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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

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: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

Belief vs. knowledge WSJ launches Luddite attack on climate scientists and Al Gore	Joseph Romm	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The bar for Wall Street Journal editorials, in the journalistic equivalent of limbo dancing, keeps dropping. In a piece titled 'The Science of Gore's Nobel' (subs. req'd), Holman W. Jenkins Jr. of the WSJ editorial board manages to slander the media, Al Gore, the Nobel Committee, and all climate scientists -- without offering any facts to back up the attacks: The media will be tempted to blur the fact that his medal, which Mr. Gore will collect on Monday in Oslo ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

Hurricanes: A new and improved hockey stick Another silly debate around the IPCC report	Andrew Dessler	01 Feb 2007	Gristmill
News stories have been reporting that the IPCC will make a statement about the relation between global warming and hurricanes: During marathon meetings in Paris, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change approved language that said an increase in hurricane and tropical cyclone strength since 1970 'more likely than not' can be attributed to man-made global warming, according to Leonard Fields of Barbados and Cedric Nelom of Surinam.The blogosphere is already awash ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

The scientific debate Some thoughts	David Roberts	05 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Part of the confusion over Revkin's article is that there isn't one "climate debate." There are several. I'm going to taxonomize them in another post, but first I want to say something about the scientific one. This debate, as many folks have pointed out, is pretty much over. The denialists are wrong and they've been completely discredited. Every serious person involved in the climate change discussion accepts the broad conclusions of the IPCC. However, ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

'The temperature record is simply unreliable' Perhaps, but temperature trends are clear and widely corroborated	Coby Beck	02 Nov 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The surface temperature record is full of assumptions, corrections, differing equipment and station settings, changing technology, varying altitudes, and more. It is not possible to claim we know what the "global average temperature" is, much less determine any trend. The IPCC graphs only say what the scientists want them to say. Answer: There is actually some truth to the part about ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, IPCC (all these topics)

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