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		<title>Rebuttal to Former Senator Bob Bennett</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/rebuttal-to-former-senator-bob-bennett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, former U.S. Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) published an op-ed in the Deseret News, in which he went on about how climate science isn&#8217;t &#8220;settled,&#8221; and that we shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;panic,&#8221; but instead do things that &#8220;make sense&#8221; to combat climate change.  They just published my reply. &#160; &#160; Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1657&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Journal:  The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/national-journal-the-coming-gop-civil-war-over-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Republicans like me believe we are shooting ourselves in the foot by acting like a bunch of slack-jawed yokels and tinfoil-hat-wearing loons with respect to climate change.  Here&#8217;s a very good National Journal article about moves within the Republican party to start addressing climate change. Filed under: Climate Change, Utah Republican Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1655&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WaPo Fact Checker on Rep. Stewart</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/wapo-fact-checker-on-rep-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 18:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I linked to a Salt Lake Tribune op-ed by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) in which he said, There is also uncertainty regarding to what degree man is to blame for global warming. However, the claim that 98 percent of scientists agree that humans are the singular driver of climate change has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1653&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Response to Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah)</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/my-response-to-rep-chris-stewart-r-utah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncertainty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial board for The Salt Lake Tribune has been mercilessly criticizing Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) for ignoring the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change, even though he has been appointed chairman of the House subcommittee on the Environment.  Stewart is unapologetic, and the Tribune published an op-ed by him last week, in which he tried [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1650&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  The New Zealand Blues</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/the-monckton-files-the-new-zealand-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow Moncktonophiles, This piece about Monckton&#8217;s recent &#8220;barnstorming&#8221; tour of New Zealand will brighten your day.  Nyuck, nyuck. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1648&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Bickmore&#8217;s First and Second Laws of Monckton</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/the-monckton-files-bickmores-first-and-second-laws-of-monckton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Monckton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, a biologist at my university became enamored with Lord Christopher Monckton&#8217;s special brand of climate pseudoscience, and tried to drum up support for some department on campus to host him as a speaker.  The response was&#8230; ahem&#8230; less than enthusiastic.  But during the exchange among interested parties, the biologist said this: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1627&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Republican Legislator Floats Climate Change Bill&#8230;!!!</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/utah-republican-legislator-floats-climate-change-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m gobsmacked.  A Republican legislator from Heber City, Kraig Powell, has submitted a bill to the Utah State Legislature that&#8230; (drumroll)&#8230; assumes the possibility of human-caused climate change.  The point of the bill (HB77) is to allow state land managers to consider human-caused climate change when developing plans to deal with wildfire mitigation.  Yes, they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1624&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betting on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/betting-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Physicist Mark Boslough proposes a sort of climate futures trading market that carbon dumpers are required to participate in.  If climate doesn&#8217;t change much, they make money.  If it does, they lose money.  Seems like an interesting idea for a market-based alternative to a carbon tax. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1621&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Now it&#8217;s Al Gore Going to JAIL!!!</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/the-monckton-files-now-its-al-gore-going-to-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christopher Monckton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last few posts, I reported on how The Gibraltar Chronicle had printed several articles about Lord Christopher Monckton&#8217;s trip to Gibraltar meant to counter Al Gore&#8217;s appearance there.  Frankly, the articles sounded like they were simply press releases written by His Lordship himself, but when Monckton&#8217;s PR guy started bullying the Chronicle staff [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1616&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Challenge to Viscount Monckton</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/debate-challenge-to-viscount-monckton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 22, 2012 Dear Viscount Monckton, I noticed a number of articles in The Gibraltar Chronicle (links here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) about your most recent attempts to engage Al Gore in a debate about climate change, and I agree that you deserve an answer, although not necessarily from Gore.  In response, I would [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1614&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Love Letters</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-monckton-files-love-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I mentioned an article in The Gibraltar Chronicle, about how Christopher Monckton&#8217;s PR man had tried to bully the editors into publishing a libelous letter (“Chronicle Refuses to be Bullied by Monckton PR Man,” Oct. 20, 2012).  The libelous letter was precipitated by two letters to the editor by prominent citizens of Gibraltar, who [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1612&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  The Monckton Challenge</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/the-monckton-files-the-monckton-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Gore has lately been in Gibraltar giving the usual climate change speeches, and so, naturally, Lord Christopher Monckton has been renewing his constant debate challenges, telling Gore to accept the challenge or get out of Gibraltar, and so on.  