It has always been funny, in a gallows humor sort of way, to watch conservatives who laud the limitless power and flexibility of markets turn around and insist that the economy would collapse if we were to put a price on carbon. All serious estimates suggest that we could phase in limits on greenhouse gas... Continue Reading →
Denier hypocrisy, turning a white-list black
It was absolutely hypocritical for deniers to call the Expert credibility in climate change paper published in PNAS a blacklist. Deniers have been making lists of scientists who reject the consensus for a long time. It is one of their main debating tricks. But when someone takes the trouble to analyse the expertise and prominence... Continue Reading →
Irregular Climate Episode 9
This week: Some good news, and some sad news, IOP oh no!, it’s not about saving the planet, the skeptic debunk of the week and Ken Cuccinelli doesn’t know when to quit
The climate consensus visualized, part 2
Jon Cook brings us a new visualization of the climate consensus. Imagine if you filled a room with a representative sample of 100 climatologists, how many would agree with the basic scientific consensus that our GHG emissions are warming the planet? According to a recent study, and a survey conducted last year, 97 of them (the... Continue Reading →
Comment Ketchup
I’ve been busy, and have fallen way behind in responding to comment (but don’t worry I did read all of them), but I have now caught up. So if you recently left a comment and were wondering why I haven’t responded, please don’t take it personally.
Quote of the day
It turns out that there are not enough mavericks in climate science to meet the media’s and blogosphere’s insatiable appetite for conflict. Thus into the arena steps a whole host of charlatans posing as climate scientists. These are a toxic brew of retired physicists, TV weather forecasters, political junkies, media hacks, and anyone else willing... Continue Reading →
It’s not about saving the planet
The phrase “Save the Planet” was never meant to be taken literally. This hunk of rock that we live on is incredibly old and resilient, and despite what we may do on it’s surface the planet itself is in no danger. People who campaign under the save the planet banner by in large understand that... Continue Reading →
Climate Change: Is the Science “Settled”?
Stephen Schneider describes the issue better than most. The world is poorer now that he is gone. He will be missed.
Today a great man died far before his time
This morning, Stephen Schneider died of a heart attack. Schneider was one of the most well known and respected scientists studying the earths climate. He had an amazing ability to communicate the complexities of science in a manner accessible to all. Perhaps most important of all his qualities, was the fact that he was not... Continue Reading →
Irregular Climate Episode 8
This week: Journalismgate, Cuccinelli strikes back, Prawngate, and the skeptic debunk of the week!
Journalismgate
Like Watergate, the real scandal of Climategate was not likely to be found in the communications of those who had their emails illegally hacked (or in the case of Watergate, their phones illegally tapped). Rather, the real scandal can be found by looking to those who were behind the hacking (or wire-tapping), in the first... Continue Reading →
Deniers are doing all conservatives a disservice
Deep Climate has uncovered some good climate reporting in the steaming pile that is the National Post. The article, written by Jonathan Kay, examines the claim that there exists a growing number of scientists who question the scientific consensus on global warming, and concludes that it is nonsense: Have you heard about the “growing number”... Continue Reading →
Prawngate: Monckton tries to censor critics
[UPDATE: I recommend everyone sign the petition supporting John Abraham, and join the Facebook group] Monckton may have tried to delete his original response to John Abraham’s presentation in which he completely dismantles Monckton’s claims, but thanks to the power of the internet it has been preserved: So unusual is this attempt actually to meet... Continue Reading →
Quote of the Day
What science and engineering do is give you a picture of what is happening, and give you an estimate of what will happen if you do something to a physical system. What you choose to do is politics or policy, but if you jump off a 100 meter high cliff you will not survive. -Eli... Continue Reading →
Climate Change and National Security; Part 2
By Peter Sinclair
David Mitchell has a point
Tackling climate change is always presented to us by people who either tell us off or patronisingly try to convince us that tackling it is "cool" or "fun", when actually it's just something we have to do, because of facts.
It is not about Omar Khadr
The continual back and forth between people who think Omar Khadr should be returned to Canada, and those who think he should face the ‘justice’ of Guantanamo Bay frequently fails to realize that the debate over what to do with Omar has nothing to do with Omar, and everything to do with us. By all... Continue Reading →
Irregular Climate Episode 7
This week: An assessment of the assessment, The exoneration of Mann, The final nail in the climategate coffin, bad reporting, dishonesty and hate, and the skeptic debunk of the week!
Climategate: The scandal that wasn’t, Part 3
Just in case you were not yet convinced by the two previous reports into the CRU email (and the Penn State investigations into Mann’s conduct) the Muir Russell report has been released. This 6 month long investigation tracked down every allegation made against the CRU, and systematically demolished them. Concluding that: On the specific allegations... Continue Reading →
Dishonesty and hate; my brush with Marc Morano
My comment about the PNAS paper that analyzed the expertise and prominence of scientists who have signed public declarations stating that they are convinced, or unconvinced by the evidence for global warming, and the disgusting references to the Stasi, and the holocaust made by some deniers got me more attention that I expected. Why? Because... Continue Reading →
Climate Change and National Security
By Peter Sinclair
Those accepting the science of global warming have more credibility and prominence than those who remain unconvinced [UPDATED]
A study Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms what people who have been paying attention already know: 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence... Continue Reading →
Once again Michael Mann has been exonerated
The first investigation into Michael Mann’s conduct cleared him on 3 of 4 charges against him. In regards to the 4th charge the investigators didn’t find any evidence against Mann but they felt they were not adequately suited rule on the matter, so they referred judgement until the charge could be properly investigated. And now... Continue Reading →
Irregular Climate Episode 6
This week: Money minds its own business, Oh No! It’s Monckton again!, Where do the deniers keep their skepticism?, My blacklist is longer than yours, Godwin’s law, Blacklist paper wrap up, The word is authority, but who has it (and where did they get it?), The skeptic debunk of the week
Climate Crock Sacks Hack Attack: The Wrap
Peter Sinclair’s latest video:
Irregular Climate Episode 5
This week: EPA says CO2 reduction is cheap, Idiot politician of the week, Expert credibility on climate change, lying deniers, A 5 month old apology from the Sunday Times, lies polls and damned lying polls, the skeptic debunk of the week, whale poop and carbon dioxide.
Irregular Climate Episode 4
This week: The Bonn talk-fest, Lindsey Graham’s flip-flop, Respect the EPA’s authority, Biodiversity at the UN, Lawyers don’t do science, and the skeptic debunk of the week
The BP coffee spill
Completely unfair, absolutely hilarious!
Irregular Climate Episode 3
This week: The great co-host experiment, Cuccinelli vs Mann, warming of the oceans, melting glaciers, shape-shifting islands, Lord Monckton is wrong, the idiot politician of the week, and grasping at 4th grade straws.
Global warming proved false by a 4th grader
It’s over. Global warming has been torn to shreds. Utterly disproven. But by who? It has to be someone who hasn’t yet been corrupted by the overwhelming evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming, so that excludes most people outside the denialism community. But having global warming disproven by a denialist isn’t that exciting. It happens at... Continue Reading →
An oily death sentence
A picture from the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill disaster.
Irregular Climate Episode 2
This week: More skeptisim vs Denialism, Attribution, Denialism in the Chicago Tribune, The Skeptic debunk of the week