It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds
The Gravityloss blog has an excellent post on how deniers can, and do, effectively assassinate the truth. The First Phase: Get a media channel. This is usually a columnist in a large newspaper. Might also be a web news site reporter. Or a celebrity. Call this person X. X writes or says something completely false,... Continue Reading →
Remember the outcry when Micheal Tobis merely asked the question ‘is unfairly criticizing those pushing for action on climate change and thus delaying action morally equivalent to killing people’? And then answered only by saying “It's not all that obvious to me that it isn't.” Deniers like Marc Morano instantly claimed that: “Scientists claim that... Continue Reading →
Just in case you still weren’t convinced:
Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology (who was already on shaky grounds with scientists), recently caused quite a stir when he refused to say whether or not he accepted evolution. “I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about... Continue Reading →
From Climate Feedback: Jonathan Bamber of Bristol University was talking about the stability of the Greenland ice sheet at a session on tipping points. There was a widely cited Brief Communication in Nature that came out just after the Exeter meeting and was discussed there which suggested that if global temperatures rose above 3 degrees... Continue Reading →
Is it any wonder why a disconnect exists between the public and the scientific positions in regards to climate change? Graph created by Michael Tobis The horizontal axis above refers to an unconstrained emissions ("business as usual") scenario. The vertical axis is roughly proportional to the probability of finding that an expert's opinion is matched... Continue Reading →
The best of my pictures from my recent trip to the Oregon Coast:
Monckton just can’t help himself. Monckton has updated his silly graph, and now the Cuffey and Clow graph (correctly cited this time around!), has been adapted from the original which represented temperatures in Greenland, to represent Antarctic temperatures. How exactly did he accomplish this impressive feat? The same way he took the original and made... Continue Reading →
It will come as no surprise to those who read my blog, that I fully accept the scientific consensus on climate change. The question is why? And what would cause me to change my mind. No matter what your position on this issue, I think everyone can agree that people who are unwilling to change... Continue Reading →
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