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 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 [...]
A review of Heaven and Earth in Farm Online:
But he’s unequivocal on whether that atmospheric CO2 is pushing humanity into a climate disaster.
In his estimation, CO2 contributes about 0.1 per cent to any warming effect: the rest is up to nature.
“The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is [...]
Ian Plimer on his new book, Heaven and Earth:
“The reason I put this book out,” he says, “is to start a debate. The fact that I’ve now flushed out a few scientists to criticise me in public is wonderful because we’ve never had a [scientific] debate. Consensus is a word of politics; it’s not a [...]
Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth has been criticised by blogger Tim Lambert.
Jason Soon at Catallaxy, questions Lambert:
For the record I have no interest in any of this stuff and tend out of laziness to take the consensus view on warming. But Lambert has hardly ‘demolished’ anything. let’s see him write a book of similar [...]
…we can lecture other countries.
But also because “tens of thousands of Australian lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and some of our most beautiful places, including the Great Barrier Reef, are at stake.”
That too. Because Australia can stop global warming on our own simply by taxing ourselves.
Recently, some science bloggers debunked a series of articles in the Australian. Today The Australian defends itself. (hat tip Tim B).
Meanwhile Tim Lamberts Deltoid blog has been busy finding mistakes in Plimer’s book. He’s up to 59.
I read the 59 errors, and did quick classification. By my count,
12 are for missing citations or errors [...]
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