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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)

Media enable denier spin, part one A (sort of) cold January doesn't mean climate stopped warming	Joseph Romm	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I fully understand why spreaders of climate disinformation have hyped up a (sort-of) cold January as if it somehow provided scientific evidence to support their campaign to undermine the well-established scientific understanding of human-caused climate change. That's their job (literally, in many cases). But I can't understand why the media keep treating such disinformers as if they were a genuine part of the scientific process who deserve free publicity, rather ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Wow	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Aside from being substantively misleading, this is just really, really awful. Doesn't CEI have enough money to hire a video editor?
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Hurricanes and global warming Revisiting the climate-science funding question	Andrew Dessler	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In the public climate change debate, one often hears the argument that scientists are making hysterical claims about climate change in order to get funding. I already blogged about how the argument fails the 'common sense' test, but I think this issue deserves another post. Kerry Emanual and Chris Landsea, two of the major players in the debate over the connection between climate change and hurricanes, have visited A&M in the last three weeks and both gave se ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Climate change is real! How about that? AGU releases position statement on climate change	Andrew Dessler	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The American Geophysical Union, a scientific organization with over 50,000 members, mostly earth scientists, just released a position statement on climate change. It is a strong endorsement of the mainstream view of climate science, as articulated by the IPCC reports: the Earth is warming, humans are to blame for most of the recent warming, and future warming may be disastrous. While this is a strong statement by itself, its true strength comes when you con ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The solar distraction Climate skeptics blame the sun for global warming	Andrew Dessler	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Global warming skeptics everywhere are jumping on the solar bandwagon: 'It's not greenhouse gases, it's the sun! Let's burn some coal to celebrate!' There are, of course, many, many problems with the solar theory as an explanation for recent warming. To me, the most damning is that the correlation has failed in the last few decades. As highlighted in an interesting news item in this week's Science: [Courtillot] and his team acknowledge that 'anomalous warming ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: George Waldenberger	Andrew Dessler	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In previous editions of the 'Inhofe 400,' we found some skeptics who were completely unqualified and others who are qualified but not actually skeptical. Today's 'skeptic' falls into the latter category. He is meteorologist George Waldenberger. In response to his inclusion on the list, George sent an email to Inhofe's staffers that began: Marc, Matthew: Take me off your list of 400 (Prominent) Scientists that dispute Man-Made Global warming claims. ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate, James Inhofe (all these topics)

Show me the money! Scientists do not have a financial incentive to settle the climate debate	Andrew Dessler	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
An argument often heard in the fruitlooposphere* is that the scientific community has financial incentive to push the consensus view that humans are responsible for climate change. The idea is that toeing the consensus line translates into more research funding. There is, of course, never any evidence presented with this argument. Rather, it is presented as 'common sense': 'Well, of course they're just trying to get more funding ...' So let's apply a littl ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Get real, deniers! Climate skeptics claim no warming since 1998	Joseph Romm	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Honestly, if anyone tells you 'For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming' -- as this Boston Globe columnist has -- they simply are not interested in seriously trying to understand and deal with the gravest problem facing humanity. They deserve the label 'global warming denier' for willfully trying to confuse the public debate. Let's look at the data, from NASA, presented last month (PDF): Through the first 11 months, 2007 is the second warmest ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: Christopher Castro	Andrew Dessler	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In previous editions of the 'Inhofe 400,' we found one skeptic whose only qualification for being a 'climate expert' was to have written an op-ed and another who argues that climate change must not be happening because God would never allow it. We also found some economists who don't seem to doubt that humans are causing the climate to change. Today's 'skeptic,' Prof. Christopher L. Castro, is a bonafide atmospheric scientist, so he clearly has relevant expe ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Inhofe (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' skeptic of the day Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner on climate change	Andrew Dessler	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Today's members of the 'Inhofe 400,' Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, do appear to have expertise on climate change policy. Prins is the professor and director of the Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events at the London School of Economics, while Rayner is professor and director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford. As such, they are different from those that I have previously highlighted (here and here), ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: Chris Allen	Andrew Dessler	30 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Today's member of the 'Inhofe 400' truly epitomizes the expertise and credibility of the group of experts that the good senator has assembled to demonstrate the obvious flaws in the theory of human-induced global warming. He is Chris Allen, weather director at WBKO, the ABC affiliate for south-central Kentucky. On his blog, Chris says this about global warming:My biggest argument against putting the primary blame on humans for climate change is that it completely tak ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Inhofe (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400': Busting the 'consensus busters' Today: Thomas Ring	Andrew Dessler	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Recently, Senator James Inhofe published a list of 400 'prominent scientists' who have recently voiced significant objections mainstream climate science. In response to this list, I recently blogged that many of those listed lacked qualifications (see also here). I'm betting that Sen. Inhofe doesn't want you to actually read the list of skeptics, but just read the headline and accept their conclusion. Here at Grist, however, we don't do what the good senator wants us ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, climate science, climate (all these topics)

'Mine's bigger' Me on Hannity & Colmes	David Roberts	22 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here I am on Hannity & Colmes, 21 Dec. 2007. Mark Steyn was sitting in for Sean Hannity. The other guest is Chris Horner of CEI. There's some satisfaction in taking shots at Horner and CEI. God knows they get off too easy most of the time. And watching Horner bumble around and make no sense is fun.He called me an 'alarmist' and decried ad hominem attacks in the same sentence.In a discussion of whether there's a scientific consensus, you are not allowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics)

Debate: denied! Climate skeptic plays hookey	Andrew Dessler	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The great climate debate was supposed to be yesterday, but it was not to be. My opponent, Dr. Tim Ball, was a no-show. He knew the debate started at 2:00 p.m., but got the time zone wrong. After he figured that out, his phone stopped working. Go figure. So it was just me, and I spent about 75 minutes answering questions that readers had left on Eric Berger's Sciguy site, as well as taking questions from the phone lines. Many of the questions were interesting and ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate (all these topics)

It's debate time! Climate skeptic steps up	Andrew Dessler	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
We've finally found someone willing to debate me: Tim Ball, a retired professor from the University of Winnipeg. The debate will be online Monday, Dec. 17, at 2 p.m. CST. You will be able to listen online through BlogTalkRadio's service. In fact, you can even call in during the show (see the BlogTalkRadio web site for details). You can also post questions on SciGuy Eric Berger's website. I realize that these types of events don't do much to move the climate ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate (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, IPCC, climate science, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

OK, I'm demanding debate Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless	Andrew Dessler	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Awhile back, I ran across the web site demanddebate.com (hat tip: Michael Tobis). The thrust of the website is that everyone should demand debate about climate change instead of gullibly accepting the Gore/alarmist view. Their slogan is, 'I'm more worried about the intellectual climate.' I am teaching a 'intro to atmospheric science' class and had been trying to find a skeptic to come talk to the students. So I hit the contact button on the web site and asked ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Texas (all these topics)

Museum meddling Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Surprised? Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The museum's director, Cristian Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add 'scientific uncertainty' about climate change, according to internal documents and cor ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

Are scientists losing the global warming debate? Delayers are replacing deniers	Andrew Dessler	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There's been some hand wringing about the fact that science does not have the traction it should in the political debate over climate change. This is the genesis of the framing argument, most recently pushed by Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet. Basically, this thesis says that scientists need to put their scientific results into a 'frame' that allows the general public to better understand how to interpret their results. I've never particularly liked 'framing, ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, scientific research (all these topics)

The deniers are winning the war of words Climate-skeptic books abound on Amazon's top sellers list	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth is so last year! Al Gore's book may have been No. 1 in 2006, but the global warming deniers and delayers are outselling everyone this year. Of course, Bj�rn Lomborg's collection of cherry-picked misinformation, Cool It is the top-selling book in four categories: Climatology, Climate Changes, Public Policy, and even Conservation. But who knew that the top book in both Meteorology and Weather was the Competitive Enterprise Institute's The P ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Republican, global warming denier, and sun worshiper Fred Thompson's confused stance on climate change	Joseph Romm	08 Sep 2007	Gristmill
He's running for president now, so let's revisit Fred Thompson's climate change confusion. He took some standard denier myths and threw in a dash of his own unwarranted sarcasm to create this mishmash on the Paul Harvey radio show: Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

A must-read 1972 climate prediction Rate of global warming predicted 35 years ago in Nature	Joseph Romm	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Nature just published this remarkable letter by Neville Nicholls of Australia's Monash University: Climate: Sawyer predicted rate of warming in 1972 Thirty-five years ago this week, Nature published a paper titled 'Man-made carbon dioxide and the 'greenhouse' effect' by the eminent atmospheric scientist J.S. Sawyer (Nature 239, 23-26; 1972, $ubs. req'd). In four pages, Sawyer summarized what was known about the role of carbon dioxide in enhancing the natural gr ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Taking the measure of measurement Is climate change an artifact of computer models?	JMG	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Electric Politics has an audio interview on measuring climate change that might be of interest to many here.Here's the intro:The main knock against anthropogenic climate change -- more or less unchanged since the 1980s -- is that a cabal of cunning computer modelers have managed to dupe, co-opt, bamboozle, or intimidate climate scientists into believing fantastic, yet unsubstantiated, allegations. Recently put forward by the redoubtable Freeman Dyson, this critique also, unfortu ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

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