There's a new database out that is filled with interesting information. The Anti-Environmental Archives, as the project is called, allows anyone to go through and help digest thousands of documents from various conservative "think tanks" that have long gotten industry funding to attack environmental organizations and regulations.
As Kert Davies points out in a blog post introducing the archives, you can clearly see that some organizations are still around and still repeating the same messages they always have throughout the 20 years' worth of documents.
For example, we poked around and found this 1996 CFACT newsletter. In it, you can read Sallie Baliunas (Willie Soon's mentor) trying to deny 1995's record heat, using the exact same talking points that others used to try to deny 2014's record heat. Among the repeated denier lines are: measurements aren't precise enough to distinguish between record years (the whole 'temperature measurements are within the margin of error' issue), satellites contradict land measurements, models overestimate warming compared to satellites, and there can't be global warming if winters are cold and snowy.
In light of all this, we'd like to apologize to the WSJ for singling them out yesterday and saying they've been a broken record on climate change. Apparently it's not just them, but the entire industrial-denial complex that's been a broken record for decades.
In this case, these deniers sound like a broken record that denies broken records.
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