by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 28, 2020 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science Denial
Michael Mann, a climate scientist and signatory to Fox’s letter, said the film includes “various distortions, half-truths and lies” and that the filmmakers “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet by promoting climate change inactivist tropes and talking...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 5, 2019 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science Denial
Inside a Climate Denial Conference at a Trump Hotel I entered Trump International Hotel in Washington last Thursday with a three-person team to cover the Heartland Institute’s 13th International Conference on Climate Change. I left with two. Despite the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 2, 2019 | Critical Thinking, Global Warming Denial, Science Denial
Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers – and here are some techniques you can use The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 17, 2019 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science Denial
Theory, Hypothesis, And Law – Debunking A Climate Change Contrarian Tactic According to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller, “Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting yesterday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (a gigaton is equal to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2018 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science
I’ve been following the video science blogger Potholer54 aka Peter Hatfield for maybe a little over a decade now and think he is one of the very best science communicators out there and when it comes to global warming and climate change he is peerless. This popped up...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 1, 2017 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Evolution & Darwinism, Global Warming Denial, Science, Science Denial
Scientists aren’t stupid, and science deniers are arrogant Debating those who reject scientific facts has been a hobby of mine for several years now. It’s not a very rewarding hobby, and it comes with high stress levels and periodic fits of rage, so I...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 25, 2017 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial
Listening to Trump talk about and around the idea of “clean coal” I am blown away by the tsunami of ignorance, idiocy, and DISINFORMATION that surges out of his “McDonald’s hole”. Trump thinks “clean coal” is just coal...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 3, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers’ War on Climate Science from The Real News Network on Vimeo.
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 23, 2016 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Science, Science Denial
I’ve been thinking for a while now to be a climate change denier today you either have to be a pure political partisan or have your personal cognitive dissonance switch setting on high. How climate science deniers can accept so many ‘impossible...
