These Trump surrogates’ blank stares when “grabbing women by the pussy” is accurately described to them as sexual assault are just particularly high-profile examples of how most of the world refuses to recognise sexual assault for what it is.
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Webcomic OTD: Beliefs vs Evidence
It’s a while since I branched out to new webcomics. Any recommendations?
Hottest September in Sydney since records began
So, how’s that “global warming hiatus” (aka a small slowdown in the rate of warming although the globe has continued to heat up during this “hiatus”) looking now, denialistas?
Reminder: 9 of the 10 hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000
And that’s just one of the datasets supporting the fact that the planet’s climate is warming. The Bad Astronomer provides a case study of the tactics of climate change denial: it’s a textbook case of denialist sleight of hand, of distraction, distortion, error, and misdirection.
Quicklink: Tim Lambert zings Andrew Bolt
Yes, Andrew: a pdf labelled ‘Chapter 4’ is never ever going to be the “whole report” now, is it? So perhaps your pronouncement that “not once did it mention floods” was rather courageous (in the Sir Humphrey sense) on your part.
Ozblogistan spats: this time it’s climate change
However, the reason that critics at LP and on her own blog were so harsh about LE’s stance on climate change science, while virtually ignoring her points on inequitable outcomes of climate change mitigation policies? Because of how she wrote her article…
Quote of the Week?
“If we just take our temperature, all of Australia has experienced warming over the last 50 years. We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken.”
Piers Akerman quotes a statement nobody else can find – is anybody surprised?
The arithmetic skills, not so hot, are they?
Denialism: it’s a tactic, not an ideology
Denialism (n): the practice of creating the illusion of debate when there is none.
Procrastination aid Of The Day: UEA CRU hyperbole
The emails largely had to do with dealing with an already known problem with dendrochronology. The oceans are still rising, the Arctic ice is still melting back worse in the summer, the glaciers are still withdrawing. And all of this is still exceeding IPCC models, as the modelers well know. The hockey stick has acquired another crook.
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