Wow… somehow I missed this gem by Ian Plimer in the Australian.
Computer models using the past 150 years of measurements have been used to predict climate for the next few centuries. Why have these models not been run backwards to validate known climate changes?
I would bet the farm that by running these models backwards, El [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged climate, global warming, skepticismOver at Scienceblogs, they love the word “debunked.” These days it’s not good enough to counter, refute, dispute, respond, or retort, you have to debunk. It’s a word reminiscent of Houdini exposing two-penny psychics or a nineteenth century mayor running a shonky salesman out of town. The intent, of course, is to portray oneself as [...]
Also tagged climate, global warming, skepticism, word useageIan Plimer’s new book on global warming, “Heaven and Earth,” comes out tomorrow. Paul Sheehan has read an advance copy and reviewed it in today’s SMH. Apparently, the book argues that global warming is a natural phenomenon, it isn’t caused by humans, and it’s nothing to be alarmed about. Sheehan writes, “The most important point [...]
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