Fault Lines
I was honoured to chair the Council Of Canadian Academies panel on misinformation. Our report, Fault Lines, is available here. https://cca-reports.ca/reports/the-socioeconomic-impacts-of-health-and-science-misinformation/
climate denial
David Suzuki: Trump is a pariah in the face of climate crisis
In withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated monumental ignorance about climate change and the agreement itself, writes David Suzuki. The post David Suzuki: Trump is a…
Stephen Lewis, Prominent Canadians Demand Investigation of Climate Change Deniers
Stephen Lewis and five other prominent Canadians recently called on the Commissioner of Competition to investigate climate change denier groups. The post Stephen Lewis, Prominent Canadians Demand Investigation of Climate…
Climate denial in the TPP trade agreement
The 5,000-page TPP agreement “is literally in climate denial” while expanding the rights of corporations, argues Ben Lilliston, the director of climate strategies at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade…
David Suzuki: Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world
David Suzuki calls out climate change deniers being funded by fossil fuel interests, urges Canadians to elect a government committed to acting on “the greatest threat humanity faces” on October…
Exposed!
Science Historian Naomi Oreskes writes: When I wrote the book Merchants of Doubt in 2010, I only wanted one thing: to uncover the truth about who was behind the widespread,…
Irony Collapses After Desperate Sprint to Not Get Lapped
Thin skinned anti-science idiot Chrisopher Monckton has a big sad that a bunch of actually smart people called out his errant nonsense as nonsense so he’s naturally doing what real…
New Zealand Sets the Gold Standard For Monckton Journalism
This is how every article about one of Christopher Monckton’s revivalist evangelical bamboozlement roadshow sessions should go: Lord Monckton, who once argued for the quarantine of AIDS patients in internment…
Why Argue With Climate Change Deniers?
Recently on Twitter I engaged first the execrable Ezra Levant who had retweeted some obvious climate change denialist trolling to #cdnpoli (apparently the fact that it is cold at the…
Reaching Across The Climate Divide: Transforming The Way We Engage
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Simran Sethi talks about engaging with people who seem to be our polar opposites.
Chrisopher Monckton, Climate Skeptic Hero
This post provides the sources of a series of claims I am making over Twitter. My main points are two: 1) Christopher Monckton is the leading climate “skeptic” and is…
Nonsense Alert: When Canadian journalists succumb to climate denial folly
I don’t want to be one of those grandpas who spoils the grandkids with a habitable planet. It’s the same reason I will not buy life insurance. I get hit…
Hurricane Sandy Reminds Us We’re All Paying The Price For Politically-Created Climate Of Doubt
The PBS Frontline program “Climate of Doubt” masterfully exposed the strategies and tactics that climate denialists have used to delay, if not undermine meaningful action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions…
Climate Change having "Natural Causes" is Far More Alarming
It strikes me that the set of climate deniers who say “yes the earth is warming, but it is natural causes not human behaviour” think somehow this is a sufficient…
Understanding Harper’s Evangelical Mission
harpersmiles300px.jpg This post originally appeared in The Tyee, and is re-published with permission. Any Canadian listening to the news these days might well conclude that the Republican extremists or some…
Donna Laframboise Flown To Australia By Climate Science Denying Think Tank
delinquent.jpg CANADIAN blogger and climate science sceptic Donna Laframboise has flown off for a tour of Australia to tell anyone willing to listen that the world's foremost body on climate…
Exxon’s Tillerson: Could We Really Have Expected a Tiger to Change its Stripes?
exxon.jpg By Cindy Baxter, originally published at PolluterWatch.org. When Greenpeace first began focussing on ExxonMobil's funding of climate denial, its CEO and Chairman was arch denier Lee Raymond. Raymond had…
Senator John Kerry Speaks the Scary, Ugly Truth on Climate Change
Screen shot 2012-06-19 at 4.37.47 PM.png There are precious few voices in the U.S. capital these days that are speaking the truth about climate change. Which is what makes Senator…
Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Bids For Editorial Control Of Australia’s Fairfax Newspapers
getup_ad_mining_media.jpg WHEN you think the news stories just aren't going your way – when parts of the media just refuse to tow your particular ideological line – what are your…
Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Verizon, and CUNA Drop Heartland Institute, Continuing Corporate Defections
This is a guest post by Jesse Coleman that originally appeared at PolluterWatch. Pharmaceutical giants Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline, along with Verizon, Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, and Credit Union National Association, have…