This news is a little stale by now, but the big skunk-works project that has monopolized my time and prevented me from getting podcasts out has launched. Planet3.0 is a new attempt at sustainability journalism. An attempt to present the news that should be on the front page. An attempt to remove the sense of…
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Author Archives: Dan Moutal
Where is the podcast?
I haven’t released a podcast in a long time and you, my loyal fans, deserve an explanation. And while I have a good explanation, I can’t really tell you about it. All I can say is that I have not been idle this past while, I am working on something that has the potential to…
Quote of the day
A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal
Burden of proof
David Mitchell does it again: More Mitchell goodness here and here
David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes
David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes using… furniture as an example? Yes furniture! Just watch it. And if you liked that, then you will love this.
Cosmic clouds?
The connection between cosmic rays and clouds has always been tenuous. The connection between cosmic rays and climate even more so. But that hasn’t stopped the cosmic ray driven climate (and therefor not caused by GHG emissions) theory from getting more attention than it deserves. From every single study that doesn’t outright disprove the notion…
The worlds most exonerated climate scientist
Here we go again! Time after time the claims made by deniers about the conduct of climate scientists (in this case Michael Mann) fail to live up to the hype. This time it is the National Science Foundation that found that, like all the previous investigations that resulted from the leaked climategate emails, the scientists involved…
Calling a spade a spade, using colourful language
By now it is all over the internet, and I am late getting to it. But it is still worth mentioning. Apparently some people are offended by the fact that Al Gore called a spade a spade the bullshit coming from deniers exactly what it is: Bullshit.
Episode 21: Show Notes
On episode 21: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, Another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, The Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious…
Quote of the day: Real conservatism, part 2
More sense coming from John Huntsman: The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we…
Quote of the day: Real conservatism
To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy. – Jon Huntsman, 2012 Republican presidential candidate This is what real conservatism looks like. And we need more of it, lots more. (h/t Joe Romm)
In the belly of the beast
Scott Denning is not the type of person who you would expect to give talks at the Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Conference. After all Scott Denning is a well respected climate scientist, a professor in the department of atmospheric science at Colorado state university. While The Heartland institute is a bastion of anti-science denialism, not only denying the…
How it’s done parts 2 and 3
John Abraham is at it again: part 2 And part 3 And for those who missed part 1 here it is.
Green madness: how the green movement lost its way and alienated the public
Like it or not (I obviously don’t) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all depend on, it has failed to make the public understand the gravity and scale of our current environmental problems, and it has failed to get politicians to do anything…
Public relations tactics might influence the public and politicians, but not reality
We’ve won the public opinion debate, and we’ve won the political debate as well, … But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration. -Joe Bast, president and co-founder of the Heartland Institute Both public opinion and political debates are frequently, affected by things other than reality. The scientific debate on the other hand isn’t….
Episode 21: Ironic frozen deniers
This episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, the Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious…
Wind power blows
In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun.
The true cost of gasoline
Of course the same applies for coal. More-so actually because coal pollutes far more than gasoline.
“Earth facing mini-ice age!!” say the media. Now for the science….
Potholer54 is at it again: Sceptical Science provides us with a nice graph that explains all of this in detail: