Are We Stuck With ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, … Bang’? By ANDREW C. REVKIN I was struck by a comment that followed my latest piece on cutting disaster risks, reacting to this line: “Only direct experience seems to trigger change.” Yeah. It seems Homo S “Sapiens” at large needs to first get hit by the wall before changing path. There will be always someone debating (denying) the science (evidence) of walls and bricks. We can’t...
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, aka Lord Chris Monckton, never had much credibility. He is not a scientist, even less a climatologist, in fact he has no science background to speak of. He has not ever published any research paper in a journal, even less any on climatology. He is also a hate-monger who calls climate science supporters “Hitler Youths”. Nonetheless he goes around the world leveraging his “Lordship” and his excellent oratorial skills...
255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel laureates, have penned a letter in Science slamming the disinformation campaign orchestrated by a small network of climate deniers that has confused the public about the real danger of climate disruption. The scientists’ letter, published in the May 7th issue of the journal Science (subscription req’d), says: “We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general...
APRIL 12, 2010 Joe Bastardi, who goes by the title “expert senior forecaster” at AccuWeather, has a modest proposal. Virtually every major scientific body in the world has concluded that the planet is warming, and that greenhouse-gas emissions are the main cause. Bastardi, who holds a bachelor’s degree in meteorology, disagrees. His theory, which mixes volcanism, sunspots, and a sea-temperature trend known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, is that the earth is actually cooling....
It was the hottest March in both satellite records (UAH and RSS), and tied for the hottest March on record in the NASA dataset. It was the hottest (or tied for hottest) January through March in all three records. The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.” It now appears to be over. It’s just hard to stop the march of...
A new popular sport in some media these days is “climate scientist bashing”. Instead of dealing soberly with the climate problem they prefer to attack climate scientists, i.e. the bearers of bad news. The German magazine DER SPIEGEL has played this game last week under the suggestive heading “Die Wolkenschieber” – which literally translated can mean both “the cloud movers” and “the cloud traffickers” (available in English here ). The article continues on this level,...
Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false – there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/climategate-bogus-sceptics-lies
Here’s a thought provoking analogy, comparing what’s happening with climate-change denial to what has happened with the cod fisheries in Newfoundland. The tragedy of climate commons
We’ve talked about the big swindle here before, you know the one entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot: Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications
The Toronto Sun published a column by Lorrie Goldstein, and that column showcases the outstanding (not) quality of journalism in that tabloid. Goldstein obviously has no understanding of climate science whatsoever and so he resorts to insults and ridicule to attack a view he obviously despises. I wrote them a comment to complain about this ridiculous article: Lorrie Goldstein is a complete idiot and the Toronto Sun should ashamed for having published such a...