Jason Soon asked for feedback and opinions on the Scientific Article, Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense.
Jason, since you asked, here’s my take on that article. I think it’s weak in many places, but particularly weak when it gets to climategate.
The Scientific American (SciAm) article by John Rennie looks at seven claims of so-called contrarians [...]
In the past two weeks there have been some remarkable developments in the climate change debate. First, a key dataset used to prove the case for global warming has disappeared and those involved aren’t talking about it. See this article for more: The dog ate global warming, although it’s all over the blogosphere.
Then Steve Macintyre [...]
A new study claims that el nino effects explain the surge in temperature from 1977 onwards. In the article, the authors claim that 80 percent of climate variability can be accounted for by modelling internal (ie earthbound) climate effects.
“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the [...]
In the Wall Street Journal: “Climate change climate change.”
It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, [...]
The White House has released a document on global warming.
“Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama’s presidency.” In case anyone got the mistaken idea that Obama himself has been out collecting ice core samples, we are assured that
“The White House document — a [...]
Bjorn Lomborg on how some corporations are using the environmental movement to make profit and gain strategic edge over their competitors:
The world’s largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN’s “Climate in Peril” segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas’s earnings.
The [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald has recently published what can only be described as a wild-eyed conspiracy theory about the global warming debate by journalist Paddy Manning. According to Manning, various industry groups like oil, coal, and energy are controlling the news, using their considerable financial resources to warp and distort public debate.
News Limited is [...]
VIDEO: Professor Ian Plimer, Author of Heaven and Earth – Global Warming, The Missing Science with Brian Carlton.
“What we’re dealing with, with human-induced climate change, is one group of scientists. They are the atmospheric scientists, and they have taken the atmosphere completely out of the Earth, ocean, ice, life, sun, and heavens, and just tortured [...]
Human nature is generally to be optimistic.
Despite calamities from economic recessions, wars and famine to a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are by nature optimistic.
Of course, that’s not true for everyone.