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Say it again, Dr. Sam Why scientists aren't more persuasive, part 1	Joseph Romm	30 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king ... The subtle art of combining the various elements that separately mean nothing and collectively mean so much in an harmonious proportion is known to very few ... [T]he student of rhetoric may indulge the hope that Nature will finally yield to observation and perseverance, the key to the hearts of men. So wro ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, messaging, climate science, climate, mainstream media (all these topics)

Annals of innovative damage control GM flack misuses Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science (!) to defend Lutz climate skepticism	David Roberts	23 Sep 2008	Gristmill
As I've said before, I don't care if GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz doesn't believe that human beings are causing climate change. It's GM's behavior that deserves our scorn, not the mental states of their executives. But (per Kate below) the defense of Lutz offered by GM's Tom Wilkinson cannot stand. God knows what a corporate flack is doing deploying the work of Thomas Kuhn (author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) to defend the troglodytic comments of one of ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate, scientific research (all these topics)

Summer ice in the Arctic has recovered Was the Arctic ice retreat a climate anomaly?	Coby Beck	20 Sep 2008	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: Sea ice at the north pole recovered a whopping 9.4 percent from 2007 to 2008 despite the doom and gloom predictions of the alarmists. Yet another wheel falls off the global warming bandwagon. Answer: It is true that the minimum summer ice extent in the arctic ocean in 2008 was 9.4 percent higher than the minimum in 2007. But calling this a recovery is simply not justifiable, not by a long shot. First ...
Topics: advice, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, scientific research, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Arctic (all these topics)

NCDC August report: The end of global warming? Climate-wise, August was a pretty dull month	Joseph Romm	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Last month, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported, 'the globally-averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was ... the ninth warmest for the January-July year-to-date period' (out of 129 years), as I reported here. The first seven months of the year were +0.45°C (+0.81°F) warmer than the 1961-1990 average. Now here's the shocking news. The NCDC just reported, 'the globally-averaged combined land and sea surface temperature ... ranked as the ninth w ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate science, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The American Physical Society denies the so-called consensus Is this a crack in the climate change consensus?	Coby Beck	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: The American Physical Society with tens of thousands of member scientists no longer believes that the science of global warming is conclusive. So what about that so called consensus? Answer: The APS has not reversed its position on climate change:Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dio ...
Topics: advice, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, scientific research, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

A row of hedges NYT editors confused about Arctic warming	Joseph Romm	09 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Here's the absurd headline for the online version of Revkin's New York Times story about how 'a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean': Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say Hints? How about 'shouts from the rafters.' After seeing that, I thought 'here we go again.' Then I saw the print headline: Warmth Opens Arctic Routes, Experts Say Now that is a good headline -- accu ...
Topics: mainstream media, climate change skepticism, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Temperatures plummeted in 2008 In one year, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century?	Coby Beck	09 Sep 2008	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: Temperatures plummeted over the last year (2007-2008). If you look at this data from the Met Office Hadley Centre you can clearly see that in one year alone global temperatures dropped .6°C, an amount equal to the entire warming over the 20th century claimed by the IPCC. (click graph for a larger image in a new window) Answer:This argument represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (all these topics)

Stick It to 'Em Conclusions of 'hockey stick' graph stand up to further scrutiny		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:42 PM on 02 Sep 2008 The infamous "hockey stick" graph, which shows the northern hemisphere beginning to rapidly warm around the industrial age, has been backed up by new research. Michael Mann, who helped develop the 1998 graph that climate skeptics love to hate, is the lead author of the new study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Ten years ago the ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, news (all these topics)

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, climate change skepticism, 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 change skepticism, climate science (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 change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics)

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