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The newest denialist talking point Physicists reaffirm that human-induced GHGs affect the atmosphere	Andrew Dessler	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
It goes something like this: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. Of course that's not true. Today a statement appeared on the APS website saying:APS Position Remains Unchanged The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing b ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, scientific research (all these topics)

Climate change and the null hypothesis	Andrew Dessler	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
An excellent post by my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State climatologist, can be found here. An excerpt: ... consider a pot of water. Somebody you don't know claims that they have invented a new way to heat water. They demonstrate this technique to you by placing the pot of water in a separate room and showing you a temperature readout that indicates a rising temperature. A true skeptic will not immediately believe that the temperature readout is comi ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Anti-science conservatives must be stopped New global warming denier article in Salon	Joseph Romm	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
That's the title of my new article in Salon. I had proposed 'The political fight of the century,' but the editors wanted a stronger headline -- and subhead: Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake. Now that the relevant science is settled -- namely that failing to quickly embrace strong greenhouse gas reduction policies would be the greatest act of self-destructi ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Bjorn again His argument is still bogus	Andrew Dessler	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post embarrasses itself today by publishing the usual delayer drivel in an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg. The fundamental problem with Lomborg's argument (which he also makes in his recent book Cool It!) is that it is based on the assumption that the worst-case, climate-change scenario cannot happen. The IPCC's predictions for climate change over the next hundred years range from about 2°C to 5°C. If you assume that the warming will be closer to 2° th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

More on the hockey stick Previous warm periods don't mean we're not responsible for this one	Andrew Dessler	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
For those interested in temperature reconstructions of past climates, in particular the kerfuffle over the hockey stick, I recently found a pretty good website. It contains a load of useful information, some of which I did not know. For example, consider this famous plot from the IPCC's First Assessment Report:Skeptics have used this plot to argue that today's warmth cannot be caused by humans because it was warmer one thousand years ago. The website does a good jo ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

Blast from the future Why does the Post let conservative columnists make up climate facts?	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Memo: To Washington Post, circa 2008 From: Future Historians of America (FHA), circa [you wouldn't believe us if we told you] Re: Historical Fact Checking Via: T-mail (Tachyon-Mail) As we attempt to document the reasons carbon dioxide concentrations are currently 945 ppm and rising 5 ppm a year, the FHA has a few questions we hope you can answer for us. It seems like every time the United States contemplated legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

News flash: Newton's laws were 'overthrown' Bizarre talking points of WaPo columnist Krauthammer	Joseph Romm	31 May 2008	Gristmill
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the towering geniuses in all human history. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer? Not so much. Krauthammer has written a classic anti-science screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment,' that recasts many favorite anti-scientific denier memes in odd terms. You still hear and see all of these today, so let me touch on a few of them. And as I will discuss in Part 2, the article is most useful be ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, insanity (all these topics)

The Will to disbelieve Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
This ran on VanityFair.com earlier today. George Will is far from the only middle-aged Boomer pundit who spends his time shadowboxing Dirty Hippies on the Washington Post editorial page, but his Thursday column is a doozy even by that genre's dubious standards. Seems the Communist Greens, with their 'hostility to markets' and contempt for individual freedom, have teamed up with Activist Judges yet again. They're after America's vital fluids! Amidst the error and ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, endangered species, habitat loss, polar bears (all these topics)

They blinded me with bad science Should you believe anything John Christy and Roy Spencer say?	Joseph Romm	22 May 2008	Gristmill
I don't believe 'em. But should you? You can't read everything or listen to everybody. Life is just too short. I debated Christy years ago, so I know he tries to peddle unscientific nonsense when he thinks he can get away with it. But some of the comments in my recent post 'The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP' can't seem to get enough of the analyses by these two scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville who famously screwed up the satell ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shenanigans (all these topics)

What's happening in the world of Brave Heresy? RPJr. is at it again	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
Roger Pielke Jr., last seen bobbing and weaving in an online bout with an Actual Scientist -- and getting pummeled -- can now be found in a story in the Moonie-owned, far-right Washington Times: Roger A. Pielke, environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, and not previously a global warming skeptic, reacted to the Nature article: 'Climate models are of no practical use beyond providing some intellectual authority in the promotional battle over ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The jewel of denial The delayers' paradox	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill
The primary goal of the global warming deniers and their disciples is to waste time and delay action, which is why I prefer to call them delayers. (This post is inspired by the surprising finding that only 27 percent of conservatives say the earth is warming because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.) The delayers' paradox The deniers and delayers are those who argue that failing to embrace strict reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions will not lead to s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Nature article on 'cooling' confuses media, deniers Next decade may see rapid warming, not cooling	Joseph Romm	04 May 2008	Gristmill
The Nature article ($ub. req'd) that has caused so much angst about the possibility that we are entering a decade of cooling -- 'Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector' -- has been widely misreported. I base this in part on direct communication with the lead author. In fact, with the caveat from the authors that the study should be viewed as preliminary, and should not be used for year-by-year predictions, it is more accurate to say t ...
Topics: climate, climate science, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Has global warming stopped? Climate change must be examined over decades, not years	Andrew Dessler	02 May 2008	Gristmill
There has been a lot of nonsense written about the lack of much if any warming over the last few years. It's not a new argument -- in fact, I blogged about it here -- but like an axe-wielding psycho from a cheap horror flick, it just keeps coming back. At times like this, it is always useful to look at the data. The figure below shows the temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961-1991 average) from 1850 to 2007. The data are the Hadley HadCRUT3v analysis. A ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Skeptics lie; news at 11 DeSmogBlog uncovers Heartland lies	David Roberts	02 May 2008	Gristmill
The right-wing Heartland Institute has been making a big fuss about "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares." Five hundred skeptical scientists? Sounds bad! Kevin Grandia at DeSmogBlog had the radical idea of actually contacting the scientists, to see if they are being accurately characterized by Heartland. You see where this is going, right? In less than 24 hours, Grandia received three dozen outraged replies from scienti ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, jackassery (all these topics)

