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Fox News Pounding The War Drums Today Against Iran, Eerily Familiar….

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EcoAzione! Gasland

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Ron Paul vs Michelle Bachmann on Iran Fox Iowa Debate 12-15-11 ( Paul wins )

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FOX fakes Moscow protest with footage of Athens clashes

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FOX Nation ... attempt at Occupy link. FAIL!

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ANONYMOUS: Going after FOX Noise for its lies about OWS

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Chris Evans is an action man of a different variety in the sauce rom com "What's Your Number?"

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Rop debate from fox news 9.23.11 marks the begining of the end of obama!

TWIN-C VANILLA SAYS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ARE READY FOR WAR!

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Hold Dr. Keith Ablow Responsible... NOW!

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Wendi McLendon-Covey snags role in Fox’s “I Hate My Teenage Daughter”

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GOP Promises REAL BLOOD at Next Debate

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With TV Pilots, Seller Beware! - Baseline Intelligence

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James Murdoch admits News Corp. paid off convicted criminal

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Megyn Kelly Destroys Gallagher Over Maternity Leave 'Racket'

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Exclusive: Dianna Agron & Kevin McHale on the next dimension of ‘Glee’ (video)

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FOX's utter BS on climate science!

Joe Bastardi has become the go-to anti-scientist for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. But normally Bastardi doesn’t dress up his disinformation in this much blatant Charlie-Sheen-esque pseudoscience.

Those who watched Fox News over the weekend were treated to a brief but ambitious science lesson on “Why CO2 Can’t Cause Warming”:

Oh boy. Let’s take these one at a time.

During the segment Fox’s global warming expert, Joe Bastardi, who is employed by the WeatherBELL meteorological consulting firm, declared that the theory of human-induced climate change “contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.”

It’s not clear what to conclude from this except that Fox and Bastardi are not familiar with the greenhouse effect. Climate scientists aren’t claiming that humans are creating energy. They’re saying that humans are trapping more energy by increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Duke University scientist William Chameides, who called Fox’s claims “utter nonsense,” explained via email:

It is true that global warming requires a source of heat. In this case it comes from the sun. What CO2 does is trap a larger amount of the heat from the sun, preventing it from escaping and thus driving up temperatures. To argue otherwise is to argue that the greenhouse effect does not exist. In fact the existence of the greenhouse effect was established by scientists more than a century ago. It would be impossible to explain the temperatures of Mars and Venus, as well as the Earth, without invoking this effect.

Bastardi went on to claim Le Chatelier’s Principle “says that any system in distress, physical or chemical in the atmosphere, tries to return toward normalcy. And that is why you’re seeing temperatures level off.”

In fact the notion of a system moving toward “normalcy,” or more accurately, toward a new “equilibrium,” explains why greenhouse gases do cause warming, rather than “Why CO2 Can’t Cause Warming.” By preventing infrared energy from efficiently escaping to space, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere make it more difficult for the earth to maintain its previous energy balance, and thus its previous temperature.

Kevin Trenberth, Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, explained via email that the system “re-creates equilibrium” by heating up, since the surface and atmosphere radiate more at a higher temperature. As a result, “it reaches a new equilibrium but at a higher temperature,” he said, adding: “And of course we keep adding more CO2 so we have not reached that new state yet.”

Though it appears that Bastardi cites Le Chatelier’s Principle in a general sense and not in reference to any specific process, the principle does have implications for “the uptake of fossil fuel carbon by the ocean,” according to David Archer of the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences. He said, “Without Le Chatelier’s principle, the climate crisis would be much worse than it is, but even with this buffering, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is rising and will continue to remain elevated for tens of thousands of years into the future. So to suggest that Le Chatelier’s principle is going to save us is wrong.” And the principle certainly doesn’t establish that “CO2 Can’t Cause Warming.”

And that’s not all Fox got wrong.

More at the linkJoe Bastardi has become the go-to anti-scientist for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.... more

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