The Gibraltar Chronicle has published a number of fawning articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1609&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Republican Party Anti-Science?</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/is-the-republican-party-anti-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friday I was on an Al Jazeera TV show called Inside Story Americas.  The topic was &#8220;Why do many Republicans distrust scientists?&#8221; You can watch the whole show here. This was my first time on a show like this, so don&#8217;t expect greatness.  What I learned was: 1.  When you do a remote TV interview, you are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1604&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Blog Name:  Climate Asylum</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/new-blog-name-climate-asylum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first and only blog I&#8217;ve ever done, so perhaps I can be forgiven for naming it something as appallingly bad as &#8220;Anti-Climate Change Extremism in Utah&#8221;.  Well, I finally got sick of it, so I renamed my blog &#8220;Climate Asylum&#8221;.  The inspiration for the name, in case you care, was Jon Huntsman&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1602&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deseret News:  Hotter Climate Equals More Wildfires</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/deseret-news-hotter-climate-equals-more-wildfires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Deseret News just reported on a new study that shows a more compelling link between hotter climate conditions and wildfires than had been demonstrated before.  The scientists involved studied lake sediment cores, in which you can find horizons with bits of charcoal in them, indicating large fires.  The charcoal can be carbon-14 dated to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1592&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Utah State Climatologist Talks Drought and Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/utah-state-climatologist-talks-drought-and-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a nice segment on KSL news with Rob Gillies (the Utah State Climatologist) talking about the current drought and what it has to do with climate change. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1590&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Back in the Attic</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/the-monckton-files-back-in-the-attic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the attic, Uncle Fester.  You were ok when the party was &#8220;not drowning in talent,&#8221; but we&#8217;re going to have to bench you now that the A-team of anti-windmill cranks has arrived. My last post, a few weeks ago, was about Lord Christopher Monckton&#8217;s new role as hero to the Birther nuts here [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1587&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files: Cracked</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/the-monckton-files-cracked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christopher Monckton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Lordship, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (glory be to his Beneficence) has long since careened over the Cliffs of Insanity, but we keep listening to no avail for the &#8220;splat.&#8221;  It was proven that he had been falsely claiming to be a member of Parliament, but the climate change contrarians just kept lapping [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1583&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NPR&#8211;War of the Worlds:  When Science, Politics Collide</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/npr-war-of-the-worlds-when-science-politics-collide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice piece at the National Public Radio site on how scientists and others respond when science and politics collide.  The story quotes me at the end. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1581&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Greatest Snow on Earth&#8221; Disappearing</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/greatest-snow-on-earth-disappearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Fahys at The Salt Lake Tribune has a great story about how Utah is losing it&#8217;s snowpack due to climate change.  The story is based on a new scientific paper by Rob Gillies, Utah&#8217;s state climatologist, and colleagues at Utah State University.  This is very bad news in a state so well known for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1577&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter Pwns John Christy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Christy, a climatologist who is Roy Spencer&#8217;s contrarian buddy at the University of Alabama Huntsville, just published a paper showing that there has been no statistically significant decrease in snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  Ok.  But what happened next has become a familiar story.  Christy went to the media with a press release [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1573&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Republican Meteorologist on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/a-republican-meteorologist-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Douglas, a Republican and a meteorologist, has written a nice piece about how he changed his mind about climate change. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1572&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Mail Wrong Again on Climate</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/daily-mail-wrong-again-on-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, I wrote this: Here’s a rule of thumb for you.  If you ever read anything about climate change in The Daily Mail, the odds are excellent that it’s nonsense. Turns out my rule of thumb is working quite well so far.  Read Peter Sinclair&#8217;s Climate Denial Crock of the Week post about how [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1567&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Happer is Truth-Challenged</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/will-happer-is-truth-challenged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I gave a talk at Utah Valley University entitled, &#8220;How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change&#8221; (click here for video).  In the talk, I introduced the concept of &#8220;truth-challenged individuals&#8221;&#8211;people who are better than the rest of us at ignoring evidence that contradicts what we want to believe&#8211;and gave a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Squealing Tires</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/the-monckton-files-squealing-tires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote a post about how Peter Hadfield, an experienced science journalist and YouTuber, seemed to be cornering Lord Monckton into a debate.