guardian.co.uk - 8/12/2009
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The champion of climate change denial has responded to me, but creates more questions than he answers Well, well, this becomes ever more interesting. A few weeks ago, after I attacked the crazy claims about climate change in his book Heaven and Earth , the professor of geology Ian Plimer ...
reuters.com - 8/11/2009
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reuters.com —
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Global carbon dioxide emissions in
2008 rose 1.94 percent year-on-year to 31.5 billion metric
tons, German renewable energy industry institute IWR said on Monday, based on official information and its own research. The private ...
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Global 2008 CO2 emissions rose 2 percent: German ...
reuters.com - 8/11/2009
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reuters.com —
FRANKFURT, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Global carbon dioxide
emissions in 2008 rose 1.94 percent year-on-year to 31.5
billion tonnes, German renewable energy industry institute IWR said on Monday, based on official information and its own research. For a ...
(more)
Global 2008 CO2 emissions rose 2 pct-German institute
cbsnews.com - 8/6/2009
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cbsnews.com —
Before the U.S. Senate votes to extend the
"cash for clunkers" program , let's examine this question,
which seems like a reasonable one to ask: What has it done to reduce carbon emissions? This was, after all, one of the primary justifications that ...
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"Cash For Clunkers" Does Little To Help The Environment ...
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Ian Plimer: Climate change denier AND annoying git
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... It would appear from Ian Plimer's latest response in the back and forth with UK Gardian columnist George Monbiot that Plimer has no intention of taking seriously either the climate change issue - or his commitment to debate it in good faith. ...
Plimer’s homework assignment
RealClimate —
... . In response to Monbiot’s request for explanation and sources for some of Plimer’s more bizarre claims, Plimer has responded with a homework assignment that is clearly beyond even his (claimed) prowess. This is quite transparently a device to avoid dealing with Monbiot’s questions and is designed to lead to an argument along the lines of “Monbiot can’t answer these questions and so knows nothing about the science (and by the way, please don’t notice that I can’t cite any sources for my nonsense or even acknowledge that I can’t ...
RealClimate Analysis Proves Plimer's Imbecility
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... <!--break-->Plimer at first ducked and then promised to provide answers. But when he sent Monbiot the next email, it contained only a new set of questions - clearly intended to tie Monbiot up in an irrelevant confusion of "science." ...
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