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Chillbill, our global warming denialist, has posted three comments recently. None have much to do directly with global warming. The main thrust is that poor chillbill feels misrepresented and that I am posting lies.  Read More »

February 12^th is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. This year will be the 200^th anniversary of his birth. While I suspect that fact will be noted, the celebrations that I am aware of that will take place on that day will be in honor of someone else who happened to share his birthday ... Charles Robert Darwin. No one denies that Abraham Lincoln was a great man.  Read More »

Where I live ... Houston, Texas ... it has been colder than normal so far this year. That is probably true for those of you reading this as well, since most of North America and Europe have been in the midst of a cold wave -- although I understand that Asia and Alaska are unusually warm.  Read More »

In my previous blog I looked at the reliability of the first paper that chillbill, our new global warming denialist linked to "refute" the science behind global warming.  Read More »

Chillbill has taken up the mantle of global warming denialism in response to my series of posts on global warming denialist canards. In doing so he makes allusions to several common canards.  Read More »

Well, it seems that chillbill has taken the mantle of global warming denialism from jackbenimble. In his usual style he nitpicks several points. After reading them carefully, I have divided the nitpicks into two categories ... (1) allusions to common global warming denialist tactics, and (2) attacks focused mainly at me and less at the issue of global warming.  Read More »

NOTE: This was originally posted in a VERY LONG and unreadable stand-alone blog. I have extracted it and put it in a blog of its own to imporve readability.  Read More »

NOTE: This material was originally posted in a VERY LONG stand-alone blog. I have extracted it and placed it in its own blog to improve readability.  Read More »