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt from that earlier post. Several months ago I wrote a post here about how Lord Christopher Monckton’s handler, Bob Ferguson, had tried to get me to do a live debate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1554&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Coulter:  GOP Has Problem with &#8220;Con Men and Charlatans&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative commentator and provocateur, Ann Coulter, recently gave a talk at the Lincoln Day dinner for the the Indian River County, FL Republican Party.  (See the video below.)  When an audience member asked about the prospect of a brokered convention, she first took a dig at Sarah Palin. Yes, and one of the ones promoting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1547&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Spencer&#8217;s Junk Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Spencer recently posted an article on his blog called &#8220;Ten Years After the Warming,&#8221; in which he argues that there&#8217;s no excuse for a decade without much warming, because the radiative forcing is supposedly higher than it&#8217;s ever been.  Steve Milloy has also reposted the article on his aptly titled blog, JunkScience.com.  (In case [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1532&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Crash, Climate Crash: Will the Wall Street Journal Warn Us?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is a guest post by Bob Fischer, a Wall Street quantitative analyst (&#8220;quant&#8221;) turned climate scientist.  He is now working as a post-doc at NASA.  An earlier version of this essay (somewhat different) appeared on the Planet 3.0 blog. It should surprise no one that the WSJ has posted yet another climate change denial [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1538&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Vapor Feedback Infographic</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/water-vapor-feedback-infographic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common contrarian argument is that &#8220;water vapor is a more important greenhouse gas than CO2, but we don&#8217;t regulate evaporation&#8221;.  For instance, Roger Helmer, a British member of the European Parliament put it this way. But the Warmists have the bizarre idea that only CO2 matters.  Certainly CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1526&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Scientist:  &#8220;I.  WILL.  NEVER.  VOTE. SANTORUM.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/republican-scientist-i-will-never-vote-santorum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Rick Santorum has overtaken Mitt Romney in the polls, I have to start asking myself whether I could vote for Santorum if he wins the nomination.  What is a Republican scientist to do? Politically, I think I am probably somewhere around the center of the Republican party on most issues, but unfortunately, this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1513&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Wall Street Journal 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal posted yet another op-ed by 16 scientists and engineers, which even include a few climate scientists(!!!).  Here is the editor&#8217;s note to explain the context. Editor&#8217;s Note: The authors of the following letter, listed below, are also the signatories of&#8220;No Need to Panic About Global Warming,&#8221; an op-ed that appeared in the Journal on January [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1505&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deniergate Breaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been going on for a couple days, but I have been too swamped to write anything about it.  Here&#8217;s the scoop.  The indefatigable John Mashey has spent months tracking down documentation, and has put together a package of info showing that the Heartland Institute and a couple of related outfits, all 501(c)(3) charities, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1502&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wagging the Dog</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/wagging-the-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Washington Post, Ezra Klein blogs about a new study of attitudes toward climate change.  Here&#8217;s a teaser. You might think opinions on climate change are driven by news stories, or extreme weather events, or, if you’re really optimistic, publicly available scientific research. But it turns out that politicians affect the way that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1500&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files: Cornered?</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/the-monckton-files-cornered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a beautiful day. Several months ago I wrote a post here about how Lord Christopher Monckton&#8217;s handler, Bob Ferguson, had tried to get me to do a live debate with Monckton.  I declined, because I felt that live debates favor people who, well&#8230; make up whatever they want.  Instead, I proposed a written online [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1373&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Mail Prints Climate Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/the-daily-mail-prints-climate-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my students asked me about a new article just printed in The Daily Mail, a right-wing newspaper in the U.K.  The article&#8217;s title is, &#8220;Forget global warming &#8211; it&#8217;s Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)&#8220;.  Here&#8217;s a rule of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1366&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Oreskes:  The Verdict is in on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/naomi-oreskes-the-verdict-is-in-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Oreskes has just published a fantastic op-ed in the LA Times.  She draws an analogy with our jurisprudence system to show why &#8220;keeping an open mind&#8221; about climate change is the wrong approach.  People tend to treat the community of climate scientists as the prosecuting attorney, but in fact, they are the jury. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please, Not the Super-Intelligent Reptiles!</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/please-not-the-super-intelligent-reptiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First we find out that global warming will cut into my chocolate, and now we find out that it&#8217;s going to produce super-intelligent reptiles.  Can we PLEASE do something about this? Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1360&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Institute:  Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/pacific-institute-climate-b-s-of-the-year-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute has just issued the latest &#8220;Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards&#8221;.  (* B.S. stands for &#8220;Bad Science,&#8221; of course.)  Our pals Roy Spencer, Rush Limbaugh, and the field of Republican presidential contenders figure prominently. