-spinmaster-tells-harper-how-its-done
“In a 2002 memo to President George W. Bush titled “The Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America”, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, Luntz wrote: “The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science…Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
Another email from 2004 says: “From the heated debate on global warming to the hot air on forests; from the muddled talk on our nation’s waters to the convolution on air pollution, we are fighting a battle of fact against fiction on the environment – Republicans can’t stress enough that extremists are screaming “Doomsday!” when the environment is actually seeing a new and better day.'”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/apr/04/usnews.theobserver
So, even though Luntz knew the science was “closing” in on them in 2002, he continued to suggest that Republicans act as if the global warming position was “extremist” in 2004. Yet, he seems to have become an “exteremist” himself in 2006:
Luntz: “It’s now 2006. I think most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place and that the behavior of humans are (sic) affecting the climate.”
BBC: “But the administration has continued taking your advice. They’re still questioning the science.”
Luntz: “That’s up to the administration. I’m not the administration. What they want to do is their business. It has nothing to do with what I write. It has nothing to do with what I believe.”
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/frank_luntz_acc.php
“Although Luntz later tried to distance himself from the Bush administration policy, it was his idea to discredit the idea of global warming science to keep the issue from influencing voters in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections. Luntz has since said that he is not responsible for what the administration has done since that time. Though he now believes humans have contributed to global warming, he maintains that the science was in fact incomplete, and his recommendation sound, at the time he made it.[5]”