<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for ‘Peiser refuted Oreskes’—In a poor piece of work that has been retracted by its author]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Laurence Aurbach http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:39:16 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/1 go bloggers!

Great work, Coby. From the Media Watch transcript, I see Pieser refers to his response to your challenge:

Peiser says he withdrew his criticism in March this year.

And this statement by Pieser closes out the sorry tale of his so-called study:

"I do not think anyone is questioning that we are in a period of global warming. Neither do I doubt that the overwhelming majority of climatologists is agreed that the current warming period is mostly due to human impact."

Score another win for bloggers. The conventional media was nowhere to be found on this story, although they were happy to report Peiser's false information.

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Great work, Coby. From the Media Watch transcript, I see Pieser refers to his response to your challenge:

Peiser says he withdrew his criticism in March this year.

And this statement by Pieser closes out the sorry tale of his so-called study:

"I do not think anyone is questioning that we are in a period of global warming. Neither do I doubt that the overwhelming majority of climatologists is agreed that the current warming period is mostly due to human impact."

Score another win for bloggers. The conventional media was nowhere to be found on this story, although they were happy to report Peiser's false information.

]]> Comment #2 by wacki http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/ Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:02:08 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/2 You missed the best abstract of them all

abstract #34

AQUATIC BIOMASS RESOURCES AND CARBON-DIOXIDE TRAPPING
CHELF P, BROWN LM, WYMAN CE
BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 4 (3): 175-183 1993
Intensively managed microalgal production facilities are capable of fixing several-fold more carbon dioxide per unit area than trees or crops. Although CO2 is still released when fuels derived from algal biomass are burned, integration of microalgal farms for flue gas capture approximately doubles the amount of energy produced per unit of CO2 released. Materials derived from microalgal biomass also can be used for other long-term uses, serving to sequester CO2. Flue gas has the potential to provide sufficient quantities of CO2 for such large-scale microalgae farms. Viewing microalgae farms as a means to reduce the effects of a greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide, CO2) changes the view of the economics of the process. Instead of requiring that microalgae-derived fuel be cost competitive with fossil fuels, the process economics must be compared with those of other technologies proposed to deal with the problem of CO2 pollution. However, development of alternative, environmentally safer energy production technologies will benefit society whether or not global climate change actually occurs. Microalgal biomass production has great potential to contribute to world energy supplies, and to control CO2 emissions as the demand for energy increases. This technology makes productive use of arid and semi-arid lands and highly saline water, resources that are not suitable for agriculture and other biomass technologies.

How a paper calling for alternative energy debunks the consensus on climate change I will never know.


]]> You missed the best abstract of them all

abstract #34

AQUATIC BIOMASS RESOURCES AND CARBON-DIOXIDE TRAPPING
CHELF P, BROWN LM, WYMAN CE
BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 4 (3): 175-183 1993
Intensively managed microalgal production facilities are capable of fixing several-fold more carbon dioxide per unit area than trees or crops. Although CO2 is still released when fuels derived from algal biomass are burned, integration of microalgal farms for flue gas capture approximately doubles the amount of energy produced per unit of CO2 released. Materials derived from microalgal biomass also can be used for other long-term uses, serving to sequester CO2. Flue gas has the potential to provide sufficient quantities of CO2 for such large-scale microalgae farms. Viewing microalgae farms as a means to reduce the effects of a greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide, CO2) changes the view of the economics of the process. Instead of requiring that microalgae-derived fuel be cost competitive with fossil fuels, the process economics must be compared with those of other technologies proposed to deal with the problem of CO2 pollution. However, development of alternative, environmentally safer energy production technologies will benefit society whether or not global climate change actually occurs. Microalgal biomass production has great potential to contribute to world energy supplies, and to control CO2 emissions as the demand for energy increases. This technology makes productive use of arid and semi-arid lands and highly saline water, resources that are not suitable for agriculture and other biomass technologies.

How a paper calling for alternative energy debunks the consensus on climate change I will never know.


]]> Comment #3 by Jack http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:53:58 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/3 BP's best point

BP's best point was about the search criteria used to find the 928 articles. Using "global climate change" as a search term would eliminate some non-consensual articles from the haul would it not?

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BP's best point was about the search criteria used to find the 928 articles. Using "global climate change" as a search term would eliminate some non-consensual articles from the haul would it not?

]]> Comment #4 by cce http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:27:06 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/peiser-refuted-oreskes/4 statistics

"Global climate change" returned 928 results, which is more than enough to establish the statistical certainty of the consensus beyond a shadow a doubt.  "Global warming" isn't a phrase used often in scientific literature, and "climate change" would return any paper on the subject regardless of whether it was global or localized.

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"Global climate change" returned 928 results, which is more than enough to establish the statistical certainty of the consensus beyond a shadow a doubt.  "Global warming" isn't a phrase used often in scientific literature, and "climate change" would return any paper on the subject regardless of whether it was global or localized.

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