Rob Honeycutt's Climate Bet for Charity, 2013 Update garnered the most comments of the articles posted on SkS this past week. Next in line is 4 Hiroshima bombs per second: a widget to raise awareness about global warming by John Cook and Bob Lacatena. Coming in third is John Cook's Attacks on scientific consensus on climate change mirror tactics of tobacco industry. All three are on this week's "must read" list.
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists.
''Australia is now an emerging energy superpower and our argument is if you're serious about nature conservation, and if you're serious about climate change, you can't just keep messing around with domestic issues, you've got to look at the export industry,'' said Wilderness Society national campaign director Lyndon Schneiders.
''We've got to make a decision as a country to keep large coal, oil and gas reserves actually in the ground.''
Australia's Wilderness Society launches legal attack on coal industry by Jill Stark, The Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 1, 2011
The new Skeptical Science Global Warming Widget was discussed at Real Sceptic and installed on 36 blogs.
John Cook's Attacks on scientific consensus on climate change mirror tactics of tobacco industry was published in the Newcastle Herald.
Cowtan & Way (2013) was discussed by Zeke Hausfather at Yale Forum and on NL News.
The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was referenced by Media Matters and The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 1 December, 2013
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