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1358&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SkS:  A Thoughtful Conservative Perspective on Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; by Tom Smerling at Skeptical Science Peter Wehner has impeccable conservative credentials, having served under Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and most recently, as deputy assistant to Pres. George W. Bush.  He resides at the &#8220;Ethics &#38; Public Policy Center,&#8221; a neo-con think tank. After a long look at the evidence, Wehner concluded that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1354&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Inspector Monckton Looking for a Clue</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-monckton-files-inspector-monckton-looking-for-a-clue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the authorities have confiscated the computers of a few contrarian bloggers to see whether they can find evidence of who hacked the University of East Anglia&#8217;s e-mail servers, Lord Monckton is incensed!  INCENSED, I tell you!  He says he&#8217;s going to go after the climate scientists whose e-mails were stolen and have them [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1348&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Method for Modeling Clouds</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/new-method-for-modeling-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. News and World Report has an interesting article on a new method some climate modelers are using to simulate the effects of clouds in a realistic way. Filed under: Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1344&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bickmore&#8217;s Laws updates</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/bickmores-laws-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a few updates to my &#8220;Bickmore&#8217;s Laws&#8221; page.  If any of you have any suggestions for other &#8220;laws&#8221;, put them in the comments.  If I like them, I may put them in an addendum on the page.  The theme of the &#8220;laws&#8221; is the difference between rationality and pseudo-rationality. Bickmore&#8217;s First Law of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1342&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming and the Mobs, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/global-warming-and-the-mobs-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a follow-up post on my last one over at By Common Consent.  It turns out the guy I was critiquing actually came around and apologized for slandering Jonathan Overpeck.  My response gets at some of his remaining concerns about the latest batch of stolen e-mails. I learned some interesting things.  E.g., I found [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1338&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming and the Mobs</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/global-warming-and-the-mobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meridian Magazine (a Mormon-themed publication) published an opinion piece by some guy who not only quoted out-of-context snippets from the new batch of stolen e-mails, but actually MISquoted them.  I went after him in a guest post on By Common Consent.  If you&#8217;re not Mormon, maybe you don&#8217;t understand the reference to &#8220;the Mobs&#8221;.  The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1336&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll:  Republicans Coming Around on Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/poll-republicans-coming-around-on-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. News and World Report has a story out about this.  Money quote: Less than a third of conservative Republicans say there is solid evidence for global warming, but 63 percent of moderate or liberal Republicans said they believe there is solid evidence for global warming, a 22-percentage-point jump from 2009. And this is why [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1334&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Spencer the Anti-Scientist</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/roy-spencer-the-anti-scientist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on The Panda&#8217;s Thumb, someone going by the handle &#8220;ksplawn&#8221; made a fairly detailed argument for the proposition that Roy Spencer represents an almost perfect convergence of two anti-science strains&#8211;creationism and climate change contrarianism.  Here is the post. Seeing both currents of denialism converge and gain strength under a single party’s political banner over [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1332&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contrarians File for Intellectual Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/contrarians-file-for-intellectual-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a recovering climate change contrarian, I remember well the kinds of things that most impressed me as I went through the process of changing my mind.  It&#8217;s true that the mainstream scientists had some arguments that I thought were pretty difficult to get around, but just as important was the utter lack of intellectual [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1321&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Stolen E-mails Released</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/new-stolen-e-mails-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the B-list of stolen e-mails have now been released by the people who hacked the University of East Anglia&#8217;s server.  They originally released the ones with the really juicy candidates for out-of-context quoting, and now, magically just in time for the next big international climate conference, the hackers have released the benchwarmers. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1316&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monckton Files:  Lawyering Up</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-monckton-files-lawyering-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The saga continues&#8230;. Lord Monckton was essentially laughed out of Australia after the Clerk of the Parliaments in the UK posted an open letter asking the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to stop saying he&#8217;s a member of Parliament and stop using their logo.  His Lordship isn&#8217;t taking it lying down, though!  He&#8217;s found a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1306&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rustlings From Republican Environmentalists</title>
		<link>http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/rustlings-from-republican-environmentalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Bickmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it&#8211;it&#8217;s a bad year for Republican Environmentalists like me.  About half of the field of Republican presidential candidates once promoted the idea of addressing climate change in some way, but all but Jon Huntsman have backed off this stance to one extent or another.  Even Huntsman hasn&#8217;t suggested doing anything about climate change [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bbickmore.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12381071&#038;post=1300&#038;subd=bbickmore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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