As the masquerade ball of phony scientists talks to itself (and of course the assembled media) in New York this week, a very different conference is happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Hundreds of the worlds leading climate researchers are gathering at the International Scientific Congress ...

Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...

Caught in a series of factual errors, or what many are calling outright lies about climate science , Washington Post columnist George Will has upped the ante for himself and his employer with his latest column on global warming. Rather than issue a retraction and simply move on, today he reiterated ...

Desmog Blog readers know how much cyber-ink we have spilled trying to save the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) . Our work may finally be over.   The Omnibus Appropriations Bill 1105, just passed yesterday by the US Congress contains the following fateful statement on page 141 : "The bil...

Obama-mania hit Canada’s capital hard today but there was much more at play than photo ops during the President’s five-hour visit. Harper and Obama announced a “clean energy dialogue” focusing on “carbon capture and storage” technology (CCS) – a stash-the-em...

Ever been driving down the highway and that little red engine light comes on? It’s just a small thing but it usually means something really bad is about to happen. Something similar happened this week to our planet. A group of scientists has just discovered that the oceans ability to absorb ca...

Good News! Climate change is all a big mistake! This remarkable finding was revealed by Michael Asher in Daily Tech – a publication more focused on iPhones than atmospheric science. Asher’s piece Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 confidently states that “Thanks to a rapid reb...

An unnamed source within NASA intimately familiar with the mothballed Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission spoke to Desmog Blog on the condition of anonymity. The story is incredible. The big question has always been: who would want to kill a $100 million fully completed climate satellite...

Oil industry insiders are sweating bullets over whether the incoming Obama Administration will be keen to buy “ dirty oil � from Alberta tar sands. The early news for them is not good. The president-elect last week sent Jason Grumet, a policy adviser mentioned for a possible energy post, to an e...

Should oil executives be prosecuted for high crimes against humanity? Top NASA scientist Jim Hansen thinks so. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Hansen said,   "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation ...