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This is both my personal learning project and my contribution in the struggle to confront the ongoing Republican/ libertarian assault on rational science and constructive learning, as manifested in their malicious strategic Attacks on Science ~ A collection of articles, scientific resources, plus my own essays and indepth critique of various presentations from unidirectional-skeptics ~ Hopefully a resource for the busy, yet discerning, student who's concerned about the health of our Earth

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Saturday, February 18, 2017

BatesMotel#2 - US Rep Lamar Smith - Follow the money. A collection.

This is a tour de force of sorts, that is if you like collections of valuable information. In particular background information for who this US Representative Lamar Smith is and why he's the darling and good servant to the Texas oil aristocracy.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/21/exxon-koch-lamar-smith-exxon-knew

No commentary simply a sampling of articles and quotes. First related to US Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the House “Science” Committee. Then to the people who own him and a peek behind the curtain of the only constituency that matters in Rep Smith’s pay to play world.

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00001811

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Battle between NSF and House science committee escalates: How did it get this bad? | Oct. 2, 2014

Lamar Smith’s dreadful plan to religion up your science | May 6, 2013

Lamar Smith on Principles & Values - Christian Scientist.

House Science Committee Is More Worried About Aliens Than Climate Change | May 22, 2014

Rep. Lamar Smith, Who Criticized ‘The Idea Of Human-Made Global Warming,’ Set To Chair House Science Panel | Nov 28, 2012

The Disgrace of Lamar Smith and the House Science Committee | NOV. 17, 2015

7 Very Wrong Things About Climate Science And Energy In House Science Chair Lamar Smith’s - May 20, 2013

Merchants of Doubt

The Republican War On Science

NEW DREXEL STUDY REVEALS FUNDERS BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL EFFORT | Dec 20, 2013

Trump Billionaires Have Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial | January 17, 2017

Koch Industries multibillionaire Koch brothers bankroll attacks on climate change science and policy | March 18, 2010

Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding | June 13, 2016

Climate Change Denial Arguments

Climate Myths sorted by taxonomy

Prominent Climate Change Deniers

America's theologians of climate science denial | November 4, 2012

Peabody Energy Funding Climate Change Denial and Anti-Renewable Campaigns | 2016

Rex Tillerson's Record on Climate Change: Rhetoric vs. Reality | Dec 22, 2016

Exxon boss: climate change is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ | Oct 19, 2016

Who is Bankrolling the Climate Change Counter-Movement?

Here's A List Of All The Science That Donald Trump Denies

(edited at 11:15 pm Mtn Time, Feb 18)

BatesMotel#1-US Rep Lamar Smith, Koch ties shackles behavior

In an upcoming post I'm going to dissect US Representative Lamar Smith's February 5th press release on behalf of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The one where he uses the words of John Bates in an attempted character assassination. But before I get to that I want to present some background information. First an article by Steve Horn printed at DeSmogBlog in June of last year.

Exxon, Koch Ties May Help Explain Rep. Lamar Smith's Probing Request of "Exxon Knew" Environmental Groups

U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith recently caused a ruckus by targeting environmental groups that are pushing for ExxonMobil to be held accountable for funding climate change denial despite their deep internal corporate knowledge of the role of fossil fuel pollution in global warming. Rep. Smith penned letters to several environmental groups and foundations requesting all of their…

Profiles in Lucidity - Trevor Noah

I ran out of steam the other evening and decided to watch some of the comedy shows via YouTube, no TV around here. Trevor Noah is the guy I’ve singled out as the real deal. By coincidence Terry Gross interviewed Trevor this past week on Fresh Air and now I understand why it’s no wonder that air of natural gravitas and solidity I sense. I’ll be no spoiler ;-) I linked to that interview and invite you to (if you haven’t already) discover this fascinating individual for yourself. The man makes a lot of sense to me and believe he's made many observations that definitely belong in my collection of common sense and thought provoking ideas.

I’ve also included a link to his interview of President Obama on December 12th.

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The Daily Show - Profiles in Tremendousness - Secretary of State Nominee Rex Tillerson

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6alHr_ZTdQI&t=11s

Published on Dec 14, 2016

President-elect Trump nominates ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, prompting Trevor to break down the oil tycoon's foreign policy experience.

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The Daily Show - Adapting to Donald Trump's Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P1IVQJdVvE

Published on Nov 30, 2016

Even after Donald Trump's mendacious 2016 presidential campaign, the media is still grappling with how to report on the now-president-elect's blatant falsehoods.

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Trevor Noah on fake news and Donald Trump (HARDtalk) - BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8GPvIX6bY

Published on Dec 14, 2016

Profiles in Fraud - ExxonMobil - Climate Science

Considering who wrote this and what it was written for, I don’t even feel like this one is bootlegging, it’s important and fair use sharing, with added links, commentary and highlights. The footnotes are also included. This is another immensely important issue worth becoming familiar with, particularly since ExxonMobil has decided to counterattack in typical ruthless amoral fashion, and now they have Trump which is frightening.

Fundamentally, ethics and morality and a duty to arrive at objective facts are on trial. Does the American public expect our leaders to respect observed down to Earth facts?

Is it okay for personal faith to trump observable facts?

I think rationalists need to start enunciating that there is a difference between Personal Truths and Universal Truths. The need for humility and perspective. Too much egomania going around these days. But I digress, this is about the Self-destructive delusions deliberately manufactured by an avarice driven corporation, ExxonMobil.

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The Rockefeller Family Fund vs. Exxon

By Kaiser and Wasserman | December 8, 2016 ISSUE

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/the-rockefeller-family-fund-vs-exxon/

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Bloomsbury, 355 pp., $18.00 (paper)

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll

Penguin, 685 pp., $19.00 (paper)

Exxon: The Road Not Taken

by Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

InsideClimate News, 88 pp., $5.99 (paper)

What Exxon Knew About the Earth’s Melting Arctic

an article by Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch, and Susanne Rust

Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2015

How Exxon Went from Leader to Skeptic on Climate Change Research

an article by Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni, and Susanne Rust

Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2015

Big Oil Braced for Global Warming While It Fought Regulations

an article by Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust

Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2015

Archival Documents on Exxon’s Climate History

available at www.climatefiles.com

Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science

a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007, available at www.ucsusa.org

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David Kaiser President of the Rockefeller Family Fund

Lee Wasserman Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund.

Earlier this year our organization, the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF), announced that it would divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. We mean to do this gradually, but in a public statement we singled out ExxonMobil for immediate divestment because of its “morally reprehensible conduct.”1 For over a quarter-century the company tried to deceive policymakers and the public about the realities of climate change, protecting its profits at the cost of immense damage to life on this planet.

Our criticism carries a certain historical irony. John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, and ExxonMobil is Standard Oil’s largest direct descendant. In a sense we were turning against the company where most of the Rockefeller family’s wealth was created. (Other members of the Rockefeller family have been trying to get ExxonMobil to change its behavior for over a decade.)

Approached by some reporters for comment, an ExxonMobil spokesman replied, “It’s not surprising that they’re divesting from the company since they’re already funding a conspiracy against us.”2

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I know there are too many typos, what can I say, eyes aren't what they were, I get rushed, and always did have a thing with transposing…{well, I also hated high school "english" classes... bad call that one.}. Doing the best I can with what I got. Embarrassing though it is, it's better than doing nothing. Besides, it's the issues and reasoning that we should be worrying about.

Though I'm in my own little world here, I'm also constantly learning and evolving and do get occasional feedback and when I reread stuff and find errors or omissions or garbage, I fix it. If it's major I'll acknowledge it with an 'edited' note, minor stuff I don't bother.

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I hardly keep track of Anthony's latest antics (besides, with Sou on the job why bother - can't beat her insights). It's just me over here and I have more important things to do with my precious hours - still now that Anthony's luster has been wearing thin he's put his energy into discovering and honing new fresh faces to carry on the public show of the Republican/Libertarian strategic attack on science.

He seems to have transitioned into a ring-leader, perhaps mentor/coach would be better, producer? At least that's how Mr. Steele and his antics of the past year has gotten me to think about it. So in that regard this blog remains about WUWT's brand of thinking and logic and my struggle to understand the anatomy of the fraud they've perpetrated against mankind. {December 2014}

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ok, now some recommended websites:

This blog was started in April 2013 and is written by an actual scientist so it has a refreshingly serious objective air to it, plus he does a good clear job of explaining complex issues.

And Then There's Physics.
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Sou has some of the best {readability and detailed} examinations of Watt's antics I've seen - and she does have fun with certain characters.

She continues be the best at keeping up with Mr. Watts' and pals and their many deceptions.

The recent dirty tricks and attacks she is enduring are acknowledgment of how good she is at it.

http://blog.hotwhopper.com

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Ben has been documenting Anthony's misdeeds longer than the rest of us.

http://wottsupwiththat.com

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Tamino, an acknowledged statistical/mathematical expert of the highest order, at Open Mind also does an excellent job of holding Anthony’s feet to the fire with clearly explained facts and math. Check it out:
http://tamino.wordpress.com
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And of course, there is the excellent, most up to date internet depository of climate studies and information for the non-expert public.

http://SkepticalScience.com

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Then there's RealClimate.org the scientist's commentary site. Run by working climate scientists intended to help the interested public and journalists sort through the complexities of the climatology. They provide "quick response to developing stories and provide the context" that is too often missing from public media's depiction. {But, you better be serious and have some real science education/understanding under your belt if you want to keep up.}

http://realclimate.org

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I remember back in da day, good websites/blogs were few and far between. But over the past years that's been changing to the point that it's impossible to keep up with them all. Here's an incomplete, and long overdue addition to my above list:

AGW Observer

Arctic Sea Ice Blog

IPCC

Variable Variability

new to the list

LucidPolitics.com

What'sUpWithThatWatts, et al.

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Saturday, February 18, 2017

BatesMotel#2 - US Rep Lamar Smith - Follow the money. A collection.

This is a tour de force of sorts, that is if you like collections of valuable information. In particular background information for who this US Representative Lamar Smith is and why he's the darling and good servant to the Texas oil aristocracy.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/21/exxon-koch-lamar-smith-exxon-knew

BatesMotel#1-US Rep Lamar Smith, Koch ties shackles behavior

Exxon, Koch Ties May Help Explain Rep. Lamar Smith's Probing Request of "Exxon Knew" Environmental Groups

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Profiles in Lucidity - Trevor Noah

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Profiles in Fraud - ExxonMobil - Climate Science