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Harold Ambler's Huffington Post climate misinformation-ganza
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... A new Huffington Post blogger named Harold Ambler has posted an unoriginal rehashing of the same old global warming denial talking points that we've seen over and over again for close to a decade now. ...

Diagnosing a victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS)
Climate Progress — ... scientists and non-scientists who are not anti-science. But the use of more than half of these in a single speech or article is pretty much a definitive diagnosis of ASS. When someone repeats virtually all of those phrases, along with multiple references to Al Gore, they are wholly a victim of ASS — in scientific circles they are referred to as ASS-wholes. A newly prominent ASS-whole is Harold Ambler, who managed to get this article past a HuffingtonPost intern over the weekend: “ Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted .” I was not originally planning to post on this (unsourced) collection ...

Huff Po blows it
Grist - the Latest from Grist — By Andrew Dessler This post was co-written with David Roberts. Recently Harold Ambler, climate crank and proprietor of TalkingAboutTheWeather.com, published an essay on Huffington Post replete with gross factual errors about the science of climate change. Word is that this was an editorial slip-up on HuffPo's part; they don't typically provide a place for this kind of agitprop. The essay is gone from the site's portal pages and rumor has it The Huff herself may address the issue soon. Regardless, the essay is out there ...

Diagnosing an ASS victim
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... A newly prominent ASS-whole is Harold Ambler, who managed to get this article past a HuffingtonPost intern over the weekend: "Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted." I was not originally planning to post on this (unsourced) collection of long debunked denier talking points since, as regular readers know, my policy is not to waste time on the umpteenth debunking. Anyone who might be persuaded by Ambler's tripe can do a simple search for each myth on ...

Fair skies return to teapot
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... about a piece of climate skeptic hoo-ha that somehow got published on Huffington Post. There was nothing particularly notable about the piece itself -- just the usual recycled confusions and distortions -- but it was somewhat remarkable that it appeared on a progressive news site whose proprietor has strongly criticized mainstream journalism for its pathological and misleading "balance" even on settled issues of fact. ...