Breaking: The great ice age of 2008 is finally over -- next stop, Venus! One month's worth of data laughable as proof of global cooling	Joseph Romm	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A top NASA scientist just emailed me the breaking news: 'The ice age expired!' Even more shocking: the rate of warming this year has been just about unprecedented in the historical record -- even faster than I had predicted just last month based on the NASA data from February. Just look at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset. While January's land-ocean global temperature was a mere +0.12 degrees C above the the 1951-1980 average and the February ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

What's Your Hurricane? Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Sorry, deniers Research finds (once again) that climate change is not caused by cosmic rays	Joseph Romm	06 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One more denier talking point has been debunked by scientists using actual observations. You can read the Science News article here, which explains, 'New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases.' You can read the original article, just published by the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters, 'Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud co ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Matt Drudge's misleading mashup bolsters right-wing fantasy World Drudge hijacks headlines to sell global warming denial	Brad Johnson	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
From the Think Progress Wonk Room. Atop the Drudge Report right now: Do the stories behind these headlines tell the tale that global warming alarmists have 'hijacked' the political debate despite a 'lack of natural disasters' and no global warming 'since 1998'? No. Let's review: DRUDGE HEADLINE #1: REPORT: GLOBAL TEMPS 'HAVE NOT RISEN SINCE 1998' This claim has been thoroughly debunked every time it's popped up. The oil-backed global ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

More from the delayer-1000 du jour Why did Nature run Pielke's pointless, misleading, embarrassing nonsense?	Joseph Romm	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The usually thoughtful journal Nature has just published a pointless and misleading -- if not outright dangerous -- commentary by delayer-1000 du jour, Roger Pielke, Jr., along with Christopher Green, who, as we've seen, is another aspiring delayer. It will be no surprise to learn the central point of their essay, ironically titled 'Dangerous Assumptions' (available here [PDF] or here, with a subscription), is: 'Enormous advances in energy technology will be needed to s ...
Topics: IPCC, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Climate change is back, baby! Where is the media coverage of February's incredible warming and extreme weather?	Joseph Romm	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Well, that record cooling trend in January, which was solid evidence (to some) that human-caused global warming was at an end, melted away as fast as the summer ice in the Arctic. Not only did February begin a frighteningly unsustainable warming trend for this year, it saw a record number of tornadoes. Climate change is making a comeback! In your face, delayer-1000s! And as Jon Stewart -- or the Pope -- might say, damn you, polluters! But where is the news covera ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Deep thoughts On the International Conference on Climate Change	Sir Oolius	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If only Congress would have signed on to the Manhattan Declaration years ago, we could have spent valuable resources wisely summarizing nonexistent reports, thereby avoiding the subprime crisis.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Four hundred skeptics? Try 19 The Heartland conference recycles the usual climate change skeptics in its speakers list	Andrew Dessler	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times carried this interesting write-up of the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. For those not familiar with this conference, it's like a scientific meeting on climate change -- without the science. The NYT article concluded with this statement, which pretty much sums it up: The meeting was largely framed around science, but after the luncheon, when an organizer made an announcement asking all of the scientis ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Media enable denier spin, part two What if the MSM simply can't cover humanity's self-destruction?	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If those who counsel inaction and delay succeed, billions of humans will suffer unimaginable misery and chaos while most other species will simply go extinct. Maybe the best one line description of our current situation I have read is: It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. That's the final sentence in Elizabeth Kolbert's fine glob ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Dismal science Do Big Oil and Big Tobacco share a similar smokescreen?	Miles Grant	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Stepping into the Heartland Institute's '2008 International Conference on Climate Change' was like walking into an alternate reality. To the rest of us, climate science is settled, the solutions are sensible, and the time for action is now. But in the Marriott Grand Marquis Times Square, the only science comes from industry-funded think tanks; climate action will destroy humanity; and the underdog in this fight is ExxonMobil. Photo: Justin Shearer Perhaps m ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, energy (all these topics)

You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May Climate change skeptics say we should note, not hype	Sir Oolius	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Revkin: Mr. Morano, in an e-mail message, was undaunted, saying turnabout is fair play: 'Fair is fair. Noting (not hyping) an unusually harsh global winter is merely pointing out the obvious. Dissenters of a man-made 'climate crisis' are using the reality of this record-breaking winter to expose the silly warming alarmism that the news media and some scientists have been ceaselessly promoting for decades.' And then there's this: 'Earth's 'Fever' Breaks: Global Cooli ...
Topics: climate science, climate change skepticism, climate (all these topics)

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