Climate-change skepticism must be ‘treated’, says enviro-sociologist—‘Resistance at individual and societal levels must be recognized and treated’—Dubious on warming peril? You’re the kind who’d own slaves! ‘Professor Kari Norgaard compares the struggle against climate scepticism to that against racism and slavery in the US South’

Study: Conservatism ‘linked to low brainpower’ —‘Cognitively impaired people are more likely to express conservative views’—Prof. Eidelman’s email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) —Prof. Scott Eidelman’s ‘new research provides evidence that, when under time pressure or otherwise cognitively impaired, people are more likely to express conservative views’—‘If we don’t have the time or energy to give a matter sufficient thought, we tend to accept the conservative argument’

Warmist David Appell: ‘Chris Mooney’s book, and much of his work, is a perverse attempt to twist science purely for political purposes’—‘And this was fairly clear, even before this study. And that is at least as bad as claims about denying science, and many would say it’s even worse. I certainly would’

Warmist Chris Mooney makes up another ‘fact’: ‘Liberals are better at getting at the truth in complex, nuanced situations—as are their psychological brethren, scientists’

Luke Warmist Keith Kloor gazes ‘inside Chris Mooney’s brain’: ‘It looks to me like Chris’s brain is at war with itself. The result is that he ends up talking out of both sides of his mouth’

Warmist Chris Mooney on the Republican(?) brain: ‘Conservatism is a Defensive Ideology, and Appeals to People Who Want Certainty and Resist Change’—‘Fox News is the Key ‘Feedback Mechanism’ — whereby people already inclined to believe false things get all the license and affirmation they need’

New paper confirms 2010 Russian heat wave was result of natural variability

‘A paper published journal Monthly Weather Review confirms (along with several other studies) ‘that the anomalous long-lasting Russian heat wave in summer 2010, linked to a long-persistent blocking high, appears as a result of natural atmospheric variability.’

Nature reviews Michael Mann’s book as ‘trope’ about ‘an unwinnable fight’

‘When the Earth Hour ambassadors include a child, a magician, a couple of actors, a singer, a model, a chef, a radio presenter, a celebrity gardener, a priest, a hotelier, a former rock star…’

‘...a green politician, an SBS landscape architect and not a single economist or scientist, I think we’ve long stopped listening to ‘the science’ and are checking out the designer label’

Canada yanks some climate programs from budget: ‘It is encouraging to see essentially no references to mistaken concept that humanity’s CO2 emissions have a substantial influence on global climate’

Gallup Poll: ‘In U.S., Global Warming Views Steady Despite Warm Winter; Just over half say effects of global warming are now evident, similar to 49% last year’—‘Fewer Americans today believe there is a scientific consensus than did so during the 2000s… after peaking in 2010, public skepticism about global warming softened slightly in 2011, and remains at lower level this year…Today’s level of belief that global warming is similar to what Gallup found in 1997 & from 2001-2005’—42% say media exaggerate the seriousness, a higher amount than it was for much of the